Improvements in Border Motions of Looms for Weaving Fancy or Bordered Goods.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Mar., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 15th Dec., 1898-Accepted, 4th Feb., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Border Motions of Looms for Weaving Fancy or
Bordered Goods.
We, THOMAS PILKINGTON YOUNG, of Red Bank Mill, Radcliffe, in the County
of Lancaster, Manufacturer, and HENRY GARSTANG, of Lark Hill Mill, Farnworth,
near Bolton, in the said County, Mill Manager, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to improvements in border motions of looms for weaving
fancy or bordered goods and the object of our improvements is to weave a fancy
border on a piece in a loom without a dobby, Jacquard, or other complicated
motion, or an independent swivel shuttle motion for putting the weft into the
border.
According to our improvements we employ a bobbin with weft for the border
and mount this bobbin on the loom frame behind the healds and lead the weft
over tension or drag rods or guides and then two or three times round a let off
roller which is turned partly round intermittently by suitable gearing actuated
by a cam on the tappet shaft or other convenient shaft in order that a pre-
determined length of weft may be let off at each movement of the roller. From
the let off roller the weft is passed through a heald with the warp threads of
the body of the cloth and the weft is raised and lowered by the healds so that
it is caught and drawn backwards and forwards across the border by the ordinary
weft carried by the shuttle as it is thrown to and fro at each pick and so
becomes interwoven as the border weft of the piece.
Dated this 15th day of March 1898.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicants.
Improvements in Border Motions of Looms for Weaving Fancy or
Bordered Goods.
We, THOMAS PILKINGTON YOUNG, of Red Bank Mill, Radcliffe, in the County
of Lancaster, Manufacturer, and HENRY GARSTANG, of Lark Hill Mill, Farnworth,
near Bolton, in the said County, Mill Manager, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particu-
larly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:
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Our invention relates to improvements in border motions of looms for weaving
fancy or bordered goods and the object of our improvements is to weave a fancy

page_text: border on a piece in a loom without a dobby, Jacquard, or other complicated
motion, or an independent swivel shuttle motion for putting the weft into the
border.
According to our improvements we employ a bobbin with weft for the border
and mount this bobbin on the loom frame behind the healds and lead the weft 5
over tension or drag rods or guides and then two or three times round a let off
roller which is turned partly round intermittently by suitable gearing actuated
by a cam on the tappet shaft or other convenient shaft in order that a pre-
determined length of weft may be let off at each movement of the roller. From
the let off roller the weft is passed through a heald with the warp threads of 1
the body of the cloth and the weft is raised and lowered by the healds so that
it is caught and drawn backwards and forwards across the border by the ordinary
weft carried by the shuttle as it is thrown to and fro at each pick and so
becomes interwoven as the border weft of the piece.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings-
Fig. 1 is a sectional side elevation of a loom to which
applied, and Fig. 2 is an end view of part of Fig. 1.
illustrating the build of the cloth.
our improvements are
Fig. 3 is a diagram
In the drawings,-1 denotes the frame of the loom, 2 the crank shaft, 3 the
ordinary tappet shaft driven from the crank shaft as usual, 4 the warp beam,
5 the healds for the ground warp, 6 the reed, and 7 the taking up roller; these
parts may be all of the ordinary construction.
For the purposes of our invention we employ a bobbin 8 filled with the desired
coloured or other weft 9 for the border; this bobbin is mounted upon a spindle
on the floor, as shown, or upon the loom frame, and the end of the weft 9 is
passed over tension or drag rods or guides 10 and then twice or thrice round a
let off roller 11 against which the weft is held by a small roller 12 mounted
upon a spring arm or arms 13; the weft 9 guided by eyes and rods 10 is passed
through one of the healds 5 into which the ground warp 4 from the warp
beam 4 is drawn. In order to let off a predetermined length of weft 9 we give
an intermittent motion to the let off roller 11 by any suitable mechanism," for
example, by means of studs 14 projecting from one end of the roller and a
hook 15 held in contact with these studs by a spring 16 the hook being drawn
down at every other lift of the healds by means of a tappet 17 on the tappet
shaft 3 which acts upon a bowl 18 mounted upon a lever 19 pivoted to the frame
at 20 and normally held up in the position shown in Fig. 1, by a spring 21.
The warp ends 22 for the border of the fabric are wound upon the warp beam 4
with the ordinary ground warp 4* the path of which is shown in the healds 5
which are level while the ends 22 for the border of the fabric are drawn through
two healds 23 which are shown open forming a shed.
When the loom is in work a certain quantity of weft 9 is let off at every lift
of the healds 5 through one of which it is drawn and hangs free from its heald
so that when the shuttle carries the ground weft across the shed it passes the
border weft 9 and on its return the border weft having in the meantime been
raised by the healds 5, the shuttle thread catches the border weft, and carries
that is
so much of it as has been let off from the bobbin 8 as far as it will
go,
across the border and as the healds 23 of the border warp are only lifted once
to every twice of the ground healds 5 it follows that two ends of border weft are
laid in each shed of the border warp 22 as clearly shown in Fig. 3.
If a border is to be woven on both sides of the cloth a similar border motion
would be required, the parts being duplicated where necessary.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
1. In a border motion for looms, a border weft drawn through a ground heald

page_text: and means for letting off a certain length of the border weft at each lift of the
ground warp healds in order that such length may be interwoven with the
border warp by the action of the ground shuttle weft substantially as herein
set forth.
2. The general combination and arrangement of parts embodying our improve-
ments in border motions of looms for weaving substantially as herein set forth.
Dated this 13th day of December 1898.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicants, 17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.