AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ELASTIC PILE FABRICS
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Hemsley, of Melbourne, in the County of
Derby, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
ELASTIC PILE FABRICS!"
Sealed the 25th March 1856, and dated the 17th December 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Hemsley at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 17th
December 1855.
I, WILLIAM HEMSLEY, of Melbourne, in the County of Derby, do hereby
3 declare the nature of the Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANU-
PACTURE OF ELASTIC PILE FABRICS" to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object the manufacture of elastic pile fabrics, and
consists of cementing by india-rubber cement two loop-made fabrics together,
one fabric being made with pile, or on which pile has been produced by raising,
and 'the other fabric without pile, whereby an elastic pile fabric will be
produced of a novel character, and suitable to be made into gloves and other
articles:

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Hemsley in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
16th June 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
HEMSLEY, of Melbourne, in the County of Derby, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said William Hemsley, Her special licence that I, the said William Hemsley,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
William Hemsley, my 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 Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ELASTIC PILE FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said William Hemsley, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, 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 I, the said William Hemsley, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object the manufacture of elastic pile fabrics,
and consists of cementing by india-rubber cement two loop-made fabrics
together, one fabric being made with pile, or on which pile has been produced
by raising, and the other fabric without pile, whereby an elastic pile fabric
will be produced of a novel character, and suitable to be made into gloves and
other articles.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
The warp or knit fabrics which are thus to be employed are first made
either with the pile thereon, or they are so made as to admit of their having
pile raised thereon, both which modes of manufacturing loop-made fabrics

page_text: with pile are well known, and are not claimed by me; and to the back of such
a fabric I cement another loop-made fabric, which may or may not have pile
thereon, generally without pile, and I cement the two fabrics by means of
india-rubber cement, which I spread evenly on one surface of each of the two
elastic fabrics which are to be cemented together, and then when the india-
rubber prepared surfaces are in the proper state, or nearly dry, as is well
understood, I cause them to be pressed together, by which they will be com-
pletely united and form one elastic fabric, having a pile thereon on one at least
of its surfaces. And such elastic compound loop fabric will be found very
useful for making gloves, as well as for other purposes.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Hemsley, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
5 Witness,
WILLIAM SANGSTER.
WILLIAM HEMSLEY. (L.S.)