CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FABRICS TERMED UNION FLANNELS' AND IN OTHER SIMILAR UNION 'FABRICS
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to David Howard, of Dobcross, in the County of York,
for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
FABRICS TERMED UNION FLANNELS' AND IN OTHER SIMILAR UNION 'FABRICS."
COMPLETE
CIFICATIO
VIC
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and Declaration,
on the 22nd August 1867, pursuant to the 9th Section of the Patent
Law Amendment Act, 1852.
5 TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DAVID
HOWARD, of Dobcross, in the County of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FABRICS TERMED UNION FLANNELS AND IN OTHER SIMILAR
UNION FABRICS," and have petitioned Her Majesty to grant unto me, my
0 executors, administrators, and assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent for the
same, and have made solemn Declaration that I am the first and true

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said David Howard, do hereby declare that
the following Complete Specification, under my hand and seal, fully describes
and ascertains the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the is to
be performed, in and by the following statement (that is to say):-
My Invention relates to the manufacture of certain descriptions of fabrics
termed "union flannels" and other similar "union" fabrics, such as shawls,
such union fabrics being composed of cotton and woollen fibres mixed,
combined, or woven together in various ways, and this Invention is designed
to form a novel and peculiar combination of these woollen and cotton fibres
so as to constitute a novel manufacture and to produce a new result. The
improvements consist in weaving or manufacturing such "union" fabrics
from warps consisting of all, woollen fibres and from, weft which is, composed
of all cotton fibres, such warp and weft being woven or employed either in a
dyed or undyed state, that is to say, the cotton and woollen fibres are not
mixed together or combined during the preparation or formation of the weft
or warp yarns, so as to form a mixed yarn, nor is a weft of all cotton and
warp of all wool employed, but the use of a warp composed of all wool and a
weft of all cotton is the chief feature of the Invention. By this peculiar
combination of woollen: warp, and cotton weft the fabric is prevented, from
shrinking when being, washed, the. pattern or design in which it is, woven is
produced and shews more clearly, and distinctly, and the cost of production is
considerably decreased.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention; together with the
inethod of carrying the same into practical effect, I wish it to be distinctly
understood that 'I claim the novel and peculiar combination, employment,
and use of all woollen warp and all cotton weft in the manufacture of union
flannels and other similar "union" fabrics as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said David Howard, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
Witnessed by
JOHN L. DAVIES, C.E.,
Office for Patents,
Manchester.
DAVID HOWARD: (L.S.)