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US 4,904,331 AGranted
Apparatus for the manufacture of pile fabrics
AssigneeGeorge-Martin Textiles Limited
InventorStephen C. Martin
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Abstract
The invention provides apparatus for manufacturing pile fabrics, a method of using the apparatus and pile fabrics produced by the method. The apparatus is particularly suitable for use in the production of pile fabrics incorporating natural woollen fibers by adhesion of a series of courses of wool fiber to a backing sheet of appropriate material.
Claims31
Apparatus for producing pile fabric comprising:
- a frame;
- feed means for feeding a continuous length of pile fibre;
- a course former rotatably mounted within said frame and about which pile fibre from said pile fibre feed means can be wound;
- drive means for rotating said course former;
- an adhesive applicator carried by said frame for applying adhesive to said pile fibre when wound about said course former;
- backing sheet feed means for feeding a backing sheet;
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- means for contacting the pile fibre about said course former and the backing sheet one with the other after application of the adhesive to the pile fibre;
- means carried by said frame for cutting said pile fibre wound about said course former free from said former,
- the apparatus being such that in use a length of pile fibre from said pile fibre means is wound about said course former and has adhesive applied thereto before being contacted with the backing sheet from said backing sheet feed means for bonding with the backing sheet, the wound pile fibre then being cut free of the course former by the cutting means to leave a course of pile fibre adhesively bonded to the backing sheet.
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