US92851A

US92851A - Improved fabric whereof to make collars, cuffs, bosoms

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Publication number: US92851A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1869-07-20
Anticipated expiration: 1886-07-20

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WILLIAM E. LOCKWOOD, or" PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

Letters Patent N $2,851, a m 20,1869

IMPROVED FABRIC wnzmnor' TO MAKE commas, earns, BOSOMS, AND OTHER ARTI- CLES OI WEARING-APPAREL.

The Schedule referred to these Letters Patent and making par't of the same.

To all whom it may concem I 7 Be it known that I,W1LLIA1\I E; Locnwoon, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented an Improved Fabric, whereof to make Collars, Cuffs, Bosomsfand other Articles of fearing-Apparel; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact de scription of the same.

My invention is an improvement in the fabric of which the late- Walter Hunt made shirt-collars, for which Letters Patent were granted to him 011 the 1st day of January, 1856; and consists of a method of treating textile fabrics of coarse and cheap muslin, so as to give them the appearance of fine linen.

The said Walter Hunt made improved collar-fabrics, from which he manufactured sham shirt-collars, &c., of a cheap textile fabric, and so backed or stiffened the same, as to dispense with the necessity of the usual seams and stitches.

The objection to these stiffened fabrics is, that their surface retains the appearance of common muslin. It

is theobject of my invention to improve these fabrics,

so as. to make them resemble the finest starched linen. I have carried my improvement into practice in different modes, and will now proceed to describe those I prefer.

I use a very thin coarse muslin, and saturate it with any thin sizing or stiffening. After is has been sutticiently dried, I subject it to the action of embossing.-

rolls or dies, which. compress the threads and fibres of the muslin, and cause the surface to be so embossed as to present a perfect or nearly-perfect resemblance to a pure linen fabric.

From the material thus prepared, seamless shirt-- collars, cufls, bosoms, and similar articles of wearingapparel may be cut, which, by reason of their lightness and delicacy, are suitable forsmnmer-wear.

My second "method is to coat the coarse muslin at the back with a mixture of suitable sizing and whiting, kaoline, or other, white powder, and then to subject it to the action of the rolls or dies, the backing in this case rendering the'fabric stifi'er than that first dc- -$cribed, while the muslin surface is converted, bythe method above described, intoone having the appearance of genuine linen.

Sham shirt-collars may be manufactured out of either of the above-described fabrics, so cheaply that they can be sold for less thanthe cost of washing and dressingordinary linen collars.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters'Patture of seamless shirt-collars, and similar article's, prepared substantially as and for the purpose above described.

2. Shirt-collars, cuffs, bosoins, and similar articles,

made out of either of the above-described improved fabrics, as new articles of manufacture.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

- WILLIAM E, LOOKWOOIX \Vitnesses:

A. B. Sronerrron, H. Howson.