USRE3552E - Improvement in compound fabrics for the production of shirt-collars - Google Patents

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WILLIAM E. LocKwooD, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, AssIcNEE, BY MEsNE AssIcNME-NTsoE WALTER HUNT.

Letters Patent No. 89,768, dated May 4,1869; reissue No. 3,552, dated July 13, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMPOUND FABRICS FOR THE PRODUCTION OI SHIRT-COLLARS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern Be itknown that WALTER HUNT, deceased, late.

of the city, county, and State of New York, did invent a new and useful Compound Fabric for the. Iroduc t-ion of Shirt-Collars, Bosoms, \Vristbands,8tc.; and that I, WILLIAM E. Locxwoon, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, assignee, by mesnc assignment, of the said WALTER HUNT, do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of thesaid invention, which consists of a fabric composed of cotbe by a process similar to that of making pasteboard,

namely, by sizing each thickness witha brush or otherwise, laying one upon the other upon a smooth table,

and pressing them together by means of a roller, and when sufficiently dry, polishing the compoundfabric by means of a press, polishing -calender, .mangie smoothing-iron, 'or other similar process.

The most advantageous process, however, in forming said fabric, is that of passing the pieces of cotton, or other equivalent material, or fabric, or linen cloth to be united, separately through a sizing or starchingvat, and then uniting the ends, and passing the whole through a roller-press, so graduated as to remove the superfluous starch, and unite the whole into one sheet orpiece, which, after being suspended; and suiiiciently dried, may be ironed or polished in the manner above described, or otherwise.\

\Vhen the same materials are used in vmaking collars by said process that are used in making them in the ordinary way, it will be obvious that the said WA L'1ER HUNTS plan of first preparing and finishing the fabric in thepiece, as above described, of any required quantity, will greatly facilitate thework of the manufacture, inasmuch as the uniting and ironing or polishing is done in the larger pieces, which may be cut out into collars with greater advantage by-machinery, than can be possibly done from the plain cloth, and ironed separately in the usual way; consequently, this invention will be found peculiarly advam tageous in the extensive manufacture ofsaid article.

The said vWALTER HUNT was aware that two or more thicknesses of muslin or linen had been united and made into a fabric for envelopes, book-covers, playing-cards, and other like purposes, and he was also aware that a cloth-lined paper fabric, water-proof or enamelled, such as described in his patent for the same, dated July 25, 1854, had been used for making water-proof shirt-collars, 850., neither of which fabrics did the said WALTER HUNTclaim, nor do I now claim in this application, inasmuch as neither of them was intended orv suitable for the purposes to which the above-described collarabric is peculiarly adapt-ed.

For instance, from the improved fabric can be made collars, -&c., having a facing of textile fabric, whereas the fabric patented by WALTER HUNT, July 25, 1854, has a paper surface.

Again, from a compound fabric made with a textile facing and a backing of the same, the collars maybe cut out, the edges turnedin, and stitched'by machinery, ready for use, without requiring any laundry-work whatever, until they are worn and require washing, 850., for which they are as well adapted as any handmade collar.

Independent of the adaptation of this fabric to stitched collars of the finest and most expensive kind, a cheaper fabric can be made with a facing of muslin and backing of the same, or equivalent material or fabric, the compound fabric thus produced being well adapted for the manufitcture of a cheaper seamless collar, united by means of eyelets, 850., as described in the patent 1856.

I claim as the invention of the said WALTER HUNT, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, as a new article of manufacture 1. A fabric whereof to make shirt-collars, wristbands, bosoms, 850., the said fabric consisting of cotton or linen cloth as 21. facing, secured to a'backing of the same: material, or equivalent material or fabric, by ccmenting, sizing, pasting, starching, or otherwise, all prepared substantially as set forth.

2. Also, as new'articles of manufacture, shirt-collars, bosoms, \vristbzmds, 850., made from the above-' described com pound fabric.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, before two subscribing witnesses. \VILLIAM E. LOGKWOOD.

Witnesses: H. Howso J OIIN WHITE.

granted to the said HUNT, January 1',