Improvements in the Manufacture of Cloth known as Cotton Cords.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Jan., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 15th Oct., 1896-Accepted, 21st Nov., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Cloth known as Cotton Cords.
We THOMAS IVERS, Director of the Firm of Thomas Barnes and Company
Limited, Spinners and Manufacturers, and JOHN GLADSTONE IVERS, Mill
Manager, both of Farnworth Cotton Mills, Bolton in the County of Lancaster,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates especially to such cloths for the manufacture of which
Letters Patent No. 3855 were granted to Joseph Winter and Thomas Ivers and
dated September 23rd, 1880, but it can also be applied to the manufacture of
similar broken twill backed cloths which are woven twelve picks to the round.
Our invention consists broadly in a special combination of warps such as are
usually employed for weaving cotton cords with ends which are specially spun and
doubled with an increased amount of twist therein, the special combination
consisting in the arrangement or drawing in of the warp euds so that the two
central ends of each rib are composed of the extra twisted yarn, the remainder of
the warp for the back ends together with the warp for the face ends, being the
yarn usually employed in the manufacture of the above named cloths.
We draw the extra twisted warps in singly in the heald, but the remainder may
be drawn in singly or double, so that for a complete draught or "gait over" we
should either have twelve or twenty ends, in the former case eight of ordinary
twist and four of extra twist, and in the latter case sixteen of ordinary twist and
four of extra twist.
Referring by way of example, to the diagrams on Figs. 3 and 9 annexed to the
specification of the above named Letters Patent, the warp ends Nos. 2 and 3 and
8 and 9 shewn on Fig. 3 would according to our present invention be the extra
twisted ends; and on Fig. 9 the warp ends 3 and 4 would according to our present
invention be replaced by a single end of extra twisted yarn, and the pairs 5 and 6,
15 and 16, 17 and 18, would also be replaced by single ends of extra twisted yarn,
the healds being raised in the same order as indicated in the diagrams.
We therefore use the same intersections as in the invention before mentioned.
By the use however of our present improvements we obtain a more curly or
cockled appearance in the cloth with less weight than by the old method.
Dated this 16th day of January 1896.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicants.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Cloth known as Cotton Cords.
We THOMAS IVERS, Director of the Firm of Thomas Barnes and Company
Limited, Spinners and Manufacturers, and JOHN GLADSTONE IVERS, "Mill
Manager, both of Farnworth Cotton Mills, Bolton, in the County of Lancaster,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same

page_text: is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
This invention relates especially to such cloths for the manufacture of which
Letters Patent No. 3855 were granted to Joseph Winter and Thomas Ivers, and
dated 23rd of September 1880, but it can also be applied to the manufacture of
similar broken twill backed cords which are woven twelve picks to the round.
Our invention consists broadly in a special combination of warps such as are
usually employed for weaving cotton cords with ends which are specially spun and
doubled with an increased amount of twist therein, the special combination
consisting in the arrangement of drawing in of the warp, ends so that the two
central ends of each rib are composed of the extra twisted yarn, the remainder of
the warp for the back ends together with the warp for the face ends, being the
yarn usually employed in the manufacture of the above named cloths.
We draw the extra twisted warps in singly in the heald, but the remainder may
be drawn in singly or double, so that for a complete draught or "gait over" we
should either have twelve or twenty ends, in the former case, eight of ordinary
twist and four of extra twist, and in the latter case sixteen of ordinary twist and
four of extra twist.
Referring by way of example, to the diagram on Figs. 3 and 9 annexed to the
specification of the above named Letters Patent, the warp ends Nos. 2 and 3 and
8 and 9 shewn on Fig. 3 would according to our present invention be the extra
twisted ends, as will be clearly understood on reference to Figs. 1 and 14, on the
annexed illustration. Fig. 1 being a weavers draught or gait over and Fig. 14, a
diagram of a section of one repeat of the pattern according to our present
invention, the extra twisted ends are marked by stronger lines on Fig. 1 and by
blackened dots on Fig. 1.
Figs. 2 and 24 are similar illustrations of the application of our invention when
weaving the cloth illustrated by Fig. 9 on the diagrams annexed to the aforesaid
specification. In this case the warps ends 3 and 4 of such Fig. 9 would according
to our present invention be replaced by a single end (No. 3) of extra twisted yarn
(see Figs. 2 and 24 annexed), and the pairs 5 and 6, 15 and 16, 17 and 18, would
also be replaced by the single ends of extra twisted yarn, marked 4, 13, and 14,
respectively on Fig. 2, the healds being raised in the same order as indicated in the
diagrams Figs. 3 and 9 aforesaid.
We therefore use the same intersections as in the invention before mentioned.
Figs. 1 and 24 shew that the extra twisted ends are the two central ends of
each rib.
By the use however of our present improvements we obtain a more curly or
cockled appearance in the cloth with less weight than by the old method.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
The arrangement or drawing-in of the warp ends of cotton cords of the above
description so that the two central ends of each rib are composed of extra twisted
yarn, the remainder of the warp for the back ends, together with the warp for the
face ends being the yarn usually employed in the manufacture of the above named
cloths, substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth.
Dated this 14th day of October 1896.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicants.