Improvements in Woven Fabrics for Male and Female Wearing Apparel, Hangings, Curtains, Window Blinds, Furniture Covers, and the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Nov., 1893-Accepted, 16th Dec., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Woven Fabrics for Male and Female Wearing
Apparel, Hangings, Curtains, Window Blinds, Furniture Covers,
and the like.
I, JOSEPH ROBERT MALLY, of 5 Bridgewater Square, Barbican, in the City
of London, Fancy Goods Manufacturer, 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:—
My invention relates to improvements in male and female wearing apparel,
hangings, curtains, window blinds, furniture covers and other like fabrics adopted
for domestic purposes, which consists of the various materials woven with elastic or
india rubber in place of the ordinary thread.
The object of this invention is to facilitate expansion and contraction of either
male and female wearing apparel, hangings, curtains, window blinds, furniture
covers and other like fabrics of every well known description now in use for
domestic purposes.
The elastic or india rubber is formed into a thread and any material may be
constructed with the said elastic or india rubber thread by means of a loom as with
ordinary cotton now in common use.
And in order that my invention may be thoroughly understood, I now proceed to
describe the accompanying drawing thereof, reference being had to letters marked
thereon. The drawing is broken off for convenience.
The elastic or india rubber thread a is covered with woven silk, cotton, wool or
the like material this said elastic is placed at tension parallel with the warp
threads e which are extended lengthwise in the loom, and crossed by the weft
threads c and d from selvedge to selvedge as illustrated by the accompanying
drawing.
The elastic or india rubber threads a with covered material b may be woven in
or intermixed with warp and weft threads of silk, cotton, wool or anything flexible;
and the said elastic or india rubber threads a with covered material b may be
woven into the aforesaid material in one, two, three, four or any number of parallel
rows herein termed "sets" and placed in any suitable position. For example a set
of four of the elastic or india rubber threads a with covered material bare placed
parallel with the warp threads e as illustrated and it may be some little distance
of woven material both on the right hand and left hand of the set before another
four rows of elastic or india rubber threads are woven.
Material may be woven with one, two or more sets, of elastic or india rubber
threads with covered material and woven close together or any distance apart
from each other.
It will be understood that I do not particularly bind myself to construct the
material with elastic or india rubber woven together in the manner herein
described, as the materials shapes and parts may be varied in many ways within
the scope of my invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In woven material for male and female wearing apparel, hangings, curtains,
window blinds, furniture covers and other like domestic fabrics, the combination of
elastic or india rubber threads a with covered material 6 woven together with silk,
wool or cotton warp threads e and weft threads c and d, substantially as herein
described and according to the accompanying drawing.

page_text: 2. In woven material, the combination of any number of elastic or india rubber
threads woven together in any position with silk, wool or cotton warp and weft
-threads,-substantially-as-herein-described.-
3. The combination of woven material and elastic or india rubber woven together,
for male and female wearing apparel, hangings, curtains, window blinds, furniture
covers and other like domestic fabrics, substantially as herein described and
illustrated.
Dated this 11th day of November 1893.
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, W., Agent for the Applicant.