Improved Means for Making-up Piled Fabrics or other Woven Goods.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Mar., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 27th Apr., 1893-Accepted, 27th May, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Making-up Piled Fabrics or other Woven
Goods.
I JOSEPH HALLWORTH of Saint Peters Square Manchester in the County of
Lancaster, Velveteen Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improved means for making up for sale, storage, and
transportation, velvets and other similar piled fabrics and other woven goods, the
object of the said invention being to prevent creasing and consequent injury to the
said piled or other woven goods.
It is usual to make up such goods by plaiting them to and fro in folds of a certain
width and then stiffening the same by inserting between the folds a thin piece of
board of a corresponding width, or by rolling or folding the fabric or goods round a
thin piece of board of suitable width. In both of these methods the goods
become creased and especially in velvets and other piled fabrics this is a great
disadvantage.
For the purposes of my invention I form a kind of hollow board of a convenient
width (say about eight or nine inches) and of a length corresponding with the
width of the fabric, and from (say) an inch to an inch and a half thick, in the
following manner.
I first form the two ends of light deal or other wood (say) about one inch wide
and a half to three quarters of an inch thick and about nine inches long with
rounded ends.
I then take a piece of thin millboard or other suitable material of the width
required, and placing one of the wooden ends on each edge thereof I fix the same
together with tacks.
I then wind or roll the millboard round the two wooden ends twice or more and
make a good joint with paste or other adhesive material or compound, and tack the
edges through the two or three thicknesses to the edges of the two wooden ends,
thus making a kind of hollow board an inch or more in thickness and with rounded
edges.
Velvets and other piled fabrics and other woven goods may be wound upon
these improved boards without forming any creases whatever and as these boards
are formed hollow as above described they will be very little (if any) heavier than
the thin boards hitherto employed for such purposes.
Dated this 21st day of March 1893.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Making-up Piled Fabrics or other Woven
Goods.
I JOSEPH HALLWORTH of Saint Peters Square Manchester in the County of
Lancaster, Velveteen Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be perforined to be particularly described aud
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to improved means for making up for sale, storage and
transportation, velvets and similar piled fabrics and other woven goods, the object

page_text: of the said invention being to prevent creasing and consequent injury to the said
piled or other woven goods.
It is usual to make up such goods by plaiting them to and fro in folds of a
certain width and then stiffening the same by inserting between the folds a thin
piece of board of a corresponding width, or by rolling or folding the fabric or
goods round a thin piece of board of suitable width. In both of these methods the
goods become creased and especially in velvets and other piled fabrics this is a
great disadvantage.
My invention is intended to remedy this defect and the same will be readily
understood from the following description on reference to the accompanying
drawings.
Fig. 1 is a section and Fig. 2 a plan part broken and shewn in section of my
improved means for making up the aforesaid goods.
For the purposes of my invention I form a kind of hollow board A of a con-
venient width (say about eight or nine inches) see Fig. 1 and of a length
corresponding with the width of the fabric see Fig. 2 and from (say) an inch to an
inch and a half thick in the following manner.
I first form the two ends a a¹ of light deal or other suitable material (say) about
one inch wide (see Fig. 1) and a half to three quarters of an inch thick (see Fig. 2)
and about nine inches long with rounded ends.
I then take a piece of thin millboard a² or other suitable material of the width
required, and placing one of the ends on each edge thereof I fasten the same
thereto.
I then wind or roll the millboard or other suitable material a round the two
ends a a¹ twice or more and make a good joint with paste or other adhesive material
or compound, and fasten the edges through the two or three thicknesses of mill-
board to the edges of the two ends a a¹ thus making a kind of hollow board A. an
inch or more in thickness and with rounded sides.
Velvets and other piled fabrics and other woven goods may be wound upon these
improved boards without forming any creases whatever and as these boards are
formed hollow as above described they will be very little (if any) heavier than the
thin boards hitherto employed for such purposes.
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 :-
A hollow board with rounded sides for making up woven goods consisting of two
ends of wood or other suitable light rigid material having rounded ends, combined
with sides formed by a lap or laps of millboard or similar flexible material wrapped
around and fastened to the said ends substantially as herein before described and
illustrated by the annexed drawings.
Dated this 26th day of Anvil 1802
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.