US243962A

US243962A - Fabric for window-screens

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Publication number: US243962A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1881-07-05
Anticipated expiration: 1898-07-05

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'I. E. PALMER. FABRIG FOR WINDOW SCREENS, aw.

No. 243,962. Patented July 5,'1881 mbmw n. PETERS. Pholo-L'rlhogmphar, Waihingtnn. m;

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ISAAC E. PALMER, OF MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT.

FABRIC FOR WINDOW-SCREENS, 800.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 243,962, dated July 5, 1881.

Application filed October 14, 1880. (Nomodeh) To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ISAAC E. PALMER, of Middletown, in the county of Middlesex and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fabrics for Window- Screens, &c., of which the following is a specification, reference bei'ng had to the accompanying drawing.

This invention is intended more especially to furnish a cheap substitute for wire-eloth in the manufacture of window-screens, but may be also used for other purposes.

The invention consists in the woven netting of fibrous threads, made as hereinafter described, dressed with sizing throughout to give it requisite stifi'ness, and having printed or painted upon it figures or various ornamental designs in oil-colors or water-proof pigments.

The accompanying drawing represents a face view of a piece of the fabric.

The fibrous fabric bodyA may be woven in the same manner as gauze, or else be woven by plain weaving'with open meshes through which the light may pass freely.

The stiffening-sizing may consist of starch, flour, glue, or other materials commonly used for stiffening woven fabrics of fibrous material, or a mixture of such materials, and may be applied to the woven body or fabric A by the machinery or means commonly employed for sizing and dressing gauze and other open woven fabrics in such manner as to leave the meshes open. The oil-paint or water-proof pigment used for decorating it by printing the figure upon it may consist of any ordinary paint-base ground or mixed with any of the siccative oils commonly used in oil-paint, or with any varnish or other water-proof menstruum commonly used or suitable for making a water-proof paint. The figure may be printed upon the sized fabric, after the latter has been dried, by means of blocks or cylinders,

over, under, or in contact with which the fabric may be delivered and carried from or between rollers, or by other known or suitable 5 vided the fabric is kept extended, as in a win-- dow-screen-whlle the fabric may be wet by accidental exposure to rain through an open window, and until the fabric has been again dried.

I am aware that a fabric of open-meshe woven fibrous material painted or primed all over with oil-paint and having figures printed on it with the same material has been made for window-screens; but that is expensive owing to the difficulty and labor of so finishing the whole open-meshed surface with oilpaint as to keep the meshes clear and open. The fabric with the body stiffened with sizing, and having the pattern only in oil-paint, is not only very much cheapened, butit is stiffer, and therefore better adapted as a substitute for wire-cloth in window-screens.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The woven netting of fibrous threads described, dressed with sizing throughout to give it requisite stiffness, and having printed or painted upon it figures or various ornamental designs in oil-colors or waterproof pigments, substantially as set forth and shown.

. ISAAC E. PALMER.

WVitnesses:

M. T. PALMER, F. M. ROBERTS.