A New or Improved Make or Manufacture of Cloth.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Feb., 1889
Specification Accepted, 23rd Mar., 1889
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Make or Manufacture of Cloth.
I, JOHN SHAW AINLEY, of the firm of Ainley Sons & Co., of Kirkheaton, near
Huddersfield, in the County of York, Manufacturers, 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 :-
My invention has reference to a new method of manufacturing that class of fabric
called twills, hopsacks, diagonals, and other like double or backed fabrics, the object
of my invention being to produce such fabrics so that they shall feel full and soft to
handle, and possess more elasticity than those made by the present method.
According to my improved make or method of manufacturing such fabrics, I employ,
according to one method, an additional warp called a tacking warp, shewn at d in
dotted lines of Fig. 1. According to this method of manufacturing cloth, the warp a
is thrown on the face of the fabric, and the warp b on the back of the fabric, whereby
two thin fabrics would be produced, but by the employment of the additional or tacking
warp d which runs between the two fabrics they are stitched together as indicated by
dotted lines. The method of stitching or linking can be varied according to the make
of fabric required.
This additional tacking warp lies between and is employed only as a means of
stitching or linking the face and back of the fabric together.
By making or manufacturing a fabric in the manner described and shewn, the
requisite fulness and soft handling of the fabric is effected, combined with the desired
elasticity, which fabric I propose to call "The new patent flexible cloth."
.
In combination with the additional tacking warp, I may employ an additional tacking
weft thread, as shewn by the black dots e in Fig. 2.
Instead of manufacturing the fabrics herein named by means of
threads a, b,
warp
and d with weft c, the arrangement of the threads may be reversed, as shewn in Fig. 3,
where represents the warp, and g, h, and i the weft, which will be well understood.
by those conversant with the trade, the additional tacking weft thread being indicated
by dotted line and marked h.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I would have it understood that
I do not limit myself to the use of any particular number or proportion of warp
or weft threads employed for producing either the face, back, or tacking of the fabric,
but what I do claim is:
Firstly. The manufacture of twills, hopsacks, diagonals, and other like fabrics, by
the use of an additional tacking warp for stitching the face and back together as described
and illustrated in Fig. 1.
Secondly. The manufacture of twills, hopsacks, diagonals, and other like fabrics, by
an additional tacking warp, in combination with an additional tacking weft, as described
and shewn in Fig. 2.
Thirdly. The manufacture of twills, hopsacks, diagonals, and other like fabrics, by
an additional tacking weft, as described and shewn in Fig. 3.
1000
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Halifax, Agents.