AN IMPROVED MATERIAL FOR USE IN LOOмS IN LIEU OF LEATHER STRAPS OR BANDS
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Wood, of Heywood, in the County of Lancaster,
Manufacturer, and Joseph Holding, of Manchester, in the same County,
Engineer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED MATERIAL FOR USE IN LOOмS
IN LIEU OF LEATHER STRAPS OR BANDS."
Sealed the 20th July 1877, and dated the 22nd January 1877.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Wood and Joseph
Holding at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 22nd January
1877.
"
RICHARD WOOD, of Heywood, in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturer, and
JOSEPH HOLDING, of Manchester, in the same County, Engineer. AN IMPROVED,
MATERIAL FOR USE IN LOOMS IN LIEU OF LEATHER STRAPS OR BANDS."
Our Invention relates to such appliances employed in looms for weaving as are
ordinarily termed picking bands, check straps, and heald bands or straps.
Previously to our said Invention the said appliances have been made of leather or
of partly tanned hide, and by means of their cost have been comparatively expensive
items in the cost of production of woven fabrics.
The object of our Invention is to obtain a cheaper substitute for the said
materials. To this end we make the said bands or straps of woven material.
In some or in all cases we treat the woven bands or straps with varnish or with
a strengthening and preservative composition. The said bands are by preference
woven of a suitable width in a similar manner as when manufacturing tapes. The
warp and weft are of a suitable nature to give the requisite strength to the fabric;
as for example the said warp and weft may each consist of a number of ends of
yarn slightly twisted together, such warp and weft for example as are used in the
inanufacture of cotton sail cloth; but linen or other yarn may be used as considered
to be most suitable.
Strips of sail cloth or of a suitably strong cloth or woven fabric may be treated
with varnish or preservative composition, but we prefer to weave the fabric in
strips of the required width, as herein-before indicated. We may provide the said
bands with eyelets for attachment to the parts of looms.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by the
said Richard Wood and Joseph Holding in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 21st July 1877.
"
RICHARD WOOD, of Heywood, in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturer, and
JOSEPH HOLDING, of Manchester, in the same County, Engineer. 'AN IMPROVED
MATERIAL FOR USE IN LOOMS IN LIEU OF LEATHER STRAPS OR BANDS."
Our Invention relates to such appliances employed in looms for weaving as are
ordinarily termed picking bands, check straps, and heald bands or straps.
Previously to our said Invention the said appliances have been made of leather
or of partly tanned hide, and by reason of their cost have been comparatively
expensive items in the cost of production of woven fabrics.
'
The object of our Invention is to obtain a cheaper substitute for the said
materials. To this end we make the said bands or straps of woven material.
In some or in all cases we treat the woven bands or straps with varnish or with
a strengthening and preservative composition. The said bands are by preference
woven of a suitable width in a similar manner as when manufacturing tapes. The
warp and weft are of a suitable nature to give the requisite strength to the fabric,
as for example the said weft and each end of the said warp may consist of a number
of ends of yarn slightly twisted together, such weft and warp for example as are
used in the manufacture of cotton sail cloth; but yarn made of hemp, flax,
wool, jute, or mixtures thereof, as considered to be most suitable. We have
found a material composed of a strong cotton warp and a twisted flax weft to
answer the indicated purpose very well.
Strips of sail cloth or of a suitably strong cloth or woven fabric may be treated
with varnish or preservative composition, but we prefer to weave the fabric in
strips of the required width, as herein-before indicated. We may provide the said
bands with eyelets for attachment to the parts of looms.
Having now fully set forth and indicated the nature of our said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is carried into effect, I would have it to be under-
stood in conclusion that we claim as secured to us by the herein-before mentioned
Letters Patent, the manufacture and employment of bands, substantially as and for
the purposes herein-before set forth and indicated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Wood, for myself and on behalf of
the said Joseph Holding, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twentieth
day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
seventy-seven.
Signed and sealed by the
said Richard Wood, in
the presence of
EDWARD K. DUTTON,
Agent to the Patentees,
3, Princess Street,
Manchester.
RICHARD WOOD. (L.S.)