IMPROVEMENTS IN EYELET TAPE OR BINDING, SUCH AS IS USED BY MILLERS AND OTHERS.
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Pretty, junior, of Ipswich, in the County of
Suffolk, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN EYELET TAPE OR BINDING,
SUCH AS IS USED BY MILLERS AND OTHERS.'
"
£
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Pretty at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 11th January 1881.
WILLIAM PRETTY, junior, of Ipswich, in the County of Suffolk. " IMPROVEMENTS
IN EYELET TAPE OR BINDING, SUCH AS IS USED BY MILLERS AND OTHERS."
This Invention has for its object improvements in eyelet tape or binding, such as
is used by millers and others.
For this purpose I weave a double or compound tape or binding. For one half
or part of its width the tape or binding is woven thick, and into this part the
eyelets are set. For the other half or part of its width the tape or binding is
divided in the weaving, and formed as two complete fabrics, connected together
only where they meet in the middle of the tape or binding. On the thicker side,
which receives the eyelets or metal attachments, the tape or binding is by preference
woven with a twill, whilst on the other side the two fabrics of which the tape or
binding in this part consists are woven plain.
In the use of this tape or binding for binding the silk cloths. used in dressing
flour, the edge of the fabric is introduced between the two flaps of the divided tape
or binding, and is there fastened in the usual way. It is more easy however to
attach this tape or binding even to the silk cloth, and consequently when the silk
cloth is strained for use it is less likely to be injured.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said William Pretty in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 9th July
1881.
WILLIAM PRETTY, junior, of Ipswich, in the County of Suffolk.
'IMPROVEMENTS
IN EYELET TAPE OR BINDING, SUCH AS IS USED BY MILLERS AND OTHERS."
This Invention has for its object improvements in eyelet tape or binding, such as
is used by millers and others.

page_text: For this purpose I weave a double or compound tape or binding. For one half
or part of its width the tape or binding is woven thick, and in to this part the
eyelets are set. For the other half or part of its width the tape or binding is
divided in the weaving, and formed as two complete fabrics, connected together
only where they meet in the middle of the tape or binding. On the thicker side,
which receives the eyelets or metal attachments, the tape or binding is by preference
woven with a twill, whilst on the other side the two fabrics of which the tape or
binding in this part consists are woven plain.
In the use of this tape or binding for binding the silk cloths used in dressing
flour, the edge of the fabric is introduced between the two flaps of the divided tape
or binding, and is there fastened in the usual way. It is more easy however to
attach this tape or binding evenly to the silk cloth, and consequently when the silk
cloth is strained for use it is less likely to be injured..
In order that my said Invention may be most fully understood and readily
carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the Drawings hereunto annexed.
Figure 1 represents a piece of eyelet tape or binding made in accordance with
my Invention Figure 2 represents the same tape or binding as seen endwise;
Figures 3 and 4 represent a similar tape or binding having hook like metal
attachments.
A, A, B, B, B¹, B', are the selvage edges of the tapes; C, C, are eyelets; D, D,
are hook like metal attachments. The tape or binding is woven with two warps,
an upper and a lower, and a single weft interweaves with these warps.
Tracing the course of the weft thread it passes, say, from the selvage A to the
selvage B, interweaving with the upper warp, and again in returning from B to A
it interweaves with the same warp, but at the next traverse it passes from A to B¹
interweaving with the lower warp, and similarly in returning. Nevertheless in
the part of the fabric between the dotted lines E, E, in Figures 1 and 3, each shoot
of the weft interweaves with both warps, with the result that at this place in the
fabric a thick band is produced, running along the tape or binding from end to
end, and the whole of the warp is here combined into one fabric or thickness, but
in the other parts of the tape two thicknesses of fabric are produced, as is clearly
seen in Figures 2 and 4.
The eyelets are inserted into the thick fabric between the lines E, E; they are
put in in the ordinary manner by means of eyelet fixing tools. The metal attach-
ments, represented in Figures 3 and 4, are fixed in the same way as the eyelets,
from which they differ only by being provided with hook like projections.
These eyelet tapes or bindings take the place of the plain doubled tapes having
eyelets inserted, which are now commonly used by millers.
I claim as a new manufacture my eyelet tape or binding, substantially as herein
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Pretty, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Fifth day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eicht hundred and sights one