USRE5834E - Improvement in ornamented felt skirts and fabrics - Google Patents

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J. E. PoLLAnuf Urnamnted Felt Skirts and Fabrics.

No. 5,834. Re'rsSued Apri|14,1874.

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UNIT D STATES JAMES E. POLLARD, OF NORFOLK, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSlGNOl-t TO ELLIOTT FELTING-MILLS.

PATENT OFFICE.

T H E IMPROVEMENT lN-ORNAMENTED FE LT SKIRTS AND FABRICS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 147,166, dated February 3,1874; reissue No. 5,834, dated April 14, 1874; application filed March 21, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES E. POLLARD, of

' Norfolk, Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Ornamented Felt Skirts,.and

Felts, of which the following is a specification:

This invention consists in a felt skirt, and

fabric for the same, so manufactured and ured as to resemble cassimeres and other expensive cloths.

\ lleretofore felt skirts have been ornamented and finished by cutting the skirt from felt cloth, sewing up all but one seam, and then cloth, asmade by any of the known methods,-

and dampen or moisten it, and then pass it between heated calender-rolls, one of. which,

. at least, is engraved with the design to be impressed upon the surface and fixed upon the cloth. The rolls may be heated by gas, and should be about 250 to 2751 ahrenheit, or

about the temperature given to a flat-iron or goose for surfiicingcloths.

The felt cloth is run through the machine at such a rate as will fix the design upon the felt. This operation also serves to compact and harden the felt, and gives a firm. surface to it. The figure thus impressed and fixed upon the felt skirt or fabric may be made to imitate check, stripe, or other ornamental figure, as desired. The ornamenting and finishing may. be done in the piece, or on each skirt separately. Instead of heated calender rolls, heated plates may be used to produce the same result; but the heated rolls are both more economical and more effective. I

. \Vhen I desire to impart greater boldness and permanence to the figure, I apply a gum or sizing to the fabric before passing it through the calenders.

. One of the results which follow from dampening or moistenin g surfaced felt and then passin git through the rolls, as above described, is, that the lines and ii gures impressed upon the surface are smooth and lustrous, while the rest of the surface is lusterless, loose, and more or less spongy, audhence seems to have a different color from these depressed lines and figures, and the effect of these parts in contrast with each other is closely imitative of cassimercs and other figured cloths. This resultmay be obtained also by omittin g the finishing or surfacing to which felt is ordinarily subjecteth'and passing the felt'through the heated engraved rolls, as above described, instead, andalso by passing through these rolls Jfe'lt partially or lightly finished, or otherwise so treated that the portion of the surface not impressed by the rolls will'be, co1nparatively,-to the lines and ,figures impressed by them, loose and spongy, and less lustrous orlust'erless, the above-described contrast being the essential requisite.

I am aware thatwoven fabrics 'of various kinds have been embossed by means of heated calenders, rolls, or plates, andalso that felted goods have been ornamented by printing various designs in pigment or flock colors upon them. Such process, however, Ild'onot-claim; but I am not aware that felt skirts or fabrics for making thesame have everbecn embossed, ornamented, and treated in the manner described by me to imitate cassimercs or other expensive cloths; and, accordingly,

What I claim-as in y invention, and wish to secure by Letters Patent, is- As a new article of manufacture, a skirt made of felt, or a felt fabric, 11c vin g its surface or surfaces impressed, embossed, and ornam ented with any desired design and made to resemble cassimeres and other expensive woven cloths and fabrics, in the manner hercinbefore described, by means of heated engraved rollers, plates, or equivalent devices, substantially as for the purposes set forth.

JAMES; E. POLLARI).

' lVitncsses:

ROBERT Tnoams, 16. F. Yunnan.

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