Improvements in the Manufacture of Stay Bindings, Braids, Webs, and other like Fabrics.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd July, 1886.
Complete Left, 2nd Apr., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 3rd May, 1887.
PROVIDIUNAL DIECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Stay Bindings, Braids, Webs,
and other like Fabrics.
We, ISAAC LUNN and CHARLES LUNN of Framland Street, Leicester, Fancy
Hosiery Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
:-
Braids, Stay Bindings, Webs and the like as at present produced will when drawn
or stretched twist and curl up so that the material oftentimes present a round instead
of the desired flat surface. The curling referred to when the bending is used in the
manufacture of articles of apparel and the like causes much delay and inconvenience
to those employed to deal with it; and when the braids or bindings. are used as
strings to garments they rarely present a flat surface on account of their great
tendency to curl up.
The object of our Invention is therefore to avoid the curling or twisting in the
fabric referred to and our Improvements relate to the warp threads used in its
manufacture. It is well known that threads of yarns and the like are usually spun
with the twist always in one direction, and Webs, Bindings, Braids and the like have
hitherto been composed entirely of threads spun in the same direction.
We however use threads having a different twist i.e. one thread with a right and
another with a left twist or in other words one thread with the usual twist and another
with the back or reverse twist.
The threads of different "twists" are wound on separate bobbins so that when the
warp is being prepared for the manufacture of the Braids and the like on an ordinary
loom the bobbins may be placed so that the threads named may appear preferably
alternately in the braids or bindings thus affording a counteraction on account of the
opposite twists. We do not however confine ourselves strictly to alternate threads as
described as in the manufacture of certain fabrics we may elect to place the threads
in different proportions alternately in order to yield a counteraction viz. a certain
number of threads of one twist and then the desired number of threads of the opposite
twist which may be repeated according to the required width of the fabric to be
manufactured. It will therefore be readily understood that by means of the oppositely
twisted threads placed in the fabric in the manner described, counter resistance is
set up and curling may be avoided.
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page_text: We, ISAAC LUNN and CHARLES LUNN of Framland Street Leicester Hosiery
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 :-
Braids, stay bindings, webs, and the like as at present produced will when drawn or
stretched, twist and curl up, so that the material oftentimes, presents a round instead
of the desired flat surface.
The curling referred to when the binding is used in the manufacture of articles of
apparel and the like causes much delay and inconvenience to those employed to deal
with it; and when the braids or bindings are used, as strings to garments they rarely
present a flat surface on account of their great tendency to curl up.
The object of our invention is therefore to avoid the curling or twisting in the
fabrics referred to, and our improvements relate to the warp threads used in the
manufacture of same.
It is well known that threads of yarn and the like are usually spun, with the
'twist' always in one direction, and webs, bindings, braids, and the like, have
hitherto been composed entirely of threads spun in the same direction.
We however use threads, having
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a different twist,' i.e. one thread with a right,
and another with a left 'twist,' or in other words, one thread with the usual 'twist
and another with the back or reverse twist.
The threads of different twists' are wound on separate bobbins so that when the
warp is being prepared for the manufacture of the braids and the like on an ordinary
loom, the bobbins may be placed so that the threads named, may appear preferably
alternately in the braids or bindings, thus affording a counteraction on account of the
opposite twists.'
We do not however confine ourselves strictly to alternate threads as described, as
in the manufacture of certain fabrics, we may elect to place the threads in different
proportions alternately in order to yield a counteraction viz., a certain number of
threads of one 'twist' and then the desired number of threads of the opposite
'twist,' which may be repeated according to the required width of the fabric to be
manufactured.
It will therefore be readily understood that by means of the oppositely twisted
threads placed in the fabric in the manner described, counter resistance is set
curling may be avoided.
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page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is :—
1st. In the manufacture of Braids, Stay bindings, Webs and the like, the employ-
ment of threads of yarn or its equivalent, of different twists substantially as and for
the purpose specified.
2. In the manufacture of Braids, Stay bindings, webs and the like, the employ-
ment of threads of yarn or its equivalent of different twists in various proportions
alternately, substantially as and for the purpose specified.
3. Braids, Stay bindings, webs and the like, manufactured or produced in the
manner described and being incapable of twisting or curling.
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Dated this 29th day of March 1887.
Witness
E. N. LEWIS,
Midland Patent Office,
Market Street, Leicester.
ISAAC LUNN.
CHAS. LUNN.