A New or Improved Method of Cloth Construction.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 25th May, 1899-Accepted, 5th Aug., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Method of Cloth Construction.
I, ALBERT BEAUMONT, 1, Richmond Avenue, Fartown, Huddersfield, Textile
Designer, 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:
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The object of my invention is to produce a new twilled cloth equally flushed
with warp and weft on both sides, and possessing all the virtues of a double
cloth as to weight and suppleness of handle, yet uniting with these qualities a
fineness of effect never before attained in a twilled cloth, the back and face of
which are identical in structure and appearance.
The cloth may be made of worsted, woollen or cotton, or a combination of these
and other textile threads in such proportions of warp and weft as may be found
suitable for the type of fabric required.
In its simplest form the structural design of the cloth is built up of twelve
threads of warp and twelve threads of weft, (Fig. 1) and each warp thread and each
weft thread works alternately on the back and face of the cloth, which not only
makes the fabric wear-resisting, but at the same time breaks up any unevenness
in the yarn used, and in this way produces a more perfect piece than the usual
method of obtaining double cloths.
The construction of the cloth, as shewn in the weaving plan, (Fig. V) consists
of four twills in the warp, and four twills in the weft, two of which in each case
work alternately on the back and face of the fabric; this will be more readily
understood by supposing the warp threads (Fig. V) numbered 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11
to be composed of a red yarn, the warp threads numbered 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 to
be composed of a blue yarn, the weft threads 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11 to be a yellow
color and the weft threads 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 to be made of a white yarn-the
effect of the cloth so warped and so woven would be that a rotation of red, blue,
yellow and white twills would result both on the back and face of the fabric.
For the purpose of obtaining additional weight or substance to the cloth, I
insert middle threads either in the warp or in the weft, or in both warp and
weft combined. By middle threads, I mean threads which are inserted into the
cloth in such a way that they are not evident to the eye, and which are worked
into the fabric by being raised and depressed in such a manner that they
do not materially alter the appearance of the fabric on either side but are placed
in the cloth purely and solely to give additional weight or substance to the
fabric.
Whilst giving examples in Figs. II, III, and IV, of different methods of insert-
ing middle threads in the cloth, and whilst in these examples the middle thread is
inserted in the proportion of one to three, I reserve the right to place these middle
threads in such proportion to the other threads in the warp or in the weft as may
be suitable, and I also reserve the right to elevate or depress these middle threads
at such positions in the cloth and at such periods as may be advisable, providing
I keep to the principle of construction as shewn in weaving plan Fig. V.

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS:
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Fig. I represents the interlacing of the warp and weft threads coinciding with
the weaving plan Fig. V.
Figure II shews the construction of the cloth with a middle thread in the weft,
the lines opposite the letter M being the middle thread or pick.
Figure III exhibits the construction of the cloth with a middle warp thread
every fourth thread of warp, the lines perpendicular to the letters M shewing the
working of the middle warp thread.
Fig. IV shews the construction of the cloth with middle warp thread and middle
weft thread in the proportion of three threads to one of middle each way, the
letters M1 shewing the working of the middle warp thread, and the letters M 2
shewing the working of the middle weft threads.
Fig. V. represents the weaving design of the cloth, coinciding with the
structural design Fig. I.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1. The manufacture of cloth, in any suitable material, the working design of
which is built up of twelve threads of warp and twelve threads of weft substan-
tially as shewn in the structural design Fig. I and the weaving design Fig. V.
2. The manufacture of cloth, constructed as structural design Fig. I and weaving
design Fig. V with middle warp threads or middle weft threads inserted either
separately or combined as shewn in Figures II, III, and IV.
3. The manufacture of cloth constructed as structural design Fig. I and weaving
design Fig. V. with middle threads inserted in any suitable way or in any suitable
proportion.
Dated this 23rd day of Mov 1800
ted this 3rd
1800
ALBERT BEAUMONT,
1, Richmond Avenue, Fartown, Huddersfield, Textile Designer.