mprovements in the method of and Apparatus for Producing Patterns or Designs on Cloth and other Fabrics.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 13th May, 1887:
Specification Accepted, 12th Aug., 1887.
mprovements in the method of and Apparatus for Producing
Patterns or Designs on Cloth and other Fabrics.
I CARL HERMANN BEHNISCH of Luckenwalde bei Berlin Germany Finisher, do
hereby declare the nature of this Invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
This machine produces by means of wire and metallic patterns or devices, various
designs upon smooth, woven, fulled, shaggy and knitted fabrics.
Fig. 1 is a front elevation, Fig. 2 is a cross section, Fig. 3 a side elevation and
Fig. 4 a plan of the machine, Fig. 5 is a longitudinal view of the diagonal apparatus
and Fig. 6 is a side elevation of the same, while Fig. 7 is a plan thereof, Fig. 8 is a
longitudinal view of the apparatus for making cross stripes, Fig. 9 being a cross
section and Fig. 10 a plan of the same, Figs. 11 and 12 are side views of the apparatus
for pattern rollers Fig. 13 is a view of a device for making serpentine lines.
Fig. 14, 15 and 16 shew portions of pattern roller, band or plate.
The process is for the production of various designs upon woollen fabrics by means
of different patterns or rollers as follows: The nap of the fabric having been
subjected whilst in a damp state to the treatment of a teasling machine so as to fully
raise the nap it is ready for being operated upon by the figuring machine which
consists of a steel wire card d upon the roller, or by a bristle brush 6, the object being
to raise the nap through the spaces in the pattern. This is effected in the case of
some fabrics after the latter have been previously moistened, while others are treated
in a dry state and after having been pressed.
The machine carries upon its frame three apparatus for producing different designs
in different ways, an apparatus A (for wire or sheet metal pattern rollers) composed
of an iron roller C, covered with felt and capable of moving up and down in sliding
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page_text: bearings, and of a bristle brush b. provided centrally with an iron shaft, the foundation
of this brush b, is of leather and is wound in the same manner as a card band.
This apparatus comprises moreover, wire or sheet metal patterns or devices having a
cylindrical form and provided with openings representing the pattern, e, are three
slender iron rollers serving to guide the pattern cylinder. The fabric or cloth is laid
between the pressure roller c and the pattern roller or pattern plate d. Within or
upon the latter rotates the card a or brush b, which raises through the openings of
the pattern card or roller the nap of the fabric against its grain. This fabric is
subsequently dried and lightly shorn upon a shearing machine. The designs produced
correspond to the pattern or figures formed by the openings cut in the roller which
is usually made of soldered brass wires or consists of a sheet metal cylinder.
An apparatus B for printing cross stripes consisting of an eccentric shaft f. to
which a motion is imparted by the main shaft of the machine, through a step pulley
and, which rotates on sliding bearings, near the extremities of the said shaft is keyed
an eccentric h, whose strap can be moved up and down by means of a T iron k.
this iron has at the top, a straight and sharp edge, over which the fabric runs ; On
both sides of this T iron firmly screwed to the frame of the machine are two
moveable angle irons l, having a straight and sharp edge, these two angle irons are
so arranged that between their sharp edges is formed a slot having a width of two
centimetres and through which the T iron presses upon the fabric brought in contact
with and operated upon by the brush or card roller a. which is forming raised cross
stripes, by its nap being raised at each revolution of the eccentric by the brush or
card roller a, which rotates above the said fabric, the distance between the various
stripes is regulated by the number of revolutions of the eccentric, and with the aid
of the step pulley.
Cross stripes are formed upon the fabric as it is drawn upon the edge of the
Tiron K which is raised at each revolution of the eccentric h and presses the fabric
through the openings formed between land subjects it to the action of the card
roller a which raises the nap. The further rotation of the eccentric causes the fabric
to be subsequently withdrawn from the carding roller a and moved or fed forward by
the drawing roller, when K is again raised and the fabric is against pressed against
the carding roller a. This operation produces cross stripes the distance between
which is equal to the distance the fabric is drawn at each revolution of the eccentric
shaft. When very small stripes have thus been produced the raised wool can be
shorn off by a shearing machine and finished, the cross stripes appearing bare in the
form of grooves.
.
On apparatus C for forming diagonial stripes and check work consisting of
a Tiron m having a straight sharp edge turned upwards and upon which runs the
fabric, above which is the pattern and the card roller operating upon the fabric
through the recesses in the pattern roller and raising the nap of the fabric, two iron
cylinders n n upon which is wound an endless pattern band, made of sheet metal,
and provided with slots, these slots are either cut through the centre of the endless
sheet metal band, or the pattern band is formed of two small sheet metal strips,
connected together by means of small steel strips, rivetted at equal distances. The
cylinder n is moveable in a lateral direction, so as to enable the patterns to be
-stretched. The cylinder n is driven by the drawing roller r, with the intermediary of
the front wheels u, and of the level wheels o, p and q. When the wheel o, is thrown
out of gear, the pattern band d' moves from the right to the left, and vice versa, and
when the wheel is disengaged the pattern band moves from left to right upon the
fabric, so that at one passage of the fabric, diagonal stripes are produced, while at a
second passage of the same subsequent to two successive strokes of the pattern band
from left to right, the required check work is produced.
In the diagonal apparatus.-The fabric is drawn upon the edge m. The pattern in
the form of an endless band moves upon the discs n n from one woven end of the
fabric to the other. The wire card brushes up through the small openings of the
pattern band the nap of the fabric against its grain. When the pattern band is at
rest longitudinal stripes are formed in the nap.

page_text: D is a device enabling the above mentioned diagonal apparatus to draw serpentine
lines upon the fabric. The wheel is replaced by the lever 1, this lever carries an
adjustable pin, there is a pulley », and the moveable crank pin s, the two latter being
connected together by the connecting rod t. When the pulley v, is actuated by the
main pulley of the machine with the aid of belting, the endless diagonal pattern band
receives a to and fro motion, the fabric at the same time being drawn forwards, and
by reason of the revolution of the shaft of the card a, serpentine lines are produced
upon the fabric according to the pattern and to the position of the crank, w, is a
roller covered with a card and provided with a brake. When the nap of the fabric
which is raised by the pattern producing machine, cut off by means of a shearing
machine, the cloth may then be finished and the designs appear on the fabric as bare
stripes indented into the material.
These designs are thoroughly strong and wear well and are indelible, being cut
out of the fabrics.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
1. The process for the production of various designs upon smooth woven fabrics
substantially as shewn and described.
2. The construction and use of the pattern producing machine, as shown in the
accompanying drawings.
3. The manufacture and use of wire or sheet metal patterns as shown and described.
Dated this Twelfth day of May 1887.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Crossley Street, Halifax,
Agent for the Applicant.