Improvements in the Manufacture of Pile Fabrics
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 4th May, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Feb, 1896-Accepted 7th Mar, 1996
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Improvements in the Manufacture of Pile Fabrics
I, JOSE REIXACH, a Managing Director of Lister & Co Ld, of Manningham
Mills, Bradford, in the County of Yoil, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows
In the Specification of a former Patent No 10675 of 1891 there is described the
manufacture of plush and similar pile fabrics as double pile fabrics woven face to
face in which very third pick in one or both grounds is not passed between the
ground warps but is made to lie on the inner face ground and the pile warps were
held by being passed first around a pick of one of the wefts held between the
ground warps then around the pick lying on the face of the ground and then
around a second pick of weft that is held between the ground warps
In such fabrics the picks of weft lying on the face of the ground are only tied to
the ground by the pile warps
According to my invention I improve the manufacture of such fabrics by causing
the pichs of weft which lie on the face of the ground (and which may be where the
warps are crossing or where they are floating) to be tied down on to the face of the
ground not only by the pile waip but also by additional binder wai ps-each
crossing of which is made to enclose all three wefts around which the pile warps
pass or to enclose only one of the wefts which are between the ground warps and
the weft that is outside the ground waips Or the wefts which lie on the face
may alone be held by ground warps and the other wefts be tied to the bach by
binders The pile threads are supported on one side by a ground warp and on the
other by a binder
Dated this 1th dow at Ma 1905
Improvements in the Manufacture of Pile Fabrics
1, JOSÉ REIXACH, a Managing Director of Lister & Co Ld, of Manningham
Mills, Bradford, in the County of York, 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
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The object of this invention is to improve the cloth produced when woven as
described in the Specification of the Patent No 10675 of 1891
In this Specification there is described the manufacture of plush and similar pile
fabrics as double pile fabrics woven face to face in which every third pick in one or
both grounds is not pa sed between the ground warps but is made to lie on the
inner face of the ground and the pile warps are held by being passed first around
a pick of one of the wefts held between the ground wars then around the pick
lying on the face of the ground and then around a eco d pick of weft that 18
held between the ground warps
In such fabrics the picks of weft lying on the face of the ground are only tied to
the ground by the pile warps
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page_text: According to my invention I improve the manufacture of such fabrics by binding
these picks of weft in addition to the ground by means of tie warps in such a way
as not to interfere with the appearance of the fabric and at the same time to render
the same more durable
H
igure 1 is a longitudinal section of one example of my improved weave shewing
the double cloth connected by the pile threads
Figure 2 is a modification of the same
Figure 3 is a plan of the face of the improved cloth shewing the tying-in of the
warps and pile
Figures 4 to 11 are longitudinal sections of other modifications
Referring to Figure 1 The pile threads E G are tied into the top piece by
the picks 1, 2 3, then into the bottom piece by the pich 4, 5, 9, 10, the pile
thread G which is drawn through the next dent as shewn in Figure 3 is tied into
the top piece by the picks 6, 7, 8 and into the bottom piece by the picks 9, 10, 4, ɔ
A A B B are the ground warp threads of the top piece and CD the tie or
binding warpe
A' A' B' B' are the ground warp threads of the bottom piece
In each piece the pile is held by preference between a pair of ground warp threads
as shewn in Figure 3, where the pile E is held between the warps B B and the
pile G between the warps A A In some cases however one of these ground warp
threads may be dispensed with and each pile thread have one ground warp on one
side of it and one tie warp on the other
For the bottom piece I may either employ the well-known 4-pick or "Utrecht"
weave as shewn in F₁me 1, and for the top piece my improved weave, or vice versa,
or I may employ my improved weave for both top and bottom pieces as shewn
in Figure 2
The picks 1, 3, 6, 8 (Figure 1) are bound by the back warp threads, A B and
the picks 2 and 7 are held to the ground by the tie warps C and D
The back or
ground warp threads are floated over two and under two picks missing the
picks 2 and
and the tie warps float over two and under four missing the picks 3
and 8
Figure 4 shows a modification in which the tie warps CD are floated over
three and under three picks, including all the picks, the ground warps being as
in Figure
In this case and also in the modifications shewn in Figures 5, 6 and 7 1 may
either weave one of the pieces the 4-pick or Utrecht weave as in Figure 1 or both
pieces alike as in Figure 4
Figure 5 shews another modification in which the tie warps C D float over the
back of the cloth for four picks and over the face for two picks
Figure 6 shews another modification in which the tie warps C D float over the
bach of the cloth for five picks and over the face for one pick
Figure 7 shews another modification in which the tie warps CD float over the
face of the cloth for five picks and over the back for one pick
It will be seen that in all the above modifications the ground warps remain the
same and enclose the picks 1, 3, 6, 8 the picks 2, 7 lay outside the warp thi cads
and are tied to the ground by the tie warp threads which float over three and
three, or four and two, or five and one picks of weft Figures 8 and 9 shew two
modifications in which one of the ground warps is dispensed with and the pile is
held by a ground warp on one side and a tie warp on the other Figures 10
and 11 shew other examples in which the weft that is not held between the ground
warps is situated where these warps are floating not where they cross
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
1 The manufacture of plush and similar pile fabrics as double pile fabrics
woven face to face in which every thid pick in one or both grounds is not passed
between the ground warps of that ground but is made to lie on its inner face and in

page_text: which the pile warps are held to that ground by being passed first around a pick
of one of the wefts held between the ground warps then around the pick lying on
the face of the ground and then around a second pick of weft lying between the
ground warps, and in which also the picks of weft lying on the face of the ground
are not only held to it by the pile warps but also by additional binder warps,
substantially as described
2 Double pile fabrics woven in the ways herein before described and shewn in
the drawings annexed