Improvements in or relating to the Manufacture of Woven Fabrics.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 28th Jan., 1895-Accepted, 2nd Mar., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION..
Improvements in or relating to the Manufacture of Woven
Fabrics.
We, JAMES STEVENSON and GEORGE WORTLEY of the Leicester Elastic Web
Manufacturing Society, Limited, Slate Street, Leicester, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the manufacture of woven fabrics having a ribbed or
corrugated appearance.
These ribbed fabrics although applicable for other purposes are largely used in
the manufacture of corsets.
For this purpose the ordinary method of producing the ribbed or corrugated
appearance consists in employing two separate pieces of woven fabric between
which are placed at regular intervals lengths of string, cord or the like, the
substance of which is determined by the gauge of the rib.
These two fabrics are then connected together by rows of stitches along each
side of the string or cord thus fixing the latter.in position and causing it to impart a
ribbed appearance to the fabric.
The object of the present invention is to obviate the necessity of placing cords
between two separate fabrics and the stitching process before mentioned and the
invention.consists of a new manufacture of a woven fabric, having a ribbed or
corrugated appearance in which the cords or equivalents are incorporated during
the process of weaving or manufacture.
A woven ribbed fabric produced as hereinafter described will not only be much
cheaper than a similar fabric produced in the usual manner hereinbefore referred
to, but is produced in one process instead of in two processes.
According to the present invention a woven ribbed fabric may be produced by
employing the required number of strings, cords or equivalents as one of the series
of warp threads, the said string or cord warps being much coarser in gauge than
the remaining warps.
The said string or cord warps may either be fixed or movable according to the
construction of the loom and number of shuttles employed and by preference are
entirely covered or enclosed by the weft or woof thread or threads.
Dated this 28th day of April 1894.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to the Manufacture of Woven
Fabrics.
We JAMES STEVENSON and GEORGE WORTLEY, of the Leicester Elastic Web
Manufacturing Society, Limited, Slate Street, Leicester, 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 :-
This invention has reference to the manufacture of woven fabrics having a
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page_text: ribbed or corrugated appearance, and which, although specially applicable for use
in the manufacture of corsets and stays, may, on account of their stiffness and
strength, be also advantageously employed in the production of belts, braces,
straps, and other articles.
In the manufacture of corsets, the well known method of producing the ribbed
or corrugated appearance in such articles at such parts where stiffness of the fabric
is required, consists in interposing between two separate pieces of woven fabric,
lengths of cord, string, or the like at regular intervals apart and connecting
together the two pieces of fabric by parallel rows of stitches between and alongside
of the lengths of string or cord so that the latter are fixed in position by such
stitching and thus. impart a ribbed appearance to the fabric.
The present invention is designed chiefly to obviate the necessity of placing cords
or strings, between two separate pieces of fabric and the stitching process before-
mentioned and consists in producing a woven fabric having a ribbed or corrugated
appearance in which the cords to form the ribs or corrugations are incorporated in
the fabric during the process of weaving or the manufacture thereof.
A woven ribbed fabric made in accordance with this invention is produced in one
process instead of by two separate processes as heretofore.
In the production of woven ribbed fabrics according to this invention we may
employ any well known construction of loom and in addition to the usual series of
warp threads we may employ a series of warp threads consisting of cord, string or
its equivalent, which may be of much coarser gauge than the remaining or usual
warps: the gauge of the said cord or string warps, being determined according
to the depth required between the ribs or corrugations on the face of the produced
fabric.
The said string or cord warps may either be fixed or movable according to the
construction of the loom and the number of the shuttles employed.
The position of the string or cord warps relatively to the weft threads or the
other warp threads is arranged as will be well understood by those acquainted with
the art of weaving so that the said string or cord warps are entirely covered
.thereby in the produced fabric.
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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 :-
1. The manufacture of a woven ribbed fabric in which the ribs are formed by
cord or string warps incorporated in the fabric during the process of weaving
substantially as described.
2. A woven fabric in the manufacture of which the usual series of warp threads
are combined with a series of coarser gauge warp threads and connected together
by weft threads to form a fabric having a ribbed or corrugated appearance
substantially as described.
3. The improved manufacture of woven ribbed fabrics substantially as described.
لبعد
1
1805
JAMES STEVENSON.
GEORGE WORTLEY.
Witness―
E. NORTH LEWIS,
Leicester.
W. P. Thompson & Boult,
Agents for the Applicants.