US679182A - Oil-press cloth. - Google Patents

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no. 679,\'a2. Patented my 23, wm. a., c. & J. J. mccAHoN. OIL PRESS CLOTH.

(Appli/:Btwn filed Sept. 13, 1900.)

(No Moden.)

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JOSEPH MCOAHRON, OHAHLES MCOAHEON, AND JOHN J. MCOAEHON, or NEw ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

OIL-PRESS CLOTH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 679,182, dated July 23, 1901.

Application led September 13, 1900.

To a/ZZ whom t may concern.-

Be it known that we, JOSEPH MOOARRON, CHARLES MOCARRON, and JOHN J. MOCAH- RON, citizens of the United States, residing at New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Oil-Press Cloths, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in oil-press cloths such as are woven of long animal hair and designed for use in cottonseed and other oil-extracting presses; and it consists in a certain peculiar cloth, the novelty, utility, and advantages of which will be fully understood from the following description and claims when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view of an oil-press cloth woven of long animal hair in accordance with our invention; and Figs. 2 and 3 are sections of the same taken in the planes indicated by the broken lines 2 2 and 3 3, respectively, of Fig. 1.

Referring by letter to the said drawings, A A are the warp-threads of our improved cloth, and B B are the weft-threads. These threads are each composed of horse-tail or other long, hard, coarse, and strong animal hair and cattle-tail or other long, soft, and pliable animal hair in the approximate proportions of two-thirds of the former to onethird of the latter.

In the making of the threads the crude horse-tail or equivalent long, hard, and strong animal hair and the crude cattle tail or equivalent long, soft, and pliable animal hair are thoroughly intermingled or mixed in a mixer, picker, and hackler or other suitable apparatus in the approximate proportions stated and are then Spun. The threads intended for the warp and those intended for the woof of the cloth are given the same amount of turn or twist and are similar as to size in cross-section, hardness, and strength.

In making the cloth the warp-threads and weft-threads formed in the manner described are interwoven in a loom or by hand, preferably in such manner that there is about twothirds as many weft-threads to the inch as warp-threads. This feature is clearly illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawings, in which Serial No. 29,941. (No specimens.)

there are six warp-threads to the inch and four weft-threads.

The cloth may be and preferably is provided with a suitable selvage or edge binding with a view of preventing Vdisintegration thereof; but such selvage or edge binding forms no part of our invention, and we have therefore deemed it unnecessary to illustrate the same.

By virtue of both the warp and weft threads of the cloth being made of horse-tail or other long, hard, and strong animal hair and cattle-tail or other long, soft, and pliable animal hair, as described, they are uniform in strength, and the cloth is rendered as strong anddnrable in the direction of its width as in the direction of its length. As a result of the warp-threads and weft-threads being uniformly twisted the one kind are as hard as the other, and hence are enabled to offer each to the other a uniform amount of resistance, which condnoes to the strength of the cloth and prolongs the usefulness of the same. The embodiment of horse-tail hair in both the warp and weft threads conduces to the strength of the same, while the embodiment of the cattle-tail hair in the threads enables them to give to each other and materially lessens the liability of one cutting or otherwise injuring the other when the cloth is subjected to pressure.

The arrangement of two-thirds as many weft-threads Ato the inch as warp-threads equalizes the strength and durability of the cloththat is to say, increases the strength of the cloth in the ,direction of its width and renders it almost if not quite as strong in such direction as in the direction of its length.

We are well aware of the patent of one Werk, No. GiOOS, of January 2, 1900, which discloses an Oil-press cloth consisting of a fabric composed of animal long hair, the hairs forming the warp-threads of the fabric being hard, stiff, or coarse, and having a hard twist, and the hairs forming the weftthreads being soft pliable hair, and having a soft twist. We are also aware of the patent of one Hanse, No. 611,316, of September 27, 1898, wherein is shown an oilpressmat,which is peculiar in that the warp-threads at the middle portion of the fabric are crowded to- IOO gether more than at the edges of the fabric andare in greater numbers at the middle than at the edges, this with a View of preventing the mat rapidly wearing away at its middle portion, which is subjected to the greatest strain incident to the use of the mat. We therefore make no claim to such constructions; but

What we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. An oil-press cloth, comprising warpthreads and weft-threads; the said warp and weft threads being each composed of long hard coarse and strong animal hair, and long, soft and pliable animal hair mixed together, substantially as speciied.

2. An oil -press cloth comprising warpthreads and weft-threads; the said Warp and weft threads being each composed of horsetail hair, and cattle-tail hair mixed together,

being each composed of long, hard, coarse and strong animal hair, and long, soft and pliable animal hair mixed together, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

' In testimony7 whereof We have hereunto set our hands in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOSEPH MCCARRON. CHARLES MCCARRON. JOHN J. MCCARRON.

Witnessesz' A. D. HENRIQUES, Jr., J. V. MCOARRON.

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