Improvements in the Manufacture of Figured Woven Fabrios.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Oct., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 5th May, 1892-Accepted, 11th June, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Figured Woven Fabrios.
We, THOMAS TAYLOR, of the firm of Barlow and Jones Limited, of Bolton, in
the County of Lancaster, Manufacturers, and JACOB WARBURTON, of Albert Mills
Bolton aforesaid, Designer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in the fabric for which a Patent was
granted to us on the 19th day of May 1881 numbered 2196 and is applicable also
to similar fabrics and the object of our invention is to produce an additional
effect on the surface of the cloth both on the ground and figure by weaving thereon
warp stripes or weft stripes or checks or other patterns of a different colour or
colours producing what is known as a tapestry effect.
In manufacturing this improved figured fabric we use by preference the arrange-
ment of warps and shedding specified in our aforesaid Patent.
To produce warp stripes on the figured fabric we warp one or more threads of a
different colour or different colours to the ground threads proper at intervals, regular
or irregular according to the pattern required.
To produce weft stripes on the figured fabric we substitute weft threads of
a different colour or different colours according to the weft stripe or pattern
required, in place of the coarse weft threads which produce the figure upon the
fabric.
To produce on a figured fabric a check or square pattern we introduce different
coloured threads at the necessary intervals into both the warp and weft.
Those coloured threads of warp and weft which are used for the stripes or checks
are woven on the top surface of the cloth through both ground and figure, and may
be woven either as plain cloth or be more or less floated.
Dated this 2nd day of October 1891.
H. B. BARLOW,
Agent for Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
'Improvements in the Manufacture of Figured Woven Fabrics.
We, THOMAS TAYLOR, of the firm of Barlow and Jones Limited, of Bolton, in
the County of Lancaster, Manufacturers, and JACOB WARBURTON, of Albert Mills,
Bolton aforesaid, 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 :-
This invention relates to improvements in the fabric for which a Patent was
granted to us on the 19th day of May 1881 numbered 2196 and is applicable also
to similar fabrics, that is to say, fabrics which have much the same appearance
and effect as our Patent fabric and are produced by mere modifications in the
method of weaving, and the object of our invention is to produce an additional effect
on the surface of the cloth both on the ground and figure by weaving thereon warp
stripes or weft stripes or checks or other patterns of a different colour or colours
producing what is known as a tapestry effect.
In manufacturing this improved figured fabric we use by preference the arrange-
ment of warps and shedding specified in our aforesaid Patent; but we might also
employ any of the numerous modifications or alternative arrangements which have
subsequently been brought out.

page_text: To produce warp stripes on the figured fabric we warp one or more threads of a
different colour or different colours to the ground threads proper at intervals,
regular or irregular according to the pattern required.
To produce weft stripes on the figured fabric we substitute weft threads of
a different colour or different colours according to the weft stripe or pattern
required, in place of the coarse weft threads which produce the figure upon the
fabric.
To produce on a figured fabric a check or square pattern we introduce different
coloured threads at the necessary intervals into both the warp and weft.
Those coloured threads of warp and weft which are used for the stripes or checks
are woven on the top surface of the cloth through both ground and figure, and may
be woven either as plain cloth or be more or less floated.
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 :-
The improved figured woven fabric in which different coloured warp or weft or
warp and weft threads are woven on the surface of a cloth of the nature herein
specified for the purpose of forming stripes or checks both upon the ground and upon
the figure of the cloth substantially as described.
Dated this 4th day of Ma- 1000
H. B. BARLOW,
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agent for Applicants.