IMPROVEMENTS IN OF MANUFACTURE OF WATERPROOP THE AND OTHER FARDING AND OR MOLDED ANURACTURE OR WATERPROOR AND OTHER BARDING AND OF MAREDED THE MAN OR FORMED ARTICLES.
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Macintosh, of 40, North Bank, Regent's Park,
in the County of Middlesex for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
OF MANUFACTURE OF WATERPROOP
THE
AND OTHER FARDING
AND OR MOLDED
ANURACTURE OR WATERPROOR AND OTHER
BARDING
AND OF MAREDED
THE
MAN
OR FORMED ARTICLES.
"
Sealed the 5th June 1860, and dated the 8th December 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Macintosh, at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
8th December 1859.
I, JOHN MACINTOSH, of 40, North Bank, Regent's Park, in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WATERPROOF AND OTHER FABRICS, AND OF MOULDED OR
FORMED ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of water-
proof and other fabrics, and of moulded or formed articles. For the purpose
of producing a waterproof or other fabric, I take a batt or fleece, or thin and
loose layer of cotton or other fibre, and spread over the surface of the same a
thin coating of collodion, which, in hardening, cements the fibres firmly
together, and produces a fabric more or less waterproof according to the
quantity of collodion employed. The cotton or fibre which I employ is not
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page_text: chemically prepared, and, therefore, is not acted on by the solvent of the
collodion, but is simply cemented together by the collodion as it hardens.
Articles may in this manner be made of any desired shape, as, for example,
tubes may be produced by lapping the batt, fleece, or layer of loose fibre
around a form, and then applying the collodion; in this manner gloves,
shoes, and boots may be produced. Cups, basins, or other moulded or shaped
articles may also be similarly produced. Fabrics or moulded or shaped articles
may also be produced by spreading a mixture of loose fibre, or flock, and
collodion on a surface or form.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Macintosh in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
8th June 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
MACINTOSHI, of 40, North Bank, Regent's Park, in the County of Middlesex,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said John Macintosh, Her special licence that I, the said John
Macintosh, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said John Macintosh, my executors, 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, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention. for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WATERPROOF AND OTHER FABRICS, AND OF
MOULDED OR FORMED ARTICLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said John Macintosh, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Macintosh, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be

page_text: performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of water-
proof and other fabrics, and of moulded or formed articles. For the purpose
of producing a waterproof or other fabric, I take a batt, or fleece, or thin and
loose layer of cotton or other fibre, and spread over the surface of the same a
thin coating of collodion, which, in hardening cements the fibres firmly
together, and produces a fabric more or less waterproof, according to the
quantity of collodion employed. The cotton or fibre which I employ is not
chemically prepared, and, therefore, is not acted on by the solvent of the
collodion, but is simply cemented together by the collodion as it hardens.
Articles may, in this manner, be made of any desired shape, as, for example,
tubes may be produced by lapping the batt, fleece, or layer of loose fibre
around a form, and then applying the collodion; in this manner gloves, shoes,
and boots may be produced Cups, basins, or other moulded or shaped articles
may also be similarly produced. Fabrics, or moulded or shaped articles may
also be produced by spreading a mixture of loose fibre or flock and collodion
on a surface or form.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
When making a sheet of waterproof fabric according to my Invention, I
prepare a fleece or batt of cotton or other fibres by a carding engine, or other
convenient means, as is well understood, and I cause the same to be con-
ducted into and through fluid collodion, or I apply such collodion on to one or
both sides of such fleece or batt, which may be performed in any convenient
manner; but I prefer to employ two rollers for this purpose, together with a
suitable hopper to contain the collodion. The fleece or batt saturated with
the collodion as it passes out of the hopper being received between two
pressing rollers applied at the bottom of the hopper, or in place of the above
arrangement the batt or fleece may be conducted into and from a vessel con-
taining collodion by means of two endless aprons of wire cloth, and then
pressed by rollers, or the collodion may be applied to one or both surfaces of a
fleece or batt by collodion being applied to the surface or surfaces of the roller
or rollers. When making articles of varied shapes of fibrous materials
combined with collodion, the shape of the article is first produced by pressing
a batt or fleece of fibres on to suitable shapes or forms, and then such articles
are dipped into a bath of collodion, so as to be saturated or coated with
collodion, which are then allowed to dry. Articles are thus produced composed
of fibrous matters coated or saturated with collodion, and applicable for a

page_text: great variety of purposes depending on the forms of the shapes or forms used.
The collodion may be colored, if the purpose for which it is to be used
renders it desirable.
What I claim is, the saturating or coating sheets and other articles formed
of fibres with collodion, as herein described. In some cases the collodion in
place of being in a fluid state may be in a plastic condition when combined
by rollers, or otherwise with the fleece or fibres.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Macintosh, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty.
JOHN MACINTOSH. (L.s.)