A NEW OR IMPROVED DESCRIPTION OF NET
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Benjamin Joseph Barnard Mills at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 5th November 1883. Commu-
nicated to him from abroad by François Marion of Rue Du Plâtre, Lyons in
the Republic of France.
BENJAMIN JOSEPH BARNARD MILLS of the firm of Harris and Mills of
23 Southampton Buildings in the County of Middlesex Patent Agent. A NEW
OR IMPROVED DESCRIPTION OF NET A communication to me from abroad by
François Marion of Rue du Plâtre, Lyons in the Republic of France
The new product constituting the subject of the present Invention is intended to
replace knotted net or tissues of large mesh in all their applications, such for
instance as for small or large fishery, hair nets, underclothing and for other purposes
This new kind of net is distinguished from those heretofore in use by the fact
that the threads which form the meshes are composed of two or more threads
plaited, braided, or twisted together during the manufacture of the net, and that
their junction takes place no longer by a knot, but by the crossing of the plaited
or braided threads or the plaiting or braiding of the twisted threads which compose
the two strands to be united.
The drawing hereunto annexed shows two types of net which can be thus
obtained.
In Figure 1 each strand A is composed of two threads 1. 2.-3. 4, simply twisted
together, their junction B is formed by the plaiting or braiding upon a length more
or less extended of the four threads which are united at this place, or by their
simple crossing as at B¹.
The strands A could be composed of a larger number of threads which would be
also plaited or braided or intercrossed at their point of union.
In Figure 2 each strand A is obtained by the plaiting or braiding of three
threads 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. and their union at B takes place by the intercrossing of
these same threads which recommence to plait or braid together immediately after
the crossing.
The strands A A could also be plaited or braided with more than three threads
which would intercross each other in the same manner at the point of union. .
Again by combining these two types there could be formed plaited or braided
strands of three ends for example and their point of union could be formed by
plaits or braids of six ends in the same manner as shown in the example Figure. 1.

page_text: Nets thus mado have the advantage of presenting no roughness, the meshes
cannot slide nor become deformed, they are manufactured mechanically upon
plaiting or braiding machines suitably modified
For that it is only necessary to vary in the required time the courses traversed by
the spools, to obtain successively the plaiting or braiding of the strands in the
desired order and number.
Thus in Figure 1 the threads 1. 2.-3. 4.-5. 6.-7. 8. are first plaited or braided
with two ends that is to say simply twisted together upon a length equal to the
side of the mesh, then the threads 1. 2. 3. 4-5. 6. 7. 8 are united and plaited or
braided with four ends upon a variable length as at B, or simply interlaced as at B'
and then continue to be twisted together, two by two upon a new length of mesh,
they are then united in reverse order 1. 2.-3. 4. 5. 6-7.8 to be again plaited or
braided or interlaced and so on.
In Figure 2 the threads are first plaited or braided with three ends upon a
length equal to the side of the mesh, then each group of spools changing place
with its neighbour, the threads become interlaced and continue to be plaited or
braided separately by advancing from one side of each mesh to the selvage where
they return in the reverse order.
The threads could also be crossed as at B' by dividing the first plait or braid
into two parts one of which follows the plaiting or braiding from the right and
the other that from the left, then the spools in place of travelling progressively
from one selvage to the other will return to their position every second mesh.