US1024272A - Process of making imitation-feather articles. - Google Patents

Description

D. METZGBR.

PROCESS OP MAKING IMITATION FEATHER ARTICLES.

APlLIoATIoN FILED M347, 1911.

1,024,272. Patented Apr. 23, 1912.

oLUMmA. PLANDGRAPH C0., WASHINATON n c IflE.

DAVID METZGER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PROCESS OF MAKING 'IMITATION-FEATHER ARTICLES.

To all whom it `may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID METZGER, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State 'of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Processes of Making Imitation-Feather Articles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of a new and improved process of making imitation feather articles. The articles made by my process are adapted for use as feather boas, neck pieces, hat trimmings and general use as an ornament wherever similar articles constructed of real feathers would be used.

My process consists essentially of weaving a'series of strips, preferably silk strips known as ribbozine, back and forth between two binding strands or members and then twisting the binding strands or members upon each other more or less tightly as desired so that the threads or fibers or iiues will radiate in a series of loops in all directions.

The principal obj ect of my invention is to produce the eifect of the well known feather boa formed in a manner which is much more durable and less expensive to make.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows a perspective view of the completed article. Fig. 2 represents a strand of silk flue material known as ribbozine. Fig. 3 shows a series of these silk flues woven back and forth on two wires. Fig. 4 shows con ventionally a weft of these ribbozine flues or strands fastened together by a warp composed of a series of chain stitches. Fig. 5 shows a series of ribbozine flues or strands with but one warp.

My imitation article is made in the following manner: A number of silk threads a; are passed side by side through an adhesive, preferably a solution of gum tragacanth or some similar material so as to gum the threads together and the threads thus gummed together form a single strip designated at Z9 in Fig. 2. The strip is then passed through heated rollers which dry and polish it and produce an article commercially known as ribbozine. The strips of ribbozine Z2 are then woven back and forth in a knitting machine or in any suitable manner and around wires c shown in Fig. 3. After the desired quantity of 55 strips b are so woven, the two wires c are Specification of Letters Patent.

Applic'ation Aled April 17, 1911.

PatentedApr. 23, 1,912.

Serial No. 621,659.

twisted together and `form .acentral .cord cl. The silk strip or iues Z) then form a series of loops e radiating in all directions, and giving the appearance of a real feather boa. I may also make the feather boa by having chain stitches f made of strands which are initially twisted, at each edge of the weft of ribbozine strips Z) instead of wire and then twisting the stitches or edge members f together forming a cord d of thread or similar material instead of wire. I may also make the article in the manner shown in Fig. 5 viz: by weaving the strips of ribbozine over either a wire or cotton warp so that one end of the strips is free, and then either double the wire or cotton warp back on itself and twist it together and attain the same eect as shown in Fig. 1; or instead of doubling the warp back on itself, I may take two strips of weft with a single warp edge made as just indicated and twist them together. The article thus produced can be made of course of any desired length and of any desired size and the flues or strips may be made of any suitable material other than silk.

I claim:

1. The herein described method of making imitation feather articles by weaving a series of strands of suitable material back and forth so as to form a weft with a warp at each edge of the weft and then twisting the warps upon each other so that the warps form a core and the weft radiates in a series of loops in all directions from the core.

2. The herein described method of making an imitation feather article consisting of weaving a number of strands of suitable material back and forth with a warp on each edge and a wire in the warp and then twisting the opposite wires upon each other so as to form one central core with the weft extending in loops in all directions from said center core.

3. The herein described method of making an imitation feather trimming by weaving a series of silk strips known as ribbozine back and forth over two warp wires and then twisting the two warp wires upon each other so as to have a central wire core with the ribbozine strips radiating in loops in all directions.

,4. The herein described method of making imitation feather articles by weaving a series of strands of suitable material back and forth so as to form a weft with a warp forms a core and the weft radiates in a se- 10 at the edge of the weft, and then twisting ries of loops in all directions from the core.

the warp to form a core, the weft radiating In testimony whereof I have hereunto set in all directions from the core. my hand in the presence of two subscribing 5. The herein described method of makwitnesses. v

ing imitation feather articles, by weaving a DAVID METZGER.

series of strands of suitable material back Witnesses:

and forth so as to form a weft with a warp, WM. E. WARLAND,

and then twisting the Warp so that the warp CHRISTIAN H. ALMSTAEDT.

Conies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissionei` of Patents. Washington, D. C.

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