US1484669A - Haircloth fabric - Google Patents

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V. PASTORE HAIRCLOTH FABRIC Feb; 526 1924.-

Fiied July 20. 1920 Patented l 'ebo 2d, lQZt,

VINCEN'E IPASTORE, 0F NORWICH, CQNNEC'EICUT.

HAIRCLOTH FABRIC.

Application filed July 20, 1920. Serial lilo. SEZWG.

7'0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, VINcEN'r Farmer,

a citizen of the United States residing at Norwich, in the county of ew London, in the State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Hair-cloth Fabrics, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

'this improvement relates to hair cloth of the type used commonly by tailors and others for stiffening garments, said cloth comprising usually a cotton warp and a fill-' ing of still hair, my present purpose being to provide simple and inexpensive means for preventing the accidental disarrangement of the filling hairs with respect to the warp in the woven fabric.

In the building up of garments, particularly mens coats, hair cloth of the class referred to is commonly utilized for stiffening such garments and it is the common experience that the wearers of the garments are annoyed by the working loose of the stid filling hairs which, being as sharp as fine needles, readily prick through the cloth and must then be drawn out and thrown away. To overcome this objectionable action or the stifiening the cut ends of said hairs are sometimes protected, and prevented from escaping, by binding the edges of the stifiening fabric but this involves an expenditure of time and materiel which it is desirable to avoid, especially in'cheap clothing. My present purpose is to provide simple and cheap means in such stiffening cloth whereby the filling hairs are positively anchored in the warp and therefore said hairs cannot escape and, with this desirable purpose in view, I have provided the fabric illustrated in the annexed drawings, in which the Figure 1 is-a face view vofonehalf of the front of a coat showing also the stiffening fabric outlined thereon. Figure 2 is a relatively enlarged view of the 1 upper portion of said stifi'eningcloth and Figure 3 is a transverse sectional view of said cloth taken at the line 3-3 of said Figure 2.

Referring to these drawings, the letter 0: indicates a portion ofa coat front and .6 denotes the portion of said front which is to be folded back along the dotted line a to provide the customary lapel. 0? denotes a stidening of hair cloth which may be of any desired size and shape; as here shown it is designed to stid'en the front of the garment and particularly the shoulder and neck portions; the edge portion of said stidening being partially overlapped and enclosed when the lapel portion is folded back and pressed down. The essential feature of my' present improvement is in the novel construction of the hair cloth fabric, as l have already stated. The warp threads of said frabricare indicated in the drawings by the letter a and the filling or weft by the letter f, the warp being cotton or other suitable material which is more or less flexible and the filling being of relative, ly stifier material such as horse hair or bristles. Owing to the stid, wiry nature of the filling such fabrics cannot be beaten up close enough in the weaving operation to crimp the filling and, as a result, the filling hairs may be easily drawn out and, unless their cut ends are protected in some manner, said hairs work out through the garment fabric, as l have explained. In order to prevent such objectionable working out of the hairs I subject the woven fabric to treatment which, in efi'ect, cements the hiing to the warp. This may be accomplished very cheaply and efi'ectively by passing the fabric through a solution of white lead which has been brought to a limpid consistency by the aid of turpentine, alcohol, benzine or the like, which readily saturates the fabric and, when dissipated by evaporation, leaves the hardened lead to operate as a binder between the warp and filling without, however, objectionably stifiening the treated fabric.

In the Figure 3 of the drawin the binder of lead or other material, as t e be, is denoted by the letter 9'.

The cost of thus treating the fabric is very small when compared with the resulting advantages and l find, by repeated prac tical use of such an improved fabric, that it serves the desired purpose most satisfactorily.

The white lead wherever referredto in the specification refers to that type of base for paint which is known as the commercial white lead and'is in the form of a paste and composed of a large percentage of white lead and a small percentage of linseed oil. The composition of the white lead for ractical purposes is approximately 92% ct case may Gil mil

ltlti white lead mixed with approximately 8% cloth impregnated with commercial white of linseed oil. I lead as a binder. a

Having thus described my invention, I 3. A process of treating hair cloth to claim maintain the hairs in position in the cloth 1. As a new article of manufacture, hair which comprises dissolving a commercial '15 cloth and a 'cementitious paste formed of a base of white lead in a readily evaporable commercial base for white paints for flexisolution, saturating the fabric with such bly binding the Warp and filling of the cloth solution and then evaporating the solution. toget er.

2. As a new article of manufacture, hair VINCENT PASTORE.

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