US1808379A - Woven fabric - Google Patents

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J1me 1931- c. ROSENSTEIN ,379

WOVEN FABRIC Filed Feb. 23, 1929 Patented June 2, 1931 UNITED STATES CHAIR-LES Rosnivsrnm, or 'rA'rnnsoN, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNQR T0 Ro'sEnsr'EIN 330st;

' & HOOK, on NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION on NEW JERSEY WOVEN FABRIC Application filed February 23,1929. 'Serial No. 342,226.

My invention relates to woven fabrics, and particularly to fabrics in which stripes are dis osed therein at predetermined intervals.

ne of the principal. objects of my invention is to provide a. woven fabric which ornamental or distinctive lines or stripes are produced therein in the warp or weft, or in both the warp and weft, by threads of a different color or material from the ground fabric.

Another object of the invention is to pro- Vide a woven fabric in which stripes are produced by warp threads of different color or material suitably arranged with respect tointermediate warp threads similar to or different from the gro-imd fabric threads.

Another object of the invention is the provision of binding threads in an open mesh fabric whereby possibility of the fabric being pulled apart will be minimized.

A further object is to produce fabric of tinsel, wire, hair, artificial hair, or any other suitable stiffening threads, with stripes or lines of cotton, linen, silk, rayon, cellulose, straw, or other suitable fiber formed in the fabric at intervals, whereby the fabric will have the appearance of being made up of a number of relatively narrow strips or braids of cloth stitched together along their longitudinal edges. The materials preferably used are horsehair (natural or artificial) for the ground fabric, and cotton or viscose threads for the lines or stripes. Relatively limp threads having good frictional qualities are used in the preferred form of my invention.

The striped cloth thus produced may be used for various purposes. One of the principal uses contemplated is as a body effect for millinery cloth. Millinery shapes formed of haircloth so woven as to be transparent or practically so are considered desirable because of their lightness and coolness, and because they permit the hair of the wearer to be seen through the cloth when the hat is used Without a lining. It has'been found,

' however, that ordinary haircloth, when used for this purpose, is unattractive because of its'plainness and smooth, glossy appearance. In order to enhance the appearance of cloth and strengthen the fabric and thus render des'ignedforsuch uses, efforts have been made to incorporate ornamental lines or stripes in millinery formed of haircloth. Heretofore, it has been found necessary to accomplish this result and effect by fashioning the shape 5.5

from narrow widths of hair braid, these being secured together by stitching along their adjacent longitudinal edges. Haircloth of this kind, and producedb-y this method, is unsatisfactory, and its manufacture is tedious t'o and expensive.

These defects are overcomeand the production of ornamental and attractive millinery shapes fashioned from fabric of hair or'other stiffening threads is greatly facilitated by the use of the cloth which forms my present invention. The lines or stripes are incorporated in the fabric in a single operation, and the fabric, when woven, is ready for use for millinery purposes. The production of millinery shapes from this fabric is a simple and inexpensive matter, as the shape may be formed of a comparatively small number of attractive because of the lines or stripes in the cloth, but the binding threads by which these lines or stripes are formedten'd to hold the fabric and the millinery shape formed therefrom m'ore'substantial and less liable to stretch unduly and thus lose its original shape.

Other objects and advantages of my in- 1 vention will'be apparent from the following specification, wherein the same reference characters indicate similar parts of the fabric in the several figures of the drawings. 7 In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan View showing a somewhat diagrammatic representation of a fabric prepared in accordance with my invention.

Figure 2 isa view "similar to Fig. 1, showin a modified'form of fabric,

lifigure 3 is anenlarged plan view, similar to Fig, 1, of a portion of the fabric illus trated in Fig. 1, and i Figure 4 is a'perspective view of a millinery shape exemplifying one of the specific uses TW for which fabric prepared in accordance with my invention is designed or adapted.

The fabric illustrated is composed of two separate sets of warp threads, one set being stiffening threads and the other set fiber threads employed to produce the lines or stripes. The weft is composed of stiffening threads preferably of the same material and color as the set of stiffening warp threads.

The stripes may be incorporated in the fabric by straight, spiral, or ratine threads introduced in the weft, as well as by binding threads in the warp, in which case the stripes will run both ways of the fabric, as shown in Fig. 2.

I prefer, however, to produce the stripes by means of the warp threads alone. As shown in detail in Fig. 3, the stiffening warp threads 1 are divided into groups or bands by the interjection of a plurality of (preferably two) fiber threads 2, 2a, which may be termed binding threads, and between which are one or more intermediate threads la, which may be either stiffening threads similar-to threads 1 or'fiber threads similar to threads 2, 2a. The threads 2 and 2a preferably have good frictional qualities.

The two or more binding warp threads2, 260, although from different shafts of the harness, arecaused by suitable mechanism to operate together as a single binding thread.

) One shaft rises as the shed opens. One of the binding threads 2, as it rises, with its shaft,

pulls the other binding thread'2a with it. The fiber binding threads 2, 2a, are thus wrapped'one way around-the. intermediate threads 1a, whose shafts are idle. As the 4, inserted at appropriate or desired intervals in the weft.

I claim:

1. An open mesh fabric having a weft of artificial horsehair and a warp composed of artificial horsehair ground threads and fiber threads arranged at intervals in said horsehair warp over one or more intermediate threads, the fiber threads being crossed alternately from one side to the other of the intermediate threads, forming parallel lines or stripes. having a wavy appearance between adjacent bands of artificial horsehair fabric.

2. A woven fabric comprising a body of relatively smooth artificial cellulose threads and binding threads having better frictional crossed over from side to side ofspaced ground threads to hold the fabric intact.

4. An artificial haircloth fabric including threads of good frictional qualities spaced in the artificial.haircloth'ground and crossing-T from side to' side of certain of the ground threads to hold the fabric intact and to impart a, striped-appearance thereto."

CHARLES ROSENSTEIN.

shed opens again, the shaftfor :anotherbinding thread, e. 'g.,' 2a, rises'whilethe'same two intermediate thread shafts are idle, and the fiber warp threads 2a are thus wrapped around the same intermediate stiffening or fiber threads 1a,in the opposite way.

The binding threads 2, 2a; may be bound at anydesired intervals; Thewinding of the binding threads may occur at every two, three, or four picks, but may be eife'cted,'if

desired, at every pick or at every fourth or fifth pick, or at even longerintervals. The

bound and at which the direction of crossing ening orlfiber threadswill change may be varied at will, and will be dependentprin cipally upon the particular cloth to be made.

intervals atwhich the fiber, threads will'be In the cloth illustrated in Fig. 1 the lines or stripes are formed only in the warp, the

weft threads 3 being preferably-of the same i kind as warp threads 1. In the modified form .of' cloth shown in Fig. 2, lines'orstripesare provided in the warp. by binding threads 2, 2a, in the manner shown in Figs. 1 and 3, while crossstripes are also p'rovided'by threads, preferably ratine, or spiral threads .I V

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