A Novel Xylonite, Celluloid, or Pyroxylin Fabric, Suitable for Making Shirt Fronts, Collars, Cuffs, Hats, and Bonnets, and for other Purposes.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 27th May, 1887.
Specification Accepted, 28th June, 1887.
A Novel Xylonite, Celluloid, or Pyroxylin Fabric, Suitable for
Making Shirt Fronts, Collars, Cuffs, Hats, and Bonnets, and for
other Purposes.
We THE BRITISH XYLONITE COMPANY, LIMITED, of 124 High Street, Homerton
in the County of Middlesex, Manufacturers, and LEVI PARSONS MERRIAM, of the
same place, Managing Director of the said Company, 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 :-
Our invention consists of a fabric made of xylonite, celluloid or pyroxylin compound
with colored stripes or lines in imitation of striped linen such as is sometimes used in
making shirts, collars and other articles.
Previous to this invention shirt fronts, collars, cuffs and other like articles of
wearing apparel have sometimes been made from thin sheets of xylonite, celluloid or
pyroxylin compound in white or other plain or single color, in some cases the
xylonite, celluloid or pyroxylin sheets have first been made of a single or plain color
and have then been striped or lined in one or more other colors by means of aniline
dyes, but the stripes or lines have not only not been clearly defined but the aniline
colors have very soon faded or disappeared particularly when the collars or other
articles are washed or cleaned.
Now by means of our invention we manufacture a striped or lined fabric of
xylonite, celluloid or pyroxylin compound in which the stripes or lines are clearly
defined while the several colors extend through the thickness of the sheet and are
therefore permanent.
For the purpose of our invention we make xylonite, celluloid or pyroxylin
compound in any ordinary manner and of the several colors required in the fabric to
be manufactured these colors being obtained by the addition of the proper proportion
of the requisite pigments and coloring matter as is well understood and we roll or cut
the xylonite into sheets in the usual way.
For example if the fabric to be manufactured is to be white with stripes or lines of
blue, we make white sheets and blue sheets of the xylonite celluloid or pyroxylin
compound. We then place a number of these white sheets and blue sheets one upon

page_text: another alternately or in such other order as that a section cut at right angles to the
strata would show the particular stripes or lines required. We next compact the
superposed sheets by pressure into a solid block or body. We then cut this block or
body at right angles to the strata into sheets of such thickness as to be suitable for
making shirt fronts, collars, cuffs or other articles. The sheets thus cut will be white
with blue stripes or lines and constitute our novel xylonite, celluloid or pyroxylin
fabric. The lines or stripes are clearly defined and inasmuch as the colors are not
superficial but extend through the fabric they are permanent.
Of course the colors used will be varied at will; white and pink or white and red
in imitation of pink or red striped or lined linen are colors which we would frequently
adopt. Again although only two colors will generally be employed, three or more
may be used according to the result desired or the object for which the fabric is to be
used.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is:
A striped or lined xylonite, celluloid or pyroxylin fabric suitable for making shirt
fronts, collars, cuffs, hats and bonnets, and for other purposes and manufactured as
described, that is to say:-by superposing in suitable order a number of sheets of
xylonite, celluloid or pyroxylin compound of the respective or several colors required
in the fabric, then compacting these sheets into a solid block or body and then cutting
this block or body into sheets at right angles to the strata substantially as set forth.
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