Improvements in the Manufacture of Reversible Ingrain or Pro-Brussels Carpets
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Jan., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 16th Oct., 1890-Accepted, 20th Dec., 1890
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, Heckmondwik, Yorkshire, Manu-
facturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of our invention is to manufacture, in a cheap fabric, a closer imitation
of Brussels carpets. An ordinary Brussels carpet is made with a pattern on one of
its sides only, but it is our intention, in the manufacture of ingrain or pro-Brussels
carpets, to produce a pattern on both sides thereof, so as to make the carpet
reversible.
In manufacturing a reversible ingrain or pro-Brussels carpet according to our
present invention, we form the pattern by means of the warp and weft combined, and
to do this we use any suitable ingrain warp operated by the harness or jacquard of
the loom. In combination with ingrain warp, we employ a fine catching or binding
warp operated by the gear or jacquard harness of the loom; such fine catching warp
being used to bind the weft into the fabric, therefore if the fabric be woven what is
called two-ply, we throw the ingrain warps on both the under and upper surfaces of
the fabric according to pattern being woven, by which means four colours are shewn
on the said fabric, two being produced by the weft and two by the ingrain warps;
but more than four colours can be produced on each side by multiplying the number
of coloured wefts and warps employed. If the fabric woven be a three-ply, with the
addition of the ingrain warps thrown on each face of the fabric, then five or more
colours would be imparted to the carpet, as any number of colours can be used to
form a given pattern by planting or arranging the colours in the warp, and the
remaining colours by the wefts, and so on; thus the ingrain warp thread, together
with the weft, employed as above set forth, produces an effective pattern on both sides
of the carpet; consequently it becomes reversible; and this can be accomplished,
whether the carpet woven be two, three, or other number of ply.
Dated this 15th day of January 1800
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 Croft Mills, 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 manufacture in a cheap fabric, a closer imitation
of Brussels carpets. An ordinary Brussels carpet is made with a pattern on one of
ts sides only, but it is our intention, in the manufacture of ingrain or pro-Brussels
carpets, to produce a pattern on both sides thereof, so as to make the carpet
reversible.
In manufacturing a reversible ingrain or pro-Brussels carpet according to our
resent invention, we form the pattern by means of the warp and weft combined, and
o do this, we use any suitable ingrain warp operated by the harness or jacquard of

page_text: the loom. In combination with ingrain warp, we employ a fine catching or binding
warp operated by the gear or jacquard harness of the loom; such fine catching warp
being used to bind the weft into the fabric, therefore if the fabric be woven what
is called two-ply, we throw the ingrain warps on both the under and upper sur-
faces of the fabric, as well as in between the weft, according to pattern being
woven, by which means four colours are shewn on both sides of the said fabric,
two being produced by the weft and two by the ingrain warps; but more than
four colours can be produced upon each side by multiplying the number of
coloured wefts and warps employed. If the fabric woven be a three-ply (with the
addition of the ingrain warps thrown on each face of the fabric) then five or
more colours would be imparted to the carpet, as any number of colours can be
used to form a given pattern by planting or arranging the colours in the warp,
and the remaining colours by the wefts, and so on; thus the ingrain warp thread,
together with the weft, employed as above set forth, produces an effective pattern
on both sides of the carpet, consequently it becomes reversible; and this can be
accomplished whether the carpet woven be two, three, or other number of ply.
In order that our invention may be better understood, we will now make reference
to the accompanying sheets 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, each carrying a differently coloured weft. a represents
the weft threads, which may be composed of any suitable fibre; b and c 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
each ingrain warp, besides lying between the weft, 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 will shew five colours,-three colours produced
by the weft and two colours produced by the ingrain warp.
Fig. 2 shews a carpet made with two ply, in which case only four colours will be
produced, two by the weft and two by the ingrain warp. It is therefore obvious that
à carpet made in the manner 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.
Fig. 3 also shews a two-ply carpet, but in this case six colours are produced,
i.e., two colours by the weft and four colours by the ingrain warp marked d, d, e, and e¹,
the warp being so manipulated by the harness as to make the carpet reversible and
having a corresponding pattern or figure on both 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 where each
ingrain warp thread is thrown on both sides of the carpet, in addition to lying
between the weft threads, as herein described and shewn in the drawings.
Dated this 15th da
1000
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Huddersfield and Halifax, Agents for Applicants.
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Huddersfield and Halifax, Agents for Applicants.