A New or Improved Manufacture of Bed Clothing.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Manufacture of Bed Clothing.
I, ENOCH BUTTERWORTH, of the Firm of David Butterworth and Company, of
Andrew Mill, Greenfield, Yorkshire, Flannel Manufacturers, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the manufacture of a fabric or sheet for bed clothing
which shall combine the advantages derivable from the use of a woollen blanket or
of a cotton sheet without the disadvantages, which either one or the other may
possess when used separately; such fabric or clothing being light warm, soft, and
agreeable to the skin, not liable to give a chill to the body, nor susceptible to
damp as is the cotton sheet, and being especially suitable for those troubled
with rheumatism.
For the purpose of my invention I weave the fabric or bed clothing with a cotton,
flax, linen, or like warp, and a woollen, worsted, or angola weft the size of the
fabric thus woven being approximately that of the ordinary woollen blankets or
cotton sheets. The warp may be composed of a mixture of vegetable fibres or
threads, and the weft of a mixture of animal fibres or threads, to which may be
added a small percentage of cotton to prevent shrinkage.
A suitable border or
margin is woven to give a finish to the fabric.
The above construction of fabric is suitable as a bed clothing for wear next to
the body either in winter or summer, is healthier than ordinary woollen blankets or
cotton sheets, and is intended to replace them as an immediate covering.
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Patent Agents, Huddersfield, Agents for Applicant.
A New or Improved Manufacture of Bed Clothing.
I, ENOCH BUTTERWORTH, of the Firm of David Butterworth and Company, of
Andrew Mill, Greenfield, Yorkshire, Flannel Manufacturers, 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:-
This invention relates to the manufacture of a fabric or sheet for bed clothing
which shall combine the advantages derivable from the use of a woollen blanket or
of a cotton sheet without the disadvantages which either one or the other may
possess when used separately; such fabric or clothing being light, warm soft, and
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page_text: agreeable to the skin, not liable to give a chill to the body, nor susceptible to
damp as is the cotton sheet, such said sheet being especially suitable for those
subject to rheumatism.
I weave the new fabric or bed
For the purpose of my invention
clothing with a cotton, flax, linen, or warp of other like material and
combine therewith a woollen, worsted, or angola weft the size of the
fabric thus woven being approximately that of the ordinary woollen blankets or
cotton sheets. The warp may be composed of a mixture of vegetable fibres or
threads, and the weft of a mixture of animal fibres or threads, to which may be
added a small percentage of cotton to prevent shrinkage. A suitable border or
margin is woven to give a finish to the fabric.
By manufacturing bed clothing, from warp composed of cotton, flax linen or
other vegetable fibre or a mixture of vegetable fibres, in combination with weft
composed of woollen, worsted or other animal fibre or a mixture of animal fibres, I
obtain a combined fabric which serves admirably as a body covering either in
winter or summer in place of woollen blankets or cotton sheets, said fabric being
much healthier than and having 'none of the objectionable features which pertain
to such blankets or sheets.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
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The improved manufacture of bed clothing comprising a, fabric. which is made
of warp composed of cotton, flax, linen or other vegetable fibres or a mixture of
vegetable fibres combined with weft composed of woollen worsted, or other animal
fibres or a mixture of animal fibres with or without the addition of a small
percentage of cotton to prevent shrinkage, substantially as herein set forth.
Dated this 6th day of April 1898.
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Patent Agents, Huddersfield.