DIMITTONITO A Fabric, or Additions to Wire Fabrics.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Nov., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 18th Aug., 1894-Accepted, 20th Oct., 1894
PROVISIONAL DIMITTONITO
A Fabric, or Additions to Wire Fabrics.
We, WILLIAM WATERHOUSE and THOMAS WALLEY BLANTERN, trading as
The Birmingham Mattress Company, of Acocks Green, near the City of Birmingham,
Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates in one part to a new composite fabric, or a textiled wire
fabric, or a fabric made up of dissimilar substances or elements viz., yarns, filaments,
cords, textile stripes, cocoa-nut fibre cords, hair filaments, and other textile
materials, also india-rubber, gutta-percha, leather, and strands composed of
other flexible substances interwoven or interlaced with wire fabric or spring
wire work.
Our new or improved composite fabric or textiled wire fabric or textile piled
wire fabric is applicable for stair, landing, druggetting and floor carpets generally,
bed-bottoms, sackings, seats, backs of seats, curtains, blinds, mats, machine beltings,
waist and dress belts, braces, garters, edgings for fabrics, beading edgings for
upholstering work, strengthening stripes and edging of woven wire or ordinary
fabrics and for various other undefined purposes and uses.
One of the objects of our invention is to clothe or upholster wire fabrics with a
soft material which shall improve the appearance of an article, and impart strength,
durability and flexibility to the same. Another object is to enhance or increase the
wearing properties of such articles as mats, floor coverings and the like.
Our invention of the second part relates to means for strengthening wire fabrics
used in connection with bed bottoms or sackings by running down the diagonally
crossing channels or valleys of certain wire fabrics, and at the same time
intercoiling with the coils of the body of the mesh, strong or thick wire
spirals.
In carrying out one form of the first part of our invention, we take a single,
double, or other wove wire fabric having in the pattern of the same, channels or
valleys diagonally crossing each other, that is to say, the channels or valleys upon
the one side run in common one with another in parallel order, whilst the channels or
valleys upon the opposite side also run in common and parallel one with other as in
the first named side, but in reverse directions, and with the said valleys or channels
upon one side connected or united to the valleys or channels upon the other side, in
manner that the backs of the valleys of both sides form decussations or sheds for
the passage
of a locking woof or weft as hereinafter described.
Now the warp filaments are laid continuously or otherwise within the channels or
valleys upon either the topside or the underside of the fabric, and the same are
locked or retained by the passage of the woof or weft filaments laterally over the
warp filaments and then through the decussatious or sheds lying upon the opposite
sides of the warp.
The textile material intermingling or being blended with the wire fabric makes
a novel and useful composite fabric or upholstered wire fabric, which is strong,
flexible and lasting.
We wish it to be understood that we do not limit ourselves to the exact method
of working the pattern as the warp can be laid within the valleys upon both sides
of the fabric and be interlocked by the weft passing through the decussations formed
by the backs of the valleys.
In another form of our invention, we take a single, double, treble or other wove
wire fabric and lay the warp lengths in the diagonal valleys upon one side
and then pass the wefts diagonally across the warps and through the decussations
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page_text: Or a double pile-sided wire fabric may be produced by laying the warps in the
crossing valleys or channels on the two opposite sides, and then passing the weft
filaments over the warps, and through the decussations in either a straight or
a lateral direction.
The wefts or woof may be interlaced by a threading process, or the same may
be, passed by a weaving process.
As a still further form of our invention, we may weave the desired pattern of
textile material, and then intercoil or pass longitudinally through the body of it,
wire helices which interweave both with the textile warps and wefts and each other.
The wire weaving part may be single, double or other wove.
The textile piled wire fabric as described, may, if necessary, only form the body
or ground work of a sacking or other surface, as the same may be worked
upon and fashioned in other ways according to the requirements of the material.
In door mats, we propose to use cocoa-nut or like fibre, and either work
the said fibre into a wire fabric, or to work helices into a ground work of fibre
previously made.
In door mats where india-rubber pipings are used, we lay the said pipings in the
valleys and run cross ones through the decussations as aforesaid, forming thereby
and at the same time, a wiper and scraper mat.
When our new fabric is used as a floor covering or for stair treads, it is infinitely
more durable than ordinary textile or fibre fabrics.
We may also observe that the passing of the weft strands tightens up the warp
strands and makes a compact and clothed wire fabric.
After the interweaving of one material into another has been performed,
the textile-wire fabric may, if necessary, be passed through rollers and uniformly
flattened out.
In carrying out the second form of our invention in connection with a bed sacking,
we take an ordinary woven wire fabric with diagonally crossing channels, and pass
diagonal crossing stay coils or wire rods up a portion of the valleys and interwoven
with the coils of the body of the mesh of the fabric, hence imparting diagonal stay
or strengthening stripes to the same.
