IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CORDS OR ROPES
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Leedham Binns, of Grove House, Oakenshaw, Low Moor,
near Bradford, in the County of York, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CORDS OR ROPES."
Sealed the 13th April 1877, and dated the 20th October 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Leedham Binns at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th October 1876.
LEEDHAM BINNS, of Grove House, Oakenshaw, Low Moor, near Bradford, in the
County of York. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CORDS OR ROPES."
The Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of cords or
ropes for both useful and ornamental purposes. For this purpose I proceed in a
similar manner and employ machinery or apparatus of a similar character to that
shown and described in the Specification of former Letters Patent, granted to me
dated March 20, 1875, No. 1037, except that according to my present Invention I
make a cord or rope with a core consisting of a cord or rope constructed as described
in my said Specification, or consisting of one or more cords or ropes made in any
well known manner and cover the same with strands of material in a similar
manner to that described in my said Specification for covering the centre portion of
the core of the rope or cord, and I then wrap, twist, plait, or braid a binding pro-
tecting or ornamental exterior thereon. A rope or cord thus produced may be
again covered in a similar manner, and so on any desired number of times, by which
means it may be built up to any desired size and may have any desired external
appearance, whilst the interior thereof may be made of any suitable material as to
strength, color, or quality.
When plaiting or braiding a covering material around the core of the cord or
rope I employ the well known plaiting or braiding mechanism.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Leedham Binns in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 19th April
1877.
LEEDHAM BINNS, of Grove House, Oakenshaw, Low Moor, near Bradford, in the
County of York. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CORDS OR ROPES."
The Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of cords or
ropes for both useful and ornamental purposes. For this purpose I proceed in a
similar manner and employ machinery or apparatus of a similar character to that
shown and described in the Specification of former Letters Patent, granted to me
dated March 20, 1875, No. 1037, except that according to my present Invention
I make a cord or rope with a core consisting of a cord or rope constructed as
described in my said Specification, or consisting of one or more cords or ropes made
in any well known manner and cover the same with strands of material in a similar
manner to that described in my said Specification for covering the centre portion of
the core of the rope or cord, and I then wrap, twist, plait, or braid a binding pro-
tecting or ornamental exterior thereon. A rope or cord thus produced may be
again covered in a similar manner, and so on any desired number of times, by which
means it may be built up to any desired size and may have any desired external
appearance, whilst the interior thereof may be made of any suitable material as to
strength, color, or quality.
In the accompanying Drawings Figure 1 represents an ornamental cord con-
structed according to my Invention. In this case the centre of the cord or rope
consists of a cord formed of a number of fine strands a, having wrapped around
them a binding material b preferably soft and pliable. This cord a, b, is then
covered with strands of material c of any desired color and quality and binding,
protecting, or ornamental strands d are then wrapped or twisted around the same
by the means described in my said Specification. It will be seen that the binding
and protecting materials b, d, are each wrapped around the cord in only one
direction, but in contrary directions to each other. The binding, protecting, or
ornamental strands & may be of any desired material and color or combinations of
materials and colors, and instead of being wrapped or twisted in only one direction
around the cord or rope it may consist of two sets of strands and be wrapped or
twisted around the cord or rope in contrary directions to each other, or an orna-
mental exterior may be plaited or braided around the same.
Figure 2 represents another cord or rope constructed according to my present
Invention. In this case the core consists of a cord or rope formed of strands a,
bound together by two sets of binding or protecting strands b wrapped or twisted
around the same in contrary directions to each other. This core is then covered
with strands of material c which are bound around the same by two sets of binding
or protecting strands & wrapped or twisted around the same in contrary directions to
each other. The entire (a, b, c, d,) is then treated as a core, and it is covered with
strands of material e which are bound thereon by two sets of binding or protecting
strands wrapped or twisted around the same in contrary directions to each other.
The materials a, b, c, d, are preferably soft and pliable, in order to make the com-
pleted cord or rope as pliable as possible, whilst the covering material e and binding
or protecting material f, are of quality to stand the wear and tear to which the
cord or rope is liable. When plaiting or braiding a covering material around the
core of the cord or rope, I employ the well known plaiting or braiding mechanism.
In carrying my Invention into effect, the several covering and binding or pro-
tecting materials may be applied to the core in succession in the same machine, in
which case the machine would be provided with as many sets of parts as would be
required to complete the construction of the cord or rope, or after one set of covering
and binding or protecting strands had been applied to a core, the cord or rope thus
formed may be conducted to another machine where the operation may be repeated,
and so on as often as may be required.

page_text: Having thus described the nature of my said Invention and the mode in which I
carry the same into effect, I would have it understood that what I claim is the
manufacture of cords or ropes for both ornamental and useful purposes, by building
the same up in manner subtantially, as herein shown and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Leedham Binns, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Sixteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and seventy-seven.
LEEDHAM BINNS. (L.S.)