IMPROVEMENTS IN MANUFACTURING, DYEING AND FINISHING CRAPE
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Gooch, of Manchester, in the County of Lan-
caster, Silk Finisher, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MANUFACTURING,
DYEING AND FINISHING CRAPE"
Sealed the 1st November 1878, and dated the 22nd May 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Gooch at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 22nd May 1878.
ROBERT GOOCH, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Silk Finisher.
PROVEMENTS IN MANUFACTURING, DYEING, AND FINISHING CRAPE."
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IM-
My Invention consists in manufacturing crape from the following materials
namely, mohair, worsted, wool, angola, china grass, and linen, or a mixture of any
of the above in combination with cotton, silk, and spun silk, if required. The
crape made of any of the above materials, or any combination thereof, is woven in
a loom in the ordinary manner, and then passed between engraved rollers to impart
a twilled surface, or between the usual crimping rollers.
My improvements in dyeing black crape consists in adding chrome to the other
ingredients usually employed, and in dyeing crape of other colours I employ cud-
bear or other ingredients, according to the shade required.
My improvements in finishing crape consist in making it waterproof by passing
through a solution of india-rubber or other suitable material combined with
glutinous matter. Ordinary crape may also be made waterproof in the same
manner.
Another part of my Invention consists in drying crape on an ordinary tentering
frame instead of in a stove, as heretofore customary. This mode of drying crape
improves the colours and finish.

page_text: Crape prepared in the manner above described can be printed in an ordinary
colour printing machine or by blocks, and then again finished in the manner above
referred to.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Robert Gooch in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 21st November
1878.
ROBERT GOOCH, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Silk Finisher. “IM-
PROVEMENTS IN MANUFACTURING, DYEING, AND FINISHING CRAPE."
My Invention consists in manufacturing crape from the following materials,
namely, nohair, worsted, wool, angola, china grass, and linen, or a mixture of any
of the above in combination with cotton, silk, and spun silk, if required. The
crape made of any of the above materials, or any combination thereof, is woven in
a loom in the ordinary manner, and then passed between engraved rollers to impart
a twilled surface, or between the usual crimping rollers.
My improvement in dyeing black crape consists in adding chrome to the other
ingredients usually employed, and in dyeing crape of other colours I employ cud-
bear in combination with other ingredients for dyeing, according to the shade
required.
In dyeing crape of the colour known as Linden blue black I use logwood in
addition to the ordinary dye materials, and in dyeing Linden blue I add indigo to
the ordinary dye materials.
My improvements in finishing crape manufactured from the materials abovo
described or ordinary crape consist in making it waterproof by passing through
a solution of india-rubber or other suitable material combined with glutinous
matter.
Another part of my Invention consists in drying crape on an ordinary tentering
frame instead of in a stove, as heretofore customary. This mode of drying crape
improves the colours and finish.
Crape prepared in the manner above described can be printed in an ordinary
colour printing machine or by blocks, and then again made waterproof or finished
in the manner above referred to.
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Having thus stated the nature and particulars of my Invention, I declare that I
claim,―
First. Manufacturing crape of mohair, worsted, wool, angola, china grass, and
linen, or a mixture of any of the above materials in combination with cotton, silk,
and spun silk, if required.
Secondly. The use of chrome for dyeing crape black.
Thirdly. The use of cudbear for dyeing crape of various colours.
Fourthly. The use of logwood for dyeing crape of the colour known as the Linden
blue blool

page_text: Fifthly. The use of indigo for ayemg crape of the colour known as Dinden
blue.
Sixthly. Rendering crape waterproof by passing it through a solution of india-
rubber or other suitable material.
Seventhly. Drying crape on an ordinary tentering frame instead of in a stove, as
heretofore customary.
And, lastly, Printing white and coloured crape in an ordinary printing machine
or by blocks to produce ornamental crape.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Gooch, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twentieth day of November, One thousand eight hundred
and seventy-eight.