Patent ID: 6112384
Filing Date: 2000-09-05
Classification: D01G,D02G,D02J,D04D,D04H,Y10T

Abstract:
A method of making a decorative mass of fiber fluff comprising the steps of:(a) providing a source of supply of staple fibers made of natural or synthetic textile fiber and arranged in continuous form as a pattern array of discrete streams of different selected colors with the colors being uniform in each stream and comprising at least one base color and one contrasting color,(b) feeding the array stream of fibers into a carding operation wherein the fibers are brushed or carded from their input form into card or brush clothing to thereby only partially intermix fibers of at least two different colors in the bristles or wires of the card or brush clothing,(c) removing the accumulated fibers from the clothing to form a pillow or roving having a streaked appearance representative of the original colors with a partial intermixing and blending of the streaks of one color with those of another, and(d) accumulating and working a pillow or roving into a final fluff product having randomly dispersed bands, streaks and islands of one color softly merging into another color to produce a decorative candy-cane like appearance in the mass of final fiber fluff product.