Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Apr., 1887
Complete Left, 9th Jan., 1888
Complete Accepted, 10th Feb., 1888
We, GEORGE WILLIAM WILSON and EDWIN WILSON both of 15 Palace Street
Manchester in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturers and FREDERICK NELSON of
Farnworth in the County of Lancaster, Mill Manager do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows :-
This Invention relates to the manufacture of Towels, of fabrics known as Towellings
and similar fabrics and has for its object the production of double fabrics securely
locked or inter-woven and having a superior feel and appearance.
These Improvements consist in weaving or manufacturing the double fabric in such
a manner that the two fabrics or thicknesses shall be securely interwoven or locked
together at intervals only, by warp and by weft in such a manner as to make a kind
of cellular fabric. The manufacture of double fabrics is well understood and this
Invention varies therefrom in so weaving or producing a double towelling or similar
fabric that along certain stripes or bands or over certain areas the whole of the warp
and weft are interwoven so as to form a single fabric, while the remainder of the
fabric is woven in two separate thicknesses, thus forming square or other shaped cells
or bags between stripes bands or areas of single thickness.
With ordinary looms it is generally most convenient to make the stripes or bands
of the single thickness which lock the double fabric together, respectively across and
along the fabric so that square or rectangular bags or cells are formed. The bags
or cells formed within the fabric may however have any convenient or suitable shape
or dimensions and the bands or stripes of single inter-woven fabric may be diagonal
curved or broken.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Towels, Towellings, and similar Fabrics.
We GEORGE WILLIAM WILSON and EDWIN WILSON both of 15 Palace Street
Manchester in the County of Lancaster Manufacturers and FREDERICK NELSON of
Farnworth in the County of Lancaster, Mill Manager, 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:-
This Invention relates to the manufacture of towels; of fabrics known as towellings,
and of similar fabrics; and has for its object the production of double fabrics securely
locked or interwoven and having a superior feel and appearance.
These Improvements consist in weaving or manufacturing the double fabric in such
a manner that the two fabrics or thicknesses shall be securely interwoven or locked
together at intervals only by warp and by weft in such a manner as to make a kind of
baggy or cellular fabric. The manufacture of double fabrics is well understood and
this Invention varies therefrom in so weaving or producing a double towelling or
similar fabric that along certain stripes or bands or over certain areas the whole of the
warp and weft are interwoven so as to form a single fabric, while the remainder of the
fabric is woven in two separate thicknesses, thus forming square or other shaped cells
or bags between stripes bands or areas of single thickness. With ordinary looms it is
generally most convenient to make the stripes or bands of the single thickness which
lock the double fabric together, respectively across and along the fabric so that square
or rectangular bags or cells are formed. The bags or cells formed within the fabric
may however have any convenient or suitable shape or dimensions and the bands or
strips of single interwoven fabric may be diagonal curved or broken.
The appended sheet of Drawings illustrates by means of diagrams a simple and usual
method of carrying our Invention into practical effect. Fig. 1 is a diagram of a tie
up for a loom with six shafts. The horizontal lines represent the warp and the vertical
lines the weft of which there are 24 picks to the round. The warp threads are tied as
indicated in the diagram; videlicet, 1st, the 49th and 51st ends; 2nd, the 50th
and 52nd ends; 3rd, the 1st and every fourth end therefrom to and including the 45th;
4th, the 2nd and every fourth end therefrom to and including the 46th ; 5th the 3rd
and every fourth end therefrom to and including the 47th; and 6th, the 4th and every
fourth end therefrom to and including the 48th. The first and second picks constitute
a plain or calico weave of the weft with all the warp threads in a single fold or thick-
ness; in all the picks the 49th 50th 51st and 52nd warp threads are also woven in a
plain single fold. From and including the third pick to the end of the round the
warp threads Nos. 1 to 48 inclusive divide themselves into two layers the odd
threads going to the top and the even threads to the bottom or the reverse and the
successive picks traverse alternately over and under either the odd threads or the
even threads, each pick being limited either to the odd threads or to the even
threads as represented in the diagram Fig. 2 which represents a section across the
warp of a piece of towelling or similar fabric woven according to the diagram

page_text: Fig. 1. In this diagram the 49th and 50th warp threads are represented at one
end and the 51st and 52nd at the other end for the sake of showing more clearly the
alternation of the double and single textures. It will be seen that after the second
pick, the picks repeat themselves in groups of four; one of these groups is shown
in Fig. 2, two of the weft threads being shown in dotted lines to avoid confusion.
Fabrics woven according to the diagram Fig. 1 will have races four threads wide
and ribs two threads wide of single texture enclosing square bags or cells of double
texture but we desire it to be understood that the races or alternatively the ribs,
of single texture may be omitted; that they may have greater width; that the
double texture portion of the fabric may have greater or less dimensions and that
the threads may in some cases be floated therein as is well understood. In looms
provided with Jacquard apparatus it is obvious that fanciful and intricate patterns
may be produced, the essential condition being that the double texture or the baggy
or cellular portions of the fabric are bounded or surrounded by stripes or areas of
single thickness in which all the warp and weft threads are interwoven.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be carried into effect, we desire it
to be understood that what we claim is :
In towellings and fabrics of a similar description; weaving or manufacturing the
fabric in such a manner as to produce areas of double or two-fold fabric bounded or
surrounded by stripes or areas of single thickness, the whole of the warp and weft
being interwoven in the single thicknesses of the fabric; substantially as and for the
purpose herein before described.
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WILLIAM E. HEYS,
Agent for the Applicant.