Patent GB-1191547-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the Manufacture of Tasseled Fringes.
Inventor: TOSCO RENATO
IPC: D04D5/00
Filed: 1968-12-03
Abstract: 1,191,547. Tasselled fringe. R. TOSCO. 3 Dec., 1968 [6 Dec., 1967; 5 Feb., 1968; 19 Feb., 1968], No. 57236/68. Heading B6G. [Also in Division D1] A tasselled fringe of the type comprising a fringe heading tape provided with loops extending beyond an edge of the heading tape in which bundles of threads are hooked to the loops to form tassels and are tied in proximity to the loops is manufactured continuously. In one embodiment fringe tassels 3 are secured to the loops 2 at an inner tie 4 by means of a chain made of at least one preferably elastic thread confining the looped head 5 of each tassel 3. The tassels 3 are also tied at their ends remote from the loops 2 at an outer tie 6 comprising a further chain formed of at least one preferably elastic thread. The fringe is manufactured on a warp knitting machine illustrated in Fig. 3 equipped with weft inserting means. The thread forming the fringe heading tape 1 is fed through thread guide 7, the thread or threads forming the loops 2 is fed through thread guides 8 and the bundle of threads for the tassels 3 is fed through a thread guide 9 of larger cross-sectional area than the guides 7 or 8. Needles 10 knit the warp threads of the heading tape 1, while needles 11, 12 knit the threads which form the chain ties 4, 6 respectively. The needles 10, 11, 12 are movable along a needle guide bar 13. The guides 8 reciprocate along a rectilinear path between a position A and a position B. The guide 9 is reciprocated over a substantially U-shaped path between positions K and H as indicated by a dashed line. As the guides 7 are reciprocated in a direction parallel to the length of the needle guide bar 13, the guides 8 move at predetermined intervals from their initial position A towards their stop position B. At the same time the guide 9 is first moved from position 8 to position K<SP>1</SP>. After stoppage of the thread guides 8 at B the guide 9 is moved to position K<SP>11</SP>, thereby laying a thread on the threads adapted to form the loop 2 which were previously laid along AB. The guide 9 is moved to its end position H, while the guides 8 are restored to position A. The thread for the tassels 3 is thereby interlaced with the thread for the loops 2 in order to fasten the resulting tassels 3 to the loops 2. The guides 8 are subsequently moved from position A to B during movement of the guides 9 from position H to position K<SP>11</SP>. The guides 8 are then stopped, the guides 9 moving to position K<SP>1</SP>. The guides 8, 9 then simultaneously travel to their respective positions A, K for the commencement of a fresh cycle of operations. The ties 4, 6 are effected by the needles 11, 12 as manufacture of the fringe proceeds on the knitting machine frame. In another embodiment (Fig. 12, not shown) the guides 8 are reciprocated over a substantially U-shaped path crossing and linking with a similarly substantially U-shaped path followed by the guide 9. The width of the bridge portion of the U-shaped path of the guide 9 may be reduced effectively to zero (Fig. 13, not shown). After forming the fringe on the knitting frame, the inner tie 4 is severed between adjacent pairs of tassels 2 and the outer ends of the tassels 3 trimmed above the outer tie 6. In a further embodiment (Fig. 14, not shown) the fringe is manufactured on a weaving loom equipped with four weftinserting shuttles. The heading tape 1 is formed by the action of a first shuttle N 1  which inserts weft threads 18 of said tape 1 between warp threads 19 thereof. The loops 2 are formed simultaneously by a second shuttle N 2  which feeds the respective thread, the latter also being inserted between the warp threads 19. The fringe tassels 3 are formed by a third shuttle N 3  feeding a nylon thread 20. The inner tie 4 has at least two warp threads and interlaced web weft threads which are fed and inserted by a fourth shuttle N 4 . The shuttles N 1 , N 2 , N 3  and N 4  are slidable over respective guides provided in planes which are in parallel and superposed relationship to one another in the loom batten, the shuttles being of the resilient thread recovery type. The thread bundle 21 for the fringe tassels 3 is fed parallel to the warp threads 19 along with at least a pair of warp threads for the tie 4 and a strong wire 22 which is tightly stretched to retain it in a rectilinear configuration. The threads 4, 21 and the wire 22 are reciprocated similarly to the warp threads 19 in respective vertical planes. The shuttle N 1  starts its movement when the threads of the bundle 21 and the wire 22 are lifted and the warp threads 4 and 19 are opened. The shuttle N 1  lays the thread between the warp thread 19 only, thereby forming the web threads 18 of the fringe heading tape 1. The shuttles N 2  and N 3  are counter-running and perform a smaller number of strokes than the shuttle N 1 . Their motion is synchronized with the vertical oscillations in height of the thread bundle 21 and the wire 22 so as to travel on their alternate horizontal strokes beneath and over the bundle 21 and wire 22 and between the warp threads of the tie 4. The thread bundle 21 and the wire 22 are connected by the linking of the thread 20 and the bundle 21. As the formation of the heading tape 1, the loops 2 and the tassels 3 progresses, the continuous tie 4 is formed by the fourth shuttle N 4  which passes between the respective warp threads of the tie 4 but which does not insert its thread between the warp threads 19 or engage the thread bundle 21 or wire 22. The fringe is finished by severing the continuous tie 4 and trimming the tassels 3 at their foot portions to separate them from the wire 21 and the thread 20.