US1253050A - Supplying pile fabrics with designs. - Google Patents

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I. KITSEE.

SUPPLY ING FILE FABRICS WITH DESIGNS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY H. 1916. r

1,253,050. Patented Jan. 8,1918.

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To all whom it may] concern:

Be it known that I, Isrnon Krrsnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new'anduseful Improvements in Sup plying Pile Fabrics with Designs, of which the fol-lowing is a specification.

My invention relates to an. improvement in supplying pile fabrics with designs.

Pile fabrics, such for instance as plush goods, are provided with the desigh by the simple process of cutting or shearing part of the fibers on .the surface of said fabric.

In some cases it is desired to increase the dissim'ilaiity in shade or color between the fibers shortened and the fibers not shortened and this-maybe accomplished with the aid of the tipping process, that is a process whereby only the tips of the fibers are brought in contact with the medium adapted to change the condition of the fiber as to color or shade.

Thisdifl'crence of shade or color may be produced with the aid of a bleaching agent,

but I have'found that a very eiiicient mode.

or method to produce the difference in shade or color is, to provide the extreme ends or tips'of the fiber'wit-h the color complementary to the color with which the fabric is dyed. This mode needs a further explanation and I therefore will reeite:-'

a. Let us suppose that the fabric is dyed a certain shade of blue, say a blue-violet, through the cutting-in of'the design, the cuttin -in part will present a darker shade than t e tip of the fibers not shortened and when the upper parts of these fibers are provided with a slight coloration of green, then these tips will present akind of blueeen in contrast to the deep blue-violet o the cuc in part.

6, Let us suppose that the fabric is dyed a deep blue and the tips of the unshortened fibers are rovid'ed with a slight coloration of ink, tii vio et, contrasting'beautifully with the blue of the cut-out art; 1

c. Suppose-t e ..fabric is dyed a (aartain shade'of red', thedesign cut-in, and it is required to increase the dissimilaritybe tween the uiishortened and the shortened fibers. If'thetips of the unshortened fibers are prbvided with a blue-violet, the tips Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 14, 1916." serial No. 109,410.

'tips of the fibers.

en the tips will present a blue Patented will assume a pinkish color and will present I a greater difference than before the .tip-.

ping.

It is the aim of my invention to produce dissimilarity in-sha'de or color and to 111118- .trate some forms myinvention may takeI have reference to the accompanying drawmg, in wh1ch: i

Figure 1 is a'vertical, sectional view 'illus trating an improvedway of ap'plyingthe material, adapted to produce this-dissimilarity to the tlps or upper*parts of the fibers of the .pile fabric. Fig. :2 is a view similar Jam s, 1918i i to Fig. 1 illustrating aimodified form of applying material to the fibers.

In Fig. 1, 1 is a reservoir, in whieh isv contained the material 2, to be applied to the sist of a free flowing liquor or may consist of an inert material suitable as a carrier for the active agent to produce therequired result. This agent may be, as said above, a plain bleaching agent, such as a peroxid'or chlorin, or other suitable bleaching agents,

or, it may consist of a coloring-material, as

mentioned above; 3 is the fabric. Of this, fabric, 4 are the fibers not shortened and 5 the fibers shortened by the'cutting or shearing process, thereby producing a design on the fabric; 6 is an airtight inclosure; a pipe communicating with the inner space of the inclosure; 8 is an endless band of any suitable material, such as strong canvas. This endless band may be provided with slight corrugations or pins so as to hold always the pile fabric in placeg-f) and 10 are tworollvr's, with the aid of which theendless band 8 is revolved; 11 are the means to. revolve the roller 9';'12 are the means to collect the material with which the fibers are to be tipped and to transfer. the same to the tips of such fibers; it may, consist if no strong acids are present (as isusually the case in bleaching) of suitablehair brushes, or pieces of suitable fibers. but wh'erestrong acids are present, it is last to use an asbestos textile. T have state. above, that the inclosure 6 is airtight, but this inclosure is also provided with perforations in alinement with themeans to tratiiife i the-tipping material to the fabric.

\Vhen in operation the air within theinclosure 6 is partly exhausted with tl-r aid of the tube 7 and therefore will tend to pre This material may con-- pile fabric from changing its posiu gmg out,

i may be absorbed by the absorbent covering tached nally intended. With l-and thus be transferred to the fibers when in contact therewith.

\ Instead of this arrangement, the cylinder may be provided with aid of rollers on the outside with the required tipping-material and then transfer the same during its revolution to the tips of the fibers.

I have illustrated in these figures the pile oods as already provided with the design in intaglio, but it is obvious, that this my invention is also applicable to pile fabric not formally designed at all.

I have also shown the fibers 5 of the pile fabric as beiii gflfree and, uncovered, so as to illustrate the same better, but in actual practice it is preferred that such parts should be covered so that the same may not be stained with the tipping fluid.

The general operation of the deviceis as follows The pile fabric is placed on the endless band in a position so that the upper parts or tips of the uncut fibers are .just touching the brush or other implement at the same time that the air is in part exhausted from the compartment 6,'so that, that part of the oods and therefore the fibers attfiereto should alwaysbc, horizontally considered, in one and the same position, neither higher up or lower down as origithe aid of the belt 11 and through suitable means'the roller 9 is revolved and therefore the endless band is moved say in the direction of the arrow.

During this movement the upper tips of the .fibersfi will come incontact with the brushes or other similar implements 12 and the bleaching or colorin material is then transferred to the tips 0 those fibers.

In Fig. 2 the operation is similar with the exception that instead of the brush or similar implement 12 the revolving drum transfers the material to the tips of the fibers. In this case it is best td'revolve the drum in the opposite direction from the moving of the fabric; the direction of the fabric and the direction of the revolving drum are indicated by the arrows; but it is obvious that the direction of the movement of the drum may be reversed if occasion requires it.

Having now described my invention wind I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 2* 1. In the art of treating colored pile falr ries the improvement which consists in shortening certain fibers and providing the tips or upper parts of the unshortencd fibers with a color complementary to the original color of said fiber.

2. In the production of designs for colored pile fabrics the improvement which consists in shortening. certain fibers and ill-- creasing the dissimilarity in shade b( tween the shortened and unshortened fibers through the tipping of part. of the un shortened fibers with a color conipiementary to the color of the other fibers.

3. In the art of treating colored pile fabrics the im rovement which consists in producing a design on-said fabric by cutting predetermined fibers and producing a. dissimilarity between the shade of the cutand uncut fibers by tipping the uncut fibers with a color complementary to the color of the whole fabric.

4. As a new article of manufacture a col ored pile fabric provided on its surface with fibers of different hei hts, the tip of the fibers of greater heig t provided with a color complementary to the original color.

In testimony whereof I atlix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

' ISIDOR KITSEE, Witn'essesz F RANGES RUTHERFORD, EDWARD Saunas.

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