IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CLOTHS FOR CLAY PRESSES AND OTHER ANALOGOUS PURPOSES
Year: 1884

page_text: I AUSTIN BEECHI of Longton in the County of Stafford Draper do hereby declare
the nature of my Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CLOTHS
FOR CLAY PRESSES AND OTHER ANALOGOUS PURPOSES to be as follows:-
Whereas in the manufacture of cloths used in various processes, such as filter
cloths for use with clay presses, it is necessary to provide certain portions thereof
with additional strength to that of the main portion, in order to provide for
greater wear and tear, friction, or pressure; and the ordinary means employed for
such purpose is to sew two pieces of such material together, and to inake onc
overlap the other to the necessary extent. But this arrangement is deficient in
uniforinity of strength, costly, and clumsy, and the stitches produce an objectionablo
amount of uneveness in the finished article.
Now the object of my Invention is to manufacture such cloths in such a manner
as to dispense with sewing along its length avoiding all clumsiness of seams,
insuring increased and uniform strength, and reducing the cost.
The means whereby I carry out my said Invention consists in increasing the
substance, number, or strength of the warp, in the process of weaving such cloths;
by which means the additional strength is wrought into the cloth itself at the
particular part required in the process of its manufacture.
The warp, which is so woven where the cloth requires such additional strength,
is composed of an increased number of threads, or of a stronger material than the
warp used in the manufacture of the general body of such cloth.
GEO. DOWNING,
Agent for Applicant.

page_text: I AUSTIN BEECH of Commerco Street, Longton, in the County of Stafford,
Draper do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF CLOTHS FOR CLAY PRESSES AND OTHER ANALOGOUS PURPOSES
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
Whereas in the manufacture of cloths used in various processes, such as filter
cloths for use with clay presses, it is necessary to provide certain portions thercof
with additional strength to that of the main portion in order to provide for greater
wear and tear, friction, or pressure; and the ordinary means omployed for such
purpose is to sew two pieces of such material together, and to make one overlap
the other to the necessary extent. But this arrangement is deficient in uniformity
of strength, costly, and clumsy, and the stitches produce an objectionable amount
of uneveness in the finished article.
Now the object of my Invention is to manufacture such cloths in such a manner
as to dispense with sewing along its length avoiding all clumsiness of seams,
insuring increased and uniform strength and reducing the cost of inaking.
The means whereby I carry out my said Invention consist in increasing the
substance, number, or strength of the warp at the particular part required in the
process of weaving such cloths; by which means the additional local strength is
wrought into the cloth itself in the process of its manufacture.
The warp which is so woven where the cloth requires such additional strength,
is composed of an increased number of threads, or of an increased thickness of such
threads, or of a stronger material than the warp used in the manufacture of the
general body of such cloth..
By the method of manufacturing cloths in accordance with my Invention,
suitable provision may be made for any amount of local friction or other wear and
tear, and cloths so manufactured will last very much longer than those of ordinary
manufacture, and will be superior in texture and finish, and adaptability to their
intended use.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
1 claim is:
The method herein before described, of strengthening cloths for clay presses and
analogous purposes by weaving them at certain parts with an increased number of
warp threads or with warp threads of increased strength.
GEO. DOWNING,
Agent for Applicant.