IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BLANKETS AND BED COVERS
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Leigh Slater, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF BLANKETS AND BED COVERS."
Sealed the 4th October 1878, and dated the 25th April 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Leigh Slater at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 25th April 1878.
LEIGH SLATER, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturer.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BLANKETS AND BED COVERS."
of
My Invention consists in manufacturing blankets and bed covers of a combination
paper and wadding.
In performing my Invention I take a roll of wadding and two rolls of paper,
and apply cement or glutinous substance to one side of each roll of paper, the two
pieces of paper with the wadding between them are then passed over drying
cylinders, and then between calender rollers, to combine the whole together. The
papers with the wadding between are then cut into suitable lengths, and the
selvages are either whipped or bound in a sewing machine or otherwise, or the edges
of the paper can be secured by cement.
Disinfecting powder or other substances for destroying insects may be intro-
duced between the papers; and in order to promote ventilation, the papers may be
perforated at intervals.
The papers can be ornamented by printing or otherwise, and quilted if desired.
By this means light and cheap blankets and bed covers can be manufactured.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Leigh Slater in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 22nd October
1878.
_LEIGH SLATER, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturer.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BLANKETS AND BED COVERS."
My Invention consists in manufacturing blankets, rugs, and bed covers of a com-
bination of paper and wadding.
In performing my Invention I take a roll of wadding and two rolls of paper,
and apply cement or glutinous substance to one side of each roll of the paper by
means of a roller revolving in a trough or in any other convenient mauner; the
two pieces of paper with the wadding between them are then passed over drying
cylinders, and then between calender rollers of the ordinary construction, to combine
the whole together. The papers with the wadding between them are then cut into
suitable lengths, and the selvages are either whipped or bound in a sewing machine
or otherwise, or the edges of the paper can be secured by cement.
Disinfecting powder, or other substances for destroying insects, may be intro-
duced between the papers; and in order to promote ventilation, the papers may be
perforated at intervals.
The papers can be ornamented by printing or otherwise, and quilted if desired.
By this means light and cheap blankets, rugs, and bed covers can be manu-
factured.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention and described the manner of
performing the same, I wish to remark that I do not limit myself to any particular
machinery or apparatus for carrying the same into operation; but that what I
claim is, the improved mode of manufacturing blankets, or rugs, and bed covers
of paper and wadding, as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Leigh Slater, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-first day of October, One thousand eight hundred and
seventy-eight.