IMPROVEMENTS IN FIGURE-WEAVING MACHINERY FOR FIGURED RIBANDS AND CRAVATS
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Arthur Charles Henderson, of 6, Southampton Buildings,
Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN FIGURE-WEAVING MACHINERY FOR FIGURED RIBANDS AND
CRAVATS." A communication from abroad by Emile Lançon, Manufacturer, of
Lyon, in the Department of Rhone, in the Republic of France.
Sealed the 10th January 1879, and. dated the 26th August 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Arthur Charles Henderson at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 26th August 1878.
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ARTHUR CHARLES HENDERSON, of 6, Southampton Buildings, Holborn, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent. "IMPROVEMENTS IN FIGURE-WEAVING
MACHINERY FOR FIGURED RIBANDS AND CRAVATS." A communication from
abroad by Emile Lançou, Manufacturer, of Lyon, in the Department of Rhone, in
the Republic of France.
In the manufacture of ribauds and cravats pole threads are used. They are
obliged to be separated either with scissors, knife, or otherwise, which often undoes
the threads.
The subject of the present Invention is an improvement in figure-weaving
machines used in the manufacture of figured ribands or cravats, and with fixed,
straight or round selvages, such as is made with the bar or small-ware.loom.
This figure weaver is or may be applied to any weaving machine by aid of 'cramps
or some equivalent fixed to the blades of the lay.
In making these cravats and ribands one piece is arranged above and the other
below, and resting one beside the other.
The apparatus consists of a series of racks united together by hooks and stops.
The right and left racks are united by traverses, and are worked with the saine
handle. The shuttle guides are actuated by the racks by means of pinions. Each
shuttle bears two cops furnished with springs. The upper shuttles are plain; the
lower ones hollow, and bear the bobbins internally. Conductors accompany the
ground weft, and a bar, on which are fixed the standards, bears the hooks destined
to receive the weft to prevent hooking.
Each rack contains two shades, which work one after the other by aid of a
hooking device fixed in the centre of the shuttle. With four racks eight shades are
made; and with five, ten shades, and so on.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Arthur Charles Henderson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
23rd January 1879.
ARTHUR CHARLES HENDERSON, of 6, Southampton Buildings, Holborn, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent. "IMPROVEMENTS IN FIGURE-WEAVING
MACHINERY FOR FIGURED RIBANDS AND CRAVATS." (A communication from
abroad by Emile Lançon, Manufacturer, of Lyon, in the Department of Rhone, in
the Republic of France.
The subject of the present Invention is a batten adapted to the broad cloth
looms, and is connected thereto by the fly. Its object is to do away with the pole
or jupe threads used in these looms for making anything of the nature of ribbons
or cravats, and in substituting for the jupe a round or bead edge, as woven in the
"a-la-barre" looms.
The advantages of this system are that the necessity of cutting the jupe threads
are obviated by the use of my batten, one of whose characteristic features is that
any article of the nature of a cravat or ribbon can be woven thereby, whilst at
the same time each article may be simultaneously made of a different hue or
colour.
This batten is so arranged that any number of shuttles may be used, each one
containing a different colour, and by one simple action, produced by the movement
of a handle, a series of shuttles are moved in the upper row, and a corresponding
number in the lower row, the shuttles being placed in an inverted position in the
batten, that is to say, the upper series or row of shuttles occupies a position opposed
to the lower set or series of shuttles by being inverted, and their action being such
that on operating on any one of the handles to the right a left-hand motion of one
set of shuttles is produced, and vice versa for a left-hand motion of the handles.
This movement is produced by denticulated sliding bars acting on pinions fixed in
the shuttle boxes, which pinions work in the shuttles; themselves-being-toothed..
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In order to prevent a confusion of colours by entanglement a movable bar is
placed at the lower part and rear of the batten, bearing a number of vertical metal
bars, and in whose centres are placed wire guides. This mechanism is worked by
means of levers connected with the fly in such manner that by pushing the fly from
you an automatic action of the batten is produced, causing a descent of the wire
guides, and thereby allowing of the passage of the next shuttle without entangling
the other threads.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying Drawings represents a top view of the batten.
Fig. 2, part of the batten, showing the position of the lower shuttles.
Fig. 3 is a front and inverted view of the batten; Fig. 4 is a transverse section
of the same; and Fig. 5, the same as seen from beneath.
A, series of shuttle racks or bars capable of working conjointly or independently
by means of books a and stops h, the latter being so disposed at the top of the batten
as to limit the stroke of the shuttles, the stops or checks arresting the further progress
of the handles right and left, and consequently regulating the stroke of the shuttles
by this means.
The Drawings here represent the batten as having six shuttles as forming a series
or row, but a greater or less number may be employed, as required.
B, B, B1, B¹, are both shuttle boxes and guides, the shuttles, as before mentioned,
being actuated by means of racks and pinions in conjunction with the handle with
which any one of the sets or series of shuttles communicates. C are the shuttles,
each one bearing two quills, each quill having a different colour, as required; these
quills are supplied with spring tongues f. D are the conductors accompanying the
ground weft. E is the bar bearing the uprights i supporting the wires e intended
to receive the weft and prevent entanglement of the threads.
C
Should there not be sufficient space when the fly is brought to the cloth to

page_text: allow of the wires working freely, this may be remedied by bending down these
wires.
e are the buttons fixed on the shuttles to hold the threads that are not working.
1, handle for working the rack bearing the shuttles containing the ground weft.
2, 3, and 4 are the handles for communicating motion to the other sets or series of
shuttles.
In weaving coloured brochees the ground pick is moved twice, thereby throwing
two picks of ground; then the tissue follows, which, if employing 3 series or sets of
shuttles, is worked thus by the handles 2, 3, 4, to the right, and 2, 3, 4, to the left,
so that before again weaving the ground weft the tissue colours have gone twice
across the scarf. By this action the tissue shuttles interlock; the handles will then
have returned to their normal position.
The handles may be indifferently used, that is to say, they may be used
individually, or conjointly, or in any manner that may be deemed suitable or con-
venient.
The batten is connected to the fly by adjusting screws, and when properly adjusted
is fixed below by screws.
In witness whereof, I, the said Arthur Charles Henderson, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine.
A. C. HENDERSON. (L.S.)