Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Nov., 1899-Accepted, 9th Dec., 1899
We, HERMANN REYSS, of the Firm of Herm. Reyss and Company, Manufac-
turers of Furniture, Plush and Velvet, and FRIEDRICH BREDTMANN, Foreman to
the said Firm, all of 37, Griflenbergerstrasse, Elberfeld, Germany, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention relates to pile fabrics such as mohair and woollen plush and
velvet in which the pile is bound into the fabric, and which is usually done in the
present practice by the pile being bound by every shot of the ground work, or
where a cheaper form of goods is desired by every alternate 2nd, 3rd or 4th
shot uniformly throughout the piece.
In our improved pile fabric all the pile elements into which the pile warp is
cut by the cutting knitt, are not bound into the fabric by the same successive
number of weft picks or shots. For instance each pile clemeut of one half of the
total number of pile elements may be bound by one pick or shot while each pile
clement of the other half are bound in by two shots, or half of the pile elenients
may each be bound by one shot and the remaining pile elements may each bo
bound by three shots. Or, similarly, two shots and four shots may be used for
binding the pile elements; or other bindings characterised by the unequal binding
of the respective pile elements forming one fabric may be used.
This irregular distribution throughout the fabric of the missed shots, which
do not bind or hold a pile element, enables us to produce a cheap and economical
pile fabric of better surface, appearance and durability with a diminished number
of pile elementa per unit of area of fabric than has hitherto been attained by the
known methods of missing the binding of pile elements by uniform alternationa
of shots between the binding of each element.
We will now proceed to describe our invention with reference to the accom-
panying drawings, in which like letters refer to the same parts in the various
figures.
Figures 1, 2, 3, 4 illustrate the distinct constructions of two-ply fabrics before
being cut into two pile fabrics of our improved construction in which the pile
elements are alternatively bound by 1 and shots.
Figure 5 illustrates the construction of a similar fabric employing bindings
of one shot and three shots alternatively.
Figure 6 illustrates a fabric employing bindings of two shots and 4 shots
alternatively.
It is to be understood that the double pile fabrics illustrated in the drawings
are such that they have only to be cut along the line A-B in the ordinary man-
ner adopted in cutting double pile fabrics, in order to produce single pile fabrics
of our improved construction.
In Figures 1-6 which show in section double-plush fabrics, a, b, a', b', indi-
cate distinct pile warp threads while cc indicates the filling. Each figure illus-
trates a little more than one repeat of the arrangement of the warp and filling

page_text: as well as the method of intersecting both upper and lower systems of the double
fabric, technically known as the weave.
The characteristic feature of our new fabric is in each case clearly shown to
consist in the unequal interlacing or fastening of the pile warp in the ground-
work of the fabric, so that the single pile fabrics produced by the cutting of the
double-pile fabric contain pile elements which are unequally bound into the
ground work; one fabric containing pile elements bound in by either one shot
or two shots, another fabric containing pile elements bound in by two shots or
four shots and so on the characteristic being as before stated that the pile
elements are unequally bound.
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In these fabrics two distinct sets of warp threads for forming the body-struc-
ture for each individual single plush fabric may be used for both binding and
stuffing warp and the foundation fabrics may be formed of any convenient mode
of weaving according to the nature of the pile goods required.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that
what we claim is:-
A pile fabric cut from a double ground work, so woven that two or more
different sets of pile elements are bound in the ground work by an unequal sue-
cessive number of shots cither regarded longitudinally ouly in any particular
set of pile elements, transversely only as regards adjacent sets of pile elements,
or both longitudinally and transversely within the piece, substantially and
for the purposes described.
ntal thin 7th day at Nawanshan 1900