TRUVIDIONAL SIMULIATION Improvements in Ladies' Diapers or Absorbent Towels or Pads.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Jan., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Sept., 1895-Accepted, 2nd Nov., 1895
TRUVIDIONAL SIMULIATION
Improvements in Ladies' Diapers or Absorbent Towels
or Pads.
I, RICHARD ECROYD, of 4, Clara Road, Bolton, near Bradford, in the County
of York, Designer and Manufacturers Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists in an article to be used as a ladies' diaper for absorbing
the discharges of confinement, and the discharges at certain periods usual to women,
and is substantially as follows:-
A belt or portion of a belt is woven in a very loose manuer so as to form a
pocket. It is provided with suitable strands of yarn and cloth alternately through
which are passed short tapes or other appliances for attaching the said belt to the
person. Part of the belt at each end of the pocket is woven in single cloth for the
purpose of holding the tapes after being threaded through the strands where
the warp is omitted or where if woven lengthways of the piece the weft will be
omitted, as these bands can be woven either way, lengthways or width ways of the
piece, but I prefer to weave them widthways. Round the pocket on three sides
the band is also woven single so as to form the sides of the pocket. There are
thus two separate cloths very loosely woven forming the pocket joined all round so
as to form a single cloth for a short distance. By this means I am enabled to form
a complete device without any sewing either by hand or machine. I next take a
hank of yarn and attach it to this belt at each end by passing the weft thread
through it with a kind of knot. I then fill the pocket with cotton wool, carded
wool, combed waste, cotton or wool noil, waste yarn, rags, linen, linen waste, hemp,
jute, wood wool, cotton, wool, rhea fibre, silk noil, thistle down, shreds of blotting
paper, or other like material suitable for absorbing fluids. The month of the
pocket after the latter has been filled to the extent required, is closed by the
threading of the woven pocket band through the hank of yarn. The result is
there is a hank of loose yarn behind with a pocket of thinly woven material filled
with absorbent. The whole is attached by tapes or otherwise to the person as
required. The tapes preferably passing through parts of the warp left bare of
wett or vice versa. The pocket and belt can be made of any material ordinarily
used or capable of being used profitably for these kind of goods, and it can be
woven of various degrees of open or closed texture, and woven in any desirable
form such as plain cloth diaper and the like. It can also be treated with
antiseptics or otherwise as desired.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Ladies' Diapers or Absorbent Towels
or Pads.
I, RICHARD ECROYD, of 4, Clara Road, Bolton near Bradford, in the County
of York, Designer and Manufacturers Agent, 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 :-
This invention consists in an article to be used as a ladies' diaper for absorbing
the discharges of confinement, and the discharges at certain periods usual to
women, and is substantially as follows: reference being had to the accompanying
drawings, in which,
Figure 1 is a face view of my improved diaper;
Figure 2 a side view ;
Figures 3 and 4 face and side views of slightly modified arrangement;
Figures 5 and 6 face view and longitudinal section of one end of the pocket belt
woven in single cloth alternating with double cloth loops.
In Figures 1 and 2, A. shews a belt or portion of a belt woven with a pocket B
and with suitable strands of yarn and cloth alternated to form spaces C through
which to thread tapes or other appliances for attaching the said belt or band to the
person. Part of the belt at D at each end of the pocket is woven in single cloth,
for the purpose of holding the tapes after being threaded through the strands where
the warp is omitted, or where if woven lengthwise of the piece, the weft would be
omitted, as these bands can be woven either lengthwise or widthway of the piece,
but I prefer to weave them width way. Round the pocket on the three sides E E,
the band is also woven single cloth so as to form the sides of the pocket. B is the
double cloth or pocket portion woven so as to form two separate cloths joined on
the three sides E, E, the mouth of the pocket being at the end E¹ where the
strands of the double cloth portion join the pocket to the single cloth portion D.
