Improvements in or relating to Door and other Mats.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Feb., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 11th Sept., 1896-Accepted, 14th Nov., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Door and other Mats.
We, JOHN ARCHER, of 33 Carlton Street, Wakefield, in the County of York,
Mat and Matting Manufacturer, and JESSE ARCHER, the younger, of 1 Craven
Terrace, Ossett Road, Wakefield aforesaid, Commercial Traveller, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
This invention relates to improvements in door, carriage, and other mats, such as
are made of cocoa, or coir yarn or fibre; and its object is to make them more
durable by preventing them breaking away, as hitherto, while at the same time the
weight of the mat is not necessarily altered.
Instead of making the warp of coir yarn as hitherto we substitute therefor any
desired number of strands or strips of metal either in the form of a wire or two or
more strands of wire twisted together or a flexible strip of metal of any convenient
length, size, and shape. The ends of these wires or strips are secured or fastened by
any convenient means such as either bending and turning over their ends into the
pile of cocoa or coir fibre or yarn. Or the strands or strips of wire or metal
may partially take the place of the weft of the mat and its warp.be of cocoa or
coir yarn.
The mat is woven or made in the usual manner and afterwards bound with 'a
coir yarn plait of the ordinary construction.
Mats.constructed according to this invention are not so liable to break away at
the corners, or to be loose when being shaken, and the metal. strands or strips add
to their strength and durability.
Dated this Seventeenth day of February 1896.
JOHN ARCHER,
JESSE ARCHER, THE YOUNGER,..
By W. Fairburn-Hart,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Door and other Mats.
We, JOHN ARCHER, of 33, Carlton Street, Wakefield, in the County of York,
Mat and Matting Manufacturer, and JESSE ARCHER, the younger, of 1, Craven
Terrace, Ossett Road, Wakefield, aforesaid, Commercial Traveller, 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 relates to improvements in door, carriage, wool border, and other
mats, such as are made of cocoa, or coir yarn or fibre, prepared in the usual manner
with or without a wool border; and its object is to make the mats more durable by
preventing them breaking away, as hitherto, at the corners or other portions, while
at the same time the weight of the mat is not necessarily altered.
Instead of making the warp wholly of coir yarn as hitherto we substitute therefor

page_text: any desired number of strands or strips of metal such as say galvanized or other
iron, brass, steel, copper or the like, either in the form of a wire, or two or more
strands of wire twisted together or a flexible strip of metal of any convenient
length, size, and thickness, all of which are bereafter, termed and included in the
term "wire," or coir yarn and wire combined. The ends of these wires, are
secured or fastened by any convenient means such as either bending turning over
and twisting together their ends into the pile of cocoa or coir fibre or yarn. Or
the strands of wire may partially take the place of the weft of the mat and its
warp be of cocoa or coir yarn. The mat is woven or made in the usual manner
and afterwards bound with a coir yarn plait of the ordinary construction, or
border of wool in the ordinary manner.
Mats constructed according to this invention are not so liable to break away at
the corners, or to be loosened when being shaken, and the metal strands or strips
add to their strength and durability.
In the drawings hereunto annexed :-
Fig. 1 is a plan of a mat constructed according to this invention.
Fig. 2. A longitudinal section on line a a Fig. 1.
Fig. 3. A transverse section on line y y Fig. 1.
Fig. 4. An elevation showing the manner of wrapping the coir yarn, forming
the pile part of the weft of the mat round its construction bar.
Like parts in all the views are marked with similar letters of reference.
A is the warp of the mat which is composed. wholly or partially of wire or coir
yarn and wire combined.
B the weft which holds the pile C in position.
D the coir yarn or wool binding or border for finishing the mat off complete.
E the pile forming bar, see Fig. 4.
The warp A is placed in the loom which is of the ordinary construction provided
with healds and other harness, all of which are not shown in the drawings; and the
loom tuned in the usual manner. The outside warp on each side of the mat is
composed of two or more strands of wire A while the rest of the warp is composed
say of single strands. A weft B of coir yarn is then passed by the shuttle between
the warp, and the pile forming bar E (which is also of ordinary construction and
has a groove in the edge extending its full length) is afterwards threaded through
the strands of warp. A coil of coir yarn being wrapped round the bar E, as
shown at Fig. 4, between each strand of warp A. When the bar, E has been fully
wrapped with coir yarn it is pulled towards the breast of the loom and the
wrapped coir yarn cut along the groove in the top of the bar E to form the pile C.
The cutting of the wrapped coir yarn at once releases the bar E. A weft B of
coir yarn is again passed between the strands of warp and beaten up to the breast
of the loom by the slay, when by the tuning of the loom a given number of the
warp threads or strands are carried by healds upwards at the same time that
another portion thereof is caused to descend for securing the pile C and weft Bia
position. The operation of threading the bar E through the warp A and pile
yarn C around the bar and the weft B passed backwards and forwards between
the warp A are successively repeated until the mat is woven to the size required.
Afterwards the ends of every two strands of warp A are cut off and twisted
together at each end a, and then bent upwards or downwards as may be required.
Afterwards the mat is bound round its sides and ends with a binding D of coir
yarn of ordinary construction sewn thereon in the usual mauner, or a wool border
may be sewn or otherwise attached thereto.
A variety of patterns may be formed in the usual manner in the centre of the mat
other than that shown at Fig. 1.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said iuven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
A door or other mat formed substantially as herein described having its warp

page_text: composed either wholly of strips or strands of wire, or coir yarn and wire
combined, and its weft aud pile composed of coir yarn woven into the said warp
and bound or bordered, as described, after the ends of two or more of the warp
strands have been securely fastened together all substantially as herein described
with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this Tenth day of September 1896.
JOHN ARCHER.
JESSE ARCHER, JUNR.