Improvements in Coiled Wire Fabrics.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Jan., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 20th Sept., 1895-Accepted, 26th Oct., 1895
Improvements in Coiled Wire Fabrics.
We, WILLIAM PARISH HOSKINS trading as Hoskins and Sons of Trinity
Street, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturer, and WILLIAM MARRIAN
HOSKINS, also of Trinity Street aforesaid, Manufacturer, do, hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to improvements in coiled wire fabrics or to the borders,
strengthening stripes or selvage edges of coiled wire fabrics for various purposes,
such for example as mattresses,. bed bottoms, sackings, beltings, mats and other
analogous uses, and has for its object, to form a layered or laminar fabric.
In carrying out the production of a double layered or thickened strengthening
edging for mattresses according to one form of this invention, a strip or band of
wire fabric, made up of a series of plain intercoiled compound helices, is taken,
that is to say, a series of compound helices are simply intercoiled or picked up by
one another, forming a strip or breadth of fabric, made up of intermediate and
alternate compound spirals, which are individually or respectively made up of a
series of single helices, interwormed screw-wise one with another, or faggotted or
bundled together.
Now each of the said compound spirals forms, in itself, a carrier having a
thoroughfare passage through its middle, through which passage or shed, a hollow
cord-like core spiral, of an outside diameter about equal to the inside diameter of
the said shed, is threaded.
Assuming that the first, third, fifth and such odd numbered compound spirals are
the alternate ones, and the second, fourth, sixth and other even numbered spirals
are the intermediate ones, and assuming that the alternate spirais are to come
undermost and that the intermediate ones are to come uppermost, then on threading
the cord-like core spirals up the sheds, declivities or thoroughfare-passages of the
said alternate spirals, the unfilled and intermediate compound spirals are forced
upwards, above the plane of the said alternate compound spirals, which are, by
such process, brought side-by-side and close together, with the intermediate spirals
lying immediately over and breaking, the joint between them.
The hollow and intermediate upper spirals are tüen filled with like cord-spirals
as the alternate ones, when a double-layered edging is produced, with the compound
picked-up spirals filled with cord spirals or core cords.
In a further form of this invention, the body mesh is made up of single picked-up
or interlaced spirals, with the alternate or odd spirals brought close together or
side by side, whilst the intermediate spirals are elevated or set-down into a different.
plane, and with both sets or layers of spirals filled in by core coils as before
described.
In making up a triple-layered fabric, the intermediate spirals are alternately.
raised and set down above and below the plane of the alternate coils, and the
whole of the spirals are filled in with hollow, skeleton, solid or other core-coils,
The application of this invention to the formation of stripes or strengthening
bands or edges for body fabrics, sackings, bed bottoms, beltings, mats and the like

page_text: differs in no essential respect from its application to an edging for mattresses as
herein described.
Dated this 18th day of January 1895.
WILLIAM PARISH HOSKINS,
WILLIAM MARRIAN HOSKINS,
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicants.
We, WILLIAM PARISH HOSKINS trading as Hoskins and Sons, of Trinity
Street in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturer and WILLIAM MARRIAN
HOSKINS, also of Trinity Street, aforesaid, Manufacturer, 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 improvements in coiled wire fabrics or to the borders,
strengthening stripes or selvage edges of coiled wire fabrics for various purposes,
such for example as mattresses, bed bottoms, sackings, beltings, mats and other
analogous uses, and has for its object, to form a layered or laminar fabric.
In carrying out the production of a double layered or thickened strengthening
edging for mattresses according to one form of this invention, a strip or band of
wire fabric, made up of a series of plain intercoiled compound helices, is taken,
that is to say, a series of compound helices are simply intercoiled or picked up by
one another, forming a strip or breadth of fabric, made up of intermediate and
alternate compound spirals, which are individually or respectively made up of a
series of single helices, interwormed screw-wise one with another, or faggotted or
bundled together.
Now each of the said compound spirals forms, in itself, a carrier having a
thoroughfare passage through its middle, through which passage or shed, a hollow
cord-like core spiral, of an outside diameter about equal to the inside diameter of
the said shed, is threaded.
Assuming that the first, third, fifth and such odd numbered compound spirals are
the alternate ones, and the second, fourth sixth and other even numbered spirals
are the intermediate ones, and assuming that the alternate spirals are to come
undermost and that the intermediate ones are to come uppermost, then on threading
the cord-like core spirals up the sheds, declivities or thoroughfare-passages of the
said alternate spirals, the unfilled and intermediate compound spirals are forced
upwards, above the plane of the said alternate compound spirals, which are, by
such process, brought side-by-side and close together, with the intermediate spirals
lying immediately over, and breaking, the joint between them.
The hollow and intermediate upper spirals are then filled with like cord spirals
as the alternate ones, when. a double-layered edging is produced, with the compound
picked-up spirals filled with cord spirals or core cords.
In a further form of this invention, the body mesh is made up of single picked-up
or interlaced spirals, with the alternate or odd spirals brought close together or
side-by-side, whilst the intermediate spirals are elevated or set-down into a different
plane, and with both sets or layers of spirals filled in by core coils as before
described.
In making up a triple-layered fabric, the intermediate spirals are alternately
raised and set down above and below the plane of the alternate coils, and the whole
of the spirals are filled in with hollow skeleton, solid or other .core-coils.

