provements in the Manufacture of Figured Quilts, Toilet Covers, and other similar Fabrics.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Nov., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 18th Jan., 1890-Accepted, 22nd Feb., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Improvements in the Manufacture of Figured Quilts, Toilet Covers,
and other similar Fabrics.
We CLARANCE BRAZIL and JABEZ EDWARD JOHNSON-FERGUSON both of Moor Mills
Bolton in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
The object of the improvement is to weave a raised weft figure, on a fine warp
ground, in a new and improved manner.
The loom is gaited with the customary back and face warps, which are woven
with the usual tight set or weight on-the back warp, and slack weight on the face
warp. The warps are entered alternately two and three in a dent of the reed, or three
and four in a dent of the reed, or they may be entered only three ends in a dent.
The back warp is entered either one or two in the dent of the reed, or it may be
entered alternately one and two in a dent of the reed, and is drawn in through a
"mountain" with two or more camber boards-to-act as lifters to the warp, and is tiod
up or gaited to one or more Jacquard machines. The back warp may also be entered
in alternate dents, one and two in a dent of the reed. The face warp is entered in
alternate dents of the reed, one in a dent and two in a dent and the whole face warp
is drawn in through three face healds. The weft is woven two picks coarse weft
and two picks fine weft, and the pattern is complete in twelve picks in the rotation
given below. A similar effect can be produced by weaving the cloth with only one
shuttle, in place of two shuttles, but the effect is not so good.
The following is the mode in which the cloth is woven, with the order in which
the Jacquard machine and the lifting cumber-boards are used, and the face healds
risen, also the progression of the picks in weaving-the two shuttle cloth.
First pick coarse weft with machine up and the first face heald up.
Second pick coarse weft with machine up and the third face heald up.
Third pick fine weft with machine down and the first cumber board up and the
third face heald up.
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Fourth pick fine weft with machine down and the second cumber board up and the
second face heald .up.
Fifth pick coarse weft with machine up and the second face heald up.
Sixth pick coarse weft with machine up and the first face heald
up.
Seventh pick fine weft with machine down and the first cumber board up and
the first face heald up.
Eighth pick fine weft with machine down and the second cumber board up and the
third face heald up.
Ninth pick coarse weft with machine up and the third face heald up.
Tenth pick coarse weft with machine up and the second face heald up.
Eleventh pick fine weft with machine down and first cumber board up and second
face heald up.
Twelfth pick fine weft with machine down and the second cumber board up and
the first face heald up.
Dated this 7th day of November 1889.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Figured Quilts, Toilet Covers,
and other similar Fabrics.
We CLARANCE BRAZIL and JABEZ EDWARD JOHNSON-FERGUSON both of Moor Mills
Bolton in the County of Lancaster, 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 these improvements is to weave a raised weft figure on a fine warp
ground, in a new and improved manner so as to produce a finer appearance in the
raised weft figure, and our invention and the manner of carrying the same into
practical effect will be readily understood from the following description and the
annexed diagram.
The loom is gaited with the customary back and face warps and is woven with the
usual tight set or weight on the back warp and slack set or weight on the
face warp.
The warps are drawn in or entered in the reed, two ends and three ends alternately
or by preference three ends and four ends to the dent alternately, or they may be
drawn in or entered three or preferably four ends to the dent of the reed. The back
warp is drawn in or entered one or two ends to the dent, or may be entered three
ends and two ends (or two ends and one end) alternately to the dent of the reed, and
is drawn in through a mountain, with two or more cumberboards to act as lifters to
the warp, and is tied up or gaited to one or more Jacquard machines. The face warp
is drawn in or entered through alternately one end in a dent and two ends in a dent
of the reed; and the whole face warp is drawn in through the face healds, which may
be divided either on two, three, or four staves, though on the diagram we only shew
three staves which is our customary number to use.
The weft is woven two picks coarse weft and two picks fine weft, and the pattern
would be complete in our diagram on twelve picks.
The following is the mode in which the cloth is woven from our diagram with
the order in which the healds, cumber-boards and Jacquard machines and shuttle
boxes are raised by the tappets.
PROGRESSION OF THE PICKS OF WEFT.
First pick, coarse weft, with machine up, and the first face heald up.
Second pick coarse weft with machine up and the third face heald up.
Third pick fine weft with machine down and the first cumber board up and the
third face heald up.
Fourth pick fine weft with machine down and the second cumber board up and
the second face heald up.
Fifth pick coarse weft with machine up, and the second face heald up.
Sixth pick coarse weft with machine up, and the first face heald up.
Seventh pick fine weft with machine down and the first cumber-board up and the
first face heald up.
Eighth pick fine weft with machine down, and the second cumberboard up, and
the third face heald up.
Ninth pick coarse weft with machine up, and the third face heald up.
Tenth pick coarse weft with machine up, and the second face heald up.
Eleventh pick fine weft with machine down, and the first cumber-board up, and the
second face heald up.
Twelfth pick fine weft with machine down and the second cumberboard up, and
the first face heald up.
This principle of using in every alternate dent of the reed an extra end from one
or both warps (face and back) in conjunction with our mode of weaving as above
described will produce a much finer appearance in the figure than has hitherto been
obtained.

page_text: 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
First. The improvements in the manufacture of figured quilts toilet covers and
similar fabrics consisting in the mode of drawing in or entering in the warps, in
conjunction with the manner in which the cloth is woven substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated by the annexed diagram.
Secondly. Figured quilts toilet covers or similar fabrics manufactured in the
manner above described.
Dated this 16th day of January 1890.
GEORGE DAVIES,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agent for the Applicants.