US147166A - Improvement in ornamented - Google Patents

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l. E. PDLLARD.

Urnamented Felt Skirts.

N0,l47,l66 Patented Feb.3.18v74.

NTED STATES ivrnlv'r` OFFICE.

JAMES E. IOLLARD, OF NORFOLK, VMASSAOHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN ORNAMENTEODQVFELT SKIRTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 147,166, dated February 3, 1874; application filed September 10, 1873.

To all rwhom t may concern g Beit known that I, JAMES E. POLLARD, of Norfolk, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Orn amentin g and Finishing Ladies Skirts 5 and I do hereby declare the following` to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use it, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification, in which- Figure l shows a skirt made and ornamented by this invention, and Fig. 2 a piece of felt fabric ornamented in the same manner.

Heretofore felt skirts have been ornamented and nished by cutting the skirt from felt cloth, sewing up one seam, and then putting it into an embossing press, and embossing colors upon it. The other seam is then sewed up. This gives a iigured border on the lower portion of the skirt.

My invention consists in making a figured skirt of felt cloth, so as to imitate cassimcre or other expensive clot-11s.

In carrying out my invention, I take felt,

cloth, as made by any of the known methods, and dampen or moisten it, and then pass it between heated calender-rolls, one of which 'at least is engraved with the design to be impressed upon the surface and fixed upon the cloth. The' rolls may be heatedv by gas, and should be of about 2500 to 27 50 Fahrenheit, or about the temperature given to a flat-iron or goose for surfacing cloths.

The felt cloth is run through the machine at such a rate as will x the design upon the felt. This operation also serves to compact and harden the felt, and gives a firm surface to it. The figure thus impressed and fixed upon the felt skirt or fabric may be made to imitate check, stripe, or other ornamental figure, as desired. The ornamenting and inishin g may be done in the piece, or on each skirt separately.

Instead ofheated calender-rolls, heated plates may be used to produce the same result; but the heated rolls are both more economical and more eiiective.

Vhen I desire to impart greater boldness and permanence to the figure, I apply a gum or sizing to thefabric before passing it through the calenders.

I am aware that woven fabrics of various kinds have been embossed by means of heated calender rolls or plates, and alsothat felted goods have been ornamented by printing various designs in pigment or ilock colors upon them. Such process, however, I do not claim, but I am not aware that felt skirts or fabrics for making the same have ever been embossed, ornamented, and treated in the manner described by me to imitate cassimere or other expensive cloths; and, accordingly,

What I claim as my invention, and wish to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As a new article of manufacture, a skirt or skirt fabric made of felt, having its surface or surfaces impressed, embossed, and ornamented with any desired design, and made to resemble cassimere or other expensive woven cloths and fabrics, in the manner hereinbefore described, by means of heated engraved rollers, plates,

or equivalent devices, substantially as and for l the purposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing l have hereunto set my hand this lst day of September, 187 3.

JAMES E. POLLARD.

Witnesses S. MWELD, E. F. WILDER.

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