IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF YARN SO AS TO RENDER SAME APPLICABLE AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR WOOLLEN YARN FOR MANUFACTURING INTO SHAWLS AND OTHER TEXTILE FABRICE
Year: 1865

page_text: Sealed the 15th September 1865, and dated the 20th March 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Isidor Philippsthal at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
20th March 1865.
I, ISIDOR PHILIPPSTHAL, of Berlin, in the Kingdom of Prussia, Manu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF YARN SO AS TO RENDER SAME APPLICABLE AS A SUBSTITUTE
FOR WOOLLEN YARN FOR MANUFACTURING INTO SHAWLS AND OTHER TEXTILE
FABRICE," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in utilizing waste hemp and flax, known in the
trade as tow, and consists in cutting same into pieces and then mixing same
with wool in the proportion of about two parts of the tow to one part of
wool, which may afterwards be spun into yarn by ordinary spinning machinery,
and then woven into shawls, neckerchiefs, and other articles of dress in
ordinary looms.

page_text: The object and intention of this Invention is to produce a cheaper material
than is at present produced by mixing cotton with wool, or using all wool, the
present high price of cotton being too costly to mix with wool.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Isidor Philippsthal in the Great Seal Patent Office ou the
20th September 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME 1, ISIDOR
PHILIPPSTHAL, of Berlin, in the Kingdom of Prussia, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-eighth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Isidor Philippsthal, Her special licence that 1, the said Isidor Philippsthal,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as 1, the said
Isidor Philippsthal, my 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF YARNS SO AS TO RENDER SAME APPLICABLE AS A
SUBSTITUTE FOR WOOLLEN YARN FOR MANUFACTURING INTO SHAWLS AND OTHER
TEXTILE FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Isidor
Philippsthal, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, 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 I, the said Isidor Philippsthal, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, that is to say:-
This livention consists in utilizing waste hemp and flax, known in the trade
as tow, and consists in cutting the same into pieces, and then mixing the same

page_text: with wool in the proportion of about two parts of the tow to one part of wool,
which may afterwards be spun into yarn by ordinary spinning machinery, and
then woven into shawls, neckerchiefs, and other articles of dress in ordinary
looms.
The object and intention of this Invention is to produce a cheaper material
than is at present produced by mixing cotton with wool, or using all wool, the
present high price of cotton being too costly to mix with wool.
The. improved yarn can be dyed of any desired color.
Having now fully described and set forth the nature and object of my said
Invention for Improvements in the Manufacture of Yarn so as to render same
applicable as a Substitute for Woollen Yarn for Manufacturing into Shawls
and other Textile Fabrics," together with the best means I am acquainted
with for carrying the same into practical effect, I hereby declare my Invention
to consist in, and 1 claim utilizing waste hemp and flax by mixing same with
wool to be employed in the manufacture of yarn as above stated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Isidor Philippsthal, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of September, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
ISIDOR PHILIPPSTHAL. (L.S.)