Improvements in the Manufacture of Textile Fabrics, and in Apparatus therefor.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 4th June, 1895-Accepted, 6th July, 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Textile Fabrics, and in
Apparatus therefor.
JAMES SIDNEY LENTON, 1 Bailey Lane, Coventry, in the County of
Warwickshire, Designer, and RICHARD BOTHAM CALDICOTT, 28, Much Park
Street, Coventry, in the County of Warwickshire, Textile Manufacturer, 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:-
The object of our invention is to produce textile fabrics of a single or tubular,
or a combination of a single and tubular character, the said fabrics being of
varying widths; as for instance in the making of neckties and scarfs, we weave
the portions to form the tying part of a required width, and the portion to encircle
the neck, we weave narrower.
Our invention can be applied to all kinds of textile fabrics, in which varying
widths in the same piece of fabric are required.
In carrying out our object, we employ a loom, and we use one or more shuttles,
as may be required. We also make use of improved slays.
Figure 1. is a view of one of our improved slays, as fixed in a loom.
Figure 2. is a view of another of our improved slays.
Figure 3. is a view of a length of fabric of varying width.
As an example of the manner in which we carry out the weaving of our
improved fabric, we make use of a slay A. which is made to slide upwards or
downwards in a frame B. the said frame B being fixed to a suitable part of the
loom. On the sides of the slay A we make a required number of rack teeth a',
and upon these rack teeth a¹, two fingers b¹, 62, which are fixed to the frame B.
in which the slay A slides, acts in such a manner, as to prevent the slay A.
from falling, when not required to do so, and at the same time holds it in any
required position.
One or more sets of warp threads are put into the loom, and into the slay A,
as may be required, we then weave with weft or shoot, using one or more shuttles,
and using the whole of the warp threads, during the operation of weaving both
broad shoulders and narrow portions of a varying width of fabric D. Figure 3.
We weave the broad portion d' d of the fabric D. up to the point where we
wish to commence the shoulder portion d2 d', we continue weaving, and at the same
time we gradually lift the slay A, by hand, or other suitable means, and as it rises,
it gradually brings the warp closer together, until we have finished weaving the
shoulder portion d' d' of the fabric, we then continue the weaving of the narrow
portion d³, the slay A, being kept in a fixed position by the fingers 61, 62, until this
is completed, we then continue the weaving, gradually depressing the slay A, and
thus allowing the warp threads to expand again, and forming the opposite
shoulder d', d, and after this is formed, we continue weaving the broad portion d³, d,
of the fabric, the two fingers 61, 62, again keeping the slay A, in a fixed position
whilst this is being done. By the use of the slay A. we make a fabric, the shape
of the whole of Figure 3. including the parts in dotted lines de 7 d³ dº.
Another example of the manner in which we weave fabrics in varying widths
in which we use the whole of the warp threads, we make use of a slay C. as in
Figure 2. which is fitted up, and is made to slide in the frame B, in a similar

page_text: manner to that of the slay A. We carry out the process of weaving with the
slay C, in the same manner as when we use the slay A. Figure 3. showing at its
upper part leaving out the dotted lines d' d' d³ d', the shape of the fabric made by
the use of the slay C.
By the use of the slays A. and C. we weave the whole of the warp threads into
the broad, shoulders, and narrow portions of the fabric, without leaving any loose
warp threads inside or outside of the finished fabric.
By the methods described of weaving our improved fabric we can produce a
perfect continuous selvedge throughout the varying widths of the fabric both in
single and tubular fabrics.
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In the weaving of our improved fabric either in single or tubular, or
combination of single and tubular form, no special drafts are required, as we can
make our fabric by any drafts in general use.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. An improved single or tubular or a combination single and tubular textile
fabric, of varying width, the said fabric being woven throughout with the whole
of the warp threads, and having a perfect continuous selvedge throughout its length
as described.
2. The employment of the slay A. the frame B, and the fingers b', 63, the said
slay A. sliding in the frame B, in combination with a loom, for the purpose of
weaving single or tubular or a combination of single and tubular textile fabrics of
varying width, the said fabrics having a perfect continuous selvedge throughout
their length as described.
3. The employment of the slay C. the frame B, and the fingers 6, 62, the said
slay C, sliding in the frame B, in combination with a loom, for the purpose of
weaving single or tubular or a combination of single and tubular textile fabrics
of varying width, the said fabrics having a perfect continuous selvedge throughout
their length as described.
Dated this 4th day of June 1895.
H. & R. T. LORD,
Agents for Applicants.