Improvements in the Manufacture of Reversible Ingrain or Pro-Brussels Carpets.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Jan., 1889
Complete Specification Left. 24th Oct., 1889-Accepted, 30th Nov., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Reversible Ingrain or
Pro-Brussels Carpets.
We SAMUEL WOOD and GEORGE HENRY HEPPLESTON, of the Heckmondwike
Manufacturing Company Limited, of Crofts Mill, Heckmondwike, Yorkshire,
Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of our invention is to produce in a cheap fabric a close imitation of
Brussels carpets. As is well known, Brussels carpets have a pattern on both sides,
and it is our intention, in the manufacture of ingrain or pro-Brussels carpets, to
produce a pattern on both of its sides so as to make the carpet reversible.
In making a reversible pro Brussels or ingrain carpet according to our invention
we employ ingrain woollen or cotton warp manipulated or operated by the harness or
Jacquard. We also employ a fine cotton or linen warp, manipulated or operated by
the healds, such fine cotton or linen warp being employed to bind the weft into the
fabric; if, therefore, the fabric woven be two-ply, we throw the ingrain woollen or
cotton warp on the underside of the fabric according to pattern being woven, by
which means three colours are shewn on the fabric, two by the weft and one by
the ingrain warp, and if the fabric be a three ply carpet with the addition of the
ingrain warp thrown on the back four colours will be imparted to the carpet, and so
on, that is to say, by throwing the ingrain warp on the back of the fabric, one more
colour is given than the number of weft threads employed.
Thus the ingrain warp thread on the back of the fabric produces a substantial
pattern on both sides, whereby the carpet becomes reversible, the employment of the
said ingrain warp effecting the above purpose when thrown on the underside of the
fabric, as described.
Detal thi. 551100
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Halifax, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Reversible Ingrain or
Pro-Brussels Carpets.
We, SAMUEL WOOD and GEORGE HENRY HEPPLESTON, of the Heckmondwike
Manufacturing Company Limited, of Crofts Mill, Heckmondwike, Yorkshire,
Manufacturers, 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 :-
The object of our invention is to produce in a cheap fabric a close imitation of
Brussels carpets. As is well known, a Brussels carpet has a pattern on one of its sides
only, and it is our intention, in the manufacture of ingrain or pro-Brussels carpet, to
produce a pattern on both of its sides, so as to make the carpet reversible.
In making a reversible ingrain or pro-Brussels carpet according to our invention,
we form the pattern by means of the warp instead of the weft, as hitherto, and to
do this we employ ingrain woollen warp manipulated or operated by the harness or
Jacquard. We also employ a fine catch or binding warp manipulated or operated by
the gear or Jacquard harness, such fine catch warp being employed to bind the weft
into the fabric; if, therefore, the fabric woven be two-ply, we throw the ingrain
woollen or cotton warp on the under and on the upper face of the fabric according
to pattern being woven, by which means three colours are shewn on the fabric, two
by the weft and one by the ingrain warp, and if the fabric be a three-ply carpet,

page_text: with the addition of the ingrain warp thrown on each face of the fabric, then four
colours will be imparted to the carpet, and so on, that is to say, by throwing the
ingrain warp on both sides of the fabric one more colour is given than the number of
weft threads employed. Thus the ingrain warp thread, employed as above set forth,
produces a substantial pattern on both sides, whereby the carpet becomes reversible,
and this can be done whether the carpet be two, three, or other number of ply.
In order that our invention may be better understood, we will make reference
to the accompanying sheet of drawings wherein Fig. 1 is an enlarged cross section
of our improved carpet, which is a three-ply, that is to say, it is a carpet wherein
three shuttles are employed. a represents the weft threads, which may be composed
of any suitable fibre; and e are cotton or other fine warp threads, which are
employed for binding the weft together, whilst d and e represent the ingrain or
woollen warp, where it will be seen that the said ingrain warp is thrown on both sides
of the fabric, for the purpose of forming figures thereon. It will therefore be seen
that a carpet made according to Fig. 1 may have four colours, three colours produced
by the weft and one colour by the ingrain warp.
Fig. 2 shews a carpet made with two-ply, in which case only three colours may be
produced, two by the weft and one by the warp. It is therefore obvious that a carpet
made in the mauner above described, will have a corresponding pattern or figure on
both sides thereof, allowing such carpet to be reversed or to be used on both of
its sides.
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
The manufacture of a reversible ingrain or pro-Brussels carpet in the way described
nd shown in the drawings.