US2108565A - Method of making textile fabrics - Google Patents

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Feb. 15, 1938., (j, RQSENSTEIN I 2,108,565

METHOD OF MAKING TEXTILE FABRICS Filed Nov. 12, 1937 2 Sheets-Sheet l Feb. 15, 1938 c. ROSENSTEIN METHOD OF MAKING TEXTILE FABRICS Filed Nov. 12, 1957 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Feb. 15, 1938 PATENT OFFICE METHOD OF MAKING TEXTILE FABRICS Charles Rosenstein, Paterson,

N. J., assignor to Rosenstein Bros., Paterson, N. J., a corporation of New Jersey Application November 12, 1937, Serial No. 174,226

1 Claim.

The invention relates to textile fabrics.

The purpose of the invention is the ornamentation of fabrics used for dress material, draperies, millinery and various other purposes.

More specifically, the invention is designed to provide the ornamentation of such materials by applying to the materials as an integral part thereof a surface structure which, when completed, presents a, fringed appearance.

For many years past it has been common practice in the manufacture of dress goods and other fabrics used for that and other purposes to ornament the material or the products fashioned therefrom by sewing or otherwise attaching thereto decorative fringe, tassels or the like. The application of these ornamentations involved considerable time, labor and expense, and the resulting finished material left much to be desired in the way of smooth and attractive appearance. Moreover, the ornamental fringe or other decorative material has customarily been applied to the fabric after the fabric was made into the garment or other completed article.

Heretofore the use of fringe, tassels and other decorations of this character has necessarily been restricted to plain and/or plain-colored fabrics, because the placing of such decorations over other fabrics, namely, printed or otherwise decorated fabrics, in the manner described above, has hidden parts of the printed design and consequently detracted from the ornamental appearance of the completed article to such an extent as to destroy the attractiveness and saleability of the article as a Whole.

Furthermore although designs have commonly been woven into textile fabric, for example, by Jacquard or other methods, such designs have heretofore never been woven in such manner as to produce a fringed design upon a plain or relatively plain fabric body as a background, either with the fringe formed as an integral part of or attached to the surface by sewing or other methods.

One of the principal objects of the present invention is to create a fabric with a surface having a fringe-like appearance.

Another object is to produce a fabric having a fringe-like surface applied in the course of and as the result of a method by which the fringe is formed as an'integral part of the body of the fabric.

Another object is the provision of a method of forming a textile fabric with a fringe-like surface by which the fringe elements are included as a part of the body of the fabric and are so disposed as to permit the application of a design to the fabric surface by printing or other means before the completion of the fringe elements.

These objects are attained by my method and. in the fabric produced thereby, through the in- 5 corporation of float threads on either or both surfaces of the fabric and the disposition of the float threads in such manner that, when cut, they will arrange themselves substantially against the surface of the material and in preferably 10 parallel relation longitudinally of the warp threads of the fabric. By the use of this method the resulting fabric is capable of having any desired design printed or otherwise applied to its surface before the cutting operation which pro- 15 d-uces the ornamental fringe from the float threads, the printing operation placing the design directly upon the uncut fringe surface as well as upon the remaining portions of the'fabric and not being obstructed or interfered with by any interposed fringes or other decorations superposed upon the fabric surface. In applying the printed design the color effects pass into and through the fringe elements into the underlying body of the fabric with the result that the same print design 25 or parts thereof appear on the fringe and the fabric body, so that the fringe, by taking the same color as the body beneath it, does not hide any part of the design, but, on the contrary, emphasizes the design and enhances its appearance.

My method may be used to produce fringed fabric of various weaves, with or without the application of any desired design or designs applied thereto. While the fringe produced in carrying out the method is preferably incorporated 35 in the warp of the fabric or in one or more of the warps of a double warp fabric, it is also capable of being formed in the weft, the invention not being limited to the particular location of the float threads and final fringe elements in 4 either the warp or the weft.

The invention, including both the method and the fabric, and its several objects and advantages, will be clearly understood from the following description, considered in connection with 45 the drawings, which show certain illustrative embodiments of the invention. 7

In the drawings,

Figure 1 is a fragmentary plan view of a Woven fringe fabric embodying my invention, in course 50 of production by my method.

Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the fabric shown in Fig. 1, taken on line 2-2 thereof.

Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 1, showing the completed fringe fabric.

Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 2, taken on line 44 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 3 of a fringe fabric embodying my invention and produced by my method, the fabric being of specifically different form from that shown in Figs. 3 and 4.

Fig. 6 is a view similar to Fig. 4 taken on line 6-6 of Fig. 5.

Fig. 7 is a View similar to Fig. 3 showing another specific form of fringe fabric embodying my invention, and

Fig. 8 is a fragmentary view of the surface of a piece of textile fabric embodying my invention and having a design applied thereto by printing or similar methods.

Generally speaking, the method which, in part, constitutes my invention, involves the forming of float threads on either or both surfaces of a body of textile fabric composed of warp and weft threads, and the cutting of the float threads to form fringe elements. As shown in Fig. 1 the float threads 3 are preferably formed in one of the warps l of a body of woven textile fabric having a double-warp I, 2, and weft 4. The warp in which the float threads 3 occur are interlocked with the weft 4 and warp 2 at intervals which may be varied at will dependent upon the particular design, character or length of fringe to be produced. After the fabric shown in Figs. 1 and 2 has been woven (and printed, if a printed design is to be applied) the float threads are cut at one end or at any other desired point such as will leave a fringe thread or element 3a of sufficient length to, lie substantially against the surface of the fabric generally parallel to and longitudinally of the warp threads.

The specific arrangements of the fringe ele-' ments or threads in Figs. 3 and 5, as will be observed, produce fringed fabrics having fringe so disposed upon their surfaces as to produce different fringe designs and, consequently, different ornamental appearances for the fabric.

By way of illustration of the wide variety of fabrics and/or designs to which my invention may be applied the fabrics shown in Figs. 3 and 5 are or may be produced by plain or Jacquard weaving, while that shown in Fig. '7 is of a different character, and represents an example of fringed fabric obtainable by Jacquard weaving only.

The fringed fabric shown in Fig. '7 within the design illustrated is otherwise of the same structure and'produced by the same method as the fabric shown in the other figures of the drawings.

Although I prefer to use threads of cellulose products for my fringe threads, my invention is not limited to the use of threads of any particular material, size or weight.

I claim:

The method of forming woven fabric having a fringe-like surface and a printed design applied to said surface, which comprises weaving warp and weft threads to form a body with a series of spaced parallel float threads on a surface of said body and interlocked with said body at intervals, applying a, printed design to the fabric surface and the float threads and the portions of the fabric surface underlying said float threads, and cutting said float threads adjacent one end thereof to form fringe attached to the fabric and lying substantially against the fabric surface.

CHARLES ROSENSTEIN.

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