Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Sept., 1887
Complete Left, 1st June, 1888
Complete Accepted, 6th July, 1888
I FRANK REDDAWAY of Cheltenham Street Pendleton near Manchester in the
County of Lancaster Manufacturer of Machine bolting do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
My said Invention relates to the manufacture of woven hose piping for the
transmission of water and other fluids and is also applicable in the production of
woven driving belting. According to my improvements 1 weave two hose simulta-
neously one within the other so that the improved hose or belt consists of two
concentrically arranged woven tubes whereby increased strength and impermeability
is obtained.
In carrying my improved manufacture into effect I employ as many sets of wefts
as I use sets of warps (that is to say double warps) one set of wefts being used to form
the exterior tube alone and another set to form the interior tube. For example in the
case of a hose or belt woven with two double wefts I employ a drop box loom and two
shuttles with warps suitable to produce what may be termed a four-ply fabric. The
two shuttles would each make two picks consecutively and would act in alternation―
the warp ends being so lifted and lowered as that in the absence of a binding warp,
two hose one within the other would be produced. In addition to the warps necessary
for the production of this bi-tubular fabric when weaving belting I employ a binding
warp which is successively woven in with the warp ends forming all the four plys so
that a cohering fabric of a suitable substance is produced. In cases wherein a greater
substance would be required I should employ three shuttles or even more according
to the required thickness or strength of the article.
Dated this 2nd day of September 1887
DUTTON & FULTON,
1, St. James Square, Manchester,
Agents.
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page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Hose and Belting.
I FRANK REDDAWAY of Cheltenham Street Pendleton near Manchester in
the County of Lancaster, Manufacturer of Machine belting do hereby declaro
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 and
accompanying drawings:-
My said Invention relates to the manufacture of woven hose piping for the
transmission of water and other fluids and is also applicable in the production of
woven driving belting. According to my improvements I weave two hose simulta-
neously one within the other so that the improved hose or belt consists of two
concentrically arranged woven tubes whereby increased strength and impermeability
is obtained. In carrying my improved manufacture into effect I employ as many sets
of wefts as I use sets of warps (that is to say double warps) one set of wefts being
used to form the exterior tube alone and another set to form the interior tube. In
addition to the warps necessary for the production of this bi-tubular fabric I may
employ a binding warp which is successively woven in with the warp ends forming all
the four plys so that a cobering fabric of a suitable substance is produced.
And in order that my said invention may be properly understood I will now proceed
to describe the same more particularly with reference to the accompanying sheet of
drawings:-
Fig. 1 of the drawings is a cross section of the improved hose or belting. Fig. 2 is
a perspective view of a portion of the same, the inner portion B being shown projecting
from the outer portion A so as to indicate its duplex nature. Referring to Fig. 1 it
will be seen that the outer portion A surrounds and is entirely separate from the inner
lining B. The belt or hose is thus composed of two separate concentric flat tubes
woven one within the other. The weaving is effected in the manner shown by the
sketch Fig. 3. As shown by this sketch the warp is divided into four portions c¹ c²
c. The portion e' is woven into the top side of the outer flat tube A; the portion c
is woven into the under side of the tube A. The portion of the warp is woven into
the upper side of the inner flat tube B and the portion c³ into the lower side of the
tube B. Of course each of these four portions of the warp is opened or "shed" by
the healds in the ordinary manner of weaving so as to bind the weft. In Fig. 3 each
of the said portions of warp is shown opened or shed" so as to admit one of the two
shuttles d and e. The shuttle d which is represented in Fig. 3 as passing through the
shed of the portion c¹ of the warp carries the weft f which is woven into the warps
and c that is to say into the flat outer tube A. The shuttle e carries the weft g which
is woven into the warps c² and c³ that is to say into the inner flat tube B. The weaving
of the two tubes composing the belt or double hose proceeds simultaneously. The
shuttle d is shot through the top set of warps c¹ and then through the bottom set of
warps e thus completing the circuit of the outer tube A. The shuttle e is then shot
through the middle set of warps & and back through the set thus completing the
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c¹

page_text: circuit of the inner tube B. The tube B is kept a little in advance of the tube A so
that as the work proceeds the tube B is completed first and the tube A follows and is
woven round it. The two flat tubes A and B are thus woven one within the other
and separately from each other. The finished hose or belting i passes over a straining
bar h and is coiled upon a taking up roller in the ordinary manner. To keep the flat
tube B from shifting in the tube A the two tubes may be connected together by a
binding pick introduced at intervals as the weaving proceeds or they may be secured
together by stitches placed at intervals in the length after the belt or hose has been
completed.
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 improved woven hose or belting composed of two concentric tubes and produced
by the means and in the manner substantially as hereinbefore described and shown.
DUTTON & FULTON,
1, St. James Square, Manchester,
Agents.