Improvements in the Manufacture of Figured Pile Fabrics.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Dec., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 21st Sept., 1898-Accepted, 29th Oct.,
1898
Improvements in the Manufacture of Figured Pile Fabrics.
I, ALEXANDER MORTON, of the Firm of Alexander Morton and Company, Manu-
facturers, Darvel, Ayrshire, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows: -
This invention has for its object the manufacture of fabrics having a figured
pile produced without the use of jacquard mechanism by weaving with warps
printed in a manner similar to that practised in making tapestry carpets and by
weaving a double cloth with the pile warps crossing from cloth to cloth or face
to face of the fabric and severing these warps by knives or cutters as the weaving
proceeds to separate the double cloth into two webs each having a pile surface.
The weaving of the double cloth is effected in a well known way by forming
two sheds by means of suitably operated heddles and throwing two shuttles simul-
taneously, the weft shots being bound in by binding warps with or without the
addition of stuffing warps whilst the pile forming warps are held or bound into
the top and bottom cloths either by a single weft shot or by two or more wefts.
The printing of the warp for the one cloth is repeated in the warp of the other
cloth so that as the warp of any one colour crosses from the upper to the lower
cloth a similarly coloured warp crosses from the lower to the upper cloth and conse-
quently to obtain any desired body of pile only half the length of colouring of
each warp that would otherwise be necessary is required. The effect of employing
printed warps is to produce, when the cloths are severed, a pile surface on both
cloths having coloured figure and ground corresponding to the pattern printed on
the warps.
By this means considerable economy is effected in "setting" of the warps, and
printed warp is provided for two carpets by the one setting, two threads being
put through the setting reed at one and the same time.
Noted this 20th day of December 1897.
WALLACE FAIRWEATHER,
Of the Firm of Cruikshank & Fairweather,
Chartered Patent Agents,
Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agent for the Applicant.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Figured Pile Fabrics.
I, ALEXANDER MORTON, of the Firm of Alexander Morton and Company, Manu-
facturers, Darvel, Ayrshire, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
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page_text: in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention has for its object the manufacture of fabrics having a figured
pile produced without the use of jacquard mechanism by weaving with warps
printed in a manner similar to that practised in making tapestry carpets and by
weaving a double cloth with the pile warps crossing from cloth to cloth or face to
face of the fabric and severing these warps by knives or cutters as the weaving
proceeds to separate the double cloth into two webs each having a pile surface.
The invention is illustrated by the accompanying drawings which shews three
modifications of the weaving. Figure 1 shews a form of weave in which two
picks of weft are employed for each pile warp, a stuffer being used to give body to
the cloth. Figure 2 shews a form of weave in which three picks of weft are
employed for each pile warp, no stuffer being used in this case. Figure 3 shews
a form of weave in which three picks of weft are employed, a stuffer being used
in this case in the body of the cloth.
The weaving of the double cloth A, B, is effected in a well known way by
forming two sheds by means of suitably operated heddles and throwing two
shuttles simultaneously, the weft shots C, C, D, D¹, in the top and bottom cloth
being bound in by binding warps E. E, F, F, respectively with the addition of
stuffing warps G, H, as shewn at Figure 1, or without these as at Figure 2, whilst
the pile forming warps I, II, 12, 13, are held or bound into the top and bottom
cloths A, B, either by a single weft shot C, D, as at Figure 1, or by two or more
wefts as shewn at Figures 1 and 3, in which three weft shots are employed to each
pile warp.
The printing of the warp for the one cloth is repeated in the warp of the other
cloth so that as the warp of any one colour crosses from the upper cloth A to the
lower cloth a similarly coloured warp crosses from the lower cloth B to the upper
cloth A as clearly shewn at the left side of the figures on the drawing and conse-
quently to obtain any desired body of pile only half the length of colouring of
each warp that would otherwise be necessary is required. The effect of employing
printed warps is to produce, when the cloths A, B, are severed, a pile surface on
both cloths having coloured figure and ground corresponding to the pattern
printed on the warps.
By this means considerable economy is effected in "setting " of the warps, and
printed warp is provided for two carpets by the one setting, two threads being
put through the setting reed at one and the same time.
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:
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The manufacture of figured pile fabrics as described by weaving a double cloth
with pile warps having the pattern printed thereon, said warps being crossed from
face to face of the fabric and bound thereinto by the weft and thereafter severed
to separate the double cloth into two webs each having a pile surface.
Dahi noth
£ Cantalo
1000
WALLACE FAIRWEATHER,
Of the Firm of Cruikshank & Fairweather,
Chartered Patent Agents,
62, Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agent for the Applicant.