THE APPLI- CATION OF METALLIC SUBSTANCES UPON TEXTILE MATERIALS IN THE STATE OF THREAD
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Gedge, of the Firm of John Gedge
and Son, of No. 23, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the .Invention of "THE APPLI-
CATION OF METALLIC SUBSTANCES UPON TEXTILE MATERIALS IN THE STATE OF
THREAD."-A communication from abroad by Adolphe Benjamin Albert
François Joseph Lepoutre-Pollet, of Roubaix (Nord), France, Manu-
facturer..
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward Gedge.
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 27th March 1866.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD GEDGE, of the Firm of John Gedge and Son, of No. 28,
Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Patent
Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "THE APPLI-
CATION OF METALLIC SUBSTANCES UPON TEXTILE MATERIALS IN THE STATE OF

page_text: THREAD," (a communication to me from abroad by Adolphe Benjamin Albert
François Joseph Lepoutre-Pollet, of Roubaix (Nord), France, Manufacturer,
to be as follows:-
Hitherto the introduction of metallic substances into woven fabrics has been
attained by two methods only, namely, either by the application of the metal
on the manufactured fabric or by weaving in the stuff metallic tbreads in the
form of very thin plates, or in that of a cotton thread with a metal wire around
it in its entire length and completely covering it.
This Invention presents a great advantage over what has hitherto been done
inasmuch that a considerable saving is realized and a great decrease of weight,
while at the same time the want of suppleness which follows the introduction
of metallic wires or plates into the fabrics is avoided, and on the other hand a
strength and effects are attained which cannot be obtained by application on
the woven fabrics. This method consists in applying the metallic substances
on the textile materials in the state of thread. In the language of printers
upon threads, warps, or woven fabrics the word printing is specially devoted
to the operation which consists in incorporating tinctorial substances with the
threads, warps, or woven fabrics, whereas the term applying (or inlaying) on
the contrary indicates the deposit or fixation of metallic or other substances
on textile fabrics.
The application is effected in the following manner:-When the thread is
in hank it is arranged as if it were to be printed, but instead of submitting it.
to this operation the metallic substance is applied, the same means being used
to deposit or fix it as those now in use for applying metal on a manufactured
fabric. This operation being ended the thread is spooled, and it is then used
either as warp or woof or as simple thread for any purpose. The operations
of printing on thread and applying or inlaying metal on woven fabrics as well
as those of weaving being well known their description here is not deemed
necessary.
A better and more regular result may be obtained by a more complicated
method of operating. A warp is made from the thread and arranged as if it
were intended to be printed upon, but instead of printing the metal is applied.
by the means usually employed for metallic applications on woven fabrics.
When the application is dry the warp is arranged on the weaving loom in the
ordinary manner. The wooden rods which are between the harness and the
roller carrying the warp effect the ungluing of the threads, the workman
aiding with his hands. After the warp has passed through the harness and
the comb or stay reed it may be immediately woven. It may also without
being woven, he rolled on the cloth beam or roller which habitually carries

page_text: the fabric, and by this latter means a warp is obtained each thread of which is
isolated from its neighbour, and it is then only necessary to unspool the warp,
that is to say, to put it in hanks in order to be able to use it in any desired
manner.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Edward Gedge in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 24th September 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRÉSENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
EDWARD GEDGE, of the Firm of John Gedge and Son, of No. 23, Southampton
Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the twenty-ninth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said William Edward Gedge, Her special licence that I, the said William
Edward Gedge, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said William Edward Gedge, 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 "THE
APPLICATION OF METALLIC SUBSTANCES UPON TEXTILE MATERIALS IN THE STATE OF
THREAD," (a communication to me from abroad by Adolphe Benjamin Albert
François Joseph Lepoutre-Pollet, of Roubaix (Nord), France, Manufacturer,).
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Edward
Gedge, 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 William Edward Gedge, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement.:—

page_text: Hitherto the introduction of metallic substances into woven fabrics has been
attained by two methods only, namely, either by the application of the metal
on the manufactured fabric or by weaving in the stuff metallic threads in the
form of very thin plates, or in that of a cotton thread with a metal wire around
it in its entire length and completely covering it.
This method consists in applying the metallic substances on the textile
materials in the state of thread. In the language of printers upon threads,
warps, or woven fabrics, the word printing is specially devoted to the operation
which consists in incorporating tinctorial substances with the threads, warps,
or woven fabrics, whereas the term applying (or inlaying) on the contrary
indicates the deposit or fixation of metallic or other substances on textile
fabrics.
'
The application is effected in the following manner:-When the thread is
in hank it is arranged as if it were to be printed, but instead of submitting it
to this operation the metallic substance is applied, the same means being used
to deposit or fix it as those now in use for applying metal on a manufactured
fabric. This operation being ended the thread is spooled, and it is then used
either as warp or woof, or as simple thread for any purpose. The operations
of printing on thread and applying or inlaying 'metal on woven fabrics as well
as those of weaving being well known their description here is not deemed
necessary.
A better and more regular result may be obtained by a more complicated
method of operating. A warp is made from the thread and arranged as if it
were intended to be printed upon, but instead of printing the metal is applied
by the means usually employed for metallic applications on woven fabrics.
When the application is dry the warp is arranged on the weaving loom in the
ordinary manner. The wooden rods which are between the harness and the
roller carrying the warp effect the ungluing of the threads, the "workman
aiding with his hands. After the warp has passed through the harness and
the comb or stay reed it may be immediately woven. It may also without
being woven be rolled on the cloth beam or roller which habitually carries
the fabric, and by this latter means a warp is obtained each thread of which is
isolated from its neighbour, and it is then only necessary to unspool the warp,
that is to say, to put it in hanks in order to be able to use it in any desired
manner.
This Invention presents a great advantage over what has hitherto been
done, inasmuch that a considerable saving is realized and a great decrease of
weight, while at the same time the want of suppleness which follows the
introduction of metallic wires or plates into the fabrics is avoided, and on the

page_text: other hand a strength and effects are attained which cannot be obtained by
application on the woven fabrics.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Gedge, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
W. E. GEDGE. (L.S.)