AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OR ORNAMENTATION OF KNITTED, CROCHET, AND OTHER LOOPED FABRICS
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Strahan, of Austin Street, in the County of
Middlesex, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE
OR ORNAMENTATION OF KNITTED, CROCHET, AND OTHER LOOPED FABRICS."
Sealed the 27th January 1880, and dated the 15th November 1879.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Strahan at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th November 1879.
THOMAS STRAHAN, of Austin Street, in the County of Middlesex. "AN IMPROVE-
MENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OR ORNAMENTATION OF KNITTED, CROTCHET, AND
OTHER LOOPED FABRICS."
My Invention relates to an improvement in the manufacture of knitted, crochet,
and other looped fabrics, such as antimacassars, toilet mats, and covers, and the
Invention has for its object the production of a novel ornamental effect, and
consists in the employment for the manufacture of the said articles or fabrics of a
combined metallic and woollen, worsted, mohair, cotton, flax, or silk yarn or thread,
that is to say, a yarn or thread of wool, worsted, mohair, cotton, flax, or silk upon
which a fine metal tape or wire has been spirally laid, wound, or spun in a
sufficiently open manner to leave the fibrous yarn or thread visible between the
convolutions of the metallic tape or wire. When this metallic spun yarn is used
for knitted and crochet work, a novel spangled effect is produced by the metal
which appears to be disseminated in small particles in the fabric.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Thomas Strahan in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 15th May
1880.
THOMAS STRAHAN, of Austin Street, in the County of Middlesex. AN IMPROVE-
MENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OR ORNAMENTATION OF KNITTED, CROCHET, AND
OTHER LOOPED FABRICS."
My Invention relates to an improvement in the manufacture of knitted, crotchet,
and other looped fabrics, such as antimacassars, toilet mats, and covers, and the
Invention has for its object the production of a novel ornamental effect, and
consists in the employment for the manufacture of the said articles of fabrics of a
combined metallic and woollen, cotton, flax, or silk, yarn, or thread, that is to say,
a yarn or thread of wool, cotton, or silk upon which a fine metal tape or wire has
been spirally laid, wound, or spun in a sufficiently open manner to leave the fibrous
yarn or thread visible between the convolutions of the metallic tape or wire. The
tape or wire I employ is that known in the trade as Lametta, and may be a gold,
silver, brass, or other metallic wire.
The wire may be wound on the yarn by an ordinary wire covering machine, or
machine used for covering indiarubber thread.
The accompanying Drawing represents on a very much enlarged scale a portion
of the metallic covered yarn, in which a is the yarn or thread, and 6 the metallic
tape or wire.
When this metallic spun yarn is used for knitted and crotchet work, a novel
spangled effect is produced by the metal which appears to be disseminated in
small particles in the fabric.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Strahan, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Fourteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty.