IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FUSTIANS AND CORDS
Year: 1880

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by David Dewhirst and Shackleton
Crossley at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th March
1880.
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DAVID DEWHIRST and SHACKLETON CROSSLEY, both of Hebdon Bridge, in the
County of York, Fustian Manufacturers. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF FUSTIANS AND CORDS."
This Invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of looped or pile
fabrics such as fustians and cords, and the object of the Invention is to produco a
fuller face on the piece, whereby an improved appearance and value is attained.
In the manufacture of such fabrics, according to this our said Invention, we combino
a backing or foundation with the pile or loops consisting of one pick of weft to the
back and three to the face, or one pick to the back and four to the face, or one
pick to the back and five to the face, thus producing recesses at the back of and in
the direction of the length of the piece and a crowded or full pilo face.
In the manufacture where one pick to the back and three to tho face, according
to one arrangement, for first pick, healds 5 and 8 are raised; second pick, healds
6 and 7 are raised; third pick, healds 5 and 8; fourth pick, healds 3, 4, 6, and 8
are raised; fifth pick, healds 6 and 7 are raised; sixth pick, healds 5 and 8;
seventh pick, healds 6 and 7; eighth pick, healds 2, 3, 5, 7; ninth pick, healds
5 and 8; tenth pick, healds 6 and 7; eleventh pick, healds 5 and 8; twelfth pick,
healds 1, 2, 5, and 7 are raised; this completes the round.
The looming is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 on first healds, and 7, 8, 9, 10 are on the first,
second, third, and fourth healds, 11 and 12 are on 7 and 8 healds. A second
arrangement of 3 to 1 consists for first pick, take up healds 5, 8; second pick,
healds 6 and 7; third pick, healds 5 and 8; fourth pick, healds 2, 4, 6, 8; fifth
pick, healds 6, 7; sixth pick, 5 and 8; seventh pick, 6, 7; eighth pick, 1, 3, 5, 7;
this completes the round. The looming is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, on first healds, and 7
and 8 are on healds 3 and 4, whilst 9, 10, are on healds 1, 2; 11 and 12 are on
healds 7, 8.
In the manufacture where there is 1 pick to the back and 4 picks to the face for
the first pick, healds 5 and 8 are raised; second pick, healds 6, 7; third pick. 5
and 8; fourth pick, 6, 7; fifth pick, 3, 4, 6, and 8; sixth pick, healds 5 and 8 are
raised; soventh pick, 6, 7; eighth pick, 5, 8; ninth, 6, 7; tenth pick, 2, 3, 5, 7;
eleventh pick, 5 and 8; twelfth pick, 0 and 7; thirteenth pick, 5, 8; fourteenth

page_text: pick, 6 and 7; fifteenth pick, 1, 2, 5, 7; this completes the round. Looming is
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, 8, on 1, 2, healds 9, 10, are on 3 and 4, and 11, 12, are on
7 and 8 healds. Another manufacture of 1 pick to back and 4 to the face for
first pick, healds 5, 8, are raised; second pick, 6, 7, healds are raised; third pick,
5 and 8 healds; fourth, 6 and 7; fifth, 2, 4, 6, and 8 healds; sixth, 5 and 8 healds;
seventh, 6 and 7 healds; eighth, 5 and 8; ninth, 6 and 7; tenth, 1, 3, 5, and 7
healds; this completes the round.
Looming draft is on healds 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 are on 3, 4, healds, 9, 10, are
on 1, 2, healds, 11, 12, are on 7 and 8 healds.
Where 1 pick to the back and 5 to the face on the first pick, healds 5, 8, are
raised; second pick, healds 6, 7; third pick, 5 and 8; fourth, 6, 7, healds are
raised; fifth pick, 5, 8, raised; sixth pick, 3, 4, 6, 8, raised; seventh pick, 6 and 7
healds raised eighth pick, 5, 8, raisod; ninth pick, 6, 7, raised; tenth, 5, 8, raised;
eleventh, 6, 7, raised; twelfth, 2, 3, 5, 7, raised; thirteenth, 5, 8, raised; fourteenth,
6, 7, raised; fifteenth, 5, 8, raised; sixteenth, 6 and 7 raised; seventeenth, 5, 8;
eighteenth pick, 1, 2, 5, 7 healds; this completes the round.
Looming draft healds 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, whilst 7, 8, 9, 10, are on healds 1, 2, 3, 4,
the 11, 12, are on healds 7, 8. Second manufacture of 1 pick to back to 5 to the
face, for first pick raise healds 5, 8, second pick, raise hicalds 6, 7; third pick, raise
healds 5, 8; fourth pick, raise healds 6, 7; fifth pick, raise healds 5, 8; sixth
pick, healds 2, 4, 6, 8, to be raised; seventh pick, raise healds 6,7; eighth pick,
raise healds 5, 8; ninth pick, raise healds 6, 7; tenth pick, raise 5, 8, healds;
eleventh pick, raise 6, 7; twelfth pick, raise 1, 3, 5, 7; this completes the round.
The loomings draft is healds 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, whilst 7 and 8 are on healds 3 and 4,
0 and 10 are on 1 and 2 healds, the 11th and 12th are on healds 7 and 8.