A NEW OR IMPROVED TEXTILE FABRIC
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Oldroyd and Mark Oldroyd, junior, of the
Firm of Mark Oldroyd & Sons, of Dewsbury, in the County of
York, Woollen Manufacturers, for the Invention of "A NEW OR
IMPROVED TEXTILE FABRIC."
Sealed the 9th April 1872, and dated the 18th January 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Oldroyd and
Mark Oldroyd at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 18th January 1872.
We, JOHN OLDROYD and MARK OLDROYD, junior, of the Firm of
Mark Oldroyd & Sons, of Dewsbury, in the County of York, Woolen
Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"A NEW OR IMPROVED TEXTILE FABRIC," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to utilize in a more beneficial or
profitable manner certain waste fabrics or materials now chiefly utilized
in the manufacture of brown paper, namely, old bags, sacks, sheets, or

page_text: fabrics made of hemp, which after having been employed to contain
wool or other materials and have become useless by wear and tear, are
now ground up and formed into pulp for the making of paper.
Now our improvements consist in reducing these said bags, sacks,
sheets, or fabrics to a fibrous substance by similar means or machinery
and in manner as now employed in reducing old woolen fabrics to
what is technically known as "shoddy," preserving the staple of the
fibre as much as possible; then in spinning the same into yarn, and
using the yarn for weft to weave along with cotton warp or warp made
of hemp or other fibrous substance, whereby we are enabled to produce
a cheap textile fabric which may be used for various purposes.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Oldroyd and Mark Oldroyd in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 18th July 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOHN 1
OLDROYD and MARK OLDROYD, junior, of the Firm of Mark Oldroyd
and Sons, of Dewsbury, in the County of York, Woollen Manufacturers,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of January, in the 2
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in
the thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto us, the said John Oldroyd and Mark
Oldroyd, junior, Her special licence that we, the said John Oldroyd
and Mark Oldroyd, junior, our executors, administrators, and assigns, 2
or such others as we, the said John Oldroyd and Mark Oldroyd, junior,
our 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 Invention
for "A NEW OR IMPROVED TEXTILE FABRIC," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said John Oldroyd and Mark Oldroyd, junior,
our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
our, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly

page_text: 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 we, the said John Oldroyd and Mark Oldroyd,
junior, do hereby declare the nature of our 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 :—
The object of this Invention is to utilize in a more beneficial or
profitable manner certain waste fabrics or materials now chiefly utilized
in the manufacture of brown paper, namely, old bags, sacks, sheets, or
fabrics made of hemp, which after having been employed to contain
wool or other materials and have become useless by wear and tear are
now ground up and formed into pulp for the making of paper.
Now our improvements consist in reducing these said bags, sacks, sheets,
or fabrics to a fibrous substance by similar means or machinery and in
manner as now employed in reducing old woollen fabrics to what is
technically known as "shoddy," (preserving the staple of the fibre as
much as possible), then in spinning the same into yarn, and using the
yarn for weft to weave along with cotton warp or warp made of hemp
or other fibrous substance, whereby we are enabled to produce a cheap
textile fabric which may be used for various purposes.
The object and nature of this Invention being thus set forth, the
manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into
practise will be easily seen or understood by those persons conversant
with the means of reducing woollen or other textile fabrics or rags to
fibrous substances, and to all weavers or those persons acquainted with the
art of weaving or the production of textile fabrics, as the processes of
preparing the fibre, spinning the yarn, and weaving the fabric are
similar to those used in the production of textile fabrics from other
fibrous substances. Such fabrics may or may not be printed, and used
for various purposes.
Having thus fully described the nature and object of this Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed, we
would have it clearly understood that what we claim as new and of

page_text: our Invention is, the utilizing of old bags or fabrics made of hemp,
in the manner and for purposes as herein explained.
In witness whereof, we, the said John Oldroyd and Mark Oldroyd,
junior, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this First day of
June in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and 5
seventy-two.
Witness,
J. F. SADLER,
Warehouseman,
Dewsbury.
JOHN OLDROYD. (L.S.)
M. OLDROYD, JUN. (L.S.)