IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FUSTIANS
Year: 1885

page_text: We JAMES SCHOFIELD of the Town House Mill Littleborough in the County of
Lancaster, Cotton Spinner and ALFRED TAYLOR of Holly Bank Rochdale in the
aforesaid County Manager do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FUSTIANS" to be as follows: -
Our said Invention relates to the manufacture of coloured fustians. According
to our improved method we weave such goods with a weft of yarn which is spun
from dyed and undyed cotton fibres or from differently coloured fibres mixed in
proportion so as to produce the desired shade or colour. The warp yarns may be
either white or dyed to an uniform colour or they may be spun froin differently
shaded or coloured cotton fibres as aforesaid. As an example of the manufacture,
when it is desired to produce a grey cotton fustian we use a white warp in con-
junction with a weft spun from a mixture of white or grey and black cotton fibres,
the proportion of black fibre being regulated according to the shade of grey
required. Instead of a white warp we might in some cases use a warp of mixed
coloured fibres as in the case of the weft or we might use a warp dyed to an
uniform colour. In the same manner any other colour or shade of colour can be
produced by mixing and spinning positively coloured cotton fibres with white or
grey fibres or two or more different colours of fibre can be spun together. Coloured
or shaded yarn produced by mixing differently coloured or shaded cotton fibres in
the manner herein before referred to, does not require to be hanked for dyeing and
to be re-wound whilst the fustians produced by their use have an improved
appearance and brilliancy in comparison with those which are dyed after the
weaving operation or which are woven entirely from yarns dyed to an uniform
colour after spinning. By our improved method we are enabled to obtain shades
which are faster than corresponding shades obtained by piece dyeing or in fustians
woven from yarn dyed to an uniform colour.

page_text: We JAMES SCHOFIELD of the Town House Mill Littleborough in the County of
Lancaster Cotton Spinner and ALFRED TAYLOR of Holly Bank Rochdale in the
aforesaid County Manager do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FUSTIANS and in what manner the
same is to be performed to be particulary described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:-
"
"
Our said Invention relates to the manufacture of coloured fustians. According
to our improved method we weave such goods with a weft of yarn which is spun
from dyed and undyed cotton fibres or from differently coloured fibres mixed in
proportion so as to produce the desired shade or colour. The warp yarns may be
either white or dyed to an uniform colour or they may be spun from differently
shaded or coloured cotton fibres as aforesaid. As an example of the manufacture
when it is desired to produce a grey cotton fustian we use a white warp in con-
junction with a weft spun from a mixture of white or grey and black cotton fibres,
the proportion of black fibre being regulated according to the shade of grey
required. Instead of a white warp we might in some cases use a warp of mixed
coloured' fibres as in the case of the weft or we might use a warp dyed to an
uniforin colour. In the same manner any other colour or shade can be produced
by mixing and spinning positively coloured cotton fibres with white or grey
fibres or two or more different colours of fibre can be spun together. Coloured
or shaded yarn produced by mixing differently coloured or shaded cotton fibres in
the manner hereinbefore referred to, does not require to be hanked for dyeing and
to be re-wound whilst the fustians produced by their use have an improved
appearance and brilliancy in comparison with those which are dyed after the
weaving operation or which are woven entirely from yarns dyed to an uniform
colour after spinning. By our improved method we are enabled to obtain shades
which are faster than corresponding shades obtained by piece dyeing or in fustians
woven from yarn dyed to an uniform colour.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that
what we claim is:
In the manufacture of shaded or coloured fustians the employment of a white or
shaded or coloured or mixed warp in combination with a weft composed of yarns
produced by mixing and spinning white and black fibres together or white and
shaded or coloured or variagated fibres for the purpose and substantially as herein-
before described.
Dated this first day of April 1886.
DUTTON & FULTON.
Agents.