Improvements in the Manufacture of Saddle Mats or Rugs and other Classes of Woven Fabrics.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Apr., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 25th Jan., 1892-Accepted, 19th Mar., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Saddle Mats or Rugs and
other Classes of Woven Fabrics.
We, SYDNEY MORTON and ALFRED JAMES HOLCROFT, of Stone Dam Mills
Halifax, in the County of York, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows
--
Our invention has reference to the manufacture of saddle mats or other woven
fabrics, specially intended for use in Brazil, Uruguay, the Argentine Republic, and
other South American States. Our improvements in the manufacture of saddle
mats consist in making the bordering of one class of weave, and the centre or
middle portion of the mat in another class of weave, whereby we are enabled to
have warp and weft of one colour for the borderings and of another colour for the
middle portion. For the whole of the fabric we employ two warps of any suitable
material, one of them being thicker than the other, the thick warp being employed
to give body to the fabric, and the thinner warp to bind one weft on the back and
another weft on the face such said fabric being double and bound together at
suitable parts by the fine warp. The body or middle of the fabric is made by the
weft being first thrown on one side and then on the other both warps in this case
being lost or embedded in the middle of the fabric. The weft employed to give.
colour to the border does not go across the fabric, but is arrested at the end of that
particular weave by another weft being made to cross it, forming thereby a sort of
false selvedge; the other weft, however, is permitted to go across the fabric from
end to end of the outside selvedges. By combining the two particular weaves as
above described in one fabric, we get a closer imitation than has hitherto been the
case, of those hand made saddle mats made by the natives in the South American
States.
This gond der of Anvil 1801
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Halifax, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Saddle Mats or Rugs and
other Classes of Woven Fabrics.
We, SYDNEY MORTON, and ALFRED JAMES HOLCROFT of Stone Dam Mills,
Halifax, in the County of York 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 has reference to the manufacture of saddle-mats or other woven
fabrics, especially intended for use in Brazil, Uruguay, the Argentine Republic,
and other South American States. Our improvements in the manufacture of
saddle-mats consist in making the bordering of one class of weave, and the centre or
middle portion of the mat in another class of weave, whereby we are enabled to
have warp and weft of one colour for the borderings and of another colour for the
middle portion.
In order that our improved method of weaving this class of fabric may be better
understood we will make reference to the accompanying drawings illustrative
thereof. For our purpose we employ three warps a, b, c, of any suitable material,
the thicker warp c being employed to give body to the fabric and the thinner
warps ab employed to bind one weft d on the back and another weft e on the face,

page_text: such said fabric from A to B being double, and bound together at suitable places
by the fine warp a, b. The body or middle of the fabric is made by the weft,
being first thrown on one side and then on the other side, both the fine and thick
warps in this case, being lost or embedded in the middle of the fabric. The weft d
which is used to give colour to the border does not go across the fabric but is
arrested at the end of that particular weave marked B by another weft f which is
made to cross it forming thereby a sort of false selvedge, the other weft e however
is permitted to go across the fabric from end to end to the outside selvedges. By
combining the two particular weaves as above described in one fabric, we get a
closer imitation than has hitherto been the case, of those hand made saddle-mats
made by the natives in the South American States.
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:-
The manufacture of saddle-mats or rugs by weaving them in the manner and by
the method herein described whereby the border is woven in a different manner to
the middle or body of the fabric.
Dated this 10th der of Ton 1000
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Halifax, Agents.