Improvements in Finishing Knitted Fabrics for use in the Manufacture of Gloves.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Aug., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 20th Sept., 1892-Accepted, 22nd Oct., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Finishing Knitted Fabrics for use in the
Manufacture of Gloves.
I, FRIEDRICH ALBERT LANDGRAF of 3-5 Schillerplatz, Chemnitz, Saxony,
Germany, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to a novel mode of finishing the fabric (knitted) from which
gloves can be produced in imitation of the well known Suede, or soft velvety
leather glove.
To carry my invention into practice, I first stretch the woven or frame made
fabric to open the meshes and then subject it to the action of steam, which after a
short time renders it very soft and pliable, while in this condition I employ
revolving brushes of different degrees of hardness to gradually raise the fibre of
the threads until a kind of short fine pile appears on the surface.
The meshes of the fabric thus "dressed" when removed from the stretcher
naturally contract, and the fine pile appears in close connection, so that the fabric
is left with a soft velvety exterior.
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CA
1003
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Friedrich Albert Landgraf.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Finishing Knitted Fabrics for use in the
Manufacture of Gloves.
I, FRIEDRICH ALBERT LANDGRAF of 3-5 Schillerplatz, Chemnitz, Saxony,
Germany, 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 relates to a novel mode of finishing the fabric (knitted) from which
gloves can be produced in imitation of the well known Suede or soft velvety
leather glove.
To carry my invention into practice I first stretch the hosiery made fabric from
which gloves have to be made, upon beams to open the meshes, the fabric thus
stretched is drawn over revolving or travelling brushes with sufficient pressure to
force needles, of which the brushes are composed, into a slanting position the
resistance of the brush needles being such that the points effect a roughening action
and rake up a pile like surface on the fabric.
Both sides of the fabric are treated alike in this operation.
The fabric is now removed from the stretchers or beams and placed in a steam
chest in which is hot water having a saponaceous body made of olive oil and tallow.
The fabric by agitation in this chest for 3 or 4 hours is rendered soft and the
raised pile becomes cockled or curly. This agitation or more properly speaking
kneading being completed the fabric is removed and washed in cold water and
rapidly dried. After that the material is again brushed on both sides and is now
ready for dyeing. The fabric is again stretched and submitted to the same or to
similar brushes in which the needles are arranged in closer order to rake up &
shorter fibre which the first brushing may not have effected, and to lay the fibre in
a smooth and even manner in one direction. The fabric is removed and placed flat
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upon a long frame and damped or wetted slightly by a sponge on one side only
which has a tendency to give a lustre to the pile on the other side.
The hosiery made fabric thus operated on is now slowly dried and ready to be
cut up for glove making.
The fabric has all the softness, warmth to the touch and velvety appearance of
soft Suede leather as well as the lustre, and is a perfect imitation of the Suede.
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. The process of consecutively treating hosiery made fabric in the manner
and by the means hereinbefore described for the manufacture of gloves in imitation
of Suede as set forth.
2. Treating hosiery made goods for gloves by a series of successive operations of
stretching, brushing steeping, brushing and wetting the fabric whereby a delicate
soft velvety raised plush like surface is produced in imitation of Suede leather as
set forth.
DJ LL
1000
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for F. A. Landgraf.