Improvements in Quilts or Quiltings or the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Nov., 1898-Accepted, 17th Dec., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION..
Improvements in Quilts or Quiltings or the like.
I, JOHANN SPIELMANS, of Rees on the Rhine, Germany, Merchant, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention relates to a filling for quilts, quilted hangings and other like
goods. Such fillings, as hitherto made, present the important disadvantage
that, after being some time in use or when single quilting threads are broken,
the filling becomes displaced and lumpy thereby rendering the quilt or the like
more or less unserviceable.
The object of the invention is to provide a quilt or quilt filling in which the
aforesaid disadvantage does not occur.
In the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 is a vertical section of a portion of a quilt
filling of the invention, and Fig. 2 a plan view of a piece of fabric of the form
preferred for insertion between layers of the body material of the filling.
a is wadding, flock, wool, or other like soft cohesive material and b a wide
meshed fabric, or instead of this latter, wide meshed knotted or tied threads or
the like may be employed.
In the production of the filling as a whole, thin layers of the body material a,
wadding for instance, as it is received from the carding engine, and the fabric
or thread insertion bare laid alternately over one another by hand, or this can
be done by means of any suitable machinery connected with the carding or
like engine.
In the use of an open wide meshed fabric, say with threads 10 millimetres
apart the several layers of the same are preferably so brought to lie between
the layers of the body material a that the crossing points or knots of the threads
of the several layers are vertically and horizontally out of line with each other,
or zigzag, whereby the formation of irregular or hard places is prevented, as
said points or knots above one another and laterally sink into the soft body
material and hold the layers of the same firmly together, the whole filling being
held together by the cohesion of the body material and the fabric or threads.
The filling can be made of any suitable thickness according to the number of
the layers of the body material and of the fabric or threads, or by varying the
thickness of the several layers of body material.
The filling manufactured as above described is attached to a cover in the usual
way by a quilting stitch whereby any displacement of the body material even
with the fracture of a large number of threads or stitches is rendered highly
improbable,
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 what

page_text: A filling for quilts, quilted hangings, and the like, of flock, wadding, wool,
or other soft cohesive material in combination with a woven fabric or thread
insertion between the layers of said material, the whole constructed and arranged
substantially as described and shewn.
THOMAS R. SHILLITO,
15, Tooks Court, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.