Patent GB-190901259-A (GB)
Title: Improved Process, Apparatus, and Product applicable to the Manufacture of Carpets and other Fabrics.
Inventor: SABONADIER PAUL
IPC: D03D27/00
Filed: 1909-01-18
Granted: 1910-01-18
Abstract: 1259. Sabonadier, P., and Eaubonne, E. d'. Feb. 8, 1908, [Convention date]. Yarns, warping; pile fabrics; figured fabrics; materials, special, for fabrics.-In manufacturing carpets and other fabrics, a series of different-coloured threads are placed one after another in the direction of their lengths, according to the pattern of the fabric to be woven, in a band or bands of muslin or cingalette &c. These bands are subsequently used as warps or wefts in weaving fabrics, from which the muslin may be subsequently removed or in which it may remain. In manufacturing continuous pile warps for a velvet pile fabric, for example, muslin or other bands b, Fig. 2, corresponding in number to the number of pile warp threads required in the pattern, are arranged side by side and folded longitudinally on a cylinder a, and they are then opened, provided with threads, folded, and then taken up on a beam (not shown). The folded bands are first opened out by rollers f and a reed g, and they then pass in V-form to a reed having elastic teeth i, Figs. 2 and 4. The threads are.carried by long bobbins or spools d on a chain d<1> carried by one or more intermittently-rotated sprocketwheels d<2>. Each long bobbin is composed of several elementary bobbins or spools arranged side by side and carrying coloured threads, which project from small tubes d<3>. A conveyer h successively carries the spools to a position in which the threads e extend between the two branches of the V formed by the bands, these branches being then brought together by a vertically-reciprocated evener or reed-like device having teeth i<1>, so that the threads are firmly gripped in the folds of the bands. The conveyer is then moved backwards somewhat, so that the lengths of threads e required for the pile on the velvet are withdrawn from the spool and afterwards cut off by an horizontally-reciprocated knife j. The threads carried by the bands are laid in the bottom thereof or beaten-up by a vertically-reciprocated reed k<1> and a fixed reed k, and are afterwards moistened by being passed with their bands between wicks l<2> in a liquidcontainer, which is preferably heated by a rack-like heater l<1>. The threads are again beaten up by reeds m<1>, m, and, part of the priming of the cingalette or muslin having been dissolved, the threads are caused to adhere to the bands. The threads then pass between reeds o, q provided with evener devices o<1>, q<1>, the folded bands being then drawn over an inte'rmittently-rotated roller r provided with points, then over a roller t, and finally wound on the beam above-referred to. This beam is rotated by a weighted cord 28 wound around a cylinder geared to the beam. The conveyer arms h, Figs. 2 and 6, are driven by cam-and-lever devices and toothed gearing, and each terminates in a hook provided with an upper U- shaped horizontal branch 33, a lower horizontal branch 32, a back vertical branch 34, and two locking-bolts 35. The chain d<1> may carry elastic pincers, which act on square pivot pins or trunnions of the spools. As the chain rotates, a spool is first removed through the upper branch 33 of the conveyer, which is then moved slightly by the next succeeding and ascending spool, the trunnion of which then springs behind the locking-bolt, so that this spool may be subsequently removed with the conveyer arms. The take-up beam may be replaced by a loom, on which the fabric -is immediately woven. From. the fabric obtained, the cingalette &c. of the bands may be removed by burning &c. or by chemical or mechanical action. For example, pile raising and cutting wires may be used in the fabric, the torn parts of the cingalette being'subsequently removed by cards.