An Improved Skirt Stiffener, and Mears for Manufacturing the same.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Jan., 1897
Complete Specification Left. 8th June, 1897-Accepted, 31st July, 1897
An Improved Skirt Stiffener, and Mears for Manufacturing the same.
We, ARTHUR NICHOLSON and JOHN HALL, both of the Firm of Brough Nicholson
and Hall, of Leek, in the County of Stafford, Braid and Trimming Manufacturers, do
hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to an improved skirt stiffener and means for manufacturing
the same.
This improved stiffener consists of a curved band of textile material woven in a
special manner in a loom adapted for weaving such curved bands.
In preparing the warp each thread is preferably taken from a separate bobbin and
all the threads are then passed through a skellet and wound under equal tension upon
a large bobbin or warp beam the barrel of which is conical so that considerably more
yarn is wound upon the large end than the small end of the bobbin. The conical
bobbin or warp bean is then placed in the loom in the usual manner which is provided
with a taking up roller made of the same taper as the warp beam or thereabouts and
preferably covered with perforated tin or other roughened surface; an additional taper
roller is placed over the fabric and near to the taking up roller for the purpose of
keeping the fabric in contact with the latter and causing it to carry the fabric forward
as it is woven in a continuous curved band.
Tinted this 21st day of Tanuary 1897
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Skirt Stiffener, and Means for Manufacturing the same.
We, ARTHUR NICHOLSON and JOHN HALL, both of the firm of Brough Nicholson
and Hall, of Leek, in the County of Stafford, Braid and Trimming Manufacturers, 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 relates to an improved skirt stiffener and means for manufacturing
the same.
This improved stiffener consists of a curved band of textile material woven in a
special manner in a loom adapted for weaving such curved bands.
In preparing the warp each thread is preferably taken from a separate bobbin and
all the threads are then passed through a skellet and wound under equal tension upon
a large bobbin or warp beam the barrel of which is conical so that considerably more
yarn is wound upon the large end than the small end of the bobbin. The conical
bobbin or warp beam is then placed in the loom in the usual manner which is provided
with a taking up roller made of the same taper as the warp beam or thereabouts and
preferably covered with perforated tin or other roughened surface; an additional
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page_text: tapered roller is placed over the fabric and near to the taking up roller for the purpose
of keeping the fabric in contact with the latter and causing it to carry the fabric
forward as it is woven in a continuous curved band.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings-Fig. 1, is a view in perspective of a machine
for preparing warps to be employed in weaving curved bands for skirt stiffeners
according to our invention on a loom of suitable construction, and Figs. 2 and 3, are
detached views of a conical bobbin or warp beam and a reed respectively which form
part of the improved preparing machine and Fig. 4 is a Plan view of the taking up
inotion of a loom made according to our invention.
In the drawings, a designates a creel for bobbins, each of which has its own lever
weighting device, not shewn, c the ends of thread wound upon the bobbins, da
stationary frame which carries several metal or other drag rods e, f a reed in front of
which is mounted a bobbin or warp beam .g, provided with a conical barrel, and
arranged to be driven by a band h in any convenient manner. In Fig. 4, is the
woven band, j the taking up roller and a small additional tapered roller.
In operation, the threads c are drawn from the bobbins and gathered all together
so as to be passed under and over the drag rods e, they are, then divided and put
through the reed f and laid upon the tapered bobbin or warp beam g, motion can now
be given to the latter when the threads are drawn off the bobbins 6 and wound upon
the warp beam b, the large diameter wrapping up considerably more thread than the
small end but as each thread has its own tension device, the threads will all be equally
tight upon the beam. The warps are placed in a loom and woven in the ordinary
manner but we employ a taking up roller j of the same length and taper as the warp
bean g but preferably with a roughened surface and place it with its large end opposite
the large end of the warp beam.
In order that the woven band i may be wound evenly on to 'the tapered taking up
roller we propose to employ a taper roller k to keep the woven band i against the
taking up roller and prevent it slipping off the roller j which winds on the band i as
the thread c is unwound from the warp beam g.
After the band has been woven it is stiffened with size in any convenient
manner.
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 curved hand for a dress stiffener, manufactured from a warp wound upon a
tapered beam and when woven wound upon a taking up roller with a similar tapered
barrel, substantially as herein set forth.
Dated this 4th day of June 1897.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for Applicants.