We wish it to be further understood that instead of employing parallel weaving,
we may employ diagonal weaving, and by so doing we duplicate the channels or
valleys, that is, we have independent crossing channels upon both sides, and into
these channels, the textile, fibrous or other materials are laid and there locked by
the passing of the weft filaments through any suitable decussations formed in
the mesh.
In making up beadings, rolls or cables, we take a length of textiled wire fabric
in the flat, and turn the same into a rope, roll or cable and then unite the meeting
edges by a locking helix.
Or the helical roll may be made first, and then plaited into the furrows after the
manner of plaiting a cylinder.
In the upholstered wire fabric part of our invention, the wires or belixes need not
be interwoven, but may be laid side by side, and be locked together by cross locking
helixes, coils or wires disposed at suitable distances apart, or plain wires may have
a running corrugation in them, and may be interlaced one with another grating or
lattice wise, and between the interstices of both these last named forms, fabric, fibre
or other material as herein before mentioned are interwoven.
The helixes may be formed from lead wire, which, when flattened with the textile
fibres, would form a capital noiseless drugget for theatres, public buildings and
the like.
Dated this 17th day of November 1893.
WILLIAM WATERHOUSE,
THOMAS WALLEY BLANTERN,
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicants.

page_text: A Fabric, or Additions to Wire Fabrics.
We, WILLIAM WATERHOUSE and THOMAS WALLEY BLANTERN, trading as The
Birmingham Mattress Company, of Acocks Green, near the City of Birmingham,
Manufacturers, 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 invention relates in one part, to a new composite fabric, or a textiled wire
fabric, or a fabric made up of dissimilar substances or elements, viz., yarns, filaments,
cords, textile stripes, cocoa-nut fibre cords, hair filaments, and other textile materials,
also india-rubber, gutta-percha, leather, and strands composed of other flexible
substances interwoven or interlaced with wire fabric or spring wire work.
Our new or improved composite fabric or textiled wire fabric or textile piled
wire fabric is applicable for stair, landing, druggetting and floor carpets generally,
bed-bottoms, sackings, seats, backs of seats, curtains, blinds, mats, machine beltings,
waist and dress belts, braces, garters, edgings for fabrics, beading edgings for
upholstery work, strengthening stripes and edging of woven wire or ordinary
fabrics and for various other undefined purposes and uses.
One of the objects of our invention is to clothe or upholster wire fabrics with a
soft material which shall improve the appearance of an article, and impart strength,
durability and flexibility to the same. Another object is to enhance or increase
the wearing properties of such articles as mats, floor coverings and the like.
Our invention of the second part relates to means for strengthening wire fabrics
used in connection with bed bottoms or sackings by running down the diagonally
crossing channels or valleys of certain wire fabrics, and at the same time if necessary
intercoiling with the coils of the body of the mesh, wire spirals.
In carrying out one form of the first of our invention, we take a single, double
or other wove wire fabric, having in the pattern of the same, channels or valleys
diagonally crossing each other, that is to say, the channels or valleys upon the one
side run in common one with another in parallel order, whilst the channels or
valleys upon the opposite side also run in common and parallel one with another as
in the first named side, but in reverse directions, and with the said valleys or
channels upon one side connected or united to the valleys or channels upon the
other side, in manner that the backs of the valleys of both sides form decussations or
sheds for the passage of a locking woof or weft as hereinafter described.
Now the warp filaments are laid continuously or otherwise within the channels or
valleys upon either the topside or the underside of the fabric, and the same are
locked or retained by the passage of the woof or weft filaments laterally over the
warp filaments and then through the decussations or sheds lying upon the opposite
sides of the warp.
The textile material intermingling or being blended with the wire fabric makes
a novel and useful composite fabric or upholstered wire fabric which is strong,
flexible and lasting.
We wish it to be understood that we do not limit ourselves to the exact method
of working the pattern, as the warp can be laid within the valleys upon both sides
of the fabric and be interlocked by the weft passing through the decussations formed
by the backs of the valleys.
In another form of our invention, a double pile-sided wire fabric may be produced
by laying the warps in the crossing valleys or channels on the two opposite sides,
and then passing the weft filaments over the warps, and through the decussations
in either a straight or a lateral direction.
The wefts or woofs may be interlaced by a threading process, or the same may
be passed by a weaving process.

page_text: As a still further form of our invention, we may weave the desired pattern of
textile material, and then intercoil or pass longitudinally through the body of it,
wire helices which interweave both with the textile warps and wefts and each other.
The wire weaving part may be single, double or other wove.
The textile piled wire fabric as described, may, if necessary, only form the body
or ground work of a sacking or other surface, as the same may be worked upon and
fashioned in other ways according to the requirements of the material.
In door mats, we propose to use cocoa-nut or like fibre, and either work the said
fibre into a wire fabric, or to work helices into a ground work of fibre previously
made.
In door mats where india rubber pipings are used, we lay the said pipings in the
valleys and run cross ones through the decussations as aforesaid, forming thereby
and at the same time, a wiper and scraper mat.
