Improvements in Broad Silk Pieces, and in the Manufacture of the same.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Oct., 1394-Accepted, 8th Dec., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Broad Silk Pieces, and in the Manufacture of
the same.
I, GEORGE CAREY FRANKLIN of 20' Earl Street Coventry in the County of
Warwick Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of my said invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention has for its object improvements in broad silk pieces and in the
manufacture of the same by which I produce a silk piece having a figured face
upon the one side with a plain satin face or a face of any other plain fabric such as
faille, twill, ottoman &c. on the other or reverse side thus forming a direct contrast
in the two sides in appearance texture and color.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried
into practice I have appended hereunto a double sized sheet of drawings in which
I have shewn in diagram the mode of and means for carrying my said improvements
into effect.
Figure 1 is a diagram cross section through the shuttles, slay and harness of a
silk loom with the weaving of the figure side of the silk piece in course of operation.
Figure 2 is a similar cross section to Figure 1 but with the weaving of the
plain face side-in this case a satin one-of the silk piece in course of operation.
In carrying my invention into effect I form the broad silk pieces with a figured
face upon the one side which figuration or ornamentation may be varied to any
extent either as regards pattern or color while on the reverse side I form a plain
face of any required fabric or color and thus I produce a finished face where
hitherto the back of the figured pattern was shown. It will therefore be seen that
I produce reversible pieces which combine two pieces in one.
For the purpose of
manufacturing my broad silk pieces I use a loom similar in its general arrangement
to that of an ordinary figure silk loom by which the figured side of the piece is
woven. For weaving the plain satin or any other plain fabric back I place the
struck harness A such as ordinarily used for plain weaving immediately in front of
the long harness B which is the usual harness employed with Jacquard mechanism
in figure weaving the struck harness being so connected with and operated by the
cards that they work with or alternately with the long harness picking up the
warps at the right intervals for the passage of the shuttle F carrying the weft of
the satin which is thus woven to form the reverse side of silk piece H or back of the
figured pattern. The action being as follows:-The threads of warp E¹ used for
the figured face of the silk piece are separately raised to the number and in the
position required by means of the long harness B while the shuttles F carry the
weft thread through this forming the figured side after which the struck harness A
raises the threads of the warps E while the shuttles carry the weft thread through
to form the plain face on the reverse side.
Of course there is almost no limit to the ornamentation or colors of the figured
side or the color of the plain side.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:
1st. The new broad silk pieces one side of which consists of a figured face and
the other of a perfectly plain fabric face substantially as herein set forth.

page_text: 2nd. The manufacture of the double faced broad silk piece in one loom and by
one process and operation substantially as herein set forth and shown.
Dated 23rd day of October 1894.
GEORGE BARKER,
77, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.