Improvements in or connected with Jacquard Looms for Weaving Brussels and Wilton Carpets and Rugs and other kinds of Carpets and Rugs.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Apr., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 14th Dec., 1893-Accepted, 20th Jan., 1894
PROVISIONAL DIBUITIVATION.
Improvements in or connected with Jacquard Looms for Weaving
Brussels and Wilton Carpets and Rugs and other kinds of Carpets
and Rugs.
We JAMES HUMPHRIES AND SONS LIMITED of No. 65 Mill Street Kidder-
minster in the County of Worcester Carpet Manufacturers and JAMES PERCIVAL
HUMPHRIES Director of James Humphries and Sons Limited, aforesaid Carpet
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The said invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described by the
use of which improvements a five frame Jacquard loom which is ordinarily
employed to produce designs in say five colours can be made to produce designs in
ten colours and a ten frame Jacquard loom can be made to produce designs in
twenty colours.
In carrying the said invention into effect special check papers are prepared for
designing patterns. The special check papers which we use are ruled with spaces
twice as broad as ordinary check papers but of the same depth so that there are
half as many oblong spaces in our special check papers as there are square spaces
in ordinary check papers. In ordinary stamped cards for a five frame loom two
blanks in a row of ten holes are required to raise two worsted ends. In stamping
cards according to the said invention we have only one blank in a course or row of
ten holes which blank raises two worsted ends.
In place of the ordinary lingoes double eyed lingoes are employed. The two
top brass eyes of the double lingoes are fastened to the top-lish end, which in rising
lifts both mails attached to the lingoe. By this arrangement and using the
ordinary top harness there is obtained with a five frame loom the same colour effect
or designs as could be produced by a ten frame loom.
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The holes in the lifting board are placed in such position as to allow of the
twenty ends working in one course.
After drawing all the threads through the harness they are dealt with in the
sley in the following manner. The sley employed is a fine pitched one say having
ten reeds to the inch the ground or chain ends are drawn in alternate reeds in
weaving Wilton carpets or rugs but in each reed in weaving Brussels carpets or
rugs. The worsted ends after having been brought through the harness are
dealt with as follows;-there-are-twenty_worsted ends in each course, that is
between the chain ends in Wilton carpets or rugs, but in Brussels there are only ten
worsted ends between the chain ends. In the ordinary course of weaving Wilton
carpets and rugs the worsted ends are all drawn in one reed of the sley, but by
the said invention two reeds of the sley are used drawing ten worsted ends into each
reed of the sley.
In the winding two ends of worsted are employed on each bobbin. There are
thus obtained ten colours by the use of five creel frames. By this invention a ten
frame Jacquard loom produces a twenty colour effect, that is, this invention
practically doubles the power of the Jacquard loom as regards framage or the effect
of colouring, thereby materially increasing the value of the plant used in the
manufacture of Brussels and Wilton carpets and rugs.
In applying this invention to an ordinary loom the neck harness is untied where
it is attached to the top-lish and the lifting board is taken out together with all
top lish and lingoes attached, these parts being replaced by the new lifting board
described which is tied up top-lish and the new lingoes the top-lish is tied to the neck

page_text: harness and the frames of worsted and chain are tied to the ends left standing in
the new harness. The loom is then ready for use.
This invention is also applicable to jute or any floor carpets woven with
jacquard.
Dated this 10th day of April 1893.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Jacquard Looms for Weaving
Brussels and Wilton Carpets and Rugs and other kinds of Carpets
and Rugs.
We JAMES HUMPHRIES AND SONS LIMITED, of No. 65 Mill Street,
Kidderminster, in the County of Worcester, Carpet Manufacturers, and JAMES
PERCIVAL HUMPHRIES, Director of James Humphries and Sons Limited, afore-
said, Carpet Manufacturer 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 :-
The said invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described by the use
of which improvements a five frame Jacquard loom which is ordinarily employed to
produce designs in say five colours can be made to produce designs in ten colours
and a ten frame Jacquard loom can be made to produce designs in twenty colours.
In carrying the said invention into effect special check papers are prepared for
designing patterns. The special check papers which we use are ruled with spaces twice
as broad as ordinary check papers but of the same depth so that there are half as
many oblong spaces in our special check papers as there are square spaces in ordinary
check papers. In ordinary stamped cards for a five frame loom, two blanks in a
row of ten holes are required to raise two worsted ends.
according to the said invention we have only one blank in a course or row of ten
In stamping cards
holes which blank raises two worsted. ends.
In place of the ordinary lingoes, double eyed lingoes are employed. The two
top brass eyes of the double lingoes are fastened to the top-lish end, which in rising
lifts both mails attached to the lingoe. By this arrangement and using the ordinary
top harness there is obtained with a five frame loom the same colour effect or
design as is produced by an ordinary ten frame loom; and with a ten frame loom
the same colour effect or design as is produced by an ordinary twenty frame loom.
The holes in the lifting boards of the said looms, are arranged so as to allow of
the ten or twenty worsted ends working in one course.
After drawing all the threads through the harness they are dealt with in the sley
in the following manner. The sley employed is a fine pitched one, say, having
ten reeds to the inch; the ground or chain ends are drawn in alternate reeds in
wearing Wilton carpets or rugs but in each reed in weaving Brussels carpets or
rugs. The worsted ends after having been brought through the harness are dealt
with as follows; there are twenty worsted ends in each course, that is, between the
chain ends in Wilton carpets or rugs, but in Brussels there are ouly-ten worsted
ends between the chain ends. In the ordinary course of weaving Wilton carpets
and rugs the worsted ends are all drawn in one reed of the sley but by the said
invention two reeds of the sley are used drawing ten worsted ends into each reed of
the sley.
In the winding, two ends of worsted are employed on each bobbin. There are
thus obtained ten colours by the use of five creel frames.
By this invention the power of the Jacquard loom as regards framage or the
effect of colouring is practically doubled thereby materially increasing the value of
the plant used in the manufacture of Brussels and Wilton carpets and rugs.
In applying this invention to an ordinary loom the neck harness is untied where

