Patent ID: 6035749
Filing Date: 2000-03-14
Classification: D06C,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
The method of shearing pile extending from backing of pile fabric to provide a sculptured fabric, comprising:providing a shearing apparatus positioned for shearing tips of pile extending from said pile fabric between a pair of blades, the greater a distance that said tips extend from said backing the greater an amount that is sheared,feeding said pile fabric to said shearing apparatus,blowing a gaseous fluid onto selected pile of said pile fabric in accordance with a pattern requiring at least two differing levels of pile to deflect said selected pile relative to unselected pile prior to said selected and unselected pile entering said shearing apparatus such that selected pile after the gaseous fluid is blown onto the selected pile project a different level from said backing relative to said unselected pile, andshearing one of said selected and unselected pile to sculpture said fabric with areas of selected pile projecting from said backing at a level which is different from the level at which unselected pile extends from said backing at areas of said unselected pile.