AN IMPROVED MODE OF MANUFACTURING ELASTIC WEBBING AND OTHER NARROW FABRICS n
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Luke Turner of Leicester in the County of Leicester
for an Invention of "AN IMPROVED MODE OF MANUFACTURING ELASTIC
WEBBING AND OTHER NARROW FABRICS
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Luke Turner at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th November 1883.
LUKE TURNER of Leicester in the County of Leicester
MANUFACTURING ELASTIC WEBBING AND OTHER NARROW FABRICS."
"AN IMPROVED MODE OF
The object of this invention is to produce elastic webbing and other narrow
fabrics with transverse stripes or bars upon them.
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To this end the weft thread intended to be used I colour in the lank in a novel
manner so that, when woven in, it will produce-stripes or bars of say an uniform
colour with a speckled or other ground between the stripes. For example I dye a
portion of the hank say one-half or one-third, of a blue colour, by steeping so much
of the bank in a dye bath and on the other portion or any part of that portion, or
on the whole of the hank, I print transversely stripes or bars of another colour, say
red. When therefore the weft is woven into the fabric, stripes or bars of blue will
be formed, and between these stripes or bars will appear the speckled, or speckled
and plain-ground colour. The breadth of the stripe or bar will depend on the
proportion of the bank submitted to the dye bath, and this also determines the
width of the intervening ground colour.
It will be obvious that the effect may be varied by the adoption of different
colours and different proportions of colours, but in all cases the effect will be
produced of using two or more kinds of weft threads, while only one shuttlo will be
employed to secure this result. :
The invention applies not only in the manufacture of narrow elastic webbing but
also in the manufacture, by weaving, of other kinds of small ware.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Luke Turner in the Patent Office on the 9th May 1884.
LUKE TURNER of Leicester in the County of Leicester
MANUFACTURING ELASTIC WEBBING AND OTHER NARROW FABRICS'
"AN IMPROVED MODE OF
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The object of this Invention is to produce elastico webbing and other narrow 5
fabrics with transverse stripes or bars upon them without any change of shuttle.
To this end the weft thread intended to be used I colour in the hank in a novel
manner so that when woven in it will produce stripes or Bafs of say an uniform
colour with a speckled or other ground between the stripes. For example I dye a
portion of the hank, say one half or one third, of a blue colour, by steeping so much 1
of the bank in a dye bath and on the other portion, or any part of that portion or
on the whole of the bank, I print transversoly stripes or bars of another colour say
red. When, therefore, the weft is woven into the fabric, stripes or bars of blue will
be formed and between theso stripes or bars will appear the speckled or speckled
and plain ground colour. The breadth of the stripe or bar will depend on the ]
proportion of the hank submitted to the dyo bath and this also determines the
width of the intervening ground colour.
The better to explain my mode of treating the weft yarn used in the manufacture
of elastic webbing or other narrow fabrics I refer to the diagrams in the accom-
panying drawing where Fig 1 shews a hank twisted and prepared for the dye bath
the hank being hung between a pair of hooks to which rotation is given for twisting
the hank into a cord preparatory to applying the stopping but covering of paper
which is secured in position by a binding string When thus treated the hank is
released from the twisting hooks and its uncovered part is shaken out looso It is
then submitted to the action of the dye liquor and is subsequently hung up to dry
The dried hank is then placed on what is known as an opening frame in order to
'spread it laterally and present all the threads to view This is done by the aid of
a comb the hank being stretched over tension rollers as shewn in Fig 2 which
rollers the attendant moves axially to and fro at the time of using the comb to
facilitate the separation or spreading of the coils When the Hank is thus opened or
spread laterally it is released from the frame and applied in its opened state to a
roller printing machine of well known construction and designed for the printing of
hanks of cotton or woollen threads employed in the manufacture of fancy hosiery
In this machine the partially dyed bank has imparted to its undyed portion
transverse narrow stripes of any desired color as shewn in Fig 3 the stripes being
simultaneously printed on opposite sides of the thread-These stripes may be situate
at equal or unoven distances apart as may be thought desirable The speckled
appearance in the manufactured goods being in the one case extended over the
whole of the undyed surfaco and in the other over parts only of the undyed
surface Fig. 4 illustrates the character of the fabric which I am enabled to
produce.
It will be obvious that the effect may be varied by the adoption of different
colours of two or more dyed or of two or more printed colors and different pro-
portions of colours but in all cases the effect will be produced of- using two or more
kinds of weft threads while only one shuttle will be employed to secure this
result.
When several colors are employed to produce stripes and when these stripes are
required to have a certain width the desired result may be obtained by re-winding
the bank preparatory to submitting it to the dye bath as ordinarily wound the
hanks measure from twenty six to twenty seven inches in length or thereabouts

page_text: but in rewinding I may give them a length of thirty or more inches according to
requirements and I then operate upon the hanks as already described with reference
to Fig 1 repeating the operation as many times as it is requisite to submit the
different parts of the bank to the dye liquor.
By treating yarns in this manner it will be readily understood that very varied
effects in respect of color may be produced in elastic webbing and other narrow
fabrics without resort to a change of shuttle.
The Invention applies not only in the manufacture of narrow elastic webbing but
also in the manufacture by weaving of other kinds of small ware.
Having now set forth the nature of my Invention of "An improved mode of
manufacturing elastic webbing and other narrow fabrics" and explained the manner
of carrying the same into effect I wish it to be understood that under the abovo in
part recited Letters Patent I claim.
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The weaving of elastic webbing and other narrow fabrics with transverse stripes
or bars of color and with a speckled or plain ground by the aid of a single shuttle,
the weft used therein being prepared in the manner and for the purpose above set
forth.
In witness whereof I the said Luke Turner have hereunto set my hand and
seal the Eight day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and eighty four.

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