page_text: it is attached to the top-lish and the lifting board is taken out together with all
top-lish and lingoes attached, these parts being replaced by the new lifting board
described which is tied up with top-lish and the new lingoes, the top lish is tied to
the neck harness and the frames of worsted and chain are tied to the ends left
standing in the new harness. The loom is then ready for use.
This invention is also applicable to jute or any floor carpets woven with
jacquard.
Having explained the nature of the said invention we will now proceed to
describe in detail the manner of carrying the same into effect, assisted by the
figures and diagram of the accompanying drawings.
In order to produce in an ordinary five frame Jacquard loom, designs.or patterns
in ten colours or to produce in an ordinary ten frame Jacquard loom designs or
patterns in twenty colours, or in other words to double the power of the Jacquard
loom as regards framage, the number of worsted ends or warp threads to produce
the pattern has to be doubled. In order to accommodate this additional number of
worsted ends we modify and arrange the parts of the loom in the manner hereinafter
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
We will describe the said invention as applied to an ordinary five frame loom,
which loom by the application of the said invention will be made to produce patterns
or designs having ten colours thereby virtually converting the five frame loom into
a ten frame loom.
We wind on each bobbin of the five creel frame two worsted yarns and thereby
obtain twice the number of worsted ends employed in the ordinary loom.
Each lingoe is connected to the top lish end of the harness by two wires each
wire having a mail or eye for carrying a worsted end. The said double-eyed lingoe
is represented in elevation in Figure 1.
a is the weight or lingoe proper and 6, are the wires by means of which the
lingoe a is connected to the top lish end c of the harness; d, are the mails or eyes
carried by the said wires b, b. The lingoe a is made heavier than usual as it has
to keep down two worsted ends instead of one.
The lingoes are arranged in rows of ten deep the said rows being in line with the
direction of the warp threads, the several pairs of mails of each row of lingoes
forming two parallel rows. This arrangement of the lingoes is illustrated in the
diagram Figure 2 which represents a sectional plan through the mails of several
rows of the lingoes. The diagram Figure 2 is not drawn to scale the lingoes and
the reeds of the sley being separated or spread out for the better illustration of
the course of the worsted ends. The mails of each row of lingoes are in adjacent
courses. There are in the width of an ordinary carpet two hundred and fifty eight
courses or groups of worsted ends but each course instead of being composed of five
worsted ends is composed of ten worsted ends. In order to keep the ten worsted
ends_of_each_course in the same line a special lifting or harness board has to be
employed. A portion of this -new-lifting board is represented on a small scale in
plan in Figure 3. It will be seen by an examination of the said Figure 3-that-in
each dotted line across the board, which dotted lines indicate the courses of the
worsted ends, there are ten holes.
The ten worsted ends of each course pass through one reed of the sley as will be
seen by reference to the diagram Figure 2 where the sley is marked e. In weaving
Brussels carpets according to the said invention one ground or chain end passes
through each reed of the sley as usual but in weaving Wilton carpets we only employ
half the number of ground or chain ends ordinarily used, the chain or ground ends
passing through alternate reeds of the sley. By the raising of one double eyed
lingoe by the Jacquard mechanism it will be seen that two worsted ends are raised
one in one course and the other in an adjacent course. The stamping cards
employed in weaving according to the said invention consequently require only
one blank or unperforated part in each row of ten holes. A stamped card for
use in carrying out the said invention is represented on a small scale in plan in
Figure 4.

page_text: From the description hereinbefore given it will be readily understood that in
order to fit an ordinary five frame Jacquard loom to produce patterns or designs in
ten colours, that is, to produce patterns or designs which can only be produced
ordinarily in a ten frame loom, it is only necessary to untie the lingoes from the
top lish ends of the harness and to remove the lifting board and insert the new
lifting board Figure 3 and the double eyed lingoes Figure and to substitute
cards stamped as hereinbefore described and illustrated in Figure 4 for those
.ordinarily used in the Jacquard mechanism, the bobbins in the five creel frame
.being supplied with double yarns for the purpose of supplying the double number
of worsted ends.
A piece of the check paper used in designing patterns to be produced by the
use of the improvements herein before described is represented in Figure 5. The
spaces in the said check paper are twice as broad as the spaces in ordinary check
papers. but are of the same depth and the number of oblong spaces in the width
of the pattern to be produced is half that of the square spaces in the ordinary
check papers.
The producing of patterns or designs having twenty frame effects in ten frame
Jacquard looms is effected in essentially the same way as is hereinbefore described
with reference. to the producing of patterns or designs having ten frame effects in a
five frame loom, that is, the ordinary lingoes and lifting board are removed and
replaced by double-eyed lingoes and a lifting board having twenty holes in each
course. The cards employed in the Jacquard mechanism have only one blank or
unperforated part in each row of twenty holes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that we claim
as the said invention of "Improvements in or connected with Jacquard Looms
for Weaving Brussels and Wilton Carpets and Rugs and other kinds of Carpets
and Rugs";
Winding the bobbins of the ordinary creel frame with double yarns and employing
in the Jacquard loom the double eyed lingoes, lifting board and cards hereinbefore
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, the use of the said parts
doubling the power of the said Jacquard loom as regards framage or the effect of
colouring substantially as described.
Dated the Twelfth day of December 1893
JAMES HUMPHRIES & SONS, LIMITED,
By JOHN HUMPHRIES, Director.
JAMES PERCIVAL HUMPHRIES.