An Imitation Lamb-skin Elastic Plush Material.
Year: 1897

page_text: An Imitation Lamb-skin Elastic Plush Material.
I, FRITZ WEVER, of 24, Wiesenstrasse, Chemnitz, in the German Empire,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:--
This invention relates to an elastic plush material manufactured upon a circular
loom and treated to imitate the appearance of lamb-skin.
The plush material is manufactured upon a circular loom from woollen yarn and
the loops are then cut. To then give the stuff the appearance of lamb-skin it is
washed in a suitable vessel in a strong hot soap bath until the wool plush is felted
into separate tufts or bunches. The material is then cooled in cold clean water
and rinsed out whereby the wool tufts are fixed in position. After the material
is dried, dyed or sulphured, dried, stretched and cropped it has exactly the appear-
ance of lamb-skin.
As the separate wool bunches or tufts are separated from one another by air
passages the material is more suitable for the manufacture of articles of clothing
than ordinary plush. The material is elastic, pliant, thick and yet porous and in
spite of its lightness retains warmth.
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An Imitation Lamb-skin Elastic Plush Material.
I, FRITZ WEVER, of 24, Wiesenstrasse, Chemnitz, in the German Empire,
Manufacturer, 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 invention relates to elastic knitted woollen plush fabric and more particu-
larly to a knitted fabric of the kind having a long cut pile such as plush, which is
treated to imitate the appearance of lamb-skin.
In the accompanying drawing:
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Figures 1 and 2 are views at right angles to one another illustrating the forma-
tion of the fabric.
Figure 3 is a view of a piece of the finished material.
In carrying out my invention I use what is known as tricot plush, which is made
on a circular frame of the kind described in my former Patent No. 7219 of 1895
by looper wheels which have sinkers with two hooks or nibs of different depth, the
lower one sinking a long loop a, (Figures 1 and 2) of one woollen thread, and the

page_text: upper one sinking a short loop 6 of cotton or woollen thread. Each stitch of
the fabric is thus composed of double thread, that of the ground work which
makes plain fabric and that of the plush pile a, the long sinker loops of which
hang full at the back of the fabric.
These long woollen back loops a are cut by shears őr knives and to give the
tricot plush the appearance of lamb-skin, it is placed in a revoluble drum, such as
an ordinary washing drum containing a hot solution of soap, the drum being kept
in motion until the wool nap becomes felted into tufts or bundles. The fabric is
then chilled by being placed in cold water, whereby the single felted bundles or
tufts become set or assume a permanent position. The fabric is then freed from
moisture, dyed or treated with sulphur, dried, stretched and shorn in the usual
manner, when it will have the appearance of lamb-skin.
The individual tufts or bundles of wool, when set, are separated from one another
by groove-like spaces c, (see Figure 3) extending to the knitting of the fabric which
it renders very porous, and thereby eminently suitable for articles of clothing, much
more so than ordinary plush.
The fabric although comparatively thick is extremely elastic, soft and pervious
to air and yet very warm.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:--
As an article of manufacture a knitted woollen plush fabric cut by shears or
knives and having separate felted tufts or bundles, the said fabric being light,
elastic and pervious to air, yet comparatively thick and having the appearance of
lamb-skin, substantially as set forth.
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Dated the
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G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.