IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OR MEANS OF WEAVING SCOTCH INGRAIN OR DAMASK CARPETS OR OTHER FIGURED FABRICS
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Crossley, Carpet Manufacturer, of Halifax, in
the County of York, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD
OR MEANS OF WEAVING SCOTCH INGRAIN OR DAMASK CARPETS OR OTHER
FIGURED FABRICS." A communication from abroad by Alfred Heald, Designer,
of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States of America.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Crossley at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the. 18th October 1878.
EDWARD CROSSLEY, Carpet Manufacturer, of Halifax, in the County of York. "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OR MEANS OF WEAVING SCOTCH INGRAIN OR DAMASK
CARPETS OR OTHER FIGURED FABRICS." [A communication from abroad by Alfred
Heald, Designer, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States of America.]
The said Invention relates to combining an ingrain and a damask in one web,
which allows greater variety of colours, also producing a firmer, thicker, and more
even surfaced fabric.
For this purpose a single lifting jacquard is employed, and the cards are punched
in a peculiar manner for combining the ingrain with the damask in one web; this
peculiar way or method of punching the cards will be intelligible to the practical
operative by the following description and annexed diagram.
The ingrain or pattern is supposed to be printed or drawn in black, and the
damask or ground by white spaces. Eight cards are employed, and the cards are
placed four in a row. The cards are numbered, to make them perfectly plain to any
puncher.

page_text: The four cards are repeated in succession. The needles of the jacquard are
worked 1 and 3, 2 and 4, 5 and 7, 6 and 8.
The first shot thrown will be ingrain, 1, 3, 5, 7, etc.
...
The second shot
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will be damask, 1, 3, 5, 7, etc.
The third sho
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The fourth shot
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will be ingrain, 2, 4, 6, 8, etc.
will be fine shot, 2, 4, 6, 8, etc.
It will be plain to any weaver that two shots of ingrain will be thrown to one
shot of damask, which is a thick shot, and one slot of fine or binder.
As illustrated by the diagram, one set of figuring warp threads for the damask is
employed, as only one face is needed, the ingrain forming the opposite one (but two
or more sets may be employed); the ingrain portion appears on the face at those
parts where the damask portion appears on the back, and vice-versa.
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The combination of the different sizes of weft is produced by the turning of the
cards for each weft thrown, the cards being placed in four rows, and three sizes or
more of weft are employed, in order to make a good substantial fabric.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent and of
an Order of the Lord Chancellor filed by the said Edward Crossley in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 10th May 1879.
_EDWARD CROSSLEY, Carpet Manufacturer, of Halifax, in the County of York.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OR MEANS OF WEAVING SCOTCH INGRAIN OR
DAMASK CARPETS OR OTHER FIGURED FABRICS." A communication from abroad
by Alfred Heald, Designer, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States of
America.
The said Invention relates to combining an ingrain and a damask in one web,
which allows a greater variety of colours, also producing a firmer, thicker, and more.
even surfaced fabric.
For this purpose a single lifting jacquard is employed, and the cards are punched
in a peculiar manner for combining the ingrain with the damask in one web; this
peculiar way or method of punching the cards will be intelligible to the practical
operative by the following description and annexed diagram.
The ingrain or pattern is supposed to be printed or drawn in black, and the
damask or ground is represented by white spaces. Eight cards are employed, and
the cards are placed four in a row, as shewn in the accompanying Drawing. The
cards are numbered, to make it perfectly plain to any puncher.
The needles of the jacquard are worked 1 and 3, 2 and 4, 5 and 7, 6 and 8.
The first shot thrown will be ingrain,
The second shot thrown will be damask,
The third shot thrown will be ingrain,
1, 3, 5, 7, etc.
1, 3, 5, 7, etc.
2, 4, 6, 8, etc.
The fourth shot thrown will be fine shot, 2, 6, 8, etc.
It will be plain to any weaver that two shots of ingrain will be thrown to one
shot of damask, which is a thick shot, and one shot of fine or binder.
As illustrated by the diagram or pattern, one set of figuring warp threads is
employed for the damask, as only one face is needed, the ingrain forming the
opposite one; but two or more sets may be employed. The ingrain portion appears
on the face at those parts where the damask portion appears on the back, and vice
versa.
The combination of the different sizes of weft is produced by the turning of the
cards for each weft thrown, the cards being placed in four rows, and three sizes or
more of weft are employed in order to make a good substantial fabric
Having thus described the Invention communicated to me, and the best means I
ain acquainted with for carrying the same into effect, what is claimed is:-
The method or means of weaving Scotch ingrain or damask carpets or other
figured fabrics, substantially as and for the purpose herein described and represented
by the annexed diagram or pattern.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Crossley, have hereto set my hand
and seal, this Nineteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand sight hundred and carranty nina
Witness to the signature
of Edward Crossley,
J. S. WALTON,
New Orleans, La.,
United States of America.
EDWARD CROSSLEY. (L.S.)