A TISSUE, BEING A SUBSTITUTE FOR LEATHER, MILL- BOARD, AND PAPIER MACHE
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jerome Andre Drieu and Auguste Legeay, of No. 1,
Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square, London, in the County of Middlesex,
for the Invention of "A TISSUE, BEING A SUBSTITUTE FOR LEATHER, MILL-
BOARD, AND PAPIER MACHE."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jerome Andre Drieu and
Auguste Legeay at the Office of the Commissioners of. Patents, with
their Petition, on the 17th November 1859.
We, JEROME ANDRE DRIEU and AUGUSTE LEGEAY, of No. 1B, Welbeck
Street, Cavendish Square, London, in the County of Middlesex, do 'hereby'
declare the nature of the said Invention for "A TISSUE, BEING A SUBSTITUTE
FOR LEATHER, MILLBOARD, AND PAPIER MACHE," to be as follows:-
The Invention relates to the manufacture of a thick tissue of any material
capable of being woven, such as cotton, flax, wool, silk, or any other fibrous
material, either singly or mixed and combined together, and consists in using
more than one warp, the one loose, the other as lacing or stitching, besides the
one weaving in the ordinary way, the two faces (under and over) of the said
tissue, and forming altogether a single and solid cloth, as thick as required, in
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page_text: proportion to the weft used. After it is woven and out of the loom the cloth
is dipped in a hot solution, of which "joiners' glue," soap, and alum form
the basis, when half dry it is placed in a hot press, and there left to dry.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Jerome Andre Drieu and Auguste Legeay in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 17th May 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JEROME
ANDRE DRIEU and AUGUSTE LEGEAY, of No. 1B, Welbeck Street, Cavendish
Square, London, in the County of Middlesex send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-second year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
us, the said Jerome Andre Drieu and Auguste Legeay, Her special licence
that we, the said Jerome Andre Drieu and Auguste Legeay, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Jerome Andre Drieu
and Auguste Legeay, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 "A TISSUE
BEING A SUBSTITUTE FOR LEATHER, MILLBOARD, AND PAPIER MACHE," upon the
condition (amongst others) that we, the said Jerome Andre Drieu and
Auguste Legeay, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under our, 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 we, the said Jerome Andre Drieu and. Auguste
Legeay, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and, in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement and accompanying Drawings, that is.
to say:-
The Invention relates to the manufacture of a certain thick cloth of cotton

page_text: or any other weaving material, and consists in establishing a set of warps,
three in number, and arranging them in such manner that the result of the
weaving is a single and solid piece of work or cloth.
1st. The main warps are wound on a single beam, and are entered in a
set of 6 healds, all equal in number, and in a reed, as shown in the accom-
panying Draft, and in weaving to produce two single cloths quite distinct one
from the other through the tie up, Fig. 2.
2nd. Besides these warps another is introduced in a single heald, & is
wound on a single beam, hung over or under the main beam; the cotton of
this warp may be, as in this case, much finer than the cotton of the main
warps, that is to say, if the cotton of the main warp is No. 40, it can be of
No. 60. This warp is equal to the sixth part of the main warps, and is
entered in the heald, as shown in the Draft, and worked as shown Fig. 2, in the
tie-up for tying the two above-mentioned pieces together, and forming by that
operation a single and solid piece of cloth. The loom used for the purpose is
an ordinary one, either hand loom or power loom; the only difference consists
in requiring two distinct beams, the main beam being worked as in the
ordinary process of weaving, the second one being self-acting, under a weight,
and free to unwind itself as much or as little as the weaving may necessitate.
Double shuttle boxes are required at each end of the shaft.
The weaving, as shown by the tie-up, Fig. 2, is the same as usual, as far as
the double cloth is concerned, and the weft used may be either finer or coarser
at the will of the weaver.
:
In order to obtain a thick cloth another weft is used with a shuttle in one
of the double boxes, kept firm by the lacing of the work, and forms a single
and compact cloth together. After the cloth is woven and out of the loom
it is subjected to a chemical process, as follows:-
Brown treacle 4 parts (in weight.)
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page_text: by Letters Patent is, the system of weaving and the mode of after preparation,
as herein described, and the application of the material thus obtained to any
and all objects for which leather, cardboard, millboard, felt, and papier
mache are employed.
In witness whereof, we, the said Jerome Andre Drieu and Auguste
Legeay, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Seventeenth
day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and sixty.
(L.S.)
AUGUSTE LEGEAY. (L.S.)