Improvements in the Manufacture of Quilts, Toilet Covers, and other similar Woven Goods.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 19th June, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 19th Mar., 1890-Accepted, 26th Apr., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Quilts, Toilet Covers, and other
similar Woven Goods.
We ROBERT ENTWISTLE and JOSEPH ENTWISTLE of the firm of Robert Entwistle
and Co. of Lincoln Mill, Bolton le Moors, in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturers,
do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
Our Invention relates principally to the manufacture of Quilts, Counterpanes,
Toilet covers and other similar goods and in particular to the fancy goods which are
composed partly or wholly of coloured yarns. Previously to our Invention such
goods have usually been woven with white and coloured warps only one colour
appearing on each side of the fabric in contrast with the white excepting in cases
wherein striped effects have been produced. When figures containing two colours
have been obtained it has been necessary to use a drop-box loom and two or more
shattles but the desired effect has not been so readily obtained and the use of such a
loom has increased the cost of production. The object of our Invention is to obtain a
greater variety of effect with a single shuttle loom. We employ two coloured warps
wound upon separate beams and each drawn through a separate set of mails which
are in connection with a separate Jacquard apparatus. Each warp extends across the
breadth of the fabric and may be of one colour or of two or more colours or partly
white and partly coloured according to the effects which it is desired to produce. In
practice we use only one shuttle which carries white weft. The harness is so arranged
as that each Jacquard apparatus has control of the warp ends from side to side of each
warp so that the warps can be raised and lowered to produce double coloured effects
upon both faces of the cloth so that the goods are reversible.
Dated this 18th dor of June 1880
DUTTON & FULTON,
1, St. James Square, Manchester, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Quilts, Toilet Covers, and other
similar Woven Goods.
We ROBERT ENTWISTLE and JOSEPH ENTWISTLE of the firm of Robert Entwistle
and Co. of Lincoln Mill, Bolton-le-Moors, in the County of Lancaster Manufacturers
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:—
Our Invention relates principally to the manufacture of Quilts, Counterpanes,
Toilet Covers, and other similar goods and in particular to the fancy goods which are
composed partly or wholly of coloured yarus. Previously to our Invention such
goods have usually been woven with white and coloured warps, only one colour
appearing on each side of the fabric in contrast with the white excepting in cases
wherein striped effects have been produced. When figures or patterns containing
two colours have been obtained it has been necessary to use a drop-box loom and two
or more shuttles but the desired effect has not been so readily obtained and the use of
such a loom has increased the cost of production. The object of our Invention is to
obtain a greater variety of effect with a single shuttle loom. We employ two
coloured warps wound upon separate beams and each drawn through a separate set of
mails which are in connection with a separate Jacquard apparatus. Each warp.
extends across the breadth of the fabric and may be of one colour or of two or more
colours or partly white and partly coloured according to the effects which it is desired
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page_text: to produce. In practice we use only one shuttle which carries white weft or weft of a
colour differing from or contrasting with the colours of the warp yarns. The harness
is so arranged as that each Jacquard apparatus has control of the warp ends from side
to side of each warp so that the warps can be raised and lowered to produce double
effects upon both faces of the cloth so that while one warp is forming a figure on one
side of the cloth in one colour the other warp is forming the same figure on the
opposite side in another colour, the white or differently coloured weft being hidden
between the two warps. When the warps are not weaving or forming figures and it
is necessary to form the groundwork of the fabric upon which such figures rest, then
both warps and the white weft are utilised in the formation of a "two and two dice "
ground, or a " calico
or "tabby" ground might be formed.
Thus by using both of the coloured warps and the white weft in the formation of
this groundwork, a ground is obtained on both sides of the cloth so as to display to
the best advantage the solid coloured figures on each side the whole fabric composing
a firmly bound cloth.
This combined arrangement of the harness and warps and the peculiar style of
groundwork enables us to alternate or change the colours of the figures composed
by the coloured warps, even though lying in the same longitudinal direction, on
the same side of the cloth as often as desired, and also to make different parts
of the same figure to be of different colours by raising to either surface of the
cloth sometimes one coloured warp and sometimes the other and sometimes the
white or coloured weft. Thus the effect is produced of a three coloured cloth in
which the figures on both sides of the cloth are composed of first one colour and
then another, or are composed of the two colours and the white weft in com-
bination, in such a manner that the colours follow the outlines of the figures of
the design instead of being in stripes or straight lines. This result is obtained on
both sides of the cloth, so that each side of the cloth contains a clear and distinct
pattern worked in two, three or more colours spread artistically over the whole or
both sides or faces of the cloth, a result which has hitherto been only accomplished
by the use of two shuttles in a drop box loom.
As a criterion to enable the practical weaver more readily to apprehend the
extent of the novelty of our invention we might as examples differentiate our
improved fabric from the ordinary "Alhambra " cloth in which the figuring is in
one colour only and from what is known as "one-shuttle tapestry cloth which is
not reversible that is to say does not show similar figures and colours on both
sides.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
The improved manufacture of Quilts, Toilet Covers and the like woven in a one-
shuttle loom the figuring being produced in two or more colours and the fabric being
reversible substantially as herein before described and shown.
Dated this 18th day of March 1800.
DUTTON & FULTON,
1, St. James Square, Manchester, Agents.