US664064A

US664064A - Braid.

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Publication number: US664064A
Application number: US1030A
Authority: US
Inventors: Ferdinand Thun; Henry Janssen
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1897-08-24
Filing date: 1900-01-11
Publication date: 1900-12-18
Anticipated expiration: 1917-12-18

Description

No. 664,064. Patehted Dee. l8, I900. F. THUN- &. H. JANSSEN.

BRAID.

(Application filed Jan. 11, 1900.)

(No Model.)

Witnesses $9 I W 4 p Attorney.

THE NDRRKS PETERS co. momuma, WASHINGTON, :1 c4 A? Inventor NrrED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FERDINAND THUNAND HENRY J ANSSEN, OF WYOMISSING, PENNSYLVANIA.

BRAID.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 6 dated- December 1900- Original application filed A u t 24, 1897, Serial No. 649,402. Divided and this application filed January 11, 1900. Serial No. 1,030- (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, FERDINAND THUN and HENRY J ANSSEN, citizens of the United States of America, and residents of Wyomissing, in

the county of Berks and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Braids, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to braids; and it consists in an improved construction having additional threads woven into one face thereof and adapted to produce ornamental patterns on the surface, as well as to increase the body of the fabric.

The invention is fully described in connection with the accompanying drawings and is particularly pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 is a face View of a braid embodying our invention, the additional or filling threads being so interwoven with the usual diagonally-braided threads as to form a succession of letters on the exposed face of the braid. Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view on the line 00 0a of Fig. 1. Figs. 3 and 4, 5 and 6, and

2 5 7 and 8 are similar views to Figs. 1 and 2, showing slightly-modified patterns formed by the additional threads. 7

The object of our invention, as stated, is to provide a braid in which are interwoven ad- 0 ditional threads, preferably of a different color from the main threads, so as to serve as a filling, whereby the body of the fabric is increased and at the same time to produce an ornamental effect on one face thereof.

3 5 In the drawings the main threads or groups of threads (marked a and b, respectively) are diagonally braided together in the ordinary way. The additional or filling threads 0 in Figs. 1 and 2, for instance, form core or warp threads, around which the main threads at and b are braided, except where the threads 0 are carried intermittently to the outside of the main threads, so as to show at intervals on the outer face of the braid, as indicated 5 by the small solid black blocks, which are symmetrically arranged to form the desired pattern. 7

In our pending application, filed August 24, 1897, Serial No. 649,402, we have fully I shown and described a braiding-machine particularly designed to produce our improved braid, in which is provided a special series of bobbins or thread-carriers for these additional threads, which carriers are arranged to travel across the serpentine path of the main series of carriers, the movements being so timed with the movements of the main carriers as to cooperate therewith, and thereby simultaneously effect the braiding of the main threads a and b and the interweaving therewith of the filling or pattern threads 0, as described.

In Figs. 5 and 6 the filling-threads are alternately inside and outside of the main threads, which ordinarily form the exposed face of the braid, or, in other words, are alternately on the surface and in the center of the fabric, the eifect produced being that of a broken line.

In Figs. 3 and 4 a pair 0 of filling-threads are employed, one of which is arranged to lie on. thesnrface, while theother is at the center, and vice versa, so that a continuous but uneven line is formed, which line may be made practically unbroken if groups of threads 0 be employed, as indicated. A great variety of ornamental designs may of course be produced.

What we claim is- 1. As a new article of manufacture, abraid having interwoven therewith additional or pattern threads which run 'parallel with the sides of the braid and lie alternately on the surface of and between the overlying diagonal threads as filling-threads.

' 2. As a new article of manufacture, a braid having additional or pattern threads which run parallel with the sides of the braid and are woven into one face thereof only and lie alternately on the surface of and between the overlying diagonal threads as filling-threads.

Signed by us at Reading, Pennsylvania, this 9th day of January, 1900.

FERDINAND THUN. HENRY JANSSEN.

Witnesses:

ADAM L. OTTERBEIN, W. G. STEWART.