IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE AND RENOVATION OF WOVEN FABRICS
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Beslay, of Rue Menilmontant, Paris, in
the Empire of France, Gentleman, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE AND RENOVATION OF WOVEN FABRICS."
Sealed the 22nd August 1861, and dated the 28th February 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Beslay at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
28th February 1861.
I, CHARLES BESLAY, of Rue Menilmontant, Paris, in the Empire of
Fránce, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE AND RENOVATION OF WOVEN FABRICS,"
to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to improvements applicable to the manufacture of
cloth and other woven fabrics, & consists in the employment of flock or waste
wool resulting from such manufacture, to be applied either during the fulling
operation before the material is dyed, or which is better after the pieces of
cloth have been dyed, and before they are finished. This improvement may
also be used for improving cloth of poor quality during the various stages of
manufacture, or when finished and ready for use, or it may be adopted for
the renovation of.cloth. I can also by means of my improved process impart
different colours to cloth or other fabrics on one or both sides.. I am aware
that wool flock combined with a cheaper material has been heretofore used
during the fulling operation, or rather as the fulling, to increase the weight or
substance of cloths; but my Invention relates to improvements having an
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page_text: entirely different object, by which I am enabled to create a better material
of greater strength, solidity, and thickness, which further possesses greater
softness and durability at little or no increase of cost as compared with cloths
of ordinary manufacture. For this purpose I introduce the cloth or other
fabric, which is previously wetted, into a cleansing or scouring machine, in
which I place a suitable quantity of soap; I then introduce the flock during
the passage of the cloth or other fabric between the cylinders in such manner
as to incorporate the flock intimately with the threads of the fabric.
this way I am enabled to perfect cloth which has proved defective after
dressing or finishing. The flock may be incorporated with wool-dyed fabrics,
or those dyed in the piece.
In
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Beslay in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
27th August 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
BESLAY, of Rue Menilmontant, Paris, in the Empire of France, Gentleman,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Charles Beslay, Her special licence that I, the said Charles Beslay,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Charles Beslay, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE AND RENOVATION OF WOVEN FABRICS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Charles Beslay, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, 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 I, the said Charles Beslay, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is to say):-
My Invention relates to improvements applicable to the manufacture of
cloth and other woven fabrics, and consists in the employment of flock or
waste resulting from such manufacture, to be applied either during the fulling
operation before the material is dyed, or which is better after the pieces of
cloth have been dyed,and before they are finished; this improvement may also
be used for improving cloth of poor quality during the various stages of
manufacture. I can also by means of my improved process impart different
colours to cloth or other fabrics on one or both sides. I am aware that wool
flock combined with a cheaper material has been heretofore used during the
fulling operation, or rather as the fulling to increase the weight or substance
of cloth; but my Invention relates to improvements having an entirely
different object, by which I am enabled to produce a better material of greater
strength, solidity, & thickness, which further possesses greater softness, fine.
ness, & durability, at little or no increase of cost as compared with cloths of
ordinary manufacture. For this purpose I introduce the cloth or fabric,
which is previously wetted, into a cleansing or scouring machine, in which I
place a suitable quantity. of soap, and I introduce the flock during the passage
of the cloth or woven fabric between cylinders in such manner as to incorpo-
rate the flock intimately with the threads of the fabric. In this way I am
enabled to perfect cloth which may have proved defective after dressing or
finishing. The flock may be incorporated with wool-dyed fabrics, or those
dyed in the piece. I introduce flock or waste wool (resulting from the
manufacture of cloths) into cloth during its manufacture after it has been
fulled, or I may apply the flock at other stages of the manufacture, and
even after the fabric has been dyed, when on examination it is found to be
defective, or does not possess equal body in all its parts. In carrying out my
Invention I proceed as follows:-After the pieces of cloth have been filled, I
place them in a scouring mill with water, and add soap and other analogous
matter producing the same result. The machine is then set in motion, and
the pieces of cloth by passing through rollers placed therein convert the
soapy waters into a lather. I now place the flock in the machine, the motion
of which causes the cloth which is in the bath to agitate and stir up the soap
and flock, while the pressure of the rollers on the cloth creates a vacuum
therein, and drawing or pressing the flock into the interstices of the fabric.
The same result may be obtained, but less advantageously by applying the

page_text: flock to the cloth in the fulling mill or pile cylinder, as also in the cleaning
mill; after applying the flock to the fabric it is dyed and finished as in ordi-
nary. By this improved process cloth may be rendered finer, thicker, and
heavier, which moreover does not shrink so much in fulling as when operating
by the ordinary process. I may also add silk waste to the flock, and apply
it to cloth to give the latter a more silky appearance. Cloth may also be
renovated or improved in appearance by a like treatment. The economy
in the manufacture is great, & cloth is produced of excellent quality.
Having described the nature of my Invention and the manner of per-
forming the same, I declare that what I claim as the Invention to be pro-
tected by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the introduction
of flock produced from wool & silk waste in the manufacture & renovation
of cloth fabrics, in the manner & for the purposes herein-before set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Beslay, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
CH. BESLAY. (L.S.)