A METHOD OF LINING TUBULAR FABRICS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF HOSE FOR HYDRAULIC OR OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1884

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I, PETER JENSEN of 33 Chancery Lane in the County of Middlesex Fellow of
the Institute of Patent Agents do hereby declare the nature of said invention for
"A METHOD OF LINING TUBULAR FABRICS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF HOSE FOR
HYDRAULIC OR OTHER PURPOSES (a communication to me from abroad by John
Van Dussen Reed of Barclay Street in the City, County and State of New York
United States of America Gentleman) and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
Prior to this invention tubular fabrics have been lined by first weaving the
fabric and then drawing the lining through it, or else by weaving the fabric
directly upon the lining. This invention consists in feeding and supplying the
lining to the fabric cotemporaneously with its manufacture, and differs from either
of the above described methods in this that it is not necessary to have the lining in
contact with the fabric as in the method last above described, and differs from the
method first above described in that the lining is within the fabric during the
process of its manufacture.
In the drawings: Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of so much of a loom as
is necessary to show my method of lining tubular fabrics.
Figure 2 is a plan view of the same.
Figure 3 is an end view of the lining within the mouth of a former.
Figure 4 shows a perspective view of a piece of the lining.
In the lining of tubular fabrics as hereinafter described I prefer to employ the
loom for which Letters Patent No 3532 dated 20th September 1877 were granted
to A. M. Clark as a communication from B. L. Stowe, but any other loom upon
which tubular fabrics are woven into which a lining may be inserted will answer
my purpose.
In the drawings A is a hollow former at the mouth of which A¹ the fabric B is
woven. C is the lining. D D are rollers for taking up the product as the
operation of weaving progresses.

page_text: I will now proceed to describe this invention. The loom being prepared for
weaving, I conduct from a coil of lining (either suspended above the loom as shown
in the drawing (or otherwise conveniently arranged in relation thereto) the free
end of the coil into the cup or former A and commence the operation of weaving
the fabric, and as the woven fabric is drawn or taken away from the former or cup
by means of the take-up mechanism as shown in the drawing, or by other suitable
device, I feed the lining into the interior of the tubular fabric so woven either by
drawing it down by means of the take-up mechanism (the end of the lining being
for that purpose connected therewith) or by any other method of supplying the
feed. It will thus be seen that the tubular fabric leaves the loom with its lining
within ready for such further treatment or manipulation as may be requisite or
necessary to cause the lining to fit or adhere to the inner surface of the fabric.
The lining is not distended during the weaving of the fabric tube, but is rud
into the fabric flat or collapsed in any form which it might naturally assume or
conveniently be made to assume.
In Figure 4 of the drawings, I have shown the lining as a flattened or collapsed
tube a form which it frequently assumes or conveniently may be made to assume
and in this shape I prefer to feed it into the fabric; the lining tube, by reason of
its width when collapsed being greater than the diameter of the tubular fabric is
curved for that purpose as shown in Figures 1, 2 and 3 and lying loosely within
the fabric tube.
The hose so made may be subjected to the usual steaming process after it leaves
the knitting machine for the purpose of causing the lining to adhere to the fabric
tube, and it is upon such or other secondary process that I rely to cause the size
and form of the lining to conform to that of the fabric (and not upon a mandril or
any other body or substance conveyed into the tube during the manufacture in the
loom).
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim as the invention communicated to me is
First: The method of manufacturing lined woven hose or tubular fabrics which
consists in leading or feeding a lining tube within the fabric during the process of
its manufacture such lining tube to be inserted in a flattened collapsed or other
shape which such tube is liable to assume (when not subjected to arbitrary
expansion by means of a mandril or some other body or substance within such
lining tube) and subsequently subjecting the hose to a secondary process for
causing the lining tube to adhere to the fabric tube substantially as set forth.
Second-Feeding a collapsed tube into the interior of a tubular fabric during
the process of weaving the fabric tube, for the purpose of forming a lining for the
fabric tube, substantially as described.
Third. Lining a tubular fabric by weaving the fabric about a tubular lining fed
into the interior of the fabric tube during the process of weaving, without inflation
or distension of the lining tube substantially as described.
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