AN IMPROVED BED COVERING, ALSO APPLICABLE FOR USE AS A TRAVELLING RUG
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Hamilton Turner, of Shirley Lodge,
Albion Road, Stoke Newington, in the County of Middlesex,
Esquire, and Matthew Wilson, of Loughboro' Road, Brixton, in
the County of Surrey, Esquire, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
BED COVERING, ALSO APPLICABLE FOR USE AS A TRAVELLING RUG"
BED COVERING, ALSO APPLICABLE FOR USE AS A TRAVELLING RUG
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Hamilton
Turner and Matthew Wilson at the Office of the Commissioners
of Patents, with their Petition, on the 12th June 1875.
We, CHARLES HAMILTON TURNER, of Shirley Lodge, Albion Road,
Stoke Newington, in the County of Middlesex, Esquire, and MATTHEW
WILSON, of Loughboro' Road, Brixton, in the County of Surrey, Esquire,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED BED
COVERING, ALSO APPLICABLE FOR USE AS A TRAVELLING RUG," to be as follows:-
―:
This Invention relates to an improved covering for beds to be used
as a substitute for the ordinary blankets and counterpanes ordinarily
employed as bed clothing, and which will be found warmer, lighter,
cheaper, more durable, and in other respects more advantageous than

page_text: such ordinary bed clothes. It is also applicable for use as a travelling
rug, and will be found warmer, lighter, and altogether more comfortable
than rugs made of the ordinary materials.
Our improved bed covering or rug is a new fabric consisting partly
of a textile material and partly of a substance produced from paper
pulp, or the pulp of various substances, such as rags, wool, straw,
Spanish grass, Esparto grass, wood, or other substance capable of
reduction to pulp. We have discovered that these materials first
reduced to pulp and then properly prepared and applied to the surface
of a silk, linen,, or cotton sheet, or other woven fabric, will form a sub-
stanco or fabric which is far superior, with regard to the retention of
heat, than any other materials heretofore known or used for bed clothing
or coverings, or the like, while at the same time from its peculiar
texture it will not check or prevent the escape of perspiration. It may
be manufactured of any desired thickness and sizo, and may be adapted:
to any style of bed furniture.
Our said Invention is carried into practise as follows:-We tako
ordinary paper pulp or pulp produced from any of the above-named or
similar materials, and reduce the same to the proper consistency to be
worked into a sheet of any required thickness. If desired we mix with
the said pulp a small quantity of wool or other soft fibrous material.
We then take a linen or cotton sheet or cloth or other suitable woven
fabric, and we apply the pulp or pulpy mass to the said sheet or cloth
in such a manner that the latter is uniformly covered with the same.
One method of applying and securing the pulp upon the woven fabric :
is to pass both together between rollers, whose pressure will cause the
pulp to adhere to the linen or other sheet, and will at the same time
give the required density and uniformity to the whole fabric.
Another method is to first make a sbcct of pulp or pulpy material of
the required density and thickness, and attach it to the linen or a
other woven fabric by stitching or otherwise. The sheet or fabric thus
formed may be cuclosed in an envelope of silk or other material and
quilted or otherwise secured therein; or when applied as a bed covering
may be used without such envelope and covered by a light counter-
paue of any suitable material.
it
It is obvious that this improved material may be used under the
bottom sheet of a bed as well as over the same to retain the heat, and

page_text: when so used will be found very advantageous, and from its extreme
lightness it will be especially valuable for sick, infirm, and elderly
people in cold weather, and under other circumstances where it would
otherwise be difficult to maintain a comfortable warmth in bed.
· SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Hamilton Turner and Matthew Wilson
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 11th December 1875..
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, CHARLES
HAMILTON TURNER, of Shirley Lodge, Albion Road, Stoke Newington, in
the County of Middlesex, Esquire, and MATTHEW WILSON, of Loughboro'
Road, Brixton, in the County of Surrcy, Esquire, send grecting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Charles Hamilton Turner and Matthew
Wilson, Her special licence, that we, the said Charles Hamilton Turner
and Matthew Wilson, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as we, the said Charles Hamilton Turner and Matthew
Wilson, our exccutors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
usc, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
" AN IMPROVED BED COVERING, ALSO APPLICABLE FOR USE AS A TRAVELLING RUG,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Charles Hamilton
Turner and Matthew Wilson, our executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent,

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Charles Hamilton Turner and
Matthew Wilson, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This Invention relates to an improved covering for beds to be used as
a substitute for the ordinary blankets and counterpanes ordinarily
employed as bed clothing, and which will be found warmer, lighter,
cheaper, more durable, and in other respects more advantageous than
such ordinary bed clothes. It is also applicable for use as a travelling
rug, and will be found warmer, lighter, and altogether more comfortable
than rugs made of the ordinary materials.
Our improved bed covering or rug is a new fabric consisting partly of
a textile material and partly of a substance produced from paper pulp
or the pulp of various substances, such as rags, wool, straw, Spanish
grass, Esparto grass, wood, or other substance, capable of reduction to
pulp. We have discovered that these materials first reduced to pulp
and then properly prepared and applied to the surface of a silk, linen,
or cotton sheet or other woven fabric will form a substance or fabric
which is far superior with regard to the retention of heat than any other
materials heretofore known or used for bed clothing or coverings, or the
like, while at the same time from its peculiar texture it will not
check or prevent the escape of perspiration. It may be manufactured
of any desired thickness and size, and may be adapted to any style of
bed furniture.
Our said Invention is carried into practice as follows:--We take
ordinary paper pulp or pulp produced from any of the above-named or
similar materials, and reduce the same to the proper consistency to be
worked into a sheet of any required thickness. If desired we mix with
the said pulp a small quantity of wool or other soft fibrous material.
We then take a linen or cotton sheet or cloth or other suitable woven :
fabric, and we apply the pulp or pulpy mass to the said sheet or
cloth in such a manner that the latter is uniformly covered with the
same.
One method of applying and securing the pulp upon the woven fabric
is to pass both together between rollers, whose pressure will cause the
pulp to adhere to the linen or other sheet, and will at the same time
give the required density and uniformity to the whole fabric.

page_text: Another method is to first make a sheet of pulp or pulpy material
of the required density and thickness, and attach it to the linen
or other woven fabric by stitching or otherwise.
This sheet of paper
or pulpy material is preferably perforated with very small holes
to increase its porosity. The sheet or fabric thus formed may be
enclosed in an envelope of silk or other material, and quilted or otherwise
secured therein; or when applied as a bed covering it may be used
without such envelope, and covered by a light counterpane of any
suitable material.
It is obvious that this improved material may be used under the
bottom sheet of a bed as well as over the same to retain the heat, and
when so used will be found very advantageous, and from its extreme
lightness it will be especially valuable for sick, infirm, and elderly
people in cold weather, and under other circumstances where it would
otherwise be difficult to maintain a comfortable warmth in bed.
Having thus fully described our said Invention, and shewn how the
same may be conveniently and advantageously carried into practice, we'
wish it understood that we claim, a substance or fabric to be used as a
bed covering, travelling rug, or the like, and consisting of a woven fabric,
with which is incorporated paper, paper pulp, or pulpy material, as
herein set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Hamilton Turner, for
myself, and on behalf of the said Matthew Wilson, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of December, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five.
CHARLES HAMILTON TURNER.
(L.S.)
Witness,
HY. JA. NOONE.