Improvements in the Manufacture of Window or Bed Curtains and the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application. 22 d Nov., 1892-4ccepted, 31st Dec., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Window or Bed Curtains and
the like.
I WILLIAM SIMPSON of the firm of Simpson and Godlee of Deans Mill
Swinton near Manchester in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturer, 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:-
This invention relates chiefly to the manufacture of muslin window or bed
curtains blinds and the like having a drawn crimped, fluted or festooned appearance,
the principal objects of the invention being to weave the material in the loom in a
flat state so that it may be printed or otherwise ornamented, and can be made up
for storage and sale like any ordinary woven fabric but when required for use as a
curtain or blind it can be readily crimped, fluted, or festooned without any running
or sewing either by hand or otherwise, and can again be as readily flattened out for
washing or ironing or folded for storage.
According to my invention I insert at intervals in the warp (say for example
three, four, or more times in the width of the cloth) a strong thread or cord (or
more than one thread or cord may be inserted together) and I proceed to weave a
muslin or other open fabric in the loom with this compound warp.
The cloth thus produced can be printed or otherwise treated as a plain muslin
and when required to be made up into a window curtain or blind it is cut to the
necessary length (say about one third or more longer than the curtain is required)
and especial care is taken to secure all the strong threads or cords at one end.
Then by holding fast the other ends of the said strong thread, or cords the weft
threads can be caused to slide along these threads drawing up the fabric into
crimps, flutes, or festoons, which will have a highly ornamental appearance; the
ends of the strong threads may then be tied together in bunches or otherwise
secured, and the fabric will then retain its crimped, fluted, or festooned appearance.
When the curtains or blinds are required to be washed and ironed or folded up
for storage they can easily be flattened out by loosening the ends of the draw
threads or cords and sliding or pushing the weft threads back into their original
position thereby converting it again into an ordinary flat woven fabric.
I may also form the crimping threads of weft and slide the warp thereon, thereby
crimping the fabric in the direction of the warp.
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 :-
1. The improved fabric for window or bed curtains and the like woven with a
cord or cords of stronger yarn or weft upon which the cloth can be crimped
substantially as hereinbefore described.
2. The improved window or bed curtains or blinds manufactured substantially as
hereinbefore described.
21st day of November 1892.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.