IMPROVEMENTS IN. THE MANUFACTURE OF NOSE BAGS AND SIMILAR ARTICLES, AND IN APPARATUS; CONNECTED WITH SUCH MANUFACTURE
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS: PATENT to William Edward Gedge; of the Firm of John Gedge,
and Son, of No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand, in the County of,
---Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN. THE
MANUFACTURE OF NOSE BAGS AND SIMILAR ARTICLES, AND IN APPARATUS;
CONNECTED WITH SUCH MANUFACTURE."-A. communication: from abroad:
from Felix Loignon, Merchant, and Victor Casse, Manufacturer, both of
No 15 Passage des Petites Ecuries Paris France.
Sealed the 27th May 1862, and dated the 4th December 1861.
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward Gedge
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 4th December 1861.
I WILLIAN EDWARD GEDGE, of the Firm of John Gedge and Son, of
No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Patent
Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF NOSE BAGS AND SIMILAR ARTICLES, AND IN APPARATUS
CONNECTED WITH SUCH MANUFACTURE," a communication to me from abroad by
Felix. Loignon, Merchant, and Victor Casse, Manufacturer, both of No. 15,
Passage des Petites Ecuries, Paris, France, to be as follows:-
A nose bag, sack, or other article manufactured according to this Invention
is, composed of two different webs or fabrics, the one- sack ticken, the other
open worked squares. It is made with a single warp of, say, twenty threads to
the half inch, but this will vary. The sack ticken is woven with-eight lames

page_text: or reeds, four of which work continually, and four alternately with those which
do the open work. The open work web is made with two special lames or reeds
which, placed in front of the harness intended for the ground of the stuff, are
opposite the four lames or reeds which work alternately with them. These
two lames or reeds are folded on themselves, so that one is above and the
other beneath the warp; they are made with rings of (say) three inches.
The warp is drawn in cherrons of eight threads in the general ground, that is
to say, in the eight back sheds or leases intended for the sack ticken the part
of the warp entered in the four reed sheds facing the two lames or reeds of
the open work web then passes anew in the ringed mesh of the two sheds of
the said open work web, as hereafter explained. A group of four threads is
passed in the ring of the upper lame or reed and over the ring of the lower
lame. These two lames are worked by two special headles, which are pressed
upon alternately. The first lifting of the open work web must be repeated eight
consecutive times, and consequently contain, eight shoots. After these eight.
shoots the substitution is effected, that is to say, that.the twist which,should
produce the open work is executed by changing the treadle, and this new
lifting being like the preceeding eight similar shoots pass also over it, which
produces the open work square which is found in the .fabric. It will be
understood that between each twist á greater. or lesser number of shoots may
be passed, according to the fabric required. The rings on the reeds or. lames
are about three inches, in order that the threads which are therein in groups
of four to make the open work web may act freely one by one to. make when
required the substitution of the sack ticken ground for the open work
fabric
Street; Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting..
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by. Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of. Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and-grant unto
me, the said William Edward Gedge, Her special licence that I, the said

page_text: William,Edward Gedge; my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said William Edward Gedge, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention: for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF NOSE BAGS AND SIMILAR
ARTICLES, AND IN APPARATUS CONNECTED WITH SUCH MANUFACTURE," a communi-
cation to him from abroad from Felix Loignon, Merchant, and Victor Casse,
Manufacturer, both of, No. 15, Passage .des Petites Ecuries, Paris, France,
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Edward
Gedge, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describo
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Edward. Gedge, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be. particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-.
. Hitherto the open worked part of nose bags. for horses to. eat their oats out
or of other similar articles consisted of a kind of coarse trellis, merely sewn to
the remainder of the tissue, but not forming an integral part of this latter. .3
The present Invention, relates to the manufacture of canvass or other
description of tissue suitable for the manufacture therefrom of horses' nose
bags or other similar articles presenting one or more open worked or trellis
parts, obtained by the insertion in the tissue by and during the weaving of the
same of a suitable number of strings, twine, or other thread of a much coarser
description than those of 'the remainder back or ground of the tissue, the said
strings, twine, or coarse threads forming by their mutual interweaving a coarse
open worked part or trellis, in the manner as shewn in A, B, C, D, Figure 2,
which Figure represents a nose bag of which AA, A, A, A, A, A³, A³, is
the ground or back of the fabric, whilst the line in red, ink a, a, a, and b, b, b;
shows the twine, strings, or coarse threads inserted in the tissue as separate or
free warp or weft threads during the weaving.
Figure.1.shows a nose bag, the tissue of which is provided in E, F, G, H, I,
J, K, L, and M, N, O, P, with three trellis or open worked parts. In, Figure 2
the twine.. or coarse threads a, a, a, are inserted as warp, and those b, b, b, as

