Improvements in Ribbon, and in the Manufacture of the same.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 27th June, 1894-Accepted, 6th Oct., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Ribbon, and in the Manufacture of the same.
I, GEORGE CAREY FRANKLIN, of 20 Earl Street, Coventry, in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention has for its object improvements in ribbon and in the manufacture
of the same by which I produce a ribbon having a figured face upon the one side
with a plain satin face, or a face of any other plain fabric such as faille, twill,
ottoman &c., on the other or reverse side, thus forming a direct contrast in the two
sides both in appearance, texture and color.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried
into practise I have appended hereunto a double sized sheet of drawings upon
which I have shown in diagram the mode of and means for carrying my said
improvements into effect.
Figure 1, is a diagram cross section through the shuttles, slay and harness of a
ribbon loom with the weaving of the figured side of the ribbon in course of
operation.
Figure 2, is a similar cross section to Figure 1 but with the weaving of the plain
face side in this case a satin-of the ribbon in the course of operation.
In carrying my invention into effect I form my ribbon with a figured face upon
the one side which figuration or ornamentation may be varied to any extent either
as regards pattern or color while on the reverse side I form a plain face of any
required fabric or color and thus I produce a finished face where hitherto the back
of the figured pattern was shown. It will therefore be seen that I produce a
reversible ribbon which combines two ribbons in one. For the purpose of manu-
facturing my ribbon I use a loom similar in its general arrangement to that of an
ordinary figure ribbon loom by which the figured side of the ribbon is woven. For
weaving the plain satin or any other plain fabric back, I place the struck harness A
such as ordinarily used for plain weaving immediately in front of the long harness B
which is the usual harness employed with Jacquard mechanism in figure weaving
the struck harness being so connected with and operated by the cards that they
work with or alternately with the long harness picking up the warp at the right
intervals for the passage of the shuttles F carrying the weft of the satin which is
thus woven to form the reverse side of the ribbon H or back of the figured pattern.
The action being as follows:-The threads of the warp E used for the figured face
of the ribbon are separately raised to the number and in the position required by
means of the long harness B while the shuttles F carry the weft thread through
thus forming the figured side after which the struck harness A raise the threads of
warp E2 while the shuttles carry the weft thread through to form the plain face on
the reverse side.
Of course there is almost no limit to the ornamentation or colors of the figured
side or to the color of the plain side.
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 :-
1st. The new ribbon, one side of which consists of a figured face and the other
of a perfectly plain fabric face substantially as herein set forth.

page_text: 2nd. The manufacture of the double faced ribbon in one loom and by one process
& operation, substantially as herein set forth and shown.
Dated this 26th day of June 1894.
GEORGE BARKER,
77, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.