Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Mar., 1888
Specification Accepted, 4th May, 1888
I, JOSEPH ECCLES, of Steam Mill, Preston, 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 improvements refer to the manufacture of fabrics for musquito nets, and have
for object the weaving of such fabrics in the loou, in substitution for the nets now,
for the most part, manufactured in lace machinery.
To accomplish this and to effect my improvements, I weave, by means of leno and
other harness or healds in the loom, and by warp and weft suitably acted upon, in
manner hereinafter to be described, a ground of such a character as in some measure
forms an imitation of the openwork net in lace, and at the same time of such an
interlocking nature, as regards the weaving of such warp and weft, as renders the
same comparatively fast in the positions given, and little liable to any slipping or
moving of the weft from the lines in which it is woven across the piece of fabric,
when the operation is completed. When such a ground is woven as plain net all
over the piece, it forms a substitute for the plain musquito netting manufactured on
the lace machine, and has the advantage of being strong in texture and thus little
liable to breakage of the meshes. At the same time, by means of the jacquard or
substitutes therefor, patterns of various designs may be made by weaving spots,
figures, cross overs, or stripes, or combinations thereof, in plain cloth, twill, or other
weaving, which is so interspersed with the ground-work or open-work netting above
named as to be still suitable for musquito netting, to which purpose I make the
application of such peculiarly woven facrics.
But that the improvements may be better understood, I will, with the aid
of the accompanying drawings, proceed more fully to describe means employed
by ine.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1. represents the general appearance of the ground-work or net weaving I
apply to the purpose of forming musquito nets; and Fig. 2, represents on a larger or
magnified scale the manner of the actuation of the separate warp threads and
their interlocking with the weft to form the netting effect. The mode of such

page_text: actuation being of a nature to be readily understood by persons engaged in leno
weaving.
The threads of warp to be separately actuated to form one strand of the plain
netting or ground referred to are three, which may be repeated in threes to any
width of reed space desired.
One of each of these three warp threads a, is drawn through a dupe heald or
harness, and the other two b, and c, are drawn through plain healds or harness, and the
mode of actuation is as follows:-
The threads a, and c, are lifted, and the threads b, b, are left down or depressed,
as the case may be by means of the ordinary jacquard or other actuating
mechanism of the healds or harness, for to form a shed for the passage of
the weft.
At the next pick or motion the threads a, and c, are depressed, and the threads b, b,
are lifted to form a second shed for the passage of the shuttle.
At the third pick a, and c, are again raised, and b, b, depressed.
At the fourth pick the thread a, is lenoed or crossed over the threads b, and C and
the like tabby weaving continued with the threads a, b, and c, in the crossed position,
for three more picks, when the thread a, is passed back again to the original position;
and the cycle of operations again commences, as will be seen from the drawings,
or the whole of the movements might be reversed.
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
The application of the special mode of leno weaving forming a groundwork or
openwork netting, for employment as musquito nets; whether such form of
weaving be used to make plain ground or interspersed with figure or other
weaving, for the purpose and in manner substantially as herein shewn and
described.
Dated this 19th day of March 1888.
WILLIAM GADD, C.E.,
64, Barton Arcade, Manchester,
Agent.