IMPROVEMENTS IN WATERPROOFING TEXTILE FABRICS."
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William John Almond, of 9 and 10, Little Britain, in
the City of London, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN WATERPROOFING TEXTILE FABRICS."
LETTERS PATENT to William John Almond, of 9 and 10, Little Britain, in
the City of London, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN WATERPROOFING TEXTILE FABRICS."
Sealed the 15th June 1880, in pursuance of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, and
dated the 11th December 1870.
Sealed the 15th June 1880, in pursuance of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, and
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Sealed the 15th June 1880, in pursuance of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, and
dated the 11th December 1970.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Willian John Almond at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 11th December 1879.
WILLIAM JOHN ALMOND, of 9 and 10, Little Britain, in the City of London,
Manufacturer, "IMPROVEMENTS IN WATERPROOFING TEXTILE FABRICS."
The object of this Invention is to produce a waterproof material without any
disagreeable odour arising therefrom.
To carry out my Invention I take two cloths, either of the same or different
materials, and by means of hot rollers or irons compress a thin tissue of gutta
percha between, when by the action of the heat the three thicknesses become one
solid cloth, which may be used for ladies' dress preservers, and other articles of
domestic use that require being waterproof.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, and of
an Order of the Lord Chancellor, filed by the said William John Almond in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 15th June 1880.
WILLIAM JOHN ALMOND, of 9 and 10, Little Britain, in the City of London,
Manufacturer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN WATERPROOFING TEXTILE FABRICS."
Hitherto waterproof fabrics have been chiefly objected to because of their very
offensive smell.
The object of this Invention is to produce a waterproof material especially
adapted for ladies' dress preservers, without any smell, and which I designate
" odourless."
To carry out my Invention I take two fabrics of woollen, silk, cotton, or other
materials, or I take one fabric of one material and one of another material, and
having placed a thin tissue of gutta percha between the two fabrics, weld them
into one by means of compressing with hot irons or rollers.
Having thus described my Invention, I would observe in conclusion that I am
aware that gutta percha tissue has been used for dress preservers, and I am also
aware that it has been stitched to textile fabrics for the same purpose, but that
what I claim, and desire to be secured to me by the hereinbefore in part recited
Letters Patent is,―
1. The improvements in waterproofing textile fabrics, in the manner and by.
means as and for the purpose herein before described.
2. The novel method or mode of waterproofing by means of heat without any
solution, substantially as herein before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William John Almond, have hereunto act
my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty.
WILLIAM JNO. ALMOND. (L.S.)