IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CHENILLE AND OTHER CIRCULAR PILE FABRICS
Year: 1861

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Taylor at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 10th April
1861.
I, THOMAS TAYLOR, of 7, Wellington Row, Bethnal Green, in the County
of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CHENILLE AND OTHER
CIRCULAR PILE FABRICS," to be as follows:-
The Invention consists in the use of two endless thin flat bands of metal or
other suitable material placed one upon the other so as to form one double band
or core, and stretched over two pulleys placed a certain distance apart and driven
at the required speed in any convenient manner, so that a certain straight length
of this double band or core is always travelling on either side of the pulleys from
where it leaves the circumference of one pulley to where it passes on to the cir-
cumference of the other. On one side of these pulleys the double band or core
passes through a hollow spindle revolving in fixed bearings, upon which spindle
is mounted a disc which carries bobbins containing the material for making the
pile of the fabric. A thread forming the inner body, upon which, in conjunc-
tion with an outer body, the material for forming the pile is to be spun, is passed
on either side of this double band or core together with it through the hollow
spindle and is guided there into its proper position by passing through a
groove formed in a fixed mandril inside the hollow spindle on each side of
the double band or core, or the guide may be formed outside the spindle.
By this arrangement grooves in the core upon which the material for forming

page_text: the pile is lapped are dispensed with. On passing out of the hollow spindle
the material for forming the pile is wound or lapped round the double band
or core with the two bodies lying on either side of it, and this double band or
core thus covered then passes through a guide which conducts the material for
forming the outer body into its place on either side of the double band or core
which then comes in contact with either fixed, revolving, or reciprocating
cutting edges passing between the two bands, and thus dividing the material
lapped round them into two parts, which are each held between an inner
and outer body, and are in this state connected respectively with suitable
spinning apparatus which twists them into chenille or other circular piled
fabric. Sometimes we use only one endless flat band or core and form the
cutting edges on the edges of the band or core itself, and the pile material is
then cut after being lapped round the same by the sharp edge of the band or
core coming in contact with either fixed or revolving surfaces. Instead of
being flat the band or bands may be slightly curved on the outer side. To
make an ordinary uniform circular pile fabric, the band or core is made of
equal width throughout, but we sometimes make the band or core with undu-
lations or of varying width, in which case the chenille or other circular pile
fabric will have corresponding enlargements and contractions and the cutting
apparatus is made to accommodate or follow the depressions and projections.
These thin flat cores, either single or double, may also be fixed at each end
while the covering and cutting apparatus travel along them.