When our new fabric is used as a floor covering or for stair treads, it is infinitely
more durable than ordinary textile or fibre fabrics.
We may also observe that the passing of the weft strands tightens up the warp
strands and makes a compact and clothed wire fabric.
After the interweaving of one material into another has been performed, the
textiled wire fabric may, if necessary, be passed through rollers and uniformly
flattened out.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents a piece of such a composite
fabric, or a wire fabric clothed or upholstered with a textile or soft material.
Figure 2 represents a cross section of the same upon the dotted lines xx
Figure 1, showing the constitution of the said fabric, and how the textile material
is interwoven or threaded with the wire or metallic strands.
Figure 3 represents the compound wove metallic body fabric, with some textile
strands laid within the diagonal channels or valleys of one of the sides.
Thus, in making up a textiled wire fabric, Figure 1, a compound wove wire
fabric a, is taken, having diagonally directed valleys or channels a', up the one side,
and diagonally directed valleys or channels a², up the other side, and with grating
sheds a forming the bottoms of the valleys a², and grating sheds a', forming the
bottoms to the valleys a'. The textile strands b, are laid within the valleys a',
upon one side, and then the textile strands 6', are passed up the valleys a³, of the
other side, and over the textile strands b, and under the grating sheds or
decussations a³, hence the locking of the warp to the wire fabric by the woof or
weft strands.
Figure 4 represents a piece of like textiled wire fabric as Figure 1, but with the
weft and warp strands passing under and over each other, instead of the weft
locking strands passing over the warp strands.
Figure 5 represents an example of a further form of textiled wire fabric made
according to our invention. This wire fabric is treble textile wove.
Figure 6 represents wire fabric having rubber tubular or solid lengths or strands,
interwoven or interlaced with the wire fabric, which composite fabric is eminently
suited for mats and like purposes.
In carrying out the second form of our invention in connection with a bed sacking,
we take an ordinary woven wire fabric with diagonally crossing channels and lay
diagonal crossing stay coils within the valleys and if necessary, interweave the same
with the coils of the body of the mesh of the fabric, and attachedly connect or tie
the ends to the supporting frame hence imparting strength to the same by the
application of the diagonal stays.
We wish it to be further understood that instead of employing diagonal weaving,
we may employ straight or cross weaving, and in doing this, we arrange that the
channels or valleys of the wire fabric should run in right line and parallel
directions.
In making up beadings, rolls or cables, we take a length of textiled wire fabric
in the flat, and turn the same into a rope, roll or cable and then unite the meeting
edges by a locking helix.

page_text: Thus, we take a strip of fabric, such as shown in Figures 1,4 and 5, and roll the
same up into a cylinder, preferably having a core-coil passed up its axis, and then
by a locking coil or helix, the meeting edges of the said strip are united together.
Figure 7 represents such an edging, beading, cable or roll.
Or the helical roll may be made first from wire fabric alone, and then the textile
material is either interwoven with it, or plaited into the furrows after the manner
of forming a plaited cylinder.
Figures 8 and 9 represent such cables, edgings or stripes, made in accordance
with these last-described forms of our invention.
In Figure 8, the textile material is applied upon the outside of the wire cylinder,
whilst in Figure 9, it is upon the inside.
In the upholstered wire fabric part of our invention, the wires or helixes need
not be interwoven, but may be laid side by side, and be locked together by cross
locking helixes, coils or wires disposed at suitable distances apart, or plain wires
may have a running corrugation in them, and may be interlaced one with another
grating or lattice wise, and between the interstices of both these last named forms,
fabric, fibre or other material as hereinbefore mentioned is interwoven.
The helixes may be formed from lead wire, which, when flattened with the textile
fibres, would form a capital noiseless drugget for theatres, public buildings and the
like.
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. A fabric, or a composite fabric, or a textiled wire fabric, made up of
dissimilar substances or elements, such as yarns, cords, textile stripes, hair filaments or
like textile or fibrous and flexible substances, interwoven or interlaced with, or laid
within, wire fabric or spring wire work, substantially as described and set forth.
Secondly. A fabric, or a composite fabric, or a textiled wire fabric, made up
by introducing into or interweaving with textile or fibrous fabrics or substances,
wire convolutions or coils, substantially as described and set forth.
Thirdly. A fabric, or a composite fabric, made up of dissimilar substances, such
as india-rubber, gutta-percha, leather, gut or like strands, interwoven or interlaced
with wire fabric or spring wire work, or with wire convolutions or coils introduced
into or interwoven with a fabric composed of such substances, substantially as
described and set forth.
Fourthly. The improvements in wire fabrics, or in textiled wire fabrics, cables,.
edgings and stripes, substantially as and for the purposes as described and set forth
in the several figures of the drawings.
day of August 1991.
WILLIAM WATERHOUSE,
THOMAS WALLEY BLANTERN,
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicants.