AN IMPROVED METHOD OF WEAVING FIGURED PATTERNS ON WATERPROOFS OR OTHER UNION TWEEDS
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Henry Nussey, of Leeds, and William Edwin
Beaumont, of Pudsey, near Leeds, both in the County of York, for the In-
vention of "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF WEAVING FIGURED PATTERNS ON
WATERPROOFS OR OTHER UNION TWEEDS."
Sealed the 14th October 1876, and dated the 25th April 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Henry Nussey and
William Edwin Beaumont at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on
the 25th April. 1876.
GEORGE HENRY NUSSEY, of Leeds, and WILLIAM EDWIN BEAUMONT, of Pudsey,
near Leeds, both in the County of York. "AN IMPROVED 'METHOD OF WEAVING
FIGURED PATTERNS ON WATERPROOFS OR OTHER UNION TWEEDS."
Hitherto figured patterns have been produced on textile fabrics other than
waterproof tweeds by means of looms having cards or harness; these we dispense
with.
"
Our Invention consists in producing figured patterns on three-shaft waterproof or
other union tweeds. The figure is produced by "drafting" the warp threads upon
the "shafts in a peculiar manner to produce the required form or figures, that is
to say, we draw the number of threads on each shaft in accordance with the pattern
or figure required, and so arrange them that the warp threads and those of the
weft are of different colours to produce the different patterns.
By our method of drafting on shafts we can produce on twelve shafts a pattern
which would require forty-eight or more shafts when our system of drafting is not
used.
What is understood in the trade by the words three-shaft tweeds is a tweed
cloth made with three shafts, or what is commonly known as "Prunell tweed."

page_text: near Leeds, both in the County of York. "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF WEAVING
FIGURED PATTERNS ON WATERPROOFS OR OTHER UNION TWEEDS."
Hitherto figured patterns have been produced on textile fabrics other than
waterproof tweeds by means of looms having cards or harness; these we dispense
with.
Our Invention consists in producing figured patterns on three-shaft waterproof or
other union tweeds. The figure is produced by "drafting" the warp threads upon
the shafts in a peculiar manner to produce the required form or figures, that is
to say, we draw the number of threads on each shaft in accordance with the pattern
or figure required, and so arrange them that the warp threads and those of the
weft are of different colours to produce the different patterns.
By our method of drafting on shafts we can produce on twelve shafts a pattern
which would require forty-eight or more shafts when our system of drafting is not
used.
What is understood in the trade by the words three-shaft tweeds is a tweed cloth
made with three shafts, or what is commonly known as "Prunell tweed."
We will now proceed to shew by Drawings our mode of arranging the warp
threads. According to our Invention, as an example, we employ, say, twelve shafts,
as shown at Fig. 1, and marked a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, J, K, and , and apply the
warps or attach them to the healds or heddles in the ordinary manner.
Shaft a bas 1, 4, 7, and 10 threads attached to it.
Shaft b has 2, 5, 8, and 11 threads attached to it.
Shaft c has 3, 6, 9, and 12 threads attached to it, and the other shafts are arranged
in a similar manner.
To shew where the saving takes place in the number of shafts we have shewn at
Fig. 2 an ordinary arrangement, which may be employed for producing a similar
effect, where it will be readily scen that forty-eight shafts are employed instead
of twelve, in which the thick lines represent the shafts, and the thin lines the
warp.
Having now described the nature of our said Invention, and shown the mode of
carrying it into practice, we would remark that we are aware that this arrangement
of weaving has been employed in the manufacture of what is known as a four-
shaft twill; but what we claim is, the arrangement and application of the herein-
before mentioned method of weaving figured patterns on waterproof or other union
or three-shaft tweeds or twills, substantially as described and illustrated with
reference to Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edwin Beaumont, for myself and on
behalf of the said George Henry Nussey, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Twenty-first day of October, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-six.
W. E. BEAUMONT. (L.S.)