Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 27th May, 1887
Complete Left, 24th Oct., 1887
Complete Accepted, 29th Nov., 1887
We CLARANCE BRAZIL and JABEZ EDWARD JOHNSON-FERGUSON both of Moor
Mills Bolton in the County of Lancaster Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of a method of weaving certain quilts known in the trade as
Toilet quilts and covers, in a new and improved manner so as to produce a weft Twill
or Satin raised figure on a kind of seed work ground made chiefly by the two warps
intersecting each other.
The loom is "gaited" in the mode customary for toilet quilts namely the back warp
is drawn into the mounting which has two Cumber-boards" acting as pressers, and is
entered one end to every dent of the reed.
The face warp is drawn in to four healds in the usual manner, and is entered two
ends to every dent of the reed. The cloth is thus woven three ends of warp in every
dent of the reed.
The weft is woven two picks of coarse weft and two picks of fine weft and
the cloth pattern of ground and figure is completed in eight picks of weft as
follows:
First pick of coarse weft, with the machine raised and the first face heald up.
Second pick of coarse weft, with the machine raised and the second face heald up.
Third pick of fine weft with the machine down, and the first, second and fourth
face healds up and the first presser or "cumber-board" raised.
Fourth pick of fine weft, with the machine down, and the first, third and fourth face
healds up, and the second presser or "cumber-board" raised.
Fifth pick of coarse weft, with the machine raised, and the third face heald up.
Sixth pick of coarse weft, with the machine raised and the fourth face heald up.
Seventh pick of fine weft, with the machine down and the second third and fourth
face healds up, and the first presser or
cumber-board raised.
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Eighth pick of fine weft, with the machine down, and the first second and third
face healds up, and the second presser or
$6 cumber-board" raised.

page_text: This completes the round of the picks, and produces according to the mode of the
draught of the face healds a weft satin figure with the coarse weft, but it may be
also produced in a twill ground by altering the draught or the treading of the face
healds accordingly.
The warps are woven with a tight set or weight on the back warp, which is entered
through the mounting, and a slacker set of weight on the face warp, which is entered
through the healds.
By our invention we produce from the ordinary toilet quilt or cover looms of two
shuttles a new and improved cloth as above described.

page_text: Improvements in Weaving Figured Fabrics.
We CLARANCE BRAZIL and JABEZ EDWARD JOHNSON-FERGUSON both of Moor
Mills, Bolton, in the County of Lancaster, 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 :-
This invention consists of a method of weaving certain quilts known in the trade as
"Toilet quilts" and covers, in a new and improved manner so as to produce a weft
twill or satin raised figure on a kind of seed work ground which latter is made chiefly
by the two warps intersecting each other.
The loom is "gaited" in the mode customary for toilet quilts, namely the back
warp is drawn into the mounting which has two "cumber-boards" acting as pressers,
and is entered one end or back warp thread to every dent of the reed.
The face warp is drawn in to four healds in the usual manner and is entered two
ends or face warp threads to every dent of the reed. The cloth is thus woven with
three ends or warp threads to every dent of the reed.
The weft is thrown in two picks of coarse weft and two picks of fine weft alternately
and the whole pattern of ground and figure is completed in eight picks of weft as
follows, and as illustrated by the diagram or weaver's draft hereunto annexed.
First pick of coarse weft, with the machine raised and the first face heald up.
Second pick of coarse weft, with the machine raised and the second face heald up.
Third pick of fine weft, with the machine down, and the first, second, and
fourth face healds up, and the first presser or "cumber-board" raised.
Fourth pick, of fine weft, with the machine down, and the first, third and fourth
face healds up, and the second presser or "cumber-board" raised.
Fifth pick of coarse weft, with the machine raised, and the third face heald up.
Sixth pick, of coarse weft, with the machine raised, and the fourth face heald up.
Seventh pick of fine weft with the machine down, and the second, third, and fourth
face healds up, and the first presser or "cumber-board" raised.
Eighth pick of fine weft with the machine down, and the first, second, and third
face healds up, and the second presser or "cumber-board" raised.
This completes the round of picks, and produces according to the mode of the draft
of the face healds, a weft satin figure with the coarse weft, but the figure may also be
produced with a twill ground by altering the draft of the treading of the face healds
accordingly as will be well understood by any practical weaver.
The warps are woven with a tight "set or weight on the back warp, which is
entered through the mounting and a slacker "set" or weight on the face warp, which
is entered through the healds.
By this method of weaving we produce from the ordinary toilet quilt or cover
looms, having two shuttles, a new and improved cloth as above described.

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 :-
First the method of weaving figured fabrics in a toilet quilt loom, by drawing in
the warp threads in the manner hereinbefore described, and intersecting the same
with eight shoots of weft (two coarse and two fine alternately) in the order above
described and illustrated by the diagram or weaver's drafts hereunto annexed, and
Secondly we claim as a new manufacture, a toilet quilt or cover having a weft
twill or satin raised figure upon a seed ground, woven in the manner hereinbefore
particularly described.