IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR WEAVING AND PRINTING MANILLA AS APPLIED TO BAGS, MATTING, AND OTHER LIKE PURPOSES
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Apedaile Thompson, of Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS FOR WEAVING AND PRINTING MANILLA AS APPLIED TO BAGS,
MATTING, AND OTHER LIKE PURPOSES."
Sealed the 23rd November 1877, and dated the 24th May 1877:
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Apedaile Thompson
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at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 24th May 1877..
GEORGE APEDAILE THOMPSON, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick:
PROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR WEAVING AND PRINTING MANILLA
AS APPLIED TO BAGS, MATTING, AND OTHER LIKE PURPOSES."
My Invention consists of the improvements herein-after described in the manu-
facture of manilla bags and matting, also applicable to horsehair seating or cloth by
means of a steam power loom, self-acting, and hand serving.
I will now describe my Invention I adopt any ordinary loom, but dispensing
with the drum for winding the warp, but I substitute the chain wound into balls
any desired length, and tighten the same by means of suspended weights and
pulleys, thereby making the work or material of an even or equal surface. I
dispense with the shuttle ordinarily used and adopt a spring catch self-acting and
working freely in a groove in either desired direction, the said catch taking up one
or more fibres or hairs as arranged, the batten following and taking the shoot into its
place, my warp being formed of wire or jute when the ordinary steam made manilla
matting woven by the shuttle was twisted as string or bound with cotton to form
the warp; instead of weaving the manilla straight and the jute crossways, I weave
the manilla crossways and the jute or wire straight.
Hitherto the pattern or ornamentation upon manilla bags, or matting has been
obtained by the interweaving of different colored fibres; this object I gain by
printing direct with colored inks.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said George Apedaile Thompson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
24th November 1877.
GEORGE APEDAILE THOMPSON, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick. "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR WEAVING AND PRINTING MANILLA
AS APPLIED TO BAGS, MATTING, AND OTHER LIKE PURPOSES."
My Invention consists of the improvements herein-after described in the manu-
facture of manilla bags and matting, also applicable to horsehair seating or cloth by
means of a steam power loom, self-acting, and hand serving.
I will now describe my Invention:-I adopt any ordinary loom, but dispensing
with the drum for winding the warp, but I substitute the chain wound into balls
any desired length, and tighten the same by means of suspended weights and
pulleys, thereby making the work or material of an even or equal surface. I
dispense with the shuttle ordinarily used and adopt a spring catch self-acting, and
working freely in a groove in either desired direction, the said catch taking up one
or more fibres or hairs as arranged, the batten following and taking the shoot into
its place, my warp being formed of wire or jute, when the ordinary steam made
manilla matting woven by the shuttle was twisted as string or bound with cotton to
form the warp; instead of weaving the manilla straight and the jute crossways I
weave the manilla crossways and the jute or wire straiglit.
Hitherto the pattern or ornamentation upon manilla bags or matting has been
obtained by the interweaving of different coloured fibres; this object I gain by
printing direct with coloured inks.
I will now proceed to describe my Invention more fully in detail, reference
being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed and to the letters marked thereon,-
Fig. 1 on the accompanying Sheet of Drawing represents an ordinary loom with
my improved appliances connected thereto.
Fig. 2, a sliding arm with beds, designated the picker or snap catch.
Fig. 3, the reed.
a is the framework of the loom upon the right and left side of which is securely
affixed the grooved beds b, b; "c" is a bar or rod working in the said grooves in
either desired direction and actuated by a crank or other. suitable means; at the
extreme end of "c" is a catch or clip, shewn at "d" opened at "d"," and closed
at "d"; the object of this is to pick one or more fibres, as may be arranged and
carried from left to right during the process of interweaving, being self-feeding and
releasing; thus at "e" is a spring for closing the upper jaw of" d," the lower being
stationery when "e" is compressed against the cross bar "f," its mouth is opened and
receives the fibres, when brought back it retains its hold of the same until released
by the extra bar "g;" h are balls of manilla fed over the cross bars and pulleys, the
tension being produced by the employment of the weights i, which said weights
give to the woven material an equal and even appearance; "j," "," are two rods
screwed exteriorally their entire length, upon which are fed the plates "k" of any
desired number, divided by means of the washers "," but held in position by
means of the nuts "m," the object of which is that should one reed or plate be
injured or broken another can be substituted with facility.
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Having thus described the nature and object of this my said Invention, I would
observe in conclusion that I do not restrict myself entirely to the above description,
as various modifications may be made without departing from the features of my
said Invention, but what I do claim and desire to be secured to me by the herein-
before in part recited Letters Patent are as follows:-
First. The sliding arm in beds designated the picker or snap catch, as berein-
before described, and shewn on Drawings, Fig. 2.
Second. The construction of the reed, as herein-before described.
Third. The weights for giving tension and imparting an even appearance, as
before described

page_text: Lastly. The improvements in machinery or apparatus for weaving and printing
manilla as applied to bags, matting and other like purposes, and the printing and
ornamenting the same with colored inks and with any suitable design, sub-
stantially as herein-before described and shewn on the accompanying Drawings,
or any mere modification thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Apedaile Thompson, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.
Witness,
THOMAS KENDRICK,
Patent Agent.
GEORGE APEDAILE THOMPSON. (L.S.)