IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HOSE FOR CONDUCTING LIQUIDS
Year: 1880

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LETTERS PATENT to Charles Moseley, of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, for an Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
HOSE FOR CONDUCTING LIQUIDS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Moseley at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 14th April 1880.
CHARLES MOSELEY, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster. "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HOSE FOR CONDUCTING LIQUIDS."
My Invention consists in applying an internal lining of woven fabric and india
rubber to the seamless woven linen hose ordinarily in use for conveying water for
extinguishing fire and other purposes, the object of this Invention being to attain
much greater strength than can be obtained by the ordinary woven hose and at
the same time to render it waterproof.
In carrying out my Invention I prepare a tube of india rubber of the necessary
size, which I partially vulcanize by steam; I then cont the tube with a solution of
india rubber or compound of india rubber, which is allowed to dry, so as to permit
the total evaporation of the solvent. Having also prepared a linen or other fibrous
woven fabric, by coating it on each side with india rubber, I then take a piece of
the adhesive cloth of sufficient width to cover the circumference of the rubber tube
and lay it on the adhesive surface of the tube, allowing the cloth to overlap
sufficiently to ensure a perfect joint. In applying the tubular lining, prepared as
described, to the woven linen hose I draw the tube into the woven hose by a cord
or other convenient means, and having attached one end to a steam pipe and closed
the other end, I inflate the lining with steam of sufficient pressure to distend it to
the diameter of the woven hose. By this means the pressure of the steam produces
a perfect consolidation of the rubber and cloth, and the heat vulcanizing the india
rubber the lining becomes firmly attached to the hose. When greater strength is
required I use two or more plies of woven fabric.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Charles Moseley in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 14th
October 1880.
CHARLES MOSELEY, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster.
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HOSE FOR CONDUCTING LIQUIDS."
"IMPROVEMENTS
My Invention consists in applying an internal lining of woven fabric and india
rubber to the seamless woven linen hose ordinarily in use for conveying water for
extinguishing fire ond other purposes, the object of this Invention being to attain
much greator strength than can be obtained by the ordinary woven hose and at
the same time to render it waterproof.
In carrying out my Invention I prepare a tube of india rubber of the necessary
size, which I partially vulcanize by steam; I then coat the tubo with a solution of
india rubber or compound of india rubber, which is allowed to dry so as to permit
the total evaporation of the solvent. Having also prepared a linen or other fibrous
woven fabric by coating it on each side with india rubber, I then take a piece of
the adhesive cloth of sufficient width to cover the circumference of the rubber tube
and lay it on the adhesive surface of the tube, allowing the cloth to overlap
sufficiently to ensure a perfect joint, the overlap being left loose so as to allow the
rubber and cloth tube to expand with the pressure. In applying the tubular lining,
prepared as described, to the woven linen hose, I draw the tube into the woven
hose by a cord or other convenient means, and having attached one end to a steam
pipe and closed the other end, I inflate the lining with steam of sufficient pressure
to distend it to the diameter of the woven hose. By this means the pressure of the
steam produces a perfect consolidation of the rubber and cloth, and the heat
vulcanizes the india rubber, the lining becomes firmly attached to the hose. When
greater strength is required I use two or more pieces of woven fabric. I am aware
that seamless woven hose has been lined with india rubber and in other various
ways.
Having stated the nature of my Invention, and described the manner of per-
forming the same, I declare that I claim,-
The application of a woven fabric between the internal tube of india rubber, and
the outer woven hose, such woven fabric covering the whole internal circumference
of the hose, and the manner of effecting the same as herein described, with the
object of giving greater resistance to the woven hose.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Moseley, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Thirteenth day of October, One thousand eight hundred and