US266147A - Method of manufacturing chenille - Google Patents

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(ModeL) G. F. HENSEL.

METHOD OF MANUFACTURING GHENILLE.

Patented Oct. 17, 1882'.

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GEORGE F. HENSEL, ()F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

METHOD OF MANUFACTURING CHENILLE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 266,147, dated October 17, 1882.

Application filed May 5, 1882. (Modch) scribe, reference being bad to the accompany ing drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a view of a piece of chenillemade in the ordinary manner; Fig. 2, a view of a piece of my improved chenille; Fig. 3,-a view showing the method of twisting up the same, and Fig.4 a diagram showing themethod of cutting the woven web to form my improved chenille.

In making ordinary chenille welt-threads m are combined with warp-threads y, arranged so as 'to form bands with intervening spaces, and the wefts are then out between the bands of warps, so as to produce a series of strips, each consisting of a central woven band with threads projecting from each side of the same. These strips are then twisted, so that the projeoting threads form spirals with cut edges, as

shown in Fig. 1.

I desire to vary the character of the chenille by alternating spirals having cut edges with spirals having uncut or looped edges, as shown in Fig. 2; and to do this I discard the usual method of cutting. the web to form the strips, and so sever the said web that each strip shall contain at least two bands of warpthreads, the dotted lines, Fig. 4, for instance, showing how the web is cut to produce the chenille shown-in Fig. 2. In twisting the strip the latter is first caused to fold on a line centrally between the warps and paral-v lel therewith, the out edges of the strip being brought together, as shown in Fig. 8, and as the twisting progresses the folded strip is coiled, as shown, the spirals having cut edges alternating with other spirals having looped or uncut edges, due to the longitudinal folding of the strip on a line between and parallel with the warp-bands.

My improved chenille can be manufactured without any increase in cost as compared with ordinary chenille, because, owing to the G EORGE F. H ENSEL.

Witnesses:

HARRY D RURY, HARRY SMITH.

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