[MPROVEMENTS IN HOSE PIPE OR IN THE MANUFACTURE THEREOF to be as follows:
Year: 1884

page_text: I ALFRED ERNEST CLIBBORN, of Bentham, near Lancaster in the County of
Yorkshire do hereby declare the nature of the said invention for "[MPROVEMENTS
IN HOSE PIPE OR IN THE MANUFACTURE THEREOF to be as follows:-
"
Hose piping manufactured from flax or hemp is apt to cut when dragged over
stones, it sweats considerably and is liable to rot quickly if kept damp. Many
experiments have been made to overcome these defects by chemical preparations
and the like but with indifferent result and consequently I have turned my
attention to other material. I find as a result that Ramic fibre Rhon or China
grass-for it goes by all three naines-if treated by the well known Frémy Urbain
process and then spun with but little twist, if used as either warp or weft with flax
and hemp for the other thread or used as both warp and weft, has a wonderful
effect in improving the valuable properties of the hose and obviating the aforesaid
defects.
The best plan at present known to me of manufacturing is as follows: About a
dozen threads of Ramie yarn very loosely twisted, just sufficient in fact to keep
the individual fibres from separating, are again loosely twisted together with a
twist of about one complete revolution to three quarters of an inch in length and
forming a yarn or thread of about one sixteenth of an inch in diameter. This form
of thread being extremely strong and also very open when woven into hose pipe,
absorbs the water at once and thus prevents the hose sweating as much as hose
made from flax or hemp alone, which libres have to receive much moro twist. The
softness of the Raunic fibre but slightly twisted as above described enables it to be
dragged over stones with much less liability to cut, while owing to the peculiar
nature of the fibre it is stronger weight for weight than either hemp or flax and
does not rot as quickly under the influence of moisture. This latter is probably in
large part owing to the open texture caused by the mode of manufacture above
described. I find that an admixture of the Ramic fibre with hemp or flax have
some of the advantages of pure Ramic fibre when manufactured in the manner
described, but I prefer the unadulterated article of either the warp or weft or both
I do not bind myself to the exact details of manufacture above described, as it is
obvious that sizes and quantities can be altered without departing from the
principles of the invention and that a lesser number of thicker strands if mado
thicker would produce almost identically the same thread for the purposes
described.
WP. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: The best plan at present known to me of manufacturing is as follows. About
three threads of warp loosely twisted and about a dozen threads of Ramie yarn,
very loosely twisted, just sufficient in fact to keep the individual fibres from
separating, are again loosely twisted together with a twist of about one complete
revolution to three quarters of an inch in length, and forming a yarn or thread
of about one sixteenth of an inch in diameter. This form of thread being extremely
strong, and also very open, when woven into hose pipe, absorbs the water at once,
and thus prevents the hose sweating as much as hose made from flax or hemp
alone, which fibres have to receivo: much-more twist. The softness of the Ramie
fibre, but slightly twisted as above described, enables it to be dragged over stones
with much less liability to cut, while owing to the peculiar nature of the fibre, it is
stronger, weight for weight, than either hemp or flax, and does not rot as quickly
under the influence of moisture. This latter is probably in large part owing to tho
open texture caused by the mode of manufacture above described.
I do not bind myself to the exact details of manufacture above described, as it is
obvious that sizes and quantities can be altered without departing from the principles
of the invention, and that a lesser number of thicker strands, if mado thicker, would
produce almost identically the same thread for the purposes described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention as communicated to me, and in what manner the same is to bo
performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
1 The improved hose pipe formed in whole or in large part of loosely twisted
Ramic fibre substantially as described.
2nd The improvement in the manufacture of hose pipe which consists in forming
the individual threads of either the warp or weft, preferably the weft, of mixed
Ramic fibre-and hemp, or flax, or of ramic fibro only very loosely twisted,
substantially as described.
Dated this fifteenth day of October 1884