IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFAC- TURE OF WED HALTER HEADS
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Goodrick, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Rope Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFAC-
TURE OF WED HALTER HEADS."
Sealed the 21st October 1876, and dated the 4th May 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Goodrick at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th May 1870.
JOHN GOODRICK, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Rope Manufac-
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WEB HALTER HEADS."
turer.
The said web halter heads are ordinarily made by a process of hand weaving, and
my Invention consists in making the same by the use of an ordinary two-shaft loom,
the process ofmanufacturing the said web halter heads by the use of a loom being
conducted as herein-after explained.
In order that my Invention may be the better understood I remark that a web
halter head consists of a woven web having an eye at each end. These eyes are
bound together by means of twine or cord. The rein of the halter has a loop at
one end, by which it is attached to the web head, the rein being drawn through the
compound eye described.
I manufacture these web halter heads, having the required loops at each end, in
the following manner :-The warp of the web is made of a continuous twine or cord
folded or doubled backwards and forwards upon itself as many times as there are
required to be parallel threads in the warp, the foldings being at intervals equal
to the length of the halter head to be made. The warp thus made resembles
an ordinary warp, excepting at its ends, an ordinary warp consisting of a series
of separate parallel threads or cords unconnected together, while a warp of the kind
I employ consists of a like series of parallel threads connected together end to end,
and made, as explained, by the doubling or folding upon itself of one continuous
cord or twine. The connected ends of the warp form in the finished halter head
the loops at each end from which the eyes are formed. In fixing the continuous
warp and operating upon it in the loom I employ what I term a false warp, that
is, a warp having half the number of threads that the continuous or true warp to be
operated upon has. The false warp is connected or joined on to the continuous or
true warp by means of small hooks on the falso warp engaging in the looped end of
the continuous warp, or by means of other suitable connections, such, for example,
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page_text: as knots or small heads on the end of the falso warp, which engage in the loops of
the continuous warp. The hooks or connections must be of such a size and shape
that they will readily pass through the reed or slay and the heddles of the loom.
The warp thus connected to the false warp is drawn through the slay and the
heddles on to a drum or reel at the back of the loom, after which I proceed to weave
it in the ordinary way, the extreme or looped ends of the warp being left unoperated
upon. The warping is effected at the front of the loom. The end of the continuous
warp not connected with the false warp may be held by a rod passed through the
looped threads, or in any other convenient way.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said John Goodrick in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 30th October
1870.
JOHN GOODRICK, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Rope Manufac-
turer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WEB HALTER HEADS."
The said web halter heads are ordinarily made by a process of hand weaving,
and my Invention consists in making the same by the use of an ordinary two-shaft
loom, the process of manufacturing the said web halter heads by the use of a loom
being conducted as herein-after explained.
In order that my Invention may be the better understood I remark that a web
halter head consists of a woven web having an eyo at each end. These eyes are
bound together by means of twine or cord. The rein of the halter has a loop at one
end, by which it is attached to the web head, the rein being drawn through the
compound eye described.
I manufacture these web halter heads, having the required loops at each end, in
the following manner :-The warp of the web is made of a continuous twine or cord
folded or doubled backwards and forwards upon itself as many times as there are
required to be parallel threads in the warp, the foldings being at intervals equal to
the length of the halter head to be made. The warp thus made resembles an
ordinary warp, excepting at its ends, an ordinary warp consisting of a series of
separate parallel threads or cords unconnected together, while a warp of the kind I
employ consists of a like series of parallel threads connected together end to end,
and made, as explained, by the doubling or folding upon itself of one continuous
cord or twine. The connected ends of the warp form in the finished halter head the
loops at each end, from which the eye is formed. In fixing the continuous warp
and operating upon it in the loom I employ what I term a false warp, that is, a
warp having half the number of threads that the continuous or true warp to be
operated upon has. The ends of the false warp are connected with or joined on to the
loops of the continuous warp by being looped on to them in the manner herein-after
described. The connections must be of such a size and shape that they will readily
pass through the reed or slay and the heddles of the loon. The warp thus con-
nected with the false warp is drawn through the slay and the heddles on to a drum
or reel at the back of the loom, after which I proceed to weave it in the ordinary
way, the extreme or looped ends of the warp being left unwoven. The warping is
effected at the front of the loom. The end of the continuous warp not connected
with the false warp may be held by a hook passed through the looped threads, or in
any other convenient way.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying Drawing the
manner in which my Invention may be performed.
