An Improved Fabric and Method of Making the same
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Feb., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 4th Nov., 1899-Accepted, 9th Dec., 1899
Dennerstrasse,
Darmen-Rittershausen,
Germany.j
An Improved Fabric and Method of Making the same
I, VICTOR FALLON FEENY, of 60, Queen Victoria Street, in the City and County
of London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to an improved fabric made of separate wool and
mercerised cotton, and to a process of manufacturing the same.
The subject of the present invention is a fabric, which, contrary to those usually
made, consists on the wrong side wholly or mainly of wool, and on the right side
principally or entirely of cotton this latter being in a stretched and mercerised
condition, with or without the addition of silk
The improved fabric possesses the beautiful gloss or sheen and, likewise, the
strength or durability of fabrics made from mercerised cotton or half silk, but
does not present or is not subject to, the unpleasant feature of possible puckers,
creases or wrinkles, because the wool lying under the cotton operates as a spring
or stretching medium and immediately again stretches and smooths out creases
and wrinkles formed in the cotton.
The simplest method of manufacturing this kind of fabric is to make it on the
wrong side mostly or entirely of wool and on the right or proper side chiefly or
wholly of cotton with or without the addition of silk and then to mercerise it in
the piece under the application of stretching.
The fabric is to be used principally as a material for coating, clothing or the
lining of the same.
An Improved Fabric and Method of Making the same.
I, VICTOR FALLON FEENY, of 60, Queen Victoria Street, in the City and County
of London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and aseer-
tained in and by the following statement: —
The object of this invention is a zanella or serge fabric, which, contrary to the

page_text: custom hitherto prevailing, is produced with the wrong or back side chiefly of
wool, and the right of face side principally or almost entirely of cotton, sub-
mitted to a mercerising process in which the threads are stretched or held under
tension and which face side may or may not contain silk. This fabric possesses
the beautiful silk lustre and strength of fabrics made of mercerised cotton or
half-silk, but is without puckers or rumples, since the wool lying beneath the
cotton is yielding in its action, and thus operating as a spring or tensioning
medium, immediately stretches and smoothens and creases and folds formed in the
cotton
The two classes of fabrics mentioned (zanella and serge) may be regarded as
types of all fabrics derived from these original forms and can, therefore, be
varied in different ways; for example, produced with woollen warp and cotton
weft threads.
A fabric is pro-
The best way of producing the improved fabric is as follows.
duced in the form of a zanella or serge with woollen threads predominating on
the wrong, or back, side and cotton threads with or without silk, on the right
or face side, and then mercerised in the usual manner under tension. The fabric
is intended for use either as a lining or as a diess material
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
(1). A zanella or serge fabric, the right or face side being chiefly composed of
cotton mercerised under tension, with or without silk, and The back or wrong side
chiefly of wool, substantially as described.
(2). A process for producing a fabric, as claimed in Claim 1, consisting in the
production of a zanella or serge fabric, the right or face side consisting chiefly of
cotton, with or without silk, and the wrong or back side chiefly of wool, which
fabric is then mercerised in the piece under tension, as described.
Dated this fourth day of November 1899
Dated this Powth day of November 1899.
For the Applicant,
GEDGE & FEENY,
Chartered Patent Agents, 60, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C.