An Improved Looped or Looped and Pile Fabric.
Year: 1891

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Looped or Looped and Pile Fabric.
I, FERDINAND BINZ of Oelsnitz 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 a gobelin-like or looped fabric which may be single or
reversible, and which may either have the gobelin or terry appearance alone or with
a pile, and which may also be single or reversible.
The accompanying drawings illustrate in what manner my said invention may be
carried into practical effect.
According to my improvements I first weave bands consisting of the float
threads a bound together by the warp threads b. These bands may be woven in
single strips or ribands as illustrated by Figure 1, or several of such strips may be
woven together as shewn in Figure 2, in which case the several strips are severed
from the fabric by cutting at c c between the binding warp threads bb.
The bands woven as hereinbefore described are united with a ground fabric as
hereinafter set forth so as to produce the gobelin or terry effect, or this in combina-
tion with a pile.
The band is introduced into the shed as shewn by Figure 3, and a shoot of weft
is then thrown. This weft is indicated in Figure 3 at s, the weft already thrown
being shewn at s. In Figure 4, the reed has commenced its motion and is pushing
the band towards the already completed portion of the fabric. This motion of the
reed causes the float threads of the band to rise in the form of a loop as indicated,
and when the beat-up has been completed the loops will take the form indicated in
Figures 3 and 4 in the portion of the completed cloth there represented. It will
be found convenient to arrange that the lower warp threads shall occupy the
horizontal position until the loop has been formed, when the threads are lowered
into the position indicated at pl, after which the pick is beaten up. The shed is
then reversed and the operations are repeated. During each operation, the warp
threads p will sink into and amongst the threads forming the loops and will firmly
bind the weft upon the selvedges of the bands.
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It has been assumed that the warp threads are laid closely together, but if either
a finer warp, or a warp with the threads further apart be employed, a double or
reversible fabric may be produced as illustrated by Figure 5. The float threads a
are then practically free to loop in either direction and consequently some of them
bend upwards and some downwards as indicated. It is possible therefore to
produce either single or reversible fabrics according to the character of the warp
employed.
A fabric having a face or both faces partly looped or gobelin-like, and partly
pile, may be produced according to this invention by employing such bands as
are indicated by Figure 6. The float threads a instead of being bound near their
selvedges, have the Hoat threads extending beyond the binding warp threads bb.
When the fabric is woven, these free threads are deflected upwards, or upwards
and downwards, as indicated by Figure 7, and form a plush-like pile between the
loops.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is,-
1. A looped fabric having its loops produced in the act of weaving, from bands
of threads or yarn inserted into the shed of the warp, substantially as hereinbéfore

page_text: 2. A looped and pile fabric having its loops and pile produced in the act of
weaving from bands of threads inserted into the shed of the warp, substantially as
described.
3. The hereinbefore described method of manufacturing looped and looped and
pile fabrics, substantially as set forth.
4. A thread band for use in the manufacture of looped fabrics, consisting of float
weft threads bound only at the selvedges by warp threads in such a manner as to
leave the float threads free to bend and form the loops in the finished fabric, sub-
stantially as hereinbefore described.
5. A thread band for use in the manufacture of looped and pile fabrics, consisting
of float weft threads for forming the loops between binding warp threads and fee
ends to the weft thread outside the warp threads on each side of the bands for
forming the pile, substantially as described.
Dated this 21st day of November A.D. 1891.
WILLIAM E. HEYS,
Agent for the Applicant.