An Improved Manufacture of Webbing Employed in Embossing Woven, Knitted, and Felted Fabrics.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Sept., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 26th June, 1890-Accepted, 26th July, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Manufacture of Webbing Employed in Embossing
Woven, Knitted, and Felted Fabrics.
I, THOMAS BOYD, of Victoria Mills, Holbeck, Leeds, in the County of York,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:—
The designs on webbing used in the process of embossing woven fabrics have
hitherto consisted only of straight lines or diagonals and squares or other like
rectilineal shapes, but it is my intention to produce other ornamental designs or webs,
such as flowers or other curvilinear designs, and this I propose to do in a loom having
Jacquard or other form of harness.
In making a web in a Jacquard loom according to my invention, I employ an
ordinary ground warp, which is made to appear first on the face and then on the back
of the fabric. In addition to the ground warp I use a stitching warp employed in
keeping down the weft band both on the back and face, thereby forming the fancy
figures or flowers on the webbing. Two classes of weft are employed, a thick weft
and a fine weft. The mode of manufacture is somewhat as follows:-The shedding of
the ground warp or warps is performed in the ordinary way, but the stitching down
of the thick weft on both back and face is done by the use of the extra stitching
warp, which forms the fancy figures, allowing the thick weft to go under the part of
the ground warp, allowing part of the said stitching warp to rise to the surface whilst
other parts remain down.
I wish it to be understood that the stitching warp is used to stitch the thick weft
All the warp and
on the back and the face to prevent the thick weft from floating.
weft employed in the manufacture of the web is composed of cotton, and by its use,
altogether new and more ornamental designs can be embossed on woven, knitted, and
felted fabrics.
1
1000
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Halifax, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Manufacture of Webbing Employed in Embossing
Woven, Knitted, and Felted Fabrics.
I, THOMAS BOYD, of Victoria Mills, Holbeck, Leeds, in the County of York,
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 designs on webbing used in the process of embossing woven fabrics have
hitherto consisted only of straight horizontal lines or diagonals, and squares or other
like rectilineal shapes, but it is my intention to produce other ornamental designs on
webs, such as flowers or other curvilinear figures or designs, and this I propose to do
in a loom having Jacquard or other form of harness.
In making a web in a Jacquard harness loom according to my invention, I
employ an ordinary ground warp, which is made to appear first on the face and then
on the back of the fabric. In addition to the ground warp 1 use a stitching warp
employed in keeping down the weft band both on the back and face, whereby I am
enabled to form fancy figures or flowers on the webbing. Two classes of weft are
The mode of manufacture is
employed, consisting of a thick weft and a fine weft.
somewhat as follows:-The shedding of the ground warp or warps is performed
in the ordinary way, but the stitching down of the thick weft on both back

page_text: and face is done by the use of the extra stitching warp, which forms the fancy figures,
allowing the thick weft to go under the part of the ground warp, and also allowing
part of the said stitching warp to rise to the surface whilst other parts remain down.
I wish it to be understood that the stitching warp is used to stitch the thick weft
on the back and the face, to prevent the thick weft from floating. All the warp and
weft employed in the manufacture of the web is composed of cotton, and by its use,
altogether new and more ornamental designs can be embossed on woven, knitted, and
felted fabrics.
Figured webbing manufactured in Jacquard harness as herein described is inserted
between the folds of either woven, knitted, or felted fabrics, and placed under pressure
in the ordinary manner for the purpose of producing the pattern of the webbing on
the fabric.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The manufacture, in a Jacquard harness loom, of webbing with variegated stripes
thereon, employed for embossing woven, knitted, and felted fabrics.
Dated this 25th day of June 1890.
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Halifax, Agents.