An improved sanitary towel, napkin, surgical bandage, or similar appliance, and the manufacture of textile fabric for such purposes / [Dugald Scott].
- Scott, Dugald.
- Date:
- 1895
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An improved sanitary towel, napkin, surgical bandage, or similar appliance, and the manufacture of textile fabric for such purposes / [Dugald Scott]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![N° 20,701 >oU7r A.D. 1804 Date of Application, 29th Oct, 1894 Complete Specification Left, 29th Aug., 1895—Accepted, 29th Oct., 1895 PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION. An Improved Sanitary Towel, Napkin, Surgical Bandage, or similar Appliance, and the Manufacture of Textile Fabric for such purpose. I, Dugald Scott of 12 York Street, Manchester, in the County of Lan¬ cashire, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows : — This invention relates to an improved sanitary towel or napkin (especially 5 suitable for the use of women) applicable also for surgical or any other uses or purposes for which same may be adapted and the manufacture of a special fabric for this purpose. My present invention is as follows : — On an ordinary or any suitable loom I manufacture a fabric (advantageously of K* cotton) of an alternating character viz. : parts are woven as a weft pile fabric (or it may be a warp pile) and alternating parts woven as non-pile fabric, or part which is not adapted to be cut or have a velvet pile raised thereon for instance as a plain i.e. tabby cloth, sateen, drill, etc., etc., as desired any suitable means being employed to thus weave a fabric of such alternating character and this change in 15 the weaving can be effected automatically if desired or by the operative in charge of the loom throwing the requisite mechanism in or out of gear. Thus I alternately weave a pile surface advantageously a fast pile (to be after¬ wards cut or raised) and a plain cloth (or part which is not adapted to be cut or have the pile raised thereon) in succession in one continuous piece of fabric and of 20 any desired width or number of widths in which latter case a longitudinal stripe or stripes may be specially woven to form fast selvedges when such length of fabric is divided up into the separated towels etc. to be formed from same or narrow longitudinal stripes may be left uncut when cutting the pile to thereby form fast selvedges to the towel etc. 25 The pile on these detached surfaces is cut cropped brushed and singed and the fabric may be thoroughly washed scoured and (if desired) bleached or otherwise suitably treated or finished as desired. The relative extent of the cut pile surface and the cloth or uncut part may vary as desired but for ordinary ladies diapers say of a width of 11 or 12 inches with a 30 total length of say 3 feet—the cut pile surface which is of the full width need only extend about 12 or 15 inches in length about the middle of the diaper (and may if desired be “ flaneletted ” on the back or may have a pile surface on the back as well as on the face) while the two ends being plain cloth etc. as before described are therefore less bulky than the central portion and can be easily 35 fastened in use. If desired after the length of fabric has been cut up into the separate towels these bandages may be made up or formed with a filling or padding of wool etc. in the central portion thereof. For surgical or other purposes these bandages may be treated with an antiseptic 40 or otherwise chemically impregnated or medicated. The relative amount of pile surface to the rest of each towel may be varied as well as the total length of the whole bandage or appliance. No dyeing of the cotton is required either before or after weaving. [Price 8d.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30738076_0001.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
