IMPROVEMENTS MANUFACTURE AND APPLICATION OF ELASTIC GOODS OR FABRICS
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Macintosh, of North Bank, Regent's Park,
and William Boggett, of Lindsey Houses, Chelsea, both in the
County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
MANUFACTURE AND APPLICATION OF ELASTIC GOODS OR FABRICS."
IN THE
Sealed the 17th July 1868, and dated the 24th February 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Macintosh and
William Boggett at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 24th February 1868.
We, JOHN MACINTOSH, of North Bank, Regent's Park, and WILLIAM
BOGGETT, of Lindsey Houses, Chelsea, both in the County of Middlesex,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE AND APPLICATION OF ELASTIC GOODS OR FABRICS," to be
as follows:-
Our Invention relates first to improved means of making a fabric
elastic by puckering, gathering, or crimping it previous to combining
it with india-rubber, or with a compound of india-rubber and paraffin
or stearic acid (described in the Specification of a Patent granted to
John Macintosh, dated March 12th, 1866, No. 748), herein-after called
rubber.

page_text: In carrying out this part of our Invention a sheet of stout vulcanized
rubber is employed, through the surface of which the points of steel
wire staples are passed (as in cards for carding fibrous materials), the
points projecting in transverse rows by preference about inch apart.
When the sheet rubber is distended the points are pressed into the cloth
or fabric placed thereon, the sheet rubber is set free and in contracting
by its elasticity it draws the fabric held by the points into puckers or
gathers. The fabric thus puckered up is coated over with india-rubber
cement, or with a sheet of unvulcanized rubber in a soft heated state
which when vulcanized will expand and contract to the extent allowed
by the puckered cloth combined therewith. Untanned thin soft leather
or thin felt may be puckered up in like manner to the fabric as previously
described, but as these materials are to some extent elastic in place
of being puckered, they may be stretched and coated with rubber or
combined with distended sheet rubber as described in the Specification
of an Invention for which a Patent has been granted to us, dated
August 29th, 1867, No. 2457, for "Improvements in Springs for Boots
and Shoes."
In making leggings or spatterdashes, leather or knitted or looped
tubular fabrics of suitable length are employed which are drawn on or
attached to moulds of the shape of the human leg. The fabric is then
coated by any of the ordinary methods or by being. immersed or dipped
in a hot solution of the compound before referred to, or it may be
otherwise coated. When dry the dipping may be repeated if required
so as to give the fabric a sufficient coating; the leggings thus prepared
are finished by vulcanizing and can be easily fitted to the leg of the
wearer, forming an efficient protection against mud and wet.
Another part of our Invention relates to the production and appli-
cation of improved elastic cords or laces for boots and shoes or gaiters,
in place of leather or other non-elastic materials, and we apply and
fasten boot and shoe laces by commencing at the top and lacing down-
wards, finally fastening the end at the bottom.
The object of this part of our. Invention is to employ elastic laces,
strips, or fillets as springs which will allow the entrance of the foot
into the boot or shoe, and by their resilient or-elastic action.close the
part to which they are applied without the necessity of unlacing. Such
elastic cords or laces may be made either of rubber or of the compound
above referred to, combined if desired with an elastic textile fabric.

page_text: Our Invention also relates to the making of elastic fabrics by coating
fibrous threads or yarns with soft rubber or a solution of rubber, such
threads being afterwards employed in the manufacture of knitted, looped,
plaited, or braided fabrics as is well understood when making such fabrics
with ordinary fibrous threads or yarns.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Macintosh and William Boggett in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 24th August 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, the said
JOHN MACINTOSH, of North Bank, Regent's Park, and WILLIAM BOGGETT,
of Lindsey Houses, Chelsea, both in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the
thirty-first year of Her reign, did, for Herself. Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said John Macintosh and William Boggett,
Her special licence that we, the said John Macintosh and William
Boggett, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
we, the said John Macintosh and William Boggett, 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 Islo. of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE AND APPLICATION OF ELASTIC GOODS OR FABRICS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that we, the said John Macintosh and
William Boggett, our executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly 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 Macintosh and William
Boggett, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what

page_text: manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
Our Invention relates, first, to improved means of making a fabric
elastic by puckering, gathering, or crimping it previous to combining it
with india-rubber or with a compound of india-rubber and paraffin
or stearic acid (described in the Specification of a Patent granted to
John Macintosh, dated March 12th, 1866, No. 748), herein-after called
rubber.
In carrying out this part of our Invention a sheet of stout vulcanized
rubber is employed, through the surface of which the points of steel wire
staples are passed (as in cards for carding fibrous materials), the points
projecting in transverse rows by preference about th inch apart. When
the sheet rubber is distended the points are pressed into the cloth or
fabric placed thereon, the sheet rubber is set free, and in contracting by
its elasticity it draws the fabric held by the points into puckers or
gathers. The fabric thus puckered up is coated over with india-rubber
cement, or with a sheet of unvulcanised rubber in a soft heated state,
which when vulcanised, will expand and contract to the extent allowed
by the puckered cloth combined therewith. Untanned thin soft leather
or thin felt may be puckered up in like manner to the fabric as pre-
viously described, but as these materials are to some extent elastic in
place of being puckered they may be stretched and coated with rubber, or
combined with distended sheet rubber as described in the Specification
of an Invention for which a Patent has been granted to us, dated
August 29th, 1867, No. 2457, for "Improvements in Springs for Boots
and Shoes."
In making leggings or spatterdashes, leather or knitted or looped
tubular fabrics of suitable length are employed, which are drawn on or
attached to moulds of the shape of the human leg. The fabric is then
coated by any of the ordinary methods, or by being immersed or dipped
in a hot solution of the compound before referred to, or it may be other-
wise coated. When dry the dipping may be repeated if required so as
to give the fabric a sufficient coating. The leggings thus prepared are
finished by vulcanizing, and can be easily fitted to the leg of the wearer,
forming an efficient protection against mud and wet.
Another part of our Invention relates to the production and appli-
cation of improved elastic cords or laces for boots and shoes, or
gaiters in place of leather or other non-elastic materials, and in some

page_text: cases we apply and fasten the boot and shoe laces by commencing at the
top and lacing downwards, finally fastening the end at the bottom.
The object of this part of our Invention is to employ elastic laces,
strips, or fillets as springs which will allow the entrance of the foot
into the boot or shoe, and by their resilient or elastic action close the
part which they are applied to without the necessity of unlacing. In
some cases one end of the elastic cord may be attached to the side of an
opening in a boot or shoe, a button being attached to the other end, and
passed through a button hole. Such elastic cords or laces may be made
either of rubber or of the compound above referred to, combined if
desired with an elastic textile fabric, in which case we cover india-rubber
threads or threads made of the said compound of rubber and paraffin
or stearic acid with suitable fibrous materials by means of braiding
machines, or by weaving them in a loom, and in either case we insert
one or more metallic threads, or threads of a different color from the bulk
as a trade mark or means of identifying such laces, strips, or fillets.
Our Invention also relates to the making of elastic fabrics by coating
fibrous threads or yarns with soft rubber or a solution of rubber, such
threads being afterwards employed in the manufacture of knitted, looped,
plaited, or braided fabrics, as is well understood when making such
fabrics with ordinary fibrous threads or yarns.
Having thus described the nature of our Invention, and the means by
which the same may be carried into effect, we would have it understood
that we do not confine ourselves to any precise methods so long as the
peculiar features of our Invention be retained.
In witness whereof, we, the said John Mackintosh and William
Boggett have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Eighteenth
day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-eight.
JOHN MACINTOSH.
(L.S.)
WILLIAM BOGGETT. (L.S.)