Improvements in the Manufacture of Figured Woven Fabrics.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 4th May, 1898
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Nov., 1898-Accepted, 7th Jan., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Figured Woven Fabrics.
I, THOMAS TAYLOR, of Saville Mill, Breightmet Street, Bolton, in the County
of Lancaster, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows;-
1
My invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of certain coloured
woven figured fabrics for which Letters Patent Number 17088 of 1892 and
Number 6928 of 1894 were granted to me and Jacob Warburton.
In fabrics woven according to these patents the face or fine warp was drawn
into healds by preference, in which case, it bound the figured portion to the ground
either on the surface or the reverse of the cloth and the warp being in healds it
was not possible to omit to bind the figuring weft say around any of the figures.
It was found that interweaving the figuring wefts into the cloth on the reverse
side was objectionable inasmuch as the colour of the same shaded or showed the
colour from the reverse side of the cloth upon the face of the cloth.
To remove this objection and to improve the fabric I interweave the coloured
figuring weft only for figures on the surface of the fabric and I float the remainder
of such weft on the reverse side of the cloth and afterwards cut away this floated
portion of the weft and so obtain an improved fabric of a purer white in the case
of a white ground or in case of a two-coloured cloth I remove the unnecessary weft
of one colour and so get a clearer and brighter colour and better effect.
To accomplish this result I control the face or fine warp by a Jacquard machine
and when the colouring weft (or wefts) is being woven into the cloth I raise the
whole of the face or fine warp and so cause the colouring weft or wefts to be
floated on the reverse of the cloth and thus figured objects of one colour can
be produced on the cloth to any extent and the surplus weft removed.
I propose to employ a figure in one colour or two or more colours on a white
ground or white figures on a coloured ground or coloured figures on a coloured
ground.
I also propose to produce on this cloth figures having a different weave on the
face of the cloth to the weave of the portion which is making the figure on the
reverse of the cloth, that is, any portion of the figuring wefts on the face or
reverse of the cloth can be bound in a different manner or weave than the other
and this I effect by controlling the face or fine warp in a Jacquard machine.
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page_text: what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement;-
-
My invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of certain coloured
woven figured fabrics for which Letters Patent No. 17088 of 1892 and No. 6928
of 1894 were granted to me and Jacob Warburton.
In fabrics woven according to these patents the face or fine warp was drawn
into healds by preference, in which case, it bound the figured portion to the ground
either on the surface or the reverse of the cloth and the warp being in healds it
was not possible to omit to bind the figuring weft say around any of the figures.
It was found that interweaving the figured wefts into the cloth on the reverse
side was objectionable inasmuch as the colour of the same shaded or showed the
colour from the reverse side of the cloth upon the face of the cloth.
To remove this objection and to improve the fabric I interweave the coloured
figuring weft only for figures on the surface of the fabric and I float the remainder
of such weft on the reverse side of the cloth and afterwards cut away this floated
portion of the weft and so obtain an improved fabric of a purer white in the case
of a white ground or in case of a two-coloured cloth I remove the unnecessary weft
of one colour and so get a clearer and brighter colour and better_effect.
To accomplish this result I control the face or fine warp by a Jacquard machine
and when the colouring weft (or wefts) is being woven into the cloth I raise the
whole of the face or fine warp and so cause the colouring weft or wefts to be
floated on the reverse of the cloth and thus figured objects of one colour can
be produced on the cloth to any extent and the surplus weft removed.
I propose to employ a figure in one colour or two or more colours on a white
ground or white figures on a coloured ground or coloured figures on a coloured
ground.
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
In the manufacture of certain coloured woven figured fabrics for which Letters
Patent No. 17088 of 1892 and No. 6928 of 1894 were granted to me and Jacob
Warburton,
Interweaving the figuring weft or wefts for figures on the surface of the fabric
only and floating the remainder of such weft or wefts on the reverse side of the
fabric and subsequently cutting away the floated portion whereby a purer white.
or colour and a better effect is obtained substantially as herein set forth
Dated this 22nd day of November 1898.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicant,
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester,