Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Nov., 1887
** Complete Left, 18th Feb., 1888
Complete Accepted, 23rd Mar., 1888
RESERVE
I James Alexander Betts of 63 The Chase, Clapham Common in the County of
Surrey, Electrical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to an improved construction of multiple electric cable
particularly designed to replace the separate leading wires usually run along the walls
in buildings and elsewhere.
By my invention a number of such conductors may be run along the walls of a
building at loss trouble and expense for fixing than where separate wires are used, and
in a less space than would be occupied by an ordinary cable of round section.
My invention consists of a flat or ribbon like multiple cable, being a woven fabric
in which the warp is composed of insulated conducting wires laid side by side and
alternated or not with yarns or strands of insulating material; and the weft is
composed of yarns, strands, filaments or strips of insulating material interwoven with
the warp in any usual manner so as to bind the warp together and form a flat, ribbon
like fabric wherein the conducting wires are insulated from each other, not only by
their coverings but also by the intermediate non conducting warps if any and by the
non-conducting weft.
The electrical conductors may be solid wires or be composed of strands of fine wire
twisted together to form one conductor and they may be covered with insulating
material in any suitable manner and may be colored differently to facilitate joining up
and testing.
J. A. BETTS.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London,
Patent Agents.

page_text: I, JAMES ALEXANDER BETTS, of 63,.The. Chase, Clapham Common, in the County
of Surrey, Electrical Engineer, 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:—
My Invention relates to an improved construction of multiple electric cable
particularly designed to replace the separate leading wires usually run along the walls
in buildings and elsewhere. By my invention, a number of such conductors may be
run along the walls of a building at less trouble and expense for fixing than where
separate wires are used, and in a less space than would be occupied by an ordinary
cable of round section.
My Invention consists of a flat or ribbon-like multiple cable, being
a woven fabric
in which the warp is composed of insulated conducting wires laid side by side and
alternated or not with yarns or strands of insulating material; and the weft is composed
of yarns, strands, filaments, or threads, of insulating material interwoven with the
warp in any usual manner so as to bind the warp together and form a flat ribbon like
fabric wherein the conducting wires are insulated from each other, not only by their
coverings but also by the intermediate non-conducting warps if any, and by the
non-conducting weft.
The electrical conductors may be single wires or be composed of strands of fine
wire twisted together to form one conductor, and they may be covered with insulating
material in any suitable manner, and may be colored differently to facilitate joining
up.and testing.
In the accompanying drawing. forming part of this specification, a specimen of my
flat or ribbon like cable is represented in face view and transverse, section in
figures 1 and 2. a are the conducting wires of any metal usually employed for such
purposes, each being insulated in any usual and suitable manner, say by a first
covering of cotton & wound on the wire and coated with paraffin or india-rubber, and
a second covering of coarser cotton yarn c. These insulated conductors are laid side
by side and form the warp and are bound together in the form of a flat tape or ribbon
by a weft d of cotton or other suitable thread, the operation being performed in any
suitable loom for weaving narrow fabrics. Alternately with the conducting warps,
other warps e of non conducting yarns may be interposed as shown in figure 3, the
weft being interwoven with both kinds.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is ;-
The manufacture of a flat tape or ribbon like multiple electric cable composed of a
warp of insulated conducting wires laid side by side alternately or not with
non-conducting yarns, and a weft of non-conducting material interwoven with the
warp, substantially as specified.
Dated this 18th day of February 1888.
J. A. BETTS.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London,
Patent Agents.