page_text: The application of this invention to the formation of stripes or strengthening
bands or edges for body fabrics, sackings bed bottoms, beltings, mats and the like
differs in no essential respect from its application to an edging for mattresses as
herein described.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents in plan, a layered coiled wire
fabric edging such as herein-before described.
Figure 2 represents a. cross section of the same upon the dotted lines x-x-
Figure 1.
Figure 3 represents a section of a length of coiled wire fabric, prior to the same
being formed into an edging, strengthening stripe, layer or the like, and before the
alternate and intermediate coils, forming sheds, are filled with core coils or their
equivalent.
Figure 4 represents a cross section of a differently formed layered fabric, and so
also does Figure 5, which shows a fabric edging of four thicknesses, with the
double thicknesses united by union coils.
Figure 6 represents a compound spiral from which the fabric is made up and
Figure 7 shows one of the core coils, made up of small spirals infibulated with one-
another by screwing.
In Figures 1, 2 and 3, a is a body fabric, made up of a series of intercoiled
compound spirals a', and 6 is a thickened edging or a selvage formed of two layers
or strata of coiled spirals. This edging is formed from a breadth of body fabric
such as represented in Figure 3, (in which 6' are the alternate hollow coils and
c¹ the intermediate hollow coils,) by threading up the sheds or passages running
throughout the alternate coils 6', a series of cord spirals or core coils d, by which
the missed intermediate spirals are forced upwards, above the general plane of the
body fabric. These hollow intermediate spirals c', are now in turn filled with core
coils d', alike unto those lying within the alternate spirals, whereby the alternate
coils, are forced below the plane of the body fabric and the component cored
spirals of the edge are locked together in the position represented in Figure 3, and
with the respective members breaking joint with one another.
Or the layered border may be formed by the method herein before described in
which either the alternate or the intermediate spirals are first pulled up or set down,.
so as to make their centres follow a zig-zag line, whilst the fabric itself is contracted
in breadth to an extent equal to the shrinkage occasioned by the circuitous course
taken by the coils, which, when in this position, are filled with cord spirals or their
equivalents.
In Figure 4, the upper layer of coils c¹, are filled with two core coils e³, instead
of one as shown in the lower layer of coils.
In Figure 5, two similar double layers of spirals b¹, c', as in Figure 1, are jointed
together by two joining-up or union coils f,, at the front and a single union
coil at back. The other parts of this view are marked with the same letters of
reference as Figures 1 to 3.
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 layered or laminar coiled wire fabric, or edging for a coiled wire fabric,.
formed by taking a breadth of ordinary body fabric, made up of a series of inter-
coiled single or compound spirals, and threading or packing cord spirals or core
coils first through or within the sheds or thoroughfares of the alternate spirals, and
then through or within the sheds of the intermediate spirals, whereby the said
spirals are respectively forced below and above the plane of the body fabric, or the
alternate or intermediate spirals are forced above or below the plane of the body
fabric, substantially as described and set forth.
Secondly. A layered or laminar coiled wire fabric, or a layered edging for a
coiled wire fabric, made up by taking a breadth of ordinary coiled wire body mesh,.

page_text: and alternately pulling up and setting down the successive component spirals above
and below the plane of the said body mesh, and then threading up or packing
within the sheds or thoroughfare passages of the said spirals, cord spirals or core
coils, or their equivalents, substantially as described and set forth.
Dated this 19th day of September 1895.
WILLIAM PARISH HOSKINS,
WILLIAM MARRIAN HOSKINS,
By Henry Skerrett,.
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24 Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicants.
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