US1506592A - Ruffled crepe paper - Google Patents

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L. c. LEACH RUFFLED CRPE PAPER Patented Aug. 26, 1924.` l

RUFELED CRPE ,PAPER i Application led September 22, 1923. Serial No. 664,245.

To all whom i may concern: f

Be it known that I, LESTER C.' LEACH, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Framingham, in the coun.- ty of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Ruflled Crpe Paper, of which the following is a specification. The object of the invention is to provide.

ordinary crpe paper or otherr crpe material with ruiles to enhance the decorative effect, to form the ruftles in the crping process, to hold the ruillesk in ruilled -condition by the crping of the material adjacent lthe r'uflles without stitching the other fastening means (although such means may be employed if desired to form the ruifles integrally with the body of the paper, to form a rui-lied sheet of crpe material which in use has little if any; greater tendency to stretch than ordinary crpe material, notwithstanding the ruiiles, and generally to improve the appearance and construction of crpe paper and the like. a I

For the purpose of illustrating the genus of the invention, two concrete embodiments are illustrated in the accompanying drawin in Which:- f

`ig. 1 is a front View of a portion of a ruflied sheet of crpe material;

Fig. 2 is a rear view of a portlon of the sheet;

F ig. 3 is an edge view of a portion of the sheet;

Fig. l4 is a diagram illustrating the method of manufacturing the sheet;

Figs. 5 to 8,-- which correspond to Figs. l to 4 respectively, illustrate another form of the invention; and

Fig. 9 is a diagram illustrating another stage of the process of manufacture.

The particular embodiment of the inven# tion illustrated in Figs. 1 to 3 comprises a sheet of material crped transversely as indicated at 1 and having rows of rufiies 2 extending longitudinally thereof. Therows of ruflies are interconnected with the crped portion of the sheet along their center lines 3 as hereinafter described, the free ends of the rullies extending laterally to each side of the center lines 3.

The modified form of the invention shown in Figs. 5 to 7 comprises a sheet having longitudinal rows of ruiiles 11 and being transversely crped intermediate the ruffles as indicated at 12. In this form the ruttles of .each of the double rows 11 are inte-rconnected with the sheet along their outer edges with the free ends of the rutlles projecting toward each other.

he preferred method of forming the sheet shown in Figs. l to 3 is as follows. A sheet of tissue paper or other suitable material is folded longitudinally as shown in Fig. 4, each fold being inthe form of a pleat with the folded edges 4 substantially meeting. These folds are preferably folded as Hat as possible so that the overlapping portions of the fold are in face contact (the overlapping portions being separated in the gure for the p-urpose of appearance). After the sheet ,has been folded and pressed either by hand or by machinery the sheet 1s run through an ordinary crping machine with the lower side of the sheet against the crping roll.

A suitable crping machine is illustrated diagrannnatically in Fig. 9 where 2l represents a roll of the material to be crped, 22 a roll dipping in the tank of liquid 23 for wetting the paper, 24 a heated roll which bears against the roll 22. As the paper travels between the two rolls 22 and 24 it is first wet by the roll 22 and then the excess moisture is squeezed out as the paper crosses the plane connecting the axes of the two rolls. As the paper travels with the roll 24 it is partiall dried and after making a partial revolution with the roll it is stripped from the roll by the doctor knife 25 which crimps orcrpes the paper as it leaves the roll.

In making the form shown in Figs. l to 3 the folded tissue paper passes throulgh the crping machine with its lower side ig. 4) against" the roller 24. Thus as the paper is stripped from the roll 24 by the doctor knife 25 portions 1 of the sheet which contact with the roll are crped but the superposed portions 5 and 6 are left substantially uncrped since they do not contact with the roll and hence cannot adhere to the roll as required for crping. The crping of the juxtaposed folds 4 (Fig. 4) of the sheet results in a substantial intercr ing of the longitudinal center of the overlying portion 6 of the fold therewith, so that .while the lateral portions 7 (Fig. 4) of the folds ruffle up, the longii tudinal center of the top layer 6 is inter-v with theroll 24.

crped with the edges 4. This not only holds the longitudinal center of the layer 6 in the plane of the sheet as shown in Fig. 3 but this intercrping ties together the crped ortions 1 on opposite sides of each row o ruiles. Consequently when the finished sheet is dried the junctions 8 (Fig. 2) between the juXtaposed folds 4 have substantially no tendency to open unless the sheet is subjected to an' abnormally strong transverse tension.

