IMPROVEMENTS IN AND IN THE WEAVING OF CORDS
Year: 1884

page_text: We JOHN EDWARD NEWTON of the firm H. and J. W. Lees of the New Royd
Mill, Saddleworth in the County of York, Manufacturer and JOHN EDWARD
HARRISON in the employment of the said firm do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN AND IN THE WEAVING OF CORDS".to
be as follows:-
"
Our Invention relates to the ribbed or corded goods well known under the
designation of cords. In the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy eight
Letters Patent bearing the number 2938 and dated July 24th were granted to the
said John Edward Newton in conjunction with James Newton for an Invention of
Improvements in cords the object of the said patentees being principally to obtain
a good "curl" or "cocle" in the cloth. Our Invention consists more particularly of
improvements in the said former Invention. In the weaving of the cloth in
accordance with our Invention we break up each pick by lifting the ends for the
alternate races in different order to the ends for the intermediate races. Taking
for example the cloth woven in accordance with the said former Invention, the
ends were lifted in ordinary plain cloth order for alternate ground picks and two
up and two down for the intermediate picks. We combine these two orders of
lifting in the one pick. Taking for example the ends in two contiguous races the
first, third, fifth, seventh, eighth and eleventh, would be lifted for one ground pick
and the second, fourth, sixth, ninth, tenth, and twelfth ends would be lifted for
the next ground pick. For the third ground pick the first, second, fifth, seventh
ninth and eleventh ends would be lifted and for the fourth ground pick the third,
fourth, sixth, eighth, tenth, and twelfth. This may be varied to some extent so
long as the ends are lifted in regular plain cloth order in some of the races and in
any other determined order or orders in the other races in a single pick The
hereinbefore described orders of lifting for the second and fourth ground picks may
be made to change places.

page_text: Improvements in and in the Weaving of Cords.
We JOHN EDWARD NEWTON of the firm of H. and J. W. Lees of the New Royd
Mill, Saddleworth in the County of York, Manufacturers and JOHN EDWARD
HARRISON in the employment of the said firm do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN AND IN THE WEAVING OF CORDS," and
in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement and accompanying drawings:-
י
Our Invention relates to the ribbed or corded goods well known under the
designation of cords. In the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight
Letters Patent bearing the number 2938 and dated July 24th were granted to the
said John Edward Newton in conjunction with James Newton for an Invention of
Improvements in cords the object of the said patentees being principally to obtain
a good "curl" or "cocle" in the cloth. Our Invention consists more particularly
of improvements in the said former Invention. In the weaving of the cloth in
accordance with our Invention we break up each pick by lifting the ends for the
alternate races in different order to the ends for the intermediate races. Taking
for example the cloth woven in accordance with the said former Invention the
ends were lifted in ordinary plain cloth order for alternate, ground picks and
two up and two down for the intermediate picks. We combine these two orders of
lifting the one pick. The lifting of the warp ends when weaving in accordance
with our present invention will be understood when reference is made to the
accompanying sheet of drafts. In Draft 1. the first, third, fifth seventh, eighth
and eleventh would be lifted for one ground pick and the second, fourth, sixth,
ninth, tenth and twelfth ends would be lifted for the next ground pick. For the
third ground pick the first, second, fifth, seventh, ninth and eleventh ends would
be lifted and for the fourth ground pick the third, fourth, sixth, eighth, tenth and
twelfth. The herein before described orders of lifting for the second and fourth
ground picks may be made to change places. From this draft it will be seen that
in each ground pick two contiguous ends are lifted together and other two are
lowered together the remaining ends in the twelve being lifted in plain cloth
order. The other two drafts illustrate modifications of Draft 1. In Draft 2. two
of the ground picks in each form are similar to the ground picks in Draft 1. but
for the other two, three contiguous ends in each twelve would be lifted together
the remaining ends being lifted in plain cloth order. In Draft 3 all the ground
picks are made with three contiguous ends in each twelve lifted the remaining ends
being lifted in plain cloth order. It will be seen that in all the Drafts the ends
are lifted in plain cloth order in each alternate race across the cloth and in an
irregular order in each intermediate race.

page_text: 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
The method or methods of weaving cords substantially as set forth and indicated
herein before and by the accompanying Drafts.