IMPROVEMENTS IN CORDS. AND IN THE METHOD OF WEAVING THE SAME
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Schofield and Walter Schofield, of the Firm of
Joseph Kershaw and Company, of Littleborough, in the County of Lancaster,
and Joseph Ebenezer Bentley, of the same place, for an Invention of
❝IMPROVEMENTS IN CORDS. AND IN THE METHOD OF WEAVING THE SAME.”
Joseph Kershaw and Company, of Littleborough, in the County of Lancaster,
and Joseph Ebenezer Bentley, of the same place, for an Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CORDS. AND IN THE METHOD OF WEAVING THE SAME.”
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❝IMPROVEMENTS IN CORDS. AND IN THE METHOD OF WEAVING THE SAME.”
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Schofield, Walter
Schofield, & Joseph Ebenezer Bentley at the Office of the Commissioners of.
Patents on the 20th November 1880.
"
JAMES SCHOFIELD and WALTER SCHOFIELD, of the Firm of Joseph Kershaw and
Company, of Littleborough, in the County of Lancaster, and JOSEPH EBENEZER
BENTLEY, of the same place. "IMPROVEMENTS IN CORDS, AND IN THE METHOD
OF WEAVING THE SAME."
Our Invention relates to the woven goods termed cords, and has for its object to
obtain a fabric which will possess what would be termed a good back, and at the
same time will cut well and have what is known as a good curl or cockle. Our
improved cord is or may be woven with eight shafts, and the novel result in our
cloth depends upon the order in which the ends are lifted for the binding picks.
In a round of twelve picks there are four of these binding picks and eight pile or
face picks. Of the four binding picks, two, say, for example, the first and the seventh
in the round, are made with the ends lifted as for plain cloth, the ends lifted for
the first pick being down for the seventh pick. For the other two binding picks,
which would be the four and the tenth, the two ends in the middle of each alternate
race are lifted, the two ends in the middle of each intermediate race being down,
the ends which are lifted for the fourth pick being down for the tenth pick. The
intermediate ends between the centre ends so lifted and lowered in pairs are
alternately up and down in regular order.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said James Schofield, Walter Schofield, & Ebenezer Bentley in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 20th May 1881.
JAMES SCHOFIELD and WALTER SCHOFIELD, of the Firm of Joseph Kershaw and
Company, of Littleborough in the County of Lancaster, and JOSEPH EBENEZER
BENTLEY, of the same place. "IMPROVEMENTS IN CORDS AND IN THE MEHTOD OF
WEAVING THE SAME."
"
Our Invention relates to the woven goods, termed cords, and has for its object to
obtain a fabric which will possess what would be termed a good back, and at the
same time will cut well and have what is known as a good curl or "cockle." Our
improved cord is or may be woven with eight shafts, and the novel result in our
cloth depends upon the order in which the ends are lifted for the binding picks.
And in order that our method of weaving the said goods may be well understood,
we will refer to a diagram representing a weaver's draft which we have attached
hereto. In the said draft the horizontal lines represent the shafts of healds, and
the verticle lines represent the picks, of which twelve are required to complete the
round. The numerals on the horizontal lines indicate the order in which every
twelve ends throughout the warp are drawn through the healds, as is usual in such
drafts, and the crosses on the intersections of the lines indicate the ends of warps
which are raised in every twelve ends throughout the warp, as will be understood
by the practical weaver. The picks numbered 1, 4, 7, and 10, are the binding
picks, the other eight picks being the ordinary face or pile picks. For the first
pick in the draft each alternate end is raised, the intermediate ends being lowered
as when weaving plain cloth. Then follow two face picks with the ends raised and
lowered in the usual order. For the fourth pick, which is a binding pick, the first,
third, sixth, eighth, tenth, and eleventh ends are raised. The next two picks are
face picks. For the seventh pick the ends are raised which were lowered for the
first pick. For the tenth pick the second, fourth, fifth, seventh, ninth, and twelfth
ends are raised. It will be seen that all the ends raised for the fourth pick are
lowered for the tenth pick, and that the two contiguous ends in the centre of each
alternate race are raised; the corresponding ends in the centre of the intermediate
races being lowered, the intermediate ends between the centre ends, so raised and
lowered in pairs, being alternately up and down in regular order.
Having now fully set forth and indicated the nature of our said Invention, and
the manner in which we carry the same into practical effect, we would have it to be
understood in conclusion that we claim, the improved cords and the method of
weaving the same as set forth and indicated herein before and by the accompanying
weaver's draft, and especially with reference to the order in which the ends are
lifted for the binding picks.
In witness whereof, I, the said Walter Schofield, for myself and on behalf of
the said James Schofield and Joseph Ebenezer Bentley, have hereunto set
my band and seal, this Nineteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty ong
Signed, sealed, and delivered in
the presence of
ARTHUR LEDGER,
(Clerk to Edward K. Dutton),
41, John Dalton St.,
Manchester.
(Agent for the Patentees.)
WALTER SCHOFIELD. (L.S.)