The form shown in Figs. 5to 7 is made in substantially the same way as that above described except that the folded material is fed through thecrping machine upsidedown, the lower side ('Fig. 8) contacting This results in the sheet being crped throughout the widths-between the folds 13 and also throughout the widths between the lines where the folds 18 bear against the overlying portions of the sheet, that'is between the lines 14--14, 15-15, etc. Along the lines 13--14 and 13-15 the folds are intercrimped with the body of the sheet thus forming junctions 16 (Figs. 6 and 7 the abutting edges of which are securely locked togethen by the intercrping. he overlying portions 17 of the folds curl up in the form of uncrped rufilesas shown in Figs. 5 and 7.

From the foregoing it will be evident that the preferred embodiments of the invention have theJ following characteristics. The crped widths (that is the widths between the junction lines 8 in lFig. 2 and between the junction lines 16 in Fig. 6)' substantially meet along the bases of the rufies and the meeting edges are intercrped with the bases to hold the edges together and to hold the ruiiles in ruilied condition. In each embodiment one edge of margin ofeach fold is intercrped with the sheet; thus, in

the first embodiment the converging or abutting edges or margins 4 are intercrped with the portion of the sheet immediately there# over (Fig. 4) while in the second embodiment the outer or diverging folds 13 are intercrped with the portions of the sheet immediately thereover namely at 14 and 15 'in Fig. 8. It will also be evident that the folds in each embodiment are double and that the folds of each'emb'odiment comprise' two adjacent doublel folds reversed relatively to each other; for example, referring to the left-hand end of Fig. 4 the right-hand folds 4 and 7 constitute one double fold which is reversed with respect to the lefthand double fold 4-7, the folds 4 of the two adjacent double folds converging or being directed toward each other and the folds 7 of the other pair diverging or being directed away from each other. In the first form the folds of pair 4-4 are intercrimped or intercrped with the overlying portion of the sheet while the folds of the other pair 7--7 sheet while the folds of pair 17-17 are uncrimpedand ruffled.

l claim:

1. A sheet of crped material having an integral row of uncrped rufiles on one side thereof. l

2. A sheet of material having a row of integral ruiiles on one side thereof, the sheet being crped transversely of said row to hold the ruiiies in position.

3. A sheet of material having a row of integral ruiiles on one side thereof, the sheet being crped transversely on each side of said row.

. 4. A sheet of paper having alternate widths crped and uncrped respectively, the 'uncrped widths being ruiiied.

5. A sheet of paper having alternate `widths crped and uncrped respectively, the .unerped widths being folded and ruffled, and the crped widths substantially meeting along the base lines of the ruies.

6. A sheet of paper having alternate widths crped and uncrped respectively, the uncrped widths being folded and ruffled, the crped widths substantially meeting along the bases of the rufiies and the meeting edges bases to hold the edges together.

7. An article of the character described comprising a sheet'of crped material having an integral row of ruiiies extending transversely of thercrpe, the rufles being in part intercrped with the sheet and in part free from the sheet.

8. sheet of paper having a fold extendL ing longitudinall thereof, the sheet being crped transverse y and onemargin of the foldA being intercrped with the sheet.

9. A1 sheet' of paper tending longitudinally thereof, the sheet bef having a fold ex` being intercrped with said the other margin of the fold being free and ruffled.

10. A sheet of paper having a'double fold providing a folded edge on each side of the sheet with three thicknesses between the folded edges, the sheet, including one of said thicknesses, of the folds crped with free and ruilled.

with one of said edges rinterthe sheet, the other edge being the other two thiclmesses being being crped transversely l 11. A sheet of paperhaving two adjacent double folds reversed relatively to each other to provide apair of converging folded margins on one side of the sheet and a pair of diverging folded margins on the other side, the sheet being crimped transversely of said folds with'one pair of said margins 'intercrimped `therewith and the 1 3. The art of making ruffled crpe paper 10 other pair of margins being ruflled. which comprises pleating uncrped paper 12. The art of making rufled crpe paper and simultaneously orping the paper transwhich comprises impressing a doufble fold versely of the pleats and intercrping parts 5 in the paper and then erping'the paper of the pleats with other parts of the paper.

transversely of 'the fold, one edge of the Signed by me at Framingham, Massa- 15 dou-ble fold being intercrimped with the chusetts, this 18 day of September 1923.

overlapping paper and the other edge left free. LESTER CnLEACH.

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