IMPROVEMENTS IN PACKING TEXTILE FABRICS FOR EXPORT
Year: 1884

page_text: I, ANDREW PROVAND of 38 Lloyd's House Albort Square in the City of
Manchester and County of Lancaster, Merchant do hereby declare the nature of
my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN PACKING TEXTILE FABRICS FOR EXPORT to
be as follows:-
These improvements relate to the packing of Textile fabrics for export and have
for their object the prevention of "mildew" or similar deterioration.
When textile fabrics are packed in the ordinary manner and exported to or
beyond the tropics the goods are frequently found on their arrival to have suffered
from the growth or formation of mildew. This mildew often occurs at the edges
of the pieces and upon those folds or surfaces which are in contact with or in
proximity to the packing material. To prevent this deterioration of the fabrics
various materials have been added to or combined therewith in the process of
manufacture but such treatment of the cloth usually fails in its purpose or reduces
its value by creating an undesirable feel and appearance. Further, the whole
body of the fabric has to be treated with the preventive material in order to
preserve only a small portion of the cloth from deterioration by mildew.
Now my Improvements consist in interposing between the textile fabrics to be
packed and the external wrappers or casings one or more folds or thicknesses of a
tissue or fabric treated or charged with any suitable antiseptic. For the purpose
of my Invention I may for example employ paper or canvas more or less com-
pletely saturated with carbolic or cresylic acids or with a solution of antiseptic
mineral or metallic salts.
Goods packed according to this Improved method may be exported to any part
of the world without risk of the occurence of mildew on the parts of the fabrics
which are in contact with or in proximity to the packing material.

page_text: I, ANDREW PROVAND of 38 Lloyds House Albert Square in the City of
Manchester in the County of Lancaster, Merchant do hereby declare the nature of
my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN PACKING TEXTILE FABRICS FOR EXPORT and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
These improvements relate to the packing of Textile Fabrics for Export, and
have for their object the prevention of Mildew or similar deterioration.
When textile fabrics are packed in the ordinary manner and exported to or
beyond the tropics or kept for some time in store the goods are frequently found
to have suffered from the growth or formation of Mildew This Mildew generally
occurs at or near the edges of the pieces and upon those folds or surfaces which are
in contact with or in proximity to the packing material To prevent this
deterioration of the fabrics various materials have been added to or combined
therewith in the process of manufacture but such treatment of the cloth sometimes
fails in its purpose and generally reduces the value of the cloth by creating an
undesirable feel and appearance.
Now my improvements consist in placing between the pieces of the textile
fabrics to be packed and or between the pieces of the textile fabrics to be packed
and the external wrappers or casings, one or more folds or thicknesses of a tissue
or fabric treated or charged with a volatile antiseptic acid-For the purpose of my
invention I may for example employ paper or felt or canvass or other absorbent
material more or less completely saturated with cresylic acid or with any other
volatile antiseptic acid allied thereto for example with carbolic acid.
Goods packed according to this method may be exported to any part of the
world with greatly reduced risk of the occurrence of Mildew and free from any
objectionable feel or appearance such as are frequently produced by the ordinary
methods adopted to prevent mildew namely by introducing antiseptics into the
goods while in course of manufacture.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
The process of packing textile fabrics for export by placing between the pieces
of the textile fabrics to be packed and the external wrappers or casing and also the
process of placing between the pieces of textile fabrics to be packed for export one
or more folds or thicknesses of an absorbent tissue or fabric such as paper or felt
or canvass more or less completely saturated with Cresylic acid or with any other
volatile antiseptic acid allied to Cresylic acid for example with Carbolic acid.

page_text: The process of preparing Textile Fabrics for Export by placing around the said
fabrics and the packing material enclosing the same and also by inserting between
the different pieces of Textile Fabrics to be packed one or more folds or thicknesses
of an absorbent tissue or fabric such as paper felt or canvass which tissue or fabric
is more or less completely saturated with Cresylic acid or with some other volatile
antiseptic acid allied to Cresylic acid as for example with Carbolic acid.
Dated this second day of Sentem ber 188K