Improvements in Carpets and Rugs.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Oct., 1895-Accepted, 30th Nov., 1895
[Communicated from abroad by THE SINGER MANUFACTURING CO., of New
York, in the United States of America, Sewing Machine Manufacturers.]
Improvements in Carpets and Rugs.
I, WILLIAM HARVEY INSLEE, Manager of The Singer Manufacturing
Company, Kilbowie, Dumbartonshire, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to
me to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
In joining sections or breadths of carpets or rugs together by means of sewing
machines it is customary to suspend or superpose the lengths or sections with their
pile surfaces or faces towards each other and with their backs outward, and when
the sections are thus placed or held much difficulty has been experienced in
matching the figures and thus rapidly preparing the sections to be united,
particularly when the stitching has to be done by fast-running power-driven
machines, owing to the fact that the faces must be separated more or less to enable
the operator to see the figures to be matched. My invention has for its object to
obviate this difficulty, and this result is effected by providing the backs of the
carpet or rug breadths or sections at or near their edges with distinguishing marks
of some kind, which marks on adjacent breadths or sections need only to be brought
opposite each other by the operator to ensure perfect matching of the figures; and
as these marks are plainly visible to the operator without separation of the turned-in
faces of the carpets the work of matching the figures can be much more readily
and quickly effected than heretofore when partial opening out of the adjacent faces
was necessary.
The distinguishing marks which I will preferably employ will consist of threads
or yarns of such colours as to form strong contrasts with the colours of the yarns
constituting the backs or edges of the carpet sections, and these contrasting
marking yarns or threads will preferably be incorporated with the back edges of
the carpets at regular intervals in weaving, being controlled by the Jacquard or
other mechanism which determines the figures of the carpets produced in weaving.
Instead, however, of employing woven-in matching marks such marks may be
produced by sewing, or by printing or stamping the back edges of the carpets,
either during the weaving operation, by a sewing, printing or stamping mechanism
controlled by the pattern mechanism, or by sewing, printing, stamping or otherwise
marking the edges of the carpets, or the backs near the edges, subsequent to the
operation of weaving.
The woven-in contrasting marking threads or yarns, or the stamped or printed
marks, may extend entirely across the backs of the carpets, but will preferably be
at or near the edges only, and they may consist of slightly raised projections,
easily seen or felt, formed by cording or otherwise, instead of contrasting colours
woven in or stamped on the back edges of the carpet sections.
In the accompanying drawings,
Figure 1 deuotes carpet sections to be matched having woven-in or sewed-in
matching marks in their backs and extending to their edges.
Figure 2 shews carpet sections having stamped or printed matching marks.
Figure 3 shews carpet sections having woven-in or stamped or printed matching
marks extending entirely across the backs of the carpet sections.