Improvements in the Manufacture of Tapes, Bands, Sacking, and like Woven Fabrics
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 7th Nov., 1889-Accepted, 7th Dec., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Tapes, Bands, Sacking, and like
Woven Fabrics.
I Luke Turner of Deacon Street, Leicester, Manufacturer, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows :—
The object of this invention is to impart greater strength to woven piece goods, of
the character of tapes, bands, and sacking, than they have hitherto received from the
use of a given weight and quality of material employed in their manufacture.
To this end, I first prepare strands or yarns by plaiting or braiding together
threo, four, or more spun threads of cotton. flax, hemp, or other suitable fibre,
and use the same as warp threads and weft threads, or as warp threads only, in
a tape loom, or other loom suited to weave the piece goods required.
In manufacturing tapes such, for example, as those used in cylinder printing
machines, it is very important that they should not give or lengthen unduly, and the
like remark applies to driving bands composed of woven fabrics.
In manufacturing piece goods of either class, I employ braided strands or yarns
for the warp threads, and spun yarn of the usual character for the weft threads,
and I thus obtain greatly increased strength in the direction of the length of the
fabric. When, however, the fabric is designed to sustain both transverse and
longitudinal strains, as is the case, for example, with sacking for bedsteads, I uso
the plaited yarns for both the warp and weft threads, and I thus produce a fabric
of incomparably greater strength than has heretofore been obtained with the use of
the like kind and quantity of fibre in its manufacture.
Dated this 7th day of February 1889
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Tapes, Bands, Sacking, and like
Woven Fabrics.
I LUKE TURNER of Deacon Street, Leicester, Manufacturer, 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 :-
The object of this invention is to impart greater strength to woven piece goods
of the character of tapes, bands, and sacking, than they have hitherto received from
the use of a given weight and quality of material employed in their manufacture.
To this end, I first prepare strands or yarns by plaiting or braiding together
three, four, or more spun threads of cotton, flax, hemp, or other suitable fibre, and
use the same as warp and weft, or as warp only, in a tape loom, or other loom suited
to weave the piece goods required.
In manufacturing tapes such, for example, as those used in cylinder printing
machines, it is very important that they should not give or lengthen unduly, and the
like remark applies to driving bands composed of woven fabrics.
In manufacturing piece goods of either class, 1 employ, for my warp, braided
yarn such as that illustrated in the accompanying drawing at A, (Fig. 1), which
shows eight spun threads plaited or braided by a braiding machine of the ordinary
construction, to produce a yarn, and for the weft I use the ordinary spun yarn as
illustrated at B (Fig. 2).-I thus combine two qualities of yarn, and consequently
obtain greatly increased strength in the direction of the length of the fabric.
When, however, the fabric is designed to sustain both transverse and longitudinal

page_text: strains, as is the case, for example, with sacking for bedsteads, I use plaited yarns
for both the warp and weft threads, and thus produce a woven fabric of
incomparably greater strength and firmness than has heretofore been obtained with
the use of the like kind and quantity of fibre in its manufacture.
It will be understood that the number and weight of the threads employed to!
produce a braided yarn will depend upon the quality of the fabrics designed to
he manufactured, whether the yarn he used as warp or weft threads, or for both
purposes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I
claim is :-
nature of my said
declare that what I
The manufacture of tapes, hands, sacking, and like woven fabrics, from yarns
of braided threads used as warp and weft threads, or from braided yarns in combina-
tion with spun yarn, as and for the purpose above set forth.
Dated this 7th day of November 1889.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.