Improvements in the Manufacture of Mohair Plush, applicable to Various New and Useful Purposes.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 9th May, 1893
Compiete Specification Left, 9th Feb., 1894-Accepted, 5th May, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Mohair Plush, applicable to
Various New and Useful Purposes.
I, IRA ICKRINGILL, of Laurel Mount, Keighley, in the County of York,
Worsted Spinner, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to certain improvements in the manufacture of Utrecht
velvet and when so improved, the construction from such material of belts and
other wraps for the body whereby certain advantages accrue to the wearer not
hitherto known.
I accomplish my object by constructing the ordinary Utrecht velvet with some
of the threads, either warp or weft composed of elastic.
It is well known that by far the largest number of ailments are attributable to
abdominal disturbances. I have discovered that a belt or garment made of this
improved material the plush close to the and encircling the upper parts of the body,
possesses certain healthful advantages over every other known under garment, and
that such wraps or garments are capable of reducing abdominal disturbances to a
minimum.
The advantages are, inter alia, as follows :-
1. The natural action of the skin to perspire is in no way checked.
2. The skin may be moist, but the pile composing the plush is always dry owing
to the circulation of air passing through the pile between the skin and the back of
the fabric.
3. The feeling of chilliness incidental to most under garments after perspiring, is
totally absent.
4. A warm chamber encircles the body engendering a comfortable feeling of
warmth with the novel advantages as set forth in 1 and 3.
5. After a bath, on the application of a wrap, belt or garment composed of my
improved material, the body is warm in a moment; that is, the reaction is set
up, the absence of which prevents many persons from indulging in the luxury of a
bath.
6. The material does not shrink and can be washed.
7. The material adapts itself to the varying movements, expansions and
contractions of the body.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Mohair Plush, applicable to
Various New and Useful Purposes.
I, IRA ICKRINGILL, of Laurel Mount, Keighley, in the County of York,
Worsted Spinner, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to certain improvements in the manufacture of Utrecht
velvet, and when so improved, the construction from such material of belts and

page_text: Other wraps for the body, whereby certain advantages accrue to the wearer, not
hitherto known.
I accomplish my object by constructing the ordinary Utrecht velvet with some
of the threads composed of elastic, which are woven into the fabric in a stretched
condition.
It is well known that by far the largest number of ailments are attributable to
abdominal disturbances. I have discovered that a belt or garment made of this
improved material, the plush close to and encircling the upper parts of the body,
possesses certain healthful advantages over every other known under garment; and
that such wraps or garments are capable of reducing abdominal disturbances to a
minimum.
The advantages amongst others are as follows:-
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1. The natural action of the skin to perspire is in no way checked.
2. The skin may be moist, but the pile composing the plush is always dry, owing
to the circulation of air passing through the pile between the skin and the back of
the fabric.
3. The feeling of chilliness incidental to most under garments after perspiring is
totally absent.
4. A warm chamber encircles the body, engendering a comfortable feeling of
warmth with the novel advantages as set forth in 1. and 3.
5. After a bath, on the application of a wrap, belt or garment composed of
my improved material, the body is warm in a moment; that is, the reaction is set
up, the absence of which prevents many persons from indulging in the luxury of a
bath.
6. The material does not shrink and can be washed.
7. The material adapts itself to the varying movements of expansions and
contractions of the body.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1. represents an end view of a loom, suitable for weaving plush fabric and
adapted for introducing elastic web threads in the direction of the warp.
Fig. 2. a view looking from the back of the loom, showing a portion of the elastic
web distributing apparatus.
Fig. 3. a detached sectional detail through the elastic thread beam and
distributing rollers.
The loom is of the ordinary type for weaving plush or pile fabrics and is driven
in the usual manner. The threads of elastic web are wound upon the beam A, the
free rotation of which is retarded by a cord passing over some convenient portion
of same, or by other well known and suitable means, the elastic threads B. on
leaving the beam A. are conducted between the friction roller C and the positively
driven roller D, the speed of which is so regulated by change wheels as to distribute
the elastic threads at a speed for giving the required tension to make the velvet
elastic. Motion to the roller D is transmitted from chain wheel E. secured on
rotating shaft F, by the chain G to the chain wheel E', then through the train of
spur change wheels H to the said roller.
The warp threads W are delivered to the loom and operated by the healds J in
the usual manner, and on beginning to weave a piece of fabric, the elastic threads B.
which also pass through and are operated by one or more of the healds J. are
stretched to the required degree, and held in any convenient manner at the front of
the loom, until they are secured in the stretched condition by the weft interlacing
the same and the ordinary warp thread W.
The surface speed of the ordinary take up roller at the front of the loom and the
elastic threads distributing roller D at the back are arranged to be equal, so that
the tension of the elastic on beginning to weave is retained throughout the length
of the fabric, which, on being liberated by the take up roller, contracts by the
shrinkage of the elastic web threads inserted in the fabric.
It will be readily understood that velvet having stretched elastic threads woven
into the fabric, is applicable for other purposes besides body wraps or garments, as

page_text: for example such fabric may be beneficially used for the upholstering of chairs and
other articles of furniture and the like.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed; I declare that what I
claim is,
1. A plush fabric into which are woven and combined a number of stretched
elastic threads, secured in a manner that the finished fabric will stretch or contract
and adapt itself to varying movements.
2. Belts or body wraps made of plush fabric with which is combined threads of
elastic inserted in the fabric for the purpose as hereinbefore set forth.
Dated this 8th day of February 1894.
JOHN WAUGH,
Agent.