Improvements in the Manufacture of Coloured or Patterned Waterproof Fabrics, and in the Means or Apparatus Employed therein.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Jan., 1854
Complete Specification Left, 6th Nov., 1894-Accepted, 8th Dec., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Coloured or Patterned
Waterproof Fabrics, and in the Means or Apparatus Employed
therein.
1, THEODORE BIRNBAUM of Wick Lane Rubber Works, Bow, in the County
of Middlesex, India Rubber Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to the production of ornamentation or other
patterns or designs upon the surface of india rubber or the like waterproof fabrica
by means of modifications in the application of the doughs.
In carrying out my invention I spread a ground layer of dough of one shade or
colour and upon this I spread or form stripes, or streaks of dough of another
colour, or shade of colour upon the ground colour or shade.
The stripes or streaks again may be modified by the removal of parts thereof to
pattern by suitable mechanical means.
The ground dough may be spread by an adjustable gauge and the superposed
stripings or streaks may be applied by a notched, or indented gauge, and these
stripings may be modified by a moving, oscillating, or other gauge, or part adapted
to act on these stripes of dough to modify the pattern.
The notched gauge may be moved or oscillated to give a watered or other waved
effect to the stripes or the stripes may primarily be straight and a moving part may
remove the dough thereof in patterns.
The superposed dough may be laid on by gauge and then removed in stripes,
straight or waved to produce a watered effect, allowing the ground to show at the
removed parts. These retained stripes of the superposed dough may be modified
by a movable or fixed part.
The removal of the overlay dough may be effected by combs the teeth of which
plough or scrape off the portions between the reserved stripes and these combs may
be moved or used fixed.
The fabrics with ornamentations, or patterns thus produced may be finished by
the application of plain or tinted farina thereby producing the effects of a corded
or ribbed shot silk or like fabric.
The intermediate or other steps of the process such as the steam chest heatings
and the like are substantially such as are ordinarily employed and therefore do not
need to be referred to in detail.
Dated the 10th day of January 1894.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Coloured or Patterned
Waterproof Fabrics, and in the Means or Apparatus Employed
.therein.
I THEODORE BIRNBAUM, of Wick Lane Rubber Works, Bow, in the County
of Middlesex, India Rubber 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 has reference to the production of ornamentation or other patterns

page_text: or designs upon the surface of india rubber or the like waterproof fabrics by means
of modifications in the application of the doughs.
In carrying out my invention I spread a ground layer of dough of one shade or
colour and upon this I spread or form stripes, or streaks of dough of another colour,
or shade of colour upon the ground colour or shade.
The stripes or streaks again may be modified by the removal of parts thereof to
pattern by suitable mechanical means.
The ground dough may be spread by an adjustable gauge and the superposed
stripings or streaks may be applied by a notched or indented gauge, and these
stripings may be modified by a moving, oscillating, or other comb or gauge, or part
adapted to act on these stripes of dough to modify the pattern.
The notched gauge may be moved or oscillated to give a watered or other waved
effect to the stripes or the stripes may primarily be straight and a moving part may
remove the dough thereof in patterns.
The superposed dough may be laid on by gauge and then removed in stripes,
straight or waved to produce a watered effect, allowing the ground to shew at the
removed parts. These retained stripes of the superposed dough may be modified
by a moveable or fixed part.
The removal of the overlay dough may be effected by combs the teeth of which
plough or scrape off the portions between the reserved stripes and these combs may
be moved or used fixed.
The fabrics with ornamentations, or patterns thus produced may be finished by
the application of plain or tinted farina thereby producing the effects of a corded
or ribbed shot silk or like fabric.
The intermediate or other steps of the process such as the steam chest heatings
and the like are substantially such as are ordinarily employed and therefore do not
need to be referred to in detail.
Fig. 2 shows parts of the same by a plan view and
Fig. 3 is an end view showing mechanism by means of which an end wise motion
to some of the parts is given.
Fig. 4 shows by a partial sectional side view another arrangement of apparatus
for producing a pattern or design.
Fig. 5 shows by a like view to Fig. 1. another modified form of the apparatus.
Figs. 6 and 7 show by cross sectional and partial front views respectively an
indented or notched gauge for use in producing a striped pattern upon the fabric.
Figs. 8 and 9 show by similar views to the two previous figs. another striping
gauge.
Fig. 10 is a diagrammatic view showing one type of pattern or design which
may be produced upon the fabric or surface by my improved apparatus.
For plain effects I superpose a stripe, waved or plain by means of the notched
gauge A; the wave being produced by the oscillation of the roller B which is set
in motion by means of the cranked levers band 'actuated by the cam b³ or any
other suitable means for producing such motion.
If it is desired to produce a plain watered effect, portions of the plain or waved
stripe deposited on the surface by the gauge A are removed while still moist on
reaching the comb C which may be kept stationary, or it may, to vary the
effect have an oscillatory motion imparted by cam or otherwise as desired.
Or, in order to produce further variations of effect, I remove such portions
by means of a fine scroll-cut roller D (see Fig. 4) the section of whose periphery is
equivalent to the comb C, the advantage secured by the employment of such a
roller being that a continuous stripe may be removed in a diagonal direction
according to the pitch of the thread cut thereon.

page_text: cloth having a "ground" applied, a feed roll and a notched gauge in combination
with a comb, to which an oscillatory or endwise motion by suitable means is given,
or with a roller or rollers cut on its periphery, all substantially as and for the
purpose.
6. The manufacture and use of said fabrics by means of stripes or streaks of a
dough on a "ground" dough surface partially removing the stripes or streaks, or
of superimposed series of stripes or streaks on a "ground" dough surface, so as to
modify the effect the under series by the upper series, employing means or
apparatus substantially of the character hereinbefore described and illustrated by
the drawings.
Dated the 5th day of November 1894.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.