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weft, the weaving being conducted in such manner that in the part A, B, C, D,
the twine threads a, a, a, and b, b, b, are woven together, and either intermixed
'or not-with the warp and weft threads of the ground. or back of the tissue,
these warp and weft threads being afterwards carefully cut off over the entire
part A, B, C, D, so as to leave only-the trellis formed by the twine or strings
a, a, a, and b, b, b. Any practical weaver will readily understand in what
manner the weaving is to be conducted for obtaining the above mentioned
results.
The open worked or trellis part A, B, C, D, shown in Figure 2, might also
be obtained by proceeding in the following manner: The part marked
A¹, A', A', of the ground or back of the fabric is woven in the ordinary manner;
with one shuttle running over the entire width of the fabric till arrived at the
line A, B, where the first twine thread is to be inserted in the open shed, and
the shuttle continues to work over the entire extent of the part marked A³;
viz., in such manner that in reaching the line A, D, this shuttle, instead of
continuing over the full width of the tissue, is thrown back, whilst at the samė
time a second shuttle is thrown in for the part marked A, and is at each time
thrown back when reaching the line B, C, and finally when reaching the
line C, D, this second shuttle is withdrawn, and the fabric continued over
its full width with the first shuttle, it being understood that the twine; threads,
or strings b, b, b, are inserted in the sheds at regular-intervals, whilst those
a, a, a, form part of the warp.
It will be clear that by means of a jacquard machine the open worked or
trellis parts may be easily obtained, and the strings or twine thrown in at the
required intervals, whilst the ground or back of the tissue may be made as
plain cloth, tweeled, striped, or any other pattern. The three trellis parts,
E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, and M, N, O, P, of Figure 1, might also be obtained
by the following mode of weaving:-Four leaves of headles may serve, for
instance, for forming the striped ground, whilst for obtaining the trellis parts
four other leaves of headles work alternately with two half-leaves, as in common
gauze weaving, situate in front of the harness opposite the last mentioned
four leaves of headles, which-two-half-leaves-are-folded,-as-in-common.gauze
weaving, in such manner that one of them is situated above and the other
below the warp, each of them being provided with a large eye ring, and
worked by its own headle. The warp is entered, if the ground is to be of the
striped pattern, for the first eight picks; the part of the warp entered in the
four headles which are to work alternately with the two half leaves for
forming the trellis is entered in the loop or eye ring of the upper. half leaf, and
passes underneath the loop of the lower half.leaf, between the two arms of the

page_text: headle leaf, and is further conducted through the eye ring of the lower half
leaf. After the first eight picks the twisting or crossing for the binding of
the string or twine thrown in takes place, after which again eight picks are
thrown in, and so on.
Having thus described and particularly ascertained the nature of the
Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be put into operation,
I wish it to be understood that I do not intend to restrain or restrict myself to
the precise details of the various above mentioned modes of weaving this
improved tissue for the manufacture of nose bags and similar articles, as any
practical weaver may easily make any required variation therein without
departing from the main principle of the Invention; but what I consider to be
novel and original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by the
herein-before in part recited Letters Patent, is, weaving fabrics presenting one
or more trellis or open worked parts, so as to be suitable for the manufacture
of horses' nose bags therefrom, or other similar articles, the open worked parts
of the said fabrics being formed by the suitable insertion in the tissue by and
during the weaving of the same of any suitable number of strings, twine, or
other, threads of a much coarser description than the remainder of the tissue.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Gedge, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Third day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
W. E. GEDGE. (L.S.)