LOOMS FOR WEAVING TUFTED PILE FABRICS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joshua Charles Rouse at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 29th March 1882.
JOSHUA CHARLES ROUSE of Halifax in the County of York
IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING TUFTED PILE FABRICS
"
"IMPROVEMENTS
The Invention has for its object improvements in looms for weaving tufted pile
fabrics and relates to a novel construction of the nozzles of the spool frame whereby
a closely woven fabric can be produced without in any way altering the general
arrangements of the loom.
Heretofore in the production of such description of fabrics the yarn on the
spools and the tubes or nozzles of the spool frames have been so arranged that one
or more ends of tufting material of the same colour have been passed through each
nozzle.
The general number of such nozzles employed has been 5 to the inch by which
means only a comparatively open or coarse pattern could be produced as the tufting
material was necessarily of considerable substance in order that the pile surface
produced might be sufficiently close.
Some manufacturers however in order to produce a finer pile surface have
employed as many as 7 nozzles to the inch but this has compelled a like increase
in the number of the ground warp threads employed and a consequently increased
difficulty in causing the ends of the tufting material (after having been introduced
through and beneath the warp threads) being turned or combed backward in
addition to which a special slay under reed or comb and set of heddles were
required for the warp threads.
Now according to my Invention I am enabled to weave 10 tufts to the inch
across the fabric without altering the number of warp threads or the number of.
dents in the reed required for weaving fabrics with only 5 tufts to the inch. This_
I effect by fixing a division in each of the nozzles hitherto employed for weaving

page_text: 5 tufts to the inch, and by passing a finer tufting material through each of the
passages so formed or if desired nozzles may be specially formed with two passages
therethrough so that each passage shall receive separate tufting material and retain
the same in the desired order.
Those nozzles may if desired be formed with more than two passages there-
through.
By these means I am enabled to weave with the same number of nozzles hereto-
fore employed, a fabric with two or more ends of tufting material for each end of
tufting material hitherto employed and at the same time to retain them in proper
order; thus supposing 5 nozzles have hitherto been employed to the inch I can by
dividing each nozzle into two or more passages employ 10 or other larger propor-
tionate number of ends of finer tufting yarns to the inch and where 7 nozzles have
hitherto been employed I can in like manner employ 14 or other larger proportionate
number of finer tufting yarn and so on.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Joshua Charles Rouse in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
28th September 1882.
JOSHUA CHARLES ROUSE of Halifax in the County of York.
IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING TUFTED PILE FABRICS
"
" IMPROVEMENTS
The Invention has for its object improvements in looms for weaving tufted pile
fabrics and relates to a novel construction of the nozzles of the spool frame whereby
a fabric with a closely woven pile surface can be produced without in any way
altering the general arrangements of the loom..
Heretofore in the production of such description of fabrics the yarn on the spools
and the nozzles of the spool frames have been so arranged that one or more ends of
tufting material of the same color or of different colors twisted together have been
passed through each nozzle.
The general number of such nozzles employed has been 5 to the inch by which
means only a comparatively open or coarse pattern could be produced as the tufting
material was necessarily of considerable substance in order that the pile surface
produced might be sufficiently close.
Some manufacturers however in order to produce a finer pile surface have
employed as many as 7 nozzles to the inch but this has compelled a like increase in
the number of the ground warp threads employed and a consequently increased
difficulty in causing the ends of the tufting material (after such have been intro-
duced through and beneath the warp threads) to be turned or combed backward
in addition to which a special slay, under-reed or comb, and set of heddles were
required for the warp threads.
Now according to my Invention I am enabled to weave 10 or 15 tufts to the
inch across the fabric without altering the number of warp threads or the number
of dents in the reed required for weaving fabrics with only 5 tufts to the inch; that
is to say that in looms arranged as heretofore-for weaving only tufts of one color or
of different colors twisted together in each nozzle I am enabled to weave two or
more tufts of different colors to cach nozzle.
My Invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is
an elevation and Figure 2 a plan of parts of a spool frame showing the nozzles
divided so as to enable two different colors of tufting material to be employed with
each nozzle and Figure 3 is an elevation and Figure 4 is a plan of parts of a spool
frame showing the nozzles divided so as to enable three different colors of tufting
material to be employed with each nozzle. a represents a part of the spool frame
and some of the nozzles In carrying my Invention into effect I fix as shown at
Figures 1 and 2 a division 6¹ in each of the nozzles 6 hitherto employed for weaving
say 5 tufts to the inch and I pass a finer tufting material through each of the
passages so formed or if desired nozzles may be specially formed with two passages
therethrough so that each passage shall receive separate tufting material and
retain the same in the desired order.
If desired these nozzles may be formed as shown at Figures 3 and 4 with more
than two passages therethrough, in which Figures three passages are shown to each
nozzle such passages being formed by the insertion of a V shaped division piece b²
in each nozzle b.
I would here remark that the method of dividing the nozzles 6 may be varied
without departing from the peculiar character of my Invention.
By these means I am enabled to weave with the same number of nozzles hereto-
fore employed a fabric with two or more ends of tufting material for each end of

page_text: tufting material hitherto employed and at the same time to retain them in proper
order; thus supposing 5 nozzles have hitherto been employed to the inch I can by
dividing each nozzle into two or more passages employ 10 or other larger propor-
tionate number of ends of finer tufting yarns to the inch and where 7 nozzles have
hitherto been employed I can in like manner employ 14 or other larger proportionate
number of finer tufting yarn and so on without in any way altering any part of
the loom but the nozzles as above described.
I'
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention and the mode in which
carry the same into effect I would have it understood that what I claim in looms
for weaving tufted pile fabrics is dividing the nozzles of the spool frames so as to
form two or more channels through each substantially as herein shown and described
and for the purpose stated.
In witness whereof I the said Joshua Charles Rouse have hereunto set my
hand and seal this Fifteenth day of September in the year of Our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
J. C. ROUSE. (L.S.)