IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LUBRICATING PADS OR AXLE Box FLOATS
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Benjamin Joseph Barnard Mills, of the Firm of Harris
and Mills, of 23, Southampton Buildings, in tho County of Middlesex, Patent
Agent, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
LUBRICATING PADS OR AXLE Box FLOATS." A communication from abroad by
Eduard Fraulob, of Chemnitz, in the Kingdom of Saxony and Empire of
Germany.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Benjamin Joseph Barnard
Mills at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 31st March
1880.
BENJAMIN JOSEPH BARNARD MILLS, of the Firm of Harris and Mills, of 23,
Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent. "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LUBRICATING PADS OR AXLE BOX FLOATS."
A communication from abroad by Eduard Fraulob, of Chemnitz, in the Kingdom of
Saxony and Empire of Germany.
The Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of lubricating
pads or axle box floats, whereby they are produced more cheaply, more uniform in
character, better adapted for the purpose to which they are applied, and require no
wiring in position as tho various parts thereof are firmly connected together in the
process of manufacture.
For this purpose a length or piece of fabric is manufactured in a loom with one
face provided with widths of cut pile entirely across the same, and intervals of
plain cloth between such widths of cut pilo.
The other face of the fabric is provided with long terry, or uncut pile, or fringe,
in the centre of the cut pile on the first mentioned face, a border of plain cloth
being woven all round the uncut pile or fringe.
The pile warps consist of loosely spun cotton or woollen warps or mixtures of the
same.
The pile warps are firmly bound into the body of the fabric by the weft threads,
but they are caused in the weaving to float over the widths of plain cloth forming
the divisions between the widths of cut pile, such floating portions being afterwards
cut off.
Fabric thus woven is after removal from the loom cut across the centre of the
widths of plain cloth between the cut pile surfaces, thereby forming so many
distinct and complete lubricating pads or axle box floats, and if desired the raw
edges of the border of plain cloth may be turned in and sewn down to form a neat
edge.

page_text: The pile warps consist of loosely spun cotton or woollen warps or mixtures of the
same, and such warps are firmly bound into the body of the fabric by the weft
threads, but they are caused in the weaving to float over the widths of plain cloth a
forming the divisions between the width of cut pile b, such floating portions being
afterwards cut off.
It will be readily understood that the extent and length of the pile surfaces may
be varied, and that either or both of the pile surfaces may be formed of either cut
or uncut pile, or partly of both, without departing from the peculiar character of
the present Invention.
I would here remark that I have not given a description of the order of working
to produce pile fabrics of the character herein described, as such will be readily
understood by competent manufacturers.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and the mode in which
the same may be carried into effect, I would have it understood that what I claim
is the manufacturo of lubricating pads or axle box floats by weaving a length of
fabric provided with the required pile surfaces on both sides thereof, and afterwards
cutting the same into lengths, substantially as herein shown and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Benjamin Joseph Barnard Mills, have hercunto
set my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty.