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WEE. & A.'C. OEHR'LE.

SPUN GHENILLE AND THE ART 01-" MANUFAGTURINGTHE SAME. No. 332,938. Patented Dec. 22, 1885.

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W. E. & A. 0. OBHRLE.

SPUN GH'ENILLE AND THE ART OF MANUFAUTURING THE-SAME.

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WILLIAM EDWVARD OEHRLE AND ALBERT -O. OEHRLE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNORS OF ONE-HALF TO HARTLEY A. CABLES, OF

SAME PLACE.

SPUN CHENILLE AND THE ART OF,MANUFACTURING THE SAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 332,938, dated December 22, 1885.

Application filed November 8, 1883. Serial No. 111,218. (No sp cimens.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM E. OEHRLE and ALBERT O. OEHRLE, residents of the city and county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Spun Chenille and the Art of ll/Ianufactnring the Same, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to the manufacture t of spun chenille; and it consists in improvements therein whereby we are enabled to make the same of different colors having sharply defined lines of separation.

Round or spun or twisted chenille has been made from yarns or threads of a single color, and, where multiple colors are required, from yarns dyed of different shades of the same color by immersing the different parts of the yarns in the dye for a shorter or longer time, so that those parts immersed the longer time will take up more of the dye-stuff, and consequent-ly appear as a darker shade than those immersed only a short time. These yarns are then spun into chenille, but in the product the lines of demarkation are not clearly defined, one color blending into the other. \Ve overcome these objections by our invention, which consistsin manufacturing chenille by printing the weft or body yarns be fore connecting them to the chain, the remaining process of manufacture being the same as when threads each of a single color are used.

In the drawings, Figure l is a view illustrating the mode of printing the threads with a fiat block. Fig. 2 is a View illustrating a mode of printing with cylinders. Fig. 31'llustrates a thread after being printed. Fig. 4. illustrates the chenille complete made from the said printed threads. Fig. 5 is an eleva- 0 tion in part in section of a chenille-machine.

Figs. 6 and 7 are enlarged cross-sections illustrating the ordinary manufacture of the chenille.

In the ordinary mode of making spun che- 5 nille the weft-thread is wound around a form of metal, wire, cord, or rope, of the proper size and shape, across binding-threads,which are twisted together, with the weft or body threads between, holding the'latter in their place, and at the same time insuring a cylindrical form to the article.

In Figs. 5 to 7 We have illustrated this mode of manufacture. The operating parts of the machine are supported by a framework, and consist of two parallel traveling cords, to w, guide-pulleys for directing said cords through thetubular support of a bobbin, o, and a revolving arm, it, having an eye, through which passes the silk thread so from the bobbin, so that as the arm revolves the thread is wound round the two cords to w. as shown in Fig. 6. The rotation is imparted to the arm by means of a driving-pulley, \(V, and cord 13. The cords to to pass under a guide-roller, q, and over guiderollers r, and round guide-pulleys r, and 6 round a driving-pulley, U. The warp-threads on are carried by bobbins R R, the warpthread a passing over a guide-pulley parallel to the cords to 10, between and below the same, under roller q,and over thelowerguide-roller r to a spindle, m, on a carrier, V, sliding on a rod, p, and the warp-thread a passing from below round the lower guide-roller r also to the spindle. An endless cord, 0, passes round a driving-pulley, 8, round guide-pulleys s", and round a drum, 8, on the carrier V, and a band passes round the drum and round a pulley on the spindle m. As the cord 0 moves itcarries the carrier V with it as fast as the feeding of the threads n n will permit; but as the cord 0 travels faster than the threads, are fed it rotates the drum 8, and thereby revolves the spindle m. Above the rollerr is arranged a sharp-bladed knife, k, the edge of which extends between the oords w w. 3

J is the main driving-shaft, carrying pulleys P L, round which bands pass to the pulley U and to a small pulley on the shaft carrying the pulley W. As the cords to w are carried through and from the bohbino the silk thread 0 is wrapped round the same by the rotation of the arm u, as shown in Fig. 6, the lap of thread inclosing the Warp 12. As the lapped cords pass over the lower roller r the warpthread it is laid below the winding-thread, as 5 shown in Fig. 6, and as the cords pass below the knife is the lapped threads are severed between the cords and spread laterally, as shown in Fig. 7, and the cords to are then lifted from the warps over the upper roller r, while the warps are drawn forward by the carriage V and are twisted by the rotation of the spindle in, thus forming the chenille.

To insure a product in which the different colors are sharply separated, we stretch or otherwise place the threads or yarns X, Fig. 1, so that they will be supported in proper positions to be operated upon by one or more printingblocks, whereby each thread is printed at the desired points of the desired colors, thereby producing a thread in which the different colors are separated by distinct lines without any merging of the adjacent colors. These threads are then used in the manufacture of the chenille in the same manner as those consisting of a single unil'orin color, said threads being employed as above described, or in any of the usual modes of manutacturing spun chenille, to produce a round or twisted figured chenille in which the different colors are sharply defined at a cost but little if anything greater than where the chenille is manufactured of a single color.

Ve have shown in Fig. l a flat printing block as the means used for imparting the desired colors to the threads; but it will be apparent that the printing of the colors may be elfected by means of revolving cylinders, as in Fig. 2, or in any other suitable manner.

It will be apparent that by properly proportioning the different colors upon the threads any desired pattern may be produced on the chenille.

1. The improvement in the art of manufacturing spun chenille herein described, the same consisting in first printing upon the Weft or body threads or yarns the desired colors at the proper points and then connecting the said wett or body threads to the binding threads or chain as in the usual process of manufacture, substantially as set forth.

2. As a new article of manufacture, spun chenille having weft or body threads or yarns with different colors printed thereon, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

\VlLLlAM EDWARD OElll-RLE. ALBERT C. OEIEIRLE. Witnesses:

JOHN H. CAHILL, l'lARRY M. W ILLIAMS.

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