Improvements in the Manufacture of Woven Belting.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Oct., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 30th July, 1895-Accepter, 31st Aug., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Woven Belting.
I, JAMES OSWALD, Manager of the Manchester Belting Company, of which
John Bright and Brothers Limited, of Rochdale are the Proprietors, at Hendham
Vale Mill, Harpurhey, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The chief object of this invention is to improve the edges of woven belting
inade from cotton, camel bair yarn or other textile material, so as to prevent the
fraying or wearing of the edges through friction between forks or other guiding
appliances.
To accomplish this object I employ a suitable material in the weft at regulated
distances of say thirty picks, or more or less, putting a pick of this material in the
fabric from each side alternately by means of two shuttles then allowing these
shuttles to remain stationary while the loom goes on weaving any desired number
of ordinary picks, say thirty picks, when the picks of the special material are again
put into the fabric and drawn up to each selvage while the ordinary weft remains
stationary, and by this method and means I obtain two threads one at each edge
alternately and running lengthwise of the belt so as to form a continuous protection
for the ordinary weft threads against the friction between forks or other guiding
apparatus.
Instead of two picks of special material thrown by means of two shuttles one
from each side of the loom alternately I might employ any other suitable number
of shuttles with special material and put in the picks in any convenient order.
I could employ a single shuttle only but in such case the protective thread would
only be intermittently on each edge and would therefore not give so full a
protection the continuous threads obtained with two or more shuttles.
I prefer to employ a drop box loom but the belting may be woven in an ordinary
loom and the picks of special material put in by hand after stopping the loom at
the required intervals.
The special material may be of any suitable yarn or it may be of leather, hide
or skin of any description or of catgut and such like substances or of wire or in
fact any other suitable substance.
Dated this 29th day of October 1894.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Woven Belting.
I, JAMES OSWALD, Manager of the Manchester Belting Company, of which
John Bright and Brothers Limited, of Rochdale are the Proprietors, at Hendham
Vale Mill, Harpurhey, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, 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 chief object of this invention is to improve the edges of woven belting

page_text: made from cotton, camel.hair yarn or other textile material, so as to prevent the
fraying or wearing of the edges through friction between forks or other guiding
appliances.
To accomplish this object I employ a suitable material in the weft at regulated
distances of say thirty picks, or more or less, putting a pick of this material in the
fabric from each side alternately by means of two shuttles then allowing these
shuttles to remain stationary while the loom goes on weaving any desired number
of ordinary picks, say thirty picks, when the picks of the special material are again
put into the fabric and drawn up to each selvage while the ordinary weft remains
stationary, and by this method and means I obtain two threads one at each edge,
alternately and running lengthwise of the belt so as to form a continuous protection
for the ordinary weft threads against the friction between forks or other guiding
apparatus.
And in order that my invention may be fully understood and readily carried
into effect I will describe the accompanying sheet of drawings reference being had
to the figures and letters marked.thereon.
Figure 1 is a plan, Fig. 2 an end. view and Fig. 3 a transverse section of my.
improved woven belting.
In these views, a designates the belting which is woven of any suitable textile
material, and bare the two wefts of special material which may be of any
suitable yarn or it may be of leather, hide or skin. of any description or of catgut
and such like substances or of wire or in fact any other suitable substance.
Instead of two picks of special material b thrown by means of two shuttles,
one from each side of the loom alternately I might employ any other suitable
number of shuttles with special material and put in the picks in any convenient
order.
I could employ a single shuttle only but in such case the protective thread
either or would only be intermittently on each edge and would therefore not
give so full a protection as the continuous threads obtained as shown with two
shuttles or it might be with more than two shuttles.
I prefer to employ a drop box loom but the belting may.be woven in an ordinary
loom and the picks of special material put in by hand after stopping the loom at
the required intervals.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The berein described improvements in the manufacture of woven belting said
improvements consisting essentially in interweaving with the belt say two threads
of special material running one at each edge alternately lengthwise of the belt so as
to form a continuous protection for the ordinary weft threads substantially as set
forth.
Dated this 20th do of Lul 1005
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
17 St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for Applicant.