There may be as many of the spaces C for threading the tapes through as required
according to the length of the belt, by alternating spaces of strands as at C with
strips of plain single cloth as at D. By this means I am enabled to form a
complete device without any sewing either by hand or machine. I next fill the
pocket with cotton wool, or cotton carded or combed, waste cotton, wool noil, waste
yarn, rags, linen, linen waste, hemp, wood wool, China grass, silk noil, thistle down,
shreds of blotting paper or any absorbent material suitable for the purpose of
filling such a pocket. F are strands of yarn woven over the pocket and into the
single cloth E for the purpose of threading a hank of yarn through, as hereafter
described. In the case of those used without a hank, these strands F can be
dispensed with, they can also be done without in those made with a hank, but
I prefer them used. The whole is attached to the person by tapes or otherwise as
required, the tapes preferably passing through parts C of the warp left bare of
weft or vice versa. The woven pocket belt can be made of any material ordinarily
used or capable of being used profitably for this kind of goods and it can be
woven of various degrees of open or closed texture, and woven in any desirable
form, such as plain cloth, diaper and the like. It can also be treated with antiseptics
or otherwise as desired.
Figures 3 and 4 show an arrangement with a hank of yarn added. I take a
hank of yarn G and attach it to the belt by threading it under the strands F and
thread the ends of the woven pocket belt or band through the bank of yarn at each
end at H. One advantage of doing this is, that it closes the mouth of the pocket.
The hank is made of any required size and of any material such as cotton wool,
silk, flax, China grass, thistle down, etcetera, suitable for spinning into yarn and
absorbing fluids etcetera. I can also produce a similar appliance by weaving strands

page_text: of yarn either on the pocket itself or separately, and attaching them to the pocket
so as to imitate the purpose of the bank. I is a special band with double cloth
woven loops J J (Figures 5 and 6) at the end, all being woven in one piece and
not sewn. To this band I is attached one of the woven pocket belts as shown in
Figures 3 and 4, either with or without the hank as required, by sewing, or other-
wise fastening it by clamp or other means to the plain cloth between the woven
looped ends in such position as is most convenient. Figures 3 and 4 show this
arrangement with bank attached, and fastened to the band I by sewing at K and L
as described.
I have described the above ways in which my invention may be carried into
effect, but I wish it to be understood that in some cases I make the belt with ends
woven longer and with double cloth woven loops, similar to those shown in
Figures 5 and 6 for threading through at the ends in place of the spaces of
strands C. These loops are woven in double cloth for threading tapes or other
means of fastening the belt to the body.
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. The improvements in ladies' diapers or absorbing towels which consist in
forming the band, the ends and sides of which are woven in single cloth and the
middle portion in two separate cloths forming a pocket, the said pocket being
stuffed with absorbent material.
2. The arrangement in a woven pocket band, such as that described in Claim 1,
of alternate spaces near the end destitute of cross threads, through which spaces
tapes can easily be passed, substantially as described.
3. In combination with an absorbent pad or stuffed pocket, such as described in
Claim 1, a bank of yarn or the like passed through cross threads left free in the
weaving or equivalent loops substantially as described, and having preferably the
ends of the woven pocket belt passed through it substantially as described.
4. In an absorbent towel or pad, a belt A having the ends D and sides E woven
in single cloth, with a portion or portions at each end having the warp omitted, or if
woven lengthwise the weft omitted, so as to form spaces C through which to thread
tapes for attaching the belt to the person, and the middle portion woven in double
cloth so as to form two separate cloths B B joined at the three sides C, the mouth of
the pocket formed by the cloths B being at the end where the strands of the single
cloth D join the two separate cloths B substantially as described.
5. In an absorbent belt or pad, the combination with a belt or band woven with
a pocket, the latter having a filling of cotton wool or other absorbent material, of a
band having looped ends or other means for attaching it to the person, said woven
pocket belt being attached to this band between the looped ends by sewing or
otherwise fastening it, substantially as described.
6. A band I woven with looped ends to which is attached a pad, this pad being
made by enclosing cotton wool or other suitable material in gauze open woven
cloth or knitted material and sewing together in such a manner as to form a pad,
and then sewn or otherwise attached to the said band, which band can be of any
suitable length and contain as many loops as is desirable for attaching the belt to
the person.
7. The combination of improvements in ladies' diapers or absorbing towels or
pads substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, and London, Patent Agents.