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 method for shaping thermoplastic fabrics such as those made of polyester or polyamide fibers into desired three dimensional configurations through a simple procedure. Thermoplastic fabrics are immersed into hot liquid metallic bath made of eutectic metals such as lead, tin, cadmium, zinc and bismuth and formulated to have the eutectic point at least equal to or higher than the softening point of the thermoplastic fibers and lower than the melting point of the fibers. This metallic bath may be called "fluidic lower mold." The thermoplastic fabrics are immersed into the fluidic lower mold by means of an upper mold or core member having desired outer configurations substantially corresponding to those of final products, for example, headrest or seat cushion. The upper mold pushes down the fabric preferably along with a protective sheet laid beneath the fabric into the metallic bath. Immersed fabrics receive high compressive forces and heat from the hot liquid metallic bath, and thus can easily and rapidly be shaped around the upper mold, so to speak, at a single shot.
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.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus is disclosed for maintaining uniform temperature in a pressurized, heated fluid which is distributed from an elongate manifold in at least one pressurized stream. Associated with each of a plurality of inlet conduits is a separate heater unit and temperature sensing means, as well as an individual metering valve, for heating and adjusting the flow of pressurized fluid passing into the manifold. The individual metering valves are adjusted to balance the temperature of the heated fluid exiting from the inlet conduits into the manifold. A single temperature sensing device, located in the manifold, may then be used to adjust a uniform supply of power to all heater units, thereby maintaining a desired fluid temperature in the manifold.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for making textured patterns on originally smooth web of fabric which was subjected to a mechanical pleating treatment, i.e., which was provided with upright or flat permanently fixed pleats in regular or irregular distribution.For this purpose, the mechanically pleated web of material is continuously heated and the pleated pleats are deformed simultaneously or subsequently to the heating either by tensioning the web of fabric or by at least partial compression of the pleats. The deformation is then fixed by cooling the web of fabric. In addition, the textured fabric may be partially printed in the transfer-printing method in a color and/or pattern deviating from the base material within the areas of the textured web of fabric, in that a web of thermal printing paper is pressed against the web of fabric in the desired color or the desired pattern during the heating step.
Abstract:
An apparatus for producing velvet having an appearance similar to that of a woven velvet wherein slubbed yarns are used in the weft. The apparatus includes a non-contact heater for heating the pile of a fabric which is then pressed against a cool pattern roll where it is cooled to permanently set the pattern into the pile.
Abstract:
Pile fabrics with a pile containing thermoplastic fibres are thermoprinted with a pattern, the contact pressure between the pile fabric and the thermoprinting web in the heating zone being such that about 40 to 60% of the pile is compressed, and immediately afterwards relief-formed and/or surface formed while still hot with a pattern which bears a strict relationship to the thermoprinted pattern. A machine for carrying out this process comprises a thermoprinting unit with adjustable contact pressure and a relief-forming and/or surface forming patterning unit which functions in synchronism and coordination therewith.