Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Nov., 1898-Accepted, 21st Jan.,
1899
We, HENRY BRADY PRIESTMAN, of Brick Lane Mills, City Road, in the City of
Bradford, Spinner and Manufacturer, and SAMUEL HERBERT RAWNSLEY, of the
same place, Designer, 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 certain improvements in the production of material for
dress purposes, upon which is placed a covering of gauze before it is worn.
Hitherto the material and the gauze have been woven in separate looms and
finished separately.
In our invention a fabric with a gauze covering is produced at one and the same
time, in one and the same loom and finished in one and the same operation.
The combined fabric is united in the loom along the selvage on both sides of
the piece, or if required may also be united at intervals in other portions of the
fabric between the selvages.
In weaving the combined fabric, the gauze portion has fewer warp threads and
fewer picks of weft are thrown across than the other portion of the combined
fabric, the healds being so regulated by a shedding motion of the ordinary descrip-
tion that, the warp threads forming the gauze and those forming the lower portion
of the combined fabric, are regulated to allow the shuttle to pass through the shed
of the gauze portion and through the shed of the lower and preferably heavier
portion of the fabric as desired.
The binding of the two portions of the combined fabric is accomplished by the
operation or treading of the healds so that the warp threads of the gauze and those
of the lower portion of the combined fabric are intermingled and bound together
by the interlacing of the weft substantially in the same manner as when weaving
a single fabric; any intermediate binding of the gauze portion with the lower
portion of the combined fabric, is accomplished by regulating the warp threads in
the same manner, say for example some of the warp threads of the gauze are
allowed to remain down when the shed of the lower portion of the fabric is formed,
so that on passing the weft through the shed, the gauze is thereby attached to the
lower portion of the combined fabric; or on the contrary, when the shed of the
gauze is formed for allowing the shuttle to pass across the fabric, some of the
warp threads of the lower portion of the combined fabric may be raised and form
part of the gauze shed and attached to the gauze by the interlacing of the weft,
thus binding the two portions together where required.
Our improved combination facilitates the making of the dress, in as much as,
in the operation of cutting out, the two fabrics are bound to be one and the same
shape, and in the putting together of the various cuttings to pattern, the two,
that is, the dress piece and the gauze being united need no tacking together.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:-
The production of a dress fabric in which the material forming the foundation
is combined at the selvage or at the selvage and at intervals between with a
covering of gauze by the loom in which both fabrics are woven at one and the
same time.
1000
JOHN WAUGH,
Agent, Sunbridge Chambers, Bradford.