US193945A - Improvement in the processes of embossing felted fabrics - Google Patents

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J"; F. GREENE. I PROCESS OF EMBOS SING FEL'IED FABRIC No. 193,945. Patented Aug. 7,.1877.

NFETERSI PHOTO-UTMDGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D C.

JOHN F. GREENE, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN THE PROCESSES OF EMBOSSING FELTED FABRICS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 193,945, dated August 7,1877; application file May 24, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN F. GREENE, of Brooklyn, in the'State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in the Manufacture of Ornamental Felted Fabrics, of which the following is a specification:

The object of my invention is an improvement in the manufacture of ornamental or filled fabrics, fully described hereinafter, which constitutes an available imitation of aBrussels, diagonal, or twilled fabric.

The further object of my invention is mechanism for producing the said fabric.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a view illustrating the mechanism employed in producing my improved fabric; Fig. 2, a detached sectional view; Fig. 3,,a longitudinal section on the line 1 2, Fig. 2; Fig. 4, a view illustrating a modification.

Heretofore felt fabrics in imitation of woven fabrics have been produced by first printing the felt, and then subjecting it to the action of rollers having A-shaped longitudinal ribs, which produce parallel indentations on the I face of the goods, giving the same the appeartween the creases.

Various means of carrying this operation into effect may be adoptedfor instance, a series of sharp-edged blades, 6, may be-attached to a reciprocating carrier, A, which rises and falls as the fabric X passes beneath the same.

I prefer, however, to use a roller, A, carrying radial blades z, having parallel, or nearly parallel, sides, and arranged above a parallel plane-faced roller, 0, supported by suitable standards. As the blades pass into the fabric they condense those portions opposite their edges, and when theyare withdrawn the intermediate portions a, which have not been condensed, expand laterally to a slight extent, and prevent the condensed portions from expanding, thus preserving the creases'made by the blades, and producing a fabric in which compressed and uncondenscd portions alternate in parallel lines, producing the desired ribbed effect.

Where it is desired to produce a blocked surface, as in Brussels carpet, transverse ribs 8 may be extended between the-blades i, so as to produce. transverse indentations, which impart the desired resemblance.

I claim-- 1. The within-described mode of producing felt imitations of woven fabricsthat is, by compressing the printed felt fabric on parallel lines by thin blades having parallel, or nearly parallel, sides, leaving intervening uncompressed portions, as set forth.

2. The combination, with a roller or carrier, of thin radial blades having sides parallel, or nearly parallel, as set forth.

3. The transverse ribs or blades s, com bined with the parallel thin blades 73, as specified, for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN F. GREENE. Witnesses:

'S. L. ROWLAND, CHARLES E. Fos'rER.

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