Improvements in the Application of Certain Fibrous Materials for the Manufacture of Yarns for Making Healds, Dupes, Jacquard, and other Harness and other similar Gear Used in Looms, Lace, and other Machinery Employed in the Manufacture of Woven and other Textile Fabrios.
Year: 1886

page_text: Improvements in the Application of Certain Fibrous Materials
for the Manufacture of Yarns for Making Healds, Dupes,
Jacquard, and other Harness and other similar Gear Used
in Looms, Lace, and other Machinery Employed in the
Manufacture of Woven and other Textile Fabrios.
I WILLIAM WHITAKER of Fairfax Street Hall Lane Bradford in the County of
York do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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My Invention has for its object the application of certain descriptions of fibrous
materials to be used in the manufacture of yarns for making healds dupes
Jacquard and other harness and other similar gear, employed in looms lace and
other machinery employed in the manufacture of woven and other textile fabrics.
The fibrous materials I employ for the above purpose are what are now generally
known as the fibre obtained from the Rhea plant or Ramie or China grass plant
(vegetable silk) of which there are a great variety of species known by different
Botanical names.
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The yarns spun from these fibrous materials I have found to be particularly
applicable for being twisted and made up into healds Jacquard and other harness
above referred to such fibres imparting great strength durability silkiness and
softness thereto by which much time and labour is saved in the frequent replacing
of healds and harness in general use.

page_text: Improvements in the Application of Certain Fibrous Materials
for the Manufacture of Yarns for Making Healds, Dupes,
Jacquard, and other Harness and other similar Gear Used
in Looms, Lace, and other Machinery Employed in the
Manufacture of Woven and other Textile Fabrics.
I WILLIAM WHITAKER of Fairfax Street Hall Lane Bradford in the County of
York 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 :-
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My invention has for its object the application of certain descriptions of fibrous
materials to be used in the manufacture of yarns for making healds, dupes,
Jacquard and other harness and other similar gear employed in looms lace and
other machinery employed in the manufacture of woven and other textile fabrics.
The fibrous materials I employ for the above purpose are what are now generally
known as the fibre obtained from the Rhea plant or Ramie or China grass plant
(vegetable silk) of which there are a great variety of species known by different
botanical names.
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The Rhea or Ramie or China grass fibre has been extensively used and woven
into textile fabrics-special machinery having been designed for the bleaching
preparing and combing as also the spinning into yarns of the same and I find the
long fibre or "sliver resulting from the operation of combing is very suitable,for
my invention as also the short fibre or "noils" resulting from the same operation
of combing the long fibre or "sliver" being spun into fine yarns and the short
fibre or "noils" being spun into coarser or heavier yarns.
The yarns spun from these fibrous materials I have found to be particularly and
specially applicable for being twisted and made up into healds Jacquard and other
harness above referred to-such fibres imparting great strength durability silkiness
and softness thereto by which much time and labour is saved in the frequent
replacing of healds and harness &c. in general use,
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1. The use and application of the fibrous materials herein referred to either in
a bleached or unbleached state substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore
described.

page_text: 2. The improved preparation of the within named fibrous materials and
manufacture thereof by spinning and twisting into yarns for making the same
into healds dupes Jacquard harness and other gear used in loomis lace and other
machinery employed in the manufacture of textile fabrics substantially as
described.