Improvements in the Manufacture of Ribbed Pile Fabrics.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Aug., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 20th May, 1891-Accepted, 27th June, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Ribbed Pile Fabrics.
I NAPOLEON HorwooD of 35 Napoleon View Elton Bury in the County of
Lancaster Weaving Manager do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
The object of this invention is to produce an ordinary "cord" with a firmer back
and better appearance than it is possible by the present method of manufacture.
Hitherto it has been customary to weave such cords with twelve ends to the
gaitover," and to draw two ends together in the healds and thus two ends are
always raised together.
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According to my invention I make the cords eighteen or twenty ends to the
"gaitover," thereby producing a nine or ten end cord. I also draw each warp end
separately in a heald excepting the face ends which are drawn in two in a heald
as usual, there being more strain put upon these ends in weaving.
Each warp end therefore being drawn through the heald separately will intersect
separately in weaving and a much firmer back is formed than was before possible
when the ends intersected in pairs.
Dated this 19th day of August 1890
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Ribbed Pile Fabrics.
I NAPOLEON HOPWOOD late of 35 Napoleon View Elton near Bury, but at
present of 18 Lower Green Astley near Manchester, in the County of Lancaster
Weaving Manager 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 :-
My invention relates to the manufacture of ribbed pile fabrics, known as cotton
cords or fustians such as are woven with broken twill backs commonly known in
the trade as "patent" cords or fustian and consists in a new system or method of
weaving the same whereby 1 am enabled to produce a stronger back and a better
appearance on the face or "cockle" as it is termed in the trade.
Hitherto it has been customary to weave such cords with twelve ends to the
"gait-over" and to draw two ends together in the healds, and thus two ends are
always raised together.
According to my invention I make the cords eighteen ends to the gait over
thereby producing a nine end cord.
I also draw each warp end separately in a heald excepting the face ends which
are drawn in two in a heald as usual there being more strain put upon those ends in
weaving.
By thus taking more ends to the "gait-over" and drawing the ends in as above
described I am enabled to obtain a much greater variety of intersections and each
warp end being drawn separately through its heald will intersect separately and a
much firmer back is formed than was before possible.
A number of methods or patterns may be adopted in carrying my invention into
practise, but for the sake of illustration I have annexed five diagrams or
patterns from which any competent weaver could make cloth according to my said
nvention.

page_text: No. 1 is a diagram of a cotton cord with a twill and calico back combined.
No. 2 is a similar cloth but picks 1. 4. and 7. float two ends.
No. 3 shows picks 1 and 10 floating four ends on the back for raising, 4 and 7
being calico picks.
No. 4 shows another cloth wherein picks 4 and 7. are also calico picks, 1 and 10
being only partly so.
No. 5 shows another modification of my method of weaving.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
The improved method of weaving cords or fustians with broken twill backs such
as are commonly known as "patent" cotton cords or fustians eighteen to the "gait-
over" (or a nine ended cord) the ends being drawn in substantially as hereinbefore
described.
Dated this 19th day of May 1891
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.