Improvements in the Manufacture of Fancy Piled Fabrics.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 1st June, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 10th July, 1889-Accepted, 10th Aug., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Fancy Piled Fabrics.
We JOHN JACKSON SHIERS of Albany Mills Oldham, Manufacturer and CHARLES
MARX, of the firm of Meyerhof, Mark and Simonsen of 50 Sackville Street Man-
chester, Merchant both in the County of Lancaster do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
Our improvements relate to the manufacture of cords or other piled fabrics in stripes
of pile alternating with stripes of colored fancy weaving.
For the purposes of our invention we arrange the warp either on two beams, or upon
the same beam, in stripes, the principal warp being grey or unbleached yarn, and
those for the stripes fast colored (for example Indigo blue or Turkey red) dyed yarns,
such as will not be affected by subsequent bleaching.
We then proceed to weave the same with a grey or unbleached weft drawing in the
warp and treading the "shed" in such a way as to produce an ornamental colored
stripe of fancy weaving with the colored warp and either a cord or a plain velvet ❝ tie-
up" with the grey warp between the colored stripes.
We next cut and raise the pile of the grey stripes in the ordinary manner forming
a grey cord or plain velvet, after which we bleach the fabric by the usual or any other
suitable process, which will bleach the grey threads without affecting the Indigo or
Turkey red, of the colored threads and the result is a novel kind of fancy piled fabric
consisting of alternate stripes of white cord or plain velvet and colored stripes of fancy
weaving, an effect which has never heretofore been produced.
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In some cases when weaving cords we vary this effect by introducing colored warp
threads also in the ground or back only along the centre of each "float or race, so
that the said colored threads are entirely concealed by the floated weft threads in
weaving, but when the pile is cut and raised the thin colored lines become visible
between the cords.
We sometimes also vary the effect by dyeing the whole fabric a light color instead
of bleaching, or after bleaching the same whereby we obtain a light colored cord or
pile and ground instead of white, alternating with fancy stripes of different or darker
colored yarn.
Other effects may also be produced by padding or applying color in any suitable
known way to the pile surface only of the cord or velvet stripes.
Dated this 21st dow of May 1889
GEORGE DAVIES,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Fancy Piled Fabrics.
We JOHN JACKSON SHIERS of Albany Mills Oldham Manufacturer and CHARLES
MARX of the firm of Meyerhof, Marx and Simonsen of 50 Sackville Street Manchester,
Merchant both in the County of Lancaster 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 :-
Our improvements relate to the manufacture of cords or other piled fabrics in
stripes of pile alternating with stripes of colored fancy weaving.
For the purposes of our invention we arrange the warp either on two or more
beams or upon the same beam in stripes the principle warp being grey or unbleached
yarn, and those for the stripes fast colored (for example Indigo blue or Turkey red)
dyed yarns such as will not be affected by subsequent bleaching.

page_text: We then proceed to weave the sune with a grey or unbleached weft drawing-in the
warp and treading the "shed" in such a way as to produce an ornamental colored
stripe of fancy weaving with the colored warp and either a cord or a plain velvet " tie-
up" with a grey warp between the colored stripes.
We next cut and raise the pile of the grey stripes in the ordinary manner forming
a grey cord or plain velvet after which we bleach the fabric by the usual or any other
suitable process which will bleach the grey threads without affecting the Indigo or
Turkey red or other fast dyes of the colored threads, and the result is a novel kind of
fancy piled fabric consisting of alternate stripes of white cord or plain velvet and
colored stripes of fancy weaving, an effect which has never heretofore been produced.
In some cases when weaving cords we vary this effect by introducing colored warp
threads also in the ground or back only along the centre of each "float" or race, so
that the said colored threads are entirely concealed by the floated weft threads in
weaving, but when the pile is cut and raised the thin colored lines become visible
between the cords.
We sometimes also vary the effect by dyeing the whole fabric a suitable color
instead of bleaching, or after bleaching the same, whereby we obtain a colored cord or
pile and ground instead of white, alternating with fancy stripes of different or darker
colored yarn.
Other effects may also be produced by padding or applying color in any suitable
known way to the pile surface only, of the cord or velvet stripes, after the pile has
been cut.
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 :-
First, the manufacture of fancy piled fabrics consisting of alternate stripes of white
cord or plain velvet pile and colored fancy weaving substantially as hereinbefore
described.
Secondly, we claim the manufacture of fancy piled fabrics consisting of alternate
stripes of colored cord or plain velvet pile, and stripes of fancy weaving of a darker or
different color substantially as hereinbefore described.
Thirdly we claim the manufacture of fancy piled fabrics consisting of alternate
stripes of cord or velvet pile, and stripes of colored fancy weaving as above, an
additional effect being produced by the further application of color by padding or
otherwise to the pile surface only of the cord or velvet stripes after the pile has
been cut.
Fourthly we claim as new manufactures the fancy striped piled fabrics, produced by
any of the herein before described processes or combinations."
Dated this 9th day of July 1889.
GEORGE DAVIES,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agent for the Applicants.