A NEW FABRIC FOR MAKING HORSE CLOTHS." PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Jenkinson, of the Firm of William Jenkinson
and Company, of 44, London Wall, in the City of London, and of Albion Place,
London Wall aforesaid, and of Panton Street, in the County of Middlesex, and
Joseph Firth Mayman, of the Firm of Ellis, Mayman, and Son, of Batley Carr,
Dewsbury, in the County of York, for an Invention of "A NEW FABRIC FOR
MAKING HORSE CLOTHS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Jenkinson and
Joseph Firth Mayman at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the
23rd April 1880.
WILLIAM JENKINSON, of the Firm of William Jenkinson and Company, of 44,
London Wall, in the City of London, and of Albion Place, London Wall aforesaid,
and of Panton Street, in the County of Middlesex, and JOSEPII FIRTH MAYMAN, of
the Firm of Ellis, Mayman, and Son, of Batley Carr, Dewsbury, in the County of
York. "A NEW FABRIC FOR MAKING HORSE CLOTHS."
This Invention has for its object a new fabric for making horse cloths.
In weaving our new fabric we employ a warp of juto or of hemp, and this warp
may be plain or variously colored to produce patterns of stripes or checks. With
this warp we employ two wefts, a face weft and a back weft. The face weft is
also of jute or of hemp, and may be plain or colored, or partly plain and partly
colored.
This faco weft is woven with the warp in such manuer as to produce a twill, or
the weaving may be plain, but the twill is preferred.
The back weft is of wool or hair, and is intended to give a soft and warm back to
the compound fabric. The shuttles carrying the face and the back wefts are thrown
alternately or otherwise, and the sheds to receive these wefts are opened in similar
order. The soft back weft is floated on the under surface or back of the fabric, and
is tied in by the warp sufficiently to combine the back with the face to the extent
requisite to yield a firm wear resisting fabric.
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page_text: The advantage of forming the fabric in this way along the side selvages is that
when making up a horse cloth from a length of the fabric that the edges of the
made up horse cloth may be more durable and have a better appearance. The
making up of a strip of the fabric into a horse cloth is generally done by doubling
over a narrow strip along each edge of the fabric and stretching down the doubled
over strip, so that the edges of the horse cloth shall be of double thickness. We
double over part of the list or selvage on to the front face of the fabric, and hold it
down on to the face by stitching over it a braid or trimming, and by reason of the
list or selvage being so woven as to have an appearance the reverse of the remainder
of the fabric the doubled over edge will have the same appearance as the whole front
face of the fabric, and being of jute or hemp will be better able to resist wear than if
the soft weft of wool or hair were so exposed at the edge.
Having thus described the nature of our said Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, we would have it understood that we claim our new horse
cloth fabric with a face of jute or hemp, and backed with thick soft weft of wool
or hair interwoven with the warp threads of the face fabric, substantially as
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Jenkinson, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty first day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty.
WILLIAM JENKINSON. (L.S.)