An Improved Composition for Producing a Silky Finish on All Classes of Textile Fabrics.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Nov., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 4th Aug., 1893-Accepted, 16th Sept., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Composition for Producing a Silky Finish on All
Classes of Textile Fabrics.
I ALEXANDER MILLVEIGH of Quilly Cottage Dromore Co. Down Ireland
Manager do hereby declare the nature of this inveution to be as follows :-
A composition prepared by boiling flax seed and Iceland moss and mixing same
together in the proportion of one quart of the boiled preparation of flax seed to
one pint of the boiled preparation of Iceland moss to which when mixed as above
is added one ounce of white vegetable wax and half an ounce of spermaceti
dissolved in boiling water. The composition is for producing a silky finish on all
classes of textile fabrics.
Dated this 4th day of November 1892.
ALEXANDER MILLVEIGH,
Quilly Cottage, Dromore, Co. Down.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Composition for Producing a Silky Finish on All
Classes of Textile Fabrics.
I, ALEXANDER MILLVEIGH of Quilly Cottage, Dromore, Co. Down Ireland,
Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :--
A composition prepared by boiling flax seed, and Iceland moss and mixing same
together in the proportion of one quart of the boiled preparation of flax seed,
to one pint of the boiled preparation of Iceland moss to which when mixed as
above is added one ounce of white vegetable wax, and half an ounce of spermaceti
dissolved in boiling water.
The composition is for producing a silky finish on all classes of textile fabrics.
Such being the nature and object of my said invention the following is a
complete description of same.
According to this invention a bushel of flaxseed is boiled in about 24 gallons of
water until it forms a thick liquid substance, of about 23 gallons after straining,
which is strained, through a sieve first, and afterwards through a cloth, so as to
remove all the shells or husks of seed or other foreign matter, the liquid being only
retained. About 16 ounces of Iceland moss is then boiled in about 5 quarts of
water and strained the same way; these two liquids are then mixed together in
the proportion of one quart of the flaxseed liquid to one pint of the Iceland
moss liquid, when thoroughly mixed together, dissolve one ounce of white vegetable
wax and half an ounce of spermaceti in about two wine glasses of boiling water
and stir into same when hot, after same has been well mixed together and allowed
to cool add half a wine glass of strong liquid of ammonia to one and a half quarts
of above compound and stir thoroughly.
This composition is put into size composed of flour or other farina for dressing
yarns or thread for weaving in about the proportions of 20 or 30 wine glasses of
the composition to ten gallons of sizing, according to the class of fabric to which it
is applied.
The improved composition as above described lays the downy or divergent fibres
and imparts strength to the yarn and facilitates weaving and produces a silky finish
on the woven cloth.

page_text: For finishing the woven fabric handkerchiefs or like, the composition is put into
the sizing or farina through which the fabrics are passed, after which they are
ironed, thereby producing a silky finish.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature and object of
my said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed declare that
what I claim is :-
The improved composition herein fully described for purposes set forth.
Dated the 3rd day of August 1893
ALEXANDER MILLVEIGH,
By his Agent, Walter Brierley,
Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax.