THE MANUFACTURE OF SEAMLESS GARMENTS AND OTHER SEAMLESS FABRICS."
Year: 1855

page_text: THE MANUFACTURE OF SEAMLESS GARMENTS AND OTHER SEAMLESS FABRICS."
Pontle communication
Sealed the 18th April 1856, and dated the 18th October 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Cheesman Wagstaff
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
18th October 1855.
I, JOHN CHEESMAN WAGSTAFF, of 20, Grosvenor Street, in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-.
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SEAMLESS GARMENTS AND OTHER SEAMLESS
FABRICS" to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in improvements in producing garments by felting
the different parts of garments together, as is described in the Specification of:
a Patent granted to Moses Poole, dated the 19th November 1852, and:
numbered 787; and. my Invention consists in cementing the different parts
of the garment together, so as to hold them until joined by felting, in place of**
sewing the said parts together, as is described in that Specification. Myr

page_text: Invention consists also in shaping garments, formed by felting the different
parts together, by stretching such garments on hollow metal forms, into the
interior of which steam or other heating medium is introduced.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Cheesman. Wagstaff in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 18th April 1856..
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TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
CHEESMAN WAGSTAFF, of 20, Grosvenor Street, in the County of Middlesex,
send greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said John Cheesman Wagstaff, Her special licence that I, the said
John Cheesman Wagstaff, my exécutors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as the said John Cheesman Wagstaff, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter 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 Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SEAMLESS GARMENTS AND OTHER
SEAMLESS FABRICS," (partly a communication,) upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said John Cheesman Wagstaff, my executors or adminis-
trators, 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 John Cheesman Wagstaff, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:
This Invention consists in improvements in producing garments by felting
the different parts of garments together, as is described in the Specification of
a Patent granted to Moses Poole, dated the Nineteenth November, One

page_text: thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, and numbered 787; and my Invention,
consists in cementing the different parts of the garment together (so as to
hold them until joined by felting) in place of sewing the said parts together,,
as is described in that Specification. My. Invention consists also in shaping
garments, formed by felting the different parts together, by stretching such
garments on hollow metal forms, into the interior of which steam or other
heating medium is introduced.
And in order that my said Invention may be most fully understood and
readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the manner in which I
prefer to operate.
The sliver of fibre from a carding machine is accumulated on a suitable
form, so as to make a bat of fibres, which is hardened and felted in the
ordinary manner into a felted fabric. When the "bat" has been hardened,
it is cut out as heretofore with shears into the desired forms, and where the
edges are to be joined together to produce seamless garments, those edges are
to be bevilled off and opened out by a hand or other card or brushing surface,
in order that when two such bevilled edges are lapped on each other they
may produce a similar thickness of fabrics at the joins as at the other parts.
These bevilled and lapped edges are to be cemented together with any suit-1
able cement or adhesive matter, which will be removed by the process of
felting, and I prefer glue for this purpose; the parts are then felted together
as heretofore, and the garment is shaped by placing it on a form, such as I
will now proceed to describe.
Figure 1 shows the shape and construction of a hollow metal form which
I employ to shape and finish a coat made from a fleece of felted fibres;
Figures 2 and 3 show separate views of some of the parts. One of the arms
A of this shape is capable of being readily detached, to facilitate the removal
of the garment from the form when completed, and the other arm.is fixed.
The arm A is connected by the hook or projection a on the arm entering the
recess a' formed in the shoulder, and the parts are retained together by the
spring catch 6 on the shoulder entering the recess 6' formed on the end of
the arm, and the parts are separated by pressing the projection c of the spring
catch. The interior of the body and arm A communicate with each other by
the holes d, d, which are packed with an elastic washer, as shown. e is a
steam pipe and cock for the admission of steam to the interior of the hollow
vessel; and f, f, are cocks to let off the condensed steam; g is a ring around
the lower end of the form, set with points, to attach the coat to the form.
Figure 4 shows a hollow metal form, suitable for stretching and shaping
trowsers. This form is made in two parts, hinged together at h; the interior

page_text: of the upper parts communicate with each other by holes packed with an
elastic washer, and they are held together by a catch at in any other
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convenient manner.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Cheesman Wagstaff, have hereunto
set my land and seal, this Seventeenth day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
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Witness,
S. CARPMAEL.
JOHN C. WAGSTAFF. (L.S.)
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