Improvements in the Manufacture of Quilts and similar Woven Fabrics.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Dec., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 1st June, 1892-Accepted, 2nd July, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Quilts and similar
Woven Fabrics.
I HENRY DOBBIN of Newtownards in the County of Down Ireland Manu-
facturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the manufacture of quilts and other similar fabrics
which are formed of double cloth bound together at the figured part but formed of
two separate fabrics in the ground.
My invention consists in so weaving the quilt or other fabric that the ground on
one side thereof is formed of a distinctly different kind of weaving to the ground
on the other side, for example supposing that a flower be shown upon a twilled
ground on one side, a similar pattern will according to my invention be shewn upon
a plain or frosted ground upon the reverse side.
In carrying my invention into practice where the warp is used for "flowering"
or throwing up the pattern on one side, I employ the weft for the pattern on
the other side and I am thus enabled with two colors in the warp and two colors
in the weft to produce effects hitherto not obtainable.
Dated this 17th day of December 1891.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Quilts and similar
Woven Fabrics.
I, HENRY DOBBIN of Newtownards in the County of Down, Ireland, Manu-
facturer, 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 :-
This invention relates to the manufacture of quilts and other similar figured
woven fabrics which are formed of double cloth bound or stitched together at the
figured part but formed of two separate fabrics in the ground.
My invention consists in so weaving the quilt or other figured woven fabric that
the ground on one side thereof is formed of a distinctly different kind of weaving
to the ground of the other side of the said fabric. For example supposing that
a flower be shown upon a twilled ground on one side, a similar pattern will,
according to my invention, be shown upon a plain, or seeded, or frosted ground
upon the reverse side.
In carrying out my invention into practice I find it more simple, and therefore
preferable, to make two separate designs, one for each side of the cloth, and to
combine the two together in punching or preparing the cards for the Jacquard
machine, but it will be obvious to any competent designer, that although more
complicated a single design which would combine the two effects might be prepared,
but in either case only one set of cards would be required in the machine and the
peculiar distinctive feature of my invention, namely the two dissimilar kinds of
weaving on the ground of the two sides of the fabric would be maintained.
In weaving figured quilts and similar fabrics according to my invention, I
utilize both the warp and the weft for flowering or throwing up the pattern upon
each side of the fabric, but in those parts of the pattern where I employ the
weft on the one side I utilize the warp on the reverse side thereof, for flowering or

page_text: throwing up the pattern, and vice versa, and thus I am enabled with two or more
colors in the warp and two or more colors in the weft to produce effects hitherto
not obtainable.
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 :-
First. The improvements in the manufacture of that class of quilts and similar
woven fabrics which are formed of double cloth bound or stitched together at
the figured part but formed of two separate fabrics in the ground, consisting in so
weaving the fabric that the ground on one side thereof is formed of a distinctly
different kind of weaving to the ground on the other side of the same substantially
as hereinbefore described.
Secondly. I claim as a new manufacture a figured quilt or other similar figured
woven fabric having a similar design or pattern on both sides, stitched or bound
together, combined with a ground formed of two separate cloths each side having a
distinctly different kind or style of weaving in the ground substantially, as herein-
before described.
Thirdly. A figured quilt or other similar woven fabric the ground of which,
on one side, is of a different kind of weaving to the ground of the other side, both
the warp and the weft being used for flowering or throwing up the pattern on each
side thereof, those parts of the said pattern which are formed from the warp on
one side being formed from the weft on the reverse side, and vice versa substantially
as above described.
2000
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.