US1852964A - Embossed fabric product and method of making the same - Google Patents

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April 5, 1932- E. E. GEORGE 1,852,964

' EMBOSSED FABRIC PRODUCT AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME Filed Nov. 25, 1929 s Tl] gwdankw Patented Apr. 5, 1932 NJUNI'VTED STATES PATENT OFFICE "EDGAR E. GEORGE, OF CANTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE BUTTONLESS TIRE COVER COMPANY, OF CANTON, OHIO, A CORIE ORATION OF OHIO raised EMBOSSED FABRIC PRODUCT AND My invention relates to fabric products which have embossed or impressed therein Characters and/or configurations which may comprise designs, reading matter,

and the like.

Such fabric products used in large quantities include automobile tire covers, and the tire covers usually have a design applied thereto together with the name. of the tire dealefi; or the like.

When the design and printed matter is embossed on the tire cover, it has a superior appearance to that attained by merely painting the design and printed matter thereon.

Coated fabrics includethose known to the trade as enameled drill, sat-sens, muslins, and ducks, and the enamel coating on the same may include a graphite filler or base mixed with linseed-oil and applied to the fabric under controlledtemperatures and pressures.

These enameled fabrics are less expensive. than another class of coated fabrics, known as pyroxylin fabrics.

The more expensive pyroxylin coated fabrics are adapted for being embossed between dies for forming designs and printed matter in relief in the fabric.

The dies are usually heated, and the resulting embossed fabric presents an attractive appearance on the coated side thereof, and the outer surfaces of the raised portions of the letters and the design merge smoothly with the outer surface of the adjacent coating, after the printed matter and design have been embossed or impressed in the ,pyroxylin fabric,

Because of the aforesaid relatively high cost of the pyroxylin coated fabrics, it 'is' desirable to emboss or impress the less expensive enameled fabrics, but experts in the art have heretofore declared it to be impossible to satisfactorily emb'oss or impress an enameled fabric Without breaking the continuity of the coating ofjthe raised characters and configurations with the adjacent coating on the remaining portions of the fabric.

It has moreover been considered-practically impossible to make a permanent emboss- -mg or impression in enameled fabrics, re'- gardless of the'surface characteristics of the METHOD or MAKING THE sm I 1 Application filed November 23, 1929. Serial No. 499,306.

same, the 'usual. experience being that the raised characters and configurations of the printed matter and designs ,Would not remain permanently formed in the enameled'fabrics.

The objects of the present invention in- .out the improved method hereof, is illustrated in the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, in which 7 Figure 1 is a view looking towards the surfac normally presented to the eye of a piece of the improved embossed fabric, the embossing comprising a design and printed matter;

Fig. 2, a sectional view thereof as on line 22, Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3, a rear View thereof.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the drawings.

The improved embossed fabric indicated generally at 10 comprises anembossed laminated structure including one outer com pound lamina 11 comprising a sheet of coated enameled fabric, the outer surface 12 of the enamel coating 13 of the same being the surface which is' intended to be exposed to view.

. The fabric side 14. of this compound outer lamina 11 is backed by a lamina 15 of thermo- 3 plastic and preferablyadhesivemateriahsuch' as glue, and the lamina of thermo-plastic material is preferably interposed between the lamina 11 comprising the coated fabric, and

a lamina 16 ofpaper or the like.

The resulting laminated structure'is sufficiently rigid to maintain permanently the embossed or impressedprinted matter and design 17 in theenameled fabric.-

' The improved method of making the aforesaid improved embossed fabric includes carrying out the following steps;

First, moistening the out\er surface of the fabric side of a sheet of the enamel coated fabric;

Second, applying a lamina of thermo-plastic material, preferably glue which may be 5 in the form of a lamina of glue preapplied on one side of a lamina of paper;

Third, embossing or impressing the desired characters and configurations through all the laminas by applying pressure and heat to the moistened fabric and the thermo-plastic lamina thereon as by means of embossing dies between which the laminated structure is interposed.

The step of moistening the fabric provides for the release of sufiicient steam when the pressure is applied to the opposite surfaces of the several laminas by the heated dies, so

that the coating of the enameled fabric is softened and smoothly flows to the desired high and low portions of the characters and configurations.

Upon removing the embossed laminated structure from the dies and upon cooling, the enamel coating and the thermo-plastic lamina sets, and the embossing is permanently maintained in the fabric.

When desired a fabric such as muslin or cheesecloth may be used instead of the paper backing lamina.

I claim:

1. The method of making embossed coated fabric products which includes moistening the fabric of a sheet of coated fabric, applying a lamina of thermoplastic material to the fabric, applying a lamina of fibrous material to the thermo-plastic lamina, and embossing the fabric and laminas by heating and pressure forming them together.

2. An embossed coated fabric product including a sheet of coated fabric, a lamina of thermo-plastic material, and a lamina of fibrous material, the fabric and laminas being thermo-plastically formed and engaged with each other.

3. An embossed enamel coated fabric product including a sheet of enamel coated fabric, a lamina of thermo-plastic material, and a lamina of fibrous material, the enamel coated fabric and the laminas being thermo-plastically formed and engaged with each other.

4. The method of making embossed fabric products which includes superposing a lamina of thermo-plastic material and a lamina of fibrous material upon one face of a sheet of fabric, and embossing the fabric and the laminas applied thereto by heating and pressure forming them together.

5. The method of making embossed enamel coated fabric products which includes superposing a lamina of thermo-plastic material and a lamina of fibrous material upon the fabric face of a sheet of enamel coated fabric, and embossing the fabric and the laminas applied thereto by heating and pressure forming them together.

6. The method of making embossed enamel coated fabric products which includes superposing upon the fabric face of a sheet of enamel coated fabric a lamina of fibrous material having a thermoplastic coating thereon, and embossing and engaging the fabric and the coated lamina by heating and pressure forming them together.

7. The method of making embossed fabric products which includes superposing upon one face of a sheet of fabric a lamina of fibrous material having a thermo-plastic coating thereon, and embossing and engaging the fa ric and the coated lamina by heating and pressure forming them together.

In testimony that I claim the above, I have hereunto subscribed my name.

EDGAR E. GEORGE.

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