US588302A

US588302A - Woven stiffening fabric

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Publication number: US588302A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1897-08-17
Anticipated expiration: 1914-08-17

Description

(Specimens.)

E. K. WARREN. WOVEN STIFFENING FABRIC.

No. 588,302. Patented Aug. 17,1897.

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EDWARD K. WVARREN, OF THREE OAKS, .MICHIGAN.

WOVEN STIFFENING FABRIC.

I Application filed February 8, 1897 7 Serial No. 622,402. (Specimens) To all whont it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD K. WARREN,

, a citizen of the United States, residing at the village of Three Oaks, in the countyof Berrien and State of Michigan, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in W'oven stiffening Fabrics and Strands Therefor, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in Woven stiffening fabrics, and it relates partially to a specific construction.

The broad idea of my invention is contained in my application for a patent filed on the 15th day of January, 1895, Serial No. 534,966.

It also relates to an improvement and a variation of the construction there shown.

It has been found that hair, and particularly cattle hair, such as forms the bush of the tail, can be utilized by my. invention to great advantage.

The objects of my invention are to produce a stiffening fabric in which stiffening fibers or hair is utilized in the warp or Weft in such a manner that they are securely retained in position, and further objects definitely appearin gin the detailed description. I accomplish these objects by the devices and means described in the following specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a view of my improved fabric in which the stiffening-strands extend in one direction only and may be utilized either as warp or weft. Fig. 2 is a View of the stiffening fabric in which the strands are utilized both as warp and Weft. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail view showing one of the stiffeningstrands removed from the fabric and showing its construction. Fig. 4 is a View of a structure in which the longitudinal flexible textile thread is omitted from the strand, showing the structure where the longitudinal thread is not necessary. Y

In the drawings similar letters of reference refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The fabric is made up of a warp or weft Woven together in the usual form. In either the warp and weft, or both, I place strands A which are made up of lengths of stiff hair c,'as horsehair or a coarse hair from other animals, as from the bush of a cows tail, or other resilient fiber, which has its ends or the whole suitably waxed and is then placed upon the longitudinal strands n and is secured thereto by a wrapping-thread m Wound spirally around the Whole. When this strand is ing over the same engage it between the spirals of the wrapping-thread m and hold the same securely in place,,so that it cannot be drawn out or raveled out.

It will be noted that in an attempt to remove the stiffening-strands by pulling, the cross-threads engage the wrapping-threads m, and, moving it, will cause the diameter of the circle described by these threads to be reduced on either one side or the other, which will clamp the stiffening fibers securely and prevent their removal.

NVhere the strands are properly waxed or have their meeting ends overlapping, the lon gitudinal flexible textile thread u may be omitted from the strands and the stiffening fibers be secured'together by the spiral wrapping-thread m, and where the fiber is of comparatively long hair or is roughened, such as the fibers of the quills of feathers, the longitudinal flexible thread can be omitted,.and the strands will be operative, though not nearly as good as the strands having the longitudinal thread at therein. I desire to state in this connection that in the production of the fabric it is immaterial in What direction the threads are woven or braided together so long as they cross over the strands, as here shown, and engage upon the corrugations formed by the spiral wrapping-thread m, and that any attempt to remove the strands will be prevented by cross strands or threads engaging the wrapping-thread m and causing it to contract upon the fibers of the strands, as I have indicated.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A woven stiffening fabric composed of warp and weft threads, one at'least of which shall contain resilient strands formed of a continuous longitudinal thread with hairs distributed along the same and having overlapping meeting ends, and a wrapping-thread binding said hairs to the longitudinal thread, as specified.

2. A woven stiffening fabric having a'warp and weft one of which at least shall contain strands made up of stiff resilient fibers having overlapping ends, retained together by a closely-Wrapping thread wound thereon, as specified.

A woven stiffening fabric having a warp and weft one of which at least shall contain strands made up of waxed hairs having overlapping ends retained together by acloselywrapping thread wound thereon, as specified.

4. A strand made up of suitably-waxed hairs banded together and having overlapping ends and joined together by a thread wrapped spirally around the same.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal in the presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD K. WARREN.