Improvements in Cloth for Underclothing, including Shirts, Chemises, Drawers, and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Improvements in Cloth for Underclothing, including Shirts,
Chemises, Drawers, and the like.
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WALKER RILEY, Manufacturer, Laisterdyke, Bradford, York, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The face of this cloth is made of cotton or linen, the back is made of wool, or
silk, or a combination of these materials with cotton or linen. The face is the
right side of cloth, the side exposed to, view, the back is towards the body when
in wear.
The construction of all other cloths have the most valuable and im-
portant material forming the face, this cloth is a reversal of the common practice,
the material next the body will afford warmth, the face being cotton or linen
may be printed, or starched and hot pressed smoothed. A nap may be raised on
the back of this cloth, so that it resembles flannel, the purpose of which it is to
fill.
A shirt made of this material will afford all the advantages of a wool shirt,
with all the elegance of a starched and hot iron pressed one.
Improvements in Cloth for Underclothing, including Shirts,
Chemises, Drawers, and the like.
I, WALKER RILEY, of Planetrees Road, Laisterdyke, Bradford, in the County
of York, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
The object of this invention is to produce a cloth suitable for underwear, such
as for shirts, chemises, and drawers, and for ladies blouses, cricketing trousers,
night dresses and lawn tennis jackets and the like, which shall possess in a great
degree the advantages of all wool clothing, whilst not being liable to shrink;
and which is much less expensive, and is capable of being got up for wear with
all the elegance of starched and hot iron pressed linen and the like.
This object I effect by making a cloth with a face of cotton, or linen or a
combination of cotton and linen; whilst the back is made entirely of wool, or
silk or a combination of wool and silk, or principally of wool, or silk, or prin-
cipally of a combination of wool and silk. In the latter case the small remainder
of the material may be of cotton, or linen, or both. The face, which is the right
side of the cloth or the side exposed to view when in wear, is thus made of material

page_text: which can be got up by starching and hot pressing, or which may be printed
upon; whilst the back of the material, which is worn next the skin, has the
advantages of feel, warmth and absorption, hitherto obtained only by the use
of all wool clothing. A nap may be raised on the back of this cloth, so as to make
it resemble flannel, the use of which latter my new cloth is intended to replace.
As the manner in which the looms and shuttles are to be arranged and worked
to produce my new cloth will be obvious to any woollen or flannel manufacturer,
any description of such is omitted as unnecessary. Under the word "wool" in
this specification, I wish it to be understood, that I include besides the hair of
sheep, camel hair, mohair, alpaca and the like.
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. The method of manufacturing cloth consisting in making the cloth with a
face of cotton or linen or a combination of cotton and linen and with a back made
entirely of wool or silk or a combination of wool and silk or principally of wool
or silk or principally of a combination of wool and silk substantially as herein
set forth.
2. The use of cloth manufactured according to Claim 1 for underclothing
including shirts chemises and drawers, and for cricketing trousers ladies blouses
night dresses lawn tennis jackets-and-the-like.-