IMPROVEMENTS IN WATERPROOFING TEXTILE AND OTHER FABRICS
Year: 1884

page_text: I, JOHN SMITH SWEET of 8 Carter Street Walworth in the County of Surrey
House Decorator do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for IMPROVEMENTS
IN WATERPROOFING TEXTILE AND OTHER FABRICS to be as follows:-
The composition consists of Linseed Oil, Soft-soap, Patent dryers Olive Oil and
Oil of Caraway. These ingrediants are used in given quantities, suitable to the
fabric and climate. In applying the composition to the fabrics, I pass them slowly
through the composition, allowing time for absorbtion. I then pass them through
a press to get out the superfluous composition. I then place them in the open
air, or in rooms at a given temprature. When suficiently dry, they are pressed
with cylinders moderately heated. I then pass them through the composition the
second and third time if required following the same process each time. When
nearly dry they are callendered, which gives them the finishing gloss, or dull
appearance as required. By useing cold composition, I do not injure the Fabrics
in any way but I improve their clasticity and strength.
Dated this 1st day of January 1SS4

page_text: I, JOHN SMITH SWEET, of 8 Carter Street, Walworth, in the County of Surrey,
House Decorator, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for WATER-
PROOFING TEXTILE AND OTHER FABRICS, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
My invention consists of a composition of linseed oil, olive oil, palm oil, oil of
carraway, soft soap, and dryers, to be applied to textile and other fabrics in order
to render them waterproof. These ingredients are mixed in certain proportions,
varying according to the nature of the different fabrics, and the temperature or
climate to which they are exposed.
After being thoroughly cleansed from dirt and other matters the fabrics are laid
upon a flat surface, and then placed in tubs containing the composition. After
remaining in the composition for a short time they are taken up, and slowly passed
between rollers. By this means all the superfluous composition is pressed out.
They are then placed in the open air, or in rooms at a certain temperature, and
allowed to dry sufficiently. When sufficiently dry they are passed between
cylinders slightly heated. The fabrics are then passed through the composition a
second time, and if required a third time, the process followed each time being
precisely the same as at first. After this the fabrics when nearly dry are passed
through a calendering machine, which gives them the required glossy or dull
finish, similar to that they have when first manufactured.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I do
not limit myself to any exact proportions or mode of preparation in the above
composition, or to any particular method of application, as both may vary in so:ne
respects according to the quality or nature of the fabric or of the material to be
produced; but I claim :-
(1) The composition for waterproofing textile and other fabrics produced by
combining the different ingredients as above described.
(2) In waterproofing textile and other fabrics the use of the compound prepared
substantially as above described.
Dated this 30th day of September 1884.