Abstract:
An apparatus for embossing and compacting a textile web has a calender with a body having a surface. An array of embossing formations project from the body surface and each have an outer face directed away from the body surface and formed as a narrow strip pressable into the web.
Abstract:
An embossed ornamental fabric and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. A manufacturing method is performed by providing a base fabric, and a synthetic resin sheet on a rear side of the base fabric. The base fabric and the synthetic resin sheet are pressed with a shaping mold that has a predetermined design of an embossing or debossing pattern. The synthetic resin sheet has a predetermined thickness and is capable of being compressed according to the embossing or debossing pattern, so that the resultant fabric has the corresponding embossing or debossing pattern.
Abstract:
The present invention discloses improved air embossing systems, improved air lances, and improved methods of air embossing fabrics, which are able to produce an unprecedented level of fine detail, crisp transition between unembossed and embossed regions, and a high degree of uniformity across the width of an embossed fabric, when compared to the performance of typical, conventional air embossing systems. The air embossing systems provided by the invention can utilize air lances for directing a stream of air onto the embossable surface of a fabric that have at least one nozzle having a characteristic orifice dimension substantially less than that of conventional air lance nozzles. The disclosed air embossing systems can also include air lances having nozzles positioned in close proximity to the embossable surface of a fabric being embossed, substantially closer than is typical for air lances employed in conventional air embossing systems. Air lances provided according to the invention can also include one or more nozzles having a characteristic orifice dimension that is substantially less than a characteristic length of the nozzles. Certain air lances provided according to the invention can also include one or more nozzles in the shape of an elongated slit oriented, with respect to the air lance, so as to be positioned across essentially the entire width of a fabric being embossed with the air lance. The invention also provides air lances for use for embossing fabrics that can include a nozzle-forming component that can be separable from the main body of the air lance and that enables the nozzle(s) of the air lance to be positioned within close proximity to the fabric, when the air lance is in operation, and that also can act to redirect air flowing within the air lance so that it is emitted from the nozzle(s) such that a substantial fraction of the air stream is directed essentially perpendicular to the surface of the fabric being embossed. Yet other air lances disclosed include therein one or more baffles or air redirecting elements, which serve to deflect air flowing within the air lance so that it passes through the nozzle(s) of the air lance and is directed onto the embossable surface of the fabric at an angle that is substantially greater, with respect to the longitudinal axis of the air lance, than the angle of an air stream emitted from a nozzle of an essentially equivalent air lance, except excluding the air redirecting element or baffle. Some of the air lances described according to the invention can include a combination of several or all of the above described features.
Abstract:
A method of manufacturing shibori clothes of the desired form and hue in a secure and stable manner by application of measures taken to intentionally leave relief-like shapes called “shibo” (crimps) in the clothes and to provide new types of shibori clothes with unique forms, stretchability, handling and draping qualities, comfort when worn, etc. In a shibori clothing manufacturing method[, comprising] that includes at least a “shibori (binding) process,” in which numerous portions of a dyed and sewn cloth are bound partially with a thread, a “setting process,” which has at least a “steam setting process” by which the shibori cloth, obtained by the “shibori (binding) process” is exposed to steam in order to maintain the shibori (bound) shapes, and a “thread removal process,” in which the abovementioned thread is removed after the “setting process”, and shibori clothes made by this method.
Abstract:
A whole surface or a portion of a cloth, such as a body, a breast or a waist, is subjected to a tying process such as rolling-up, tying, folding or tight tying, and then the cloth is dyed by a dyeing method such as immersion. The dyed cloth is further subjected to a shrinking process, for example, a heat treatment so as to form a tie dyeing and shrinking clothing piece, and the size of the tie dyeing and shrinking clothing piece is greatly reduced by utilizing the elasticity based on the tie dyeing and shrinking process.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to an improved method for embossing and decorating a thermoplastic velvet-like fabric. A transfer sheet supporting a thermally-activated decoration is simultaneously passed with a fabric between two rolls which are under pressure with respect to each other. At least one of the rolls is engraved so as to cause embossing of the fabric. The passing of the fabric and transfer sheet between the rolls is carried out at a temperature sufficient to activate the decoration and allow the transfer of the decoration to the embossed portions of the fabric. The fabric may be heated prior to the embossing-decorating step so that the velvet-like pile is at least partially plasticized. The fabric is then brushed to erect the pile to an erect position. If the decorating is printing, the fabric may be heated immediately before and after the embossing/printing step to transfer a sufficient amount of dye, and to penetrate and seal the dye within the fabric.
Abstract:
An embossing plate having a geometric shape or decorative pattern projecting on its face is used with a printed sublimation transfer paper to impress the pattern in the fabric surface of a fabric-covered substrate.
Abstract:
A fabric having three dimensional relief is disclosed. The relief includes a succession of non-crepe like raised patterns in the forms of diamonds and diamond tips. The raised patterns are disposed in several directions both in warp and in weft. The dimensions of the patterns are variable along the warp and the fabric is waved in the weft direction.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a process for giving relief in several directions to a textile cloth, characterized in that it consists:in known manner, in winding this cloth on a support tube,then in withdrawing said tube,thereafter in compressing the roll longitudinally along the axis of said support,finally, in fixing the roll thus compressed.The invention is more particularly applicable to fabric for home furnishings or clothes.
Abstract:
A patterned marrying roll especially adapted to combined multiple plies of a tissue sheet at a nip between the marrying roll and an embossing roll. The marrying roll is provided with a pattern of raised laminating elements covering a predetermined percentage of the marrying roll surface which are caused to bear against the raised embossing elements of an embossing roll with the plies of a pillowed tissue sheet therebetween. The pattern of raised elements on the marrying roll surface may be in the form of dots, a recticular grid pattern, or any other pattern of choice. The pattern is preferably aligned at an angle to the machine direction to eliminate bunching or puckering of the tissue sheet between pattern elements. The pattern on the marrying roll may comprise from approximately 10% to approximately 40% of the marrying roll surface. The invention is intended primarily for use in laminating plies of a "pillowed" cellulose sheet together, but may also be advantageously used in the lamination of "nested" sheet plies.