IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOPED PILE AND CUT PILE FABRICS, AND IN MACHINERY FOR BRUSHING OR RAISING A CUT PILE OR FLEECE UPON THE WEB ON BOTH SIDES THE ARTICLE, OR ON ONE SIDE ONLY, BY WHICH MEANS I SECURE A LOOPED WEB NOT LIABLE TO LET DOWN
Year: 1854

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Wilkinson at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 30th September
1854.
I, WILLIAM WILKINSON, of the Town of Nottingham, Mechanic, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOPED PILE AND
CUT PILE FABRICS, AND IN MACHINERY FOR BRUSHING OR RAISING A CUT PILE OR
FLEECE UPON THE WEB ON BOTH SIDES THE ARTICLE, OR ON ONE SIDE ONLY, BY
WHICH MEANS I SECURE A LOOPED WEB NOT LIABLE TO LET DOWN," to be as
follows:-
My Invention consists in the employment of improved warp machines, and
stocking frames and warp machines of the old construction, which machinery
is wholly engaged in the manufacture of looped fabrics. For the manufacture
of these looped webs, I use from one set to four sets of guides for laying the
threads upon the needles, by which means the web is produced to be piled or
fleeced by the action of the guide bars, carrying the guides from one thread
to each needle to four threads to each needle, and by this arrangement of
machinery a pile or fleece surface may be placed on either side the fabric; by

page_text: the action of the threads through the guides upon the needles a pile web will
appear on one side the fabric and a fleece web on the other. I do not confine
myself to raising both the piles or fleeces by the working of any arrangement
of machinery, but I propose effecting a pile or fleece on each. side the fabric
by improvements of brushing machinery, stretching and boarding frames,
while the fabric intended to be brushed or fleeced on either side the web may
be passed round rollers, and through slide stretching frames, may be widened
or narrowed by the action of screw power. Brushes may be applied on each
side the fabric at once when stretched by the straps on both sides the frame,
the straps containing either pins or hooks, and protected by the rollers to
keep the straps in their proper position, so as to prevent the web contracting
at the time the brushes are acting upon it. These webs are intended to be
placed so that either wool, mohair, or rabbits' dawn spun. with wool, mohair,
or silk, shall in all cases, except when the webs are made in the stocking
frame, be the surface of the fabric. But in articles such as gloves, stockings,
shirts or vests, or piled coats, then it may become optional whether to fleece,
raise, brush, or pile the inside or outside parts of such articles.
.
Secondly, my Invention consists in a mode of plating fabrics with two sets
of threads working parallel or columnwise to each other, and so producing a
web with a piled surface, fleeced or brushed either at the time of being worked
or after it has been made on the machine. I effect this by laying two sets of
threads parallel to each other, and in such a manner that the set on the front
of the fabric cannot entangle itself with that set of threads which form the
face of the fabric. This I entirely effect by an improved arrangement of
machinery. The bobbins, cops, and spools containing the yarn, which were
fixtures on the old constructed frames, I propose moving backward and for-
ward with a traverse of the guide carriage. I wish it to be understood that I
do not confine myself to the mode in which I move the bobbins; they may be
stationary, or moved along by the guide carriage. In all cases where wool,
rabbits' dawn, or silk, combined, are plated over with silk, thread, or mixed
threads, in order to give warmth and utility to such articles as gloves, shirts,
stockings, vests, petticoats, blankets, counterpanes, or railway rugs or wrappers
used for the purposes of travelling, I use the machinery herein-before
described. I propose employing the whole of this Invention in stocking
machinery by using two sets of threads in the fabric.
I propose also to brush woven fabrics from this improved brushing
machinery. I also propose using a cylinder fixed perpendicularly with two
stretching webs at top and bottom. The straps and brushes are made in all

page_text: cases similar to those used in carding cotton wool. I do not confine my
operations to the use of wire or whalebone or bristles, but I use substances
to compose the brushes of materials such as whalebone, cane, wire, or bristles.
I also propose placing the brushes on horizontal cylinders or perpendicular
cylinders, as the web may be readily brushed as it passes from the drums to
the rollers.