Improvements in and relating to the Manufacture of Crinkled Textile Fabrics.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 25th July, 1894-Accepted, 25th Aug., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to the Manufacture of Crinkled
Textile Fabrics.
WILLIAM PICKSTONE of Todd Street Higher Broughton Manchester
Manufacturer and ANDREW GREENHALGH The Oaks Radcliffe near Manchester
Bleacher do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
The invention has for its object the production of crinkled textile fabrics by an
improved process of manufacture which is effected through the crinkling or
contracting properties possessed by highly twisted yarns.
In the carrying out of our invention a warp or weft or both is employed of two or
more classes of yarn. Thus our warp or weft being composed in part of a uniform or
ordinary make of cotton, linen, woollen or silk yarn will have intervening threads
or ends having a sufficient degree of twist to cause it to curl and contract the
fabric into which it is woven. In some cases the employment of such extra twisted
yarn will necessitate special treatment in the dressing or sizing process so that the
extra twisted threads may be kept stretched until sized or dressed and then woven
in the ordinary way.
In the process of finishing the size contained in the warp or weft or both or
either being removed or taken out allows the extra twisted ends or threads to
contract or shrink and in so doing draws up crinkles or puckers the cloth or fabric
producing various effects according to the manner and position in which the extra
and variously twisted threads are put into the fabric of the cloth. The cloth so
made may be finished in various ways and is adaptable for dress goods towelling
and other uses.
Dated this 2nd day of April 1894.
W. PICKSTONE.
ANDREW GREENHALGH.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to the Manufacture of Crinkled
Textile Fabrics.
We, WILLIAM PICKSTONE, of Todd Street, Higher Broughton, in the County
of Lancaster, Manufacturer, and ANDREW GREENHALGH, of Radcliffe, in the
said county, Bleacher, 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 is designed to produce a cloth or textile fabric with a crinkled
or puckered surface, either cotton, woollen, linen or silk.
It consists essentially in interweaving with yarn of ordinary character other
yarn either weft or warp or both with an extra or extraordinary amount of twist
which in the subsequent finishing or dressing possesses the quality of contracting
or shrinking and thus drawing up the fabric and crinkling or puckering its
surface.
In carrying out the invention we employ two qualities or classes of yarn, one
the ordinary yarn of commerce with the usual amount of twist and the other a
tightly twisted yarn, or twisted to an extra or extraordinary degree. These two
yarns we weave together to form the fabric.

page_text: This extra or highly twisted yarn we at present prefer to employ as warp and
use it alternately with threads of the ordinary yarn, or we may use a greater or
less number of threads as desired. It may also, instead of or in addition to
employing it with the warp, be employed as a weft yarn, alternating it or
employing it in any desired proportion with ordinary weft yarn.
In the course of weaving this highly twisted yarn may be woven in plain to
appear all on one face of the cloth or by means of jacquards or dobbies may be
woven in, in any desired pattern, or first on one side and then on the other side of
the cloth.
It is necessary to keep the highly twisted yarn fully stretched until dressed or
sized.
To produce a variety of cloth we may employ a number of yarns of different
degrees of twist some of which will shrink or contract more than others all woven
into the same fabric for instance yarn with less twist may be employed in the weft
.than in the warp.
?
The fabric so produced will thus have intervening threads or ends having a
sufficient degree of twist to cause it to curl or contract the fabric into which they
are woven.
In the process of finishing the cloth the size contained in the extra twisted yarns
will be removed allowing these threads then to contract or shrink and in so doing
the surface of the cloth is drawn up into crinkles or puckers. Various effects,
designs, or patterns are produced according to the manner and position in which
the extra and variously twisted threads are put in the fabric of the cloth.
•
The cloth so woven may be finished in various ways and is adaptable for dress
goods, towelling and other uses.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
"we claim is :-
1. The method of manufacturing cloth with a crinkled or puckered surface bý
interweaving threads of highly or extra twisted yarn.
2. A cloth or fabric with a crinkled or puckered surface produced by inter-
weaving threads of highly twisted yarn with threads of ordinary yarn substantially
as described.
Dated this 24th day of July 1894.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents.