Improved Web or Fabric for and Method of Darning Cotton, Woollen, and other Woven and Knitted Materials.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Jan., 1895-Accepted, 2nd Feb., 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Web or Fabric for and Method of Darning Cotton,
Woollen, and other Woven and Knitted Materials.
I JOHN HENRY SINCLAIR RUSSELL, of 39, Mountjoy Square, in the City of
Dublin, Barrister-at-Law, 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 relates to improvements in the method of darning woollen, cotton,
and other woven and knitted fabrics, and has for its object to render the darning of
socks, stockings, vests and other knitted or woven articles simple and quick, and to
produce more durable, neat and satisfactory work than heretofore.
By my invention, the necessity of crossing the threads over the hole in the article
being darned, is obviated and also the said article is prevented from becoming
puckered and drawn out of shape during the process of darning same.
According to this my invention, I form a web consisting of a number of parallel
threads, joined at convenient intervals by transverse single or double threads, the
ends of which are woven to the outside parallel threads aforesaid.
And in order that the said invention may be the more readily understood and
carried into effect, I have shewn same by the accompanying sheet of illustrative
drawings, wherein :
Fig. 1 shews a piece of a web or fabric formed in accordance with my
invention,
Fig. 2 being a view of the under or wrong side of a piece of material shewing
the manner in which a hole in same is darned according to my invention,
while
Fig. 3 is a view of the upper or right side of the piece of material shewn with the
hole therein darned.
Referring to the drawings I have therein shewn a strip of the web or fabric
which consists of a number of long fine woollen, silken or other threads a arranged
parallel with one another and at short intervals apart.
At convenient intervals, short transverse threads bare woven through the long
main threads a, such threads being passed alternately over and under the
threads a, the ends of the said threads & being woven, or secured in
any suitable
manner to, two or more of the threads a at either side of the web or fabric, as
shewn at a¹.
By this means a piece of the web or fabric, sufficient for immediate needs, can be
cut from the strip, without the thread a of either the said piece or the main strip
unravelling, as shewn by Fig. 2.
In use a piece of the web or fabric is cut from the strip and tacked to the under
or wrong side of the article or material d to be darned, over the hole in same, an
ordinary darning needle threaded with woollen, silk, cotton, or other thread c
(according to the nature of the material being darned), then being passed
transversely over and under the alternate threads a and b, taking in a small portion
of the material d around the hole in same until the latter is completely filled in,
(Fig. 3) the superfluous portion of the web or fabric then being cut off close to where
the transverse threads c terminate, the result being a perfect darn thereby rendering
the material so darned, as strong and serviceable as it originally was.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
:-
1. The improved web or fabric for, and method of, darning cotton, woollen and
other woven and knitted materials, substantially as described and illustrated.
2. The web or fabric for darning purposes, formed by weaving at intervals
through a number of long parallel threads, short transverse threads, secured at their
ends to two or more of said long parallel threads, substantially as, and for the
purpose, specified and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 2nd day of January 1895.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23, Coleman Street, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.