Figure 1 represents in side elevation, partly in section, and Figure 2 in plan a
portion of a two-shaft loom and apparatus which I use in making a web halter
head according to my Invention.
In the said Figures 1 and 2 a, a, represent the continuous or true warp from

page_text: which the halter head is to be made, the said continuous warp, as hercin-before
explained, consisting of a series of doubled or folded threads or cords made from
one continuous cord or twine, the extreme ends marked a², a³, of the said warn
being looped; b, 6ª, represent the false warp connected to one end of the continuous
or true warp a, a, in the manner herein-after described, the other end of the falso
warp being attached to the metal loop or eyo c, the latter being secured to cords d, d,
passing over the rollers e, e, to the letting-off drum f; g, g, are the heddles of tho
loom; h, the reed or slay; and i, the lathe; is a reel for containing the cord or
twino from which the continuous or true warp is made, and is a weighted pulley
round which a cord passes, to the end of which cord a hook m is attached. On this
hook tho front ends of the true warp are looped in the manner herein-after
described. The use of the weighted pulley is to assist in winding up the warp on
to the drum at the back of the loom.
In producing the continuous or true warp a, a, a, as, and connecting it with the
false warp b, b, I procced as follows:-Each of the threads of the false warp b, b³,
consists of a doubled thread, the loop at the back end of the said false warp thread
being attached to the open eye at c; the other or front end of the false warp thread
has a knot 6s upon it, and the middle of the doubled thread is tied so as to form an
eye b. The series of threads b, b³, of which the false warp is composed having been
thus arranged side by side upon the eyo c a sufficient quantity of twine is drawn
from off the reel & to form a doubled thread of the length of the halter head to be
made, and the knot b on the end be of the first thread of the false warp is passed
around this doubled thread. The end 6 of the false warp thread is then folded
upon itself so as to form a loop; the free end of the loop having the knot b³ upon
it is then engaged with the small eye or loop b* made in the middle of the thread b.
The doubled thread a thus made is thereby connected at its front loop a to the
first thread b, b, of the false warp, and the back loop a³ of the said first thread a
hooked upon the hook m. The first of the series of the doubled or looped thrends
of the true warp is thus made and connected with the false warp. Another length
of twine being drawn from the reel k it is doubled or folded upon itself, and the
second thread of the false warp is passed around it, formed into a loop be, and
secured by its knot to the loop b₁ of the false warp, and the back end of the
second thread of the true warp hooked upon the hook m, as described with respect
to the first thread. In this way the series of parallel looped or doubled threads of
the true warp are made from one continuous thread and connected with the falso
warp. In the Drawing the true warp is represented connected at one end with the
false warp and at the other end with the hook m. The false warp is now drawn
over the upper roller o by turning the drum f, and the true warp a, a, is thereby
drawn through the reed or slay h and the heddles g, g, the front looped ends of the
true warp being situated near to the reed h. The said front looped ends of the true
warp are next unhooked from the hook p and hooked to a hook connected with a
weighted cord which passes under the roller q and over other convenient rollers to
the back of the loom. By means of this weighted cord the required forward motion
is given to the true warp, and the required tension maintained in it, as is well
understood. The halter head is now woven from the true warp a, a, in the ordinary
way, the extreme or looped ends of the warp being left unwoven. The halter head
thus made having the required loops at each end is finished in the ordinary way.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in which the
same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I do not limit myself to the
precise details herein described and illustrated, as the same may be varied without
departing from the nature of my Invention; but I claim as my Invention, manu-
facturing web halter heads by a process of machine weaving in an ordinary two-
shaft loom, the said process being conducted in the manner herein-before described
and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing, that is to say, making the warp of
the web from which the halter head is woven of a series of separate parallel threads
or cords connected together end to end, the said connected threads or cords being
formed by the doubling or folding upon itself of one continuous thread or cord, the

page_text: connected ends of the warp forming in the finished halter head the loops at each
end from which the eye for the halter rein to pass through is made, the said con-
tinuous warp being fixed in the loom for the weaving operation by a false warp
made and connected with the continuous warp, substantially as described and
illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Goodrick, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.
Witness,
RICHARD SKERRETT,
Clerk to George Shaw,
Birmingham.
JOHN GOODRICK. (L.S.)