A New or Improved Fringe or Chenille and Method of' Manufacturing the same.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Feb., 1891.
Complete. Specification Left, 16th Nov., 1891-Accepted. 19th Dec., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Fringe or Chenille and Method of'
Manufacturing the same.
I, JOHN YEADON, of Idle, in the County of York, Reed and Heald Maker, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:—
This invention relates to a new or improved fringe or chenille applicable for
general purposes as well as adapted to be attached to any suitable backing to form
fast pile hearth rugs and other similar goods.
For this purpose I mount one or more helices or spirals of fine wire longitudinally
upon a cylinder or mandril arranged to be rapidly rotated. I then wind. one or
more threads or ends of yarn, fed from a creel travelling at the same speed as the
pitch of the helix. or helices, round said mandril in such a manner that each turn
of the yarn lies in one coil of the helix or helices. When the creel has been
traversed to the end of the mandril and in this manner filled the coils of wire: I
introduce a thread longitudinally through the several coils of wire, then in any
convenient manner pressure is applied to the wire so as to press the coils against
the longitudinal thread and thus bind the fringe yarn between such thread and the
wire. The fringe may now be cut to remove it from the mandril or otherwise
removed to form looped fringe.
The said longitudinal thread may be fed with cement before it is passed through
the coils of the wire to cause the fringe yarn to adhere thereto. Or such thread
as well as the fringe yarn may be of an ornamental character.
Dated this 13th day of February 1891.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Agents.
A New or Improved Fringe or Chenille and Method of
Manufacturing the same.
I, JOHN YEADON, of Idle in the County of York, Reed and Heald Maker, 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 new or improved fringe or chenille applicable for
general purposes as well as adapted to be attached to any suitable backing to form
fast pile hearth rugs and other similar goods.
The said improvements consist in the use of a wire helix or spiral to form the
foundation of the fringe or chenille and fixing the fringe or chenille threads between
the coils of said helix or spiral by introducing a longitudinal thread through; the
said coils after the fringe or chenille threads have been laid therein and then more
or less compressing said wire coils upon the said threads to tightly fix them.
To fully describe my invention reference is made to the accompanying sheet of
drawings forming a part of this Specification in which similar letters of reference
indicate corresponding parts-in each of the figures.
Figure 1, represents a front elevation of the apparatus I employ in the manu-
facture of my improved fringe or chenille.

page_text: Figure 2 is a plan view of the same.
Figures 3, 4, 5 and 6 are detail views hereinafter referred to.
A square mandril A of wood or other suitable material is mounted between the
centres a and a¹ arranged in a similar manner to a lathe in heads B, B mounted on
the gantry C. The revolving centre a is fitted in the spindle provided with a
driving pulley D and a loose pulley D' as well as any ordinary contrivance for
rotating A when the spindle is rotated. A toothed wheel E is fixed on the rear
end of the spindle arranged to engage the toothed wheel F carried by the end
of the traversing screw G fitted inside the gantry C. The traversing screw G fits
a half nut mounted on the carriage H in a similar manner to the nut of a screw
cutting lathe so that such nut may be readily made to engage with said screw when
it is required to traverse the carriage or be disengaged therefrom when it is
necessary to reverse the motion of the carriage or move it back by hand. To
reduce the friction the carriage H is mounted upon rollers & running on the rails or
ways J, J.
The mandril A, one end of which is shown on a larger scale in Figure 4 and in
cross section Figure 3 has a device at each end adapted to hold the ends of a light
wire spiral O mounted along one face of the mandril. In the drawing the ends of
said spiral are supposed to be twisted round the hooks e and e to secure it in position
on the mandril and a thread running through the coils of the spiral is also
secured by its ends to said hooks and helps to keep the spiral in position.
fringe or chenille yarn i is carried by the creėl K and passes from the creel
through the guide eye y fixed in the top of the carriage and is attached to
the hook e.
The
In operation the carriage H is traversed at such a speed (through the medium
of the gearing E and F and the screw G) in relation to the speed at which the
mandril A is rotated that as the yarn is wrapped round the mandril it passes
between the several coils of the spiral O. When the carriage has completed its
traverse the mandril A with the yarn i thus wound round it and the spiral is
removed from between the centres and the thread or yarn is introduced longi-
tudinally through the coils of the spiral over the yarn i by means of a long needle.
A roller R is now passed along the spiral to flatten or compress the several coils
(a hand roller is sufficient for this purpose) and bend them over as shown in
Figure 5 so as to bind the fringe or chenille yarn between the thread fand j and
between the neighbouring coils of the spiral. The loops of the fringe or chenille
yarn wrapped round the mandril A may now be cut to remove the mandril and a
longitudinal groove m is formed along the face n of the mandril to form a guide for
the cutting knife. Or by dividing the mandril longitudinally as shown by the
broken lines, Figures 3 and 4 the central piece of the mandril may be con-
structed so that it may be first withdrawn to enable the side pieces to be removed
without cutting the loops of the fringe.
It is obvious that the mandril A may be of cylindrical form or circular section,
and that more than one spiral or helix may be mounted on the same mandril as
shown in cross section Figure 6. Or that a spiral or helix may be mounted on
opposite faces or on each face of the square mandril.
The creel K or a reel may be mounted upon and carried by the carriage.
Either one or both of the threads and j may be saturated with cement to
more firmly secure the yarn i but for ordinary purposes I do not find it
necessary.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare what
I claim is:
1. A fringe or chenille formed by binding the fringe or chenille yarn between
the coils of a wire helix or spiral by means of one or more longitudinal threads,
substantially as herein shown and described.

page_text: 2. The method of manufacturing fringe or chenille by mounting one or more
helices or spirals upon a rotary mandril and winding the fringe or chenille yarn
thereon in the manner substantially as herein shown and described and illustrated
in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 13th day of November 1891.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Agents.