MENTS IN PILE FABRICS
Year: 1885

page_text: I CARL SPANNAGEL of No 6 Adler Strasse in the City of Berlin and German
Empire, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for IMPROVE-
MENTS IN PILE FABRICS and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-.
My invention relates to a new article of manufacture consisting of woven fabrics
composed entirely or partly of silk plush cut or uncut in combination with curled
silk threads.
Silk plush is customarily manufactured by weaving a silk pile into a fabric, the
threads of the said pile being passed over wires and being cut during the process
of weaving.
Now my invention consists in introducing one or several piles of curled silk
threads into silk plush fabrics and carrying the said curled silk threads over wires
which are generally of larger diameter than those of the silk plush.
The curled pile will consequently occupy a raised position and through the
different aspect caused by the threads being curled shows a marked contrast to the
silk plush woven of ordinary silk,
"
The result is a new fabric which I term Silk plush with curls." Instead of
employing wires of larger diameter than those used in making silk plush, wires of
like or less diameter can be employed without departing from the tenor of my
invention or the diameter can be varied so as to attain various effects in the said
fabrics.
The wires can also be drawn out from the pile instead of cutting the thread in
order to produce so called "Terry" effects in the plush as well as in the curled
threads.
The curled effect of the silk is obtained by loosely twisting a number of silk
threads together into one stout thread several of such stout threads being then
firmly twisted together into a rope in a similar manner to that used by rope
makers then boiled in clear clean water, dried and ultimately untwisted.
These operations render the silk curly.
The number of threads and the size of the same as employed for forming the
curled pile varies according to the effect intended to be produced in the fabric.
The silk plush combined with the curled threads can be woven over the entire
width of the fabric or only a part of the same. Stripes or, by the aid of the

page_text: Jacquard machine, figures of any desired design in such said plush combined with
curls can be woven on the face of any kind of fabric such as satin, silk, woollen or
cotton Berge or other suitable fabric.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1. As a new article of manufacture woven fabrics entirely composed of cut silk
plush in combination with curled silk threads substantially as described in the
foregoing specification.
2. As a new article of manufacture woven fabrics composed entirely of uncut
silk plush in combination with curled silk threads substantially as described in the
foregoing specification.
3. As a new article of manufacture the combination with curled silk threads of
woven fabrics composed partly of cut silk plush substantially as described in the
foregoing specification.
4. As a new article of manufacture the combination with curled silk threads of
woven fabrics composed partly of uncut silk plush substantially as described in the
foregoing specification.
.
5. As a new article of manufacture the combination of curled silk threads with
woven fabrics.composed partly of cut and partly of uncut silk plush substantially
as described in the foregoing specification.
Dated this 8th day of August 1885.
Witnesses,
F. CARPENDING,
ANTHONY STEFFEN.
CARL SPANNAGEL,
Applicant.