March 15, 1932.
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DECORATIVE FABRIC
Filed Feb. 12, 1931
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‘ Patented Mar. 15, 1932‘
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UNITED vs'ra'rrzs ‘PATENT OFFICE
WILLIAM H. LEES,_ OF LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS
DECORATIVE FABRIC
Application ?led February 12, 1931. , Serial No. 515,263.
This invention relates to a lustrous decora
tive fabric.
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usual and attractive fabric. Also it can be‘
seen that the use of colorless transparent
The object of the invention is to provide a strips with substantially non-transparent
novel and improved lustrous fabric for gen strips such as the more highly colored trans
gjzeral decorative purposes which may be eco parent, translucent, or opaque strips of re
nomically made, is strong and durable, and generated cellulose or the tinsel strips, will
possesses a distinctive and novel appearance, give the same effect.
which makes it particularly useful and valua
Referring now to the drawing, which as
ble for general decorative purposes, and par above stated illustrates the preferred embodi
10 ticularly in ribbon form for fancy tying.
ment of the invention, 10 represents a woven
WVith this object in view, and such others as fabric of any desired width, herein shown
may hereinafter appear, the invention con
for illustrative purposes as comprising a rib
bon or narrow fabric. The fabric 10 is here
in shown as made up of warp strands l2 and
weft threads 13. The warp strands 12 are
herein shown as comprising a plurality of
vention as embodied in a decorative lustrous transparent strips 15 of regenerated cellulose '
sists in the lustrous decorative fabric herein
after described and particularly de?ned in
15 the claims at the end of this speci?cation.
In the drawing I have illustrated the in
ribbon.
In general the present invention contem
20 plates a fabric embodying strips of trans
parent lustrous material preferably compris
or equivalent material and brilliant metal
lic or colored tinsel strips 16. If desired, the
tinsel strips 15 may be omitted and regener
ated cellulose alone used, according -to the
ing the cellulosic material of the type known effect desired to be produced. The re
as regenerated cellulose. In producing the generated cellulose strips 15 with or without
present fabric ?at strips of the transparent the tinsel strips 16 are woven with a weft 13
‘25 material either alone or combined with comprising any suitable ?lling material, such
opaque or translucent strips in any of the dif
for example as a silk, cotton or rayon thread
ferent colors, including white or black, may to produce the fabric. It is preferred to
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and preferably will be utilized as the warp weave the weft in and out at a relatively
of a woven fabric and the ?lling may com small number of picks to the inch, in order
prise any desired material such as silk, rayon, that the weft may be spaced apart, as illus
or cotton thread. The transparent strips trated in the drawing.
preferably comprising strips of regenerated For the production of narrow fabrics uti
cellulose may also be combined with tinsel lized as decorative ribbons for general fancy
in anyof the di?erent colors or forms there— tying purposes, the regenerated cellulose
of, to produce a variety of novel lustrous fab
rics in which the transparency and inherent
luster of the regenerated cellulose or equiv
alent transparent lustrous material supple
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strips may be used in widths approximately
one-sixteenth inch, and are preferably woven
in the form of ?at strips so that the ?at re
generated cellulose strips may impart to the
ments the brilliance of the tinsel to set off the fabric a maximum luster and transparent
40 same and to produce novel and most attrac effect. The weaving operation may be per
tive and valuable decorative fabrics. The formed upon narrow fabric looms of known
colored transparent strips of regenerated cel construction in accordance with the usual
lulose as well as the colorless transparent practice followed in producing tinsel ribbon.
strips, will be light-transmitting and light
The regenerated cellulose strips 15 may
re?ecting and will have greater light-trans be colorless so as to impart to the ribbon
mitting properties than more highly colored merely a lustrous effect, or they may
transparent, translucent, or opaque strips of themselves be colored, and in the fabric
» regenerated cellulose or tinsel strips, and the joints between the sides of adjacent
when combined as above described, will by strips of the regenerated cellulose are visible
50 their contrasting properties produce an un only upon relatively close examination so
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that when viewed from a distance the regen- warp strips between said weftthreads form
erated cellulose appears as a transparent
sheet, and when combined with tinsel, and
individual light-re?ectin facets.
In testimony whereof have signed my
particularly colored tinsel, the transparency name to this speci?cation.
of the regenerated cellulose strips imparts
the appearance to the fabric of a plurality
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of the tinsel strips alone, presenting an un_
usual, distinctive, and pleasing appearance.
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The regenerated cellulose strips possess a
high degree of luster and contribute to the
brilliance of the fabric.
lVhile it is preferred to utilize transparent
material of the type known as regenerated
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cellulose, nevertheless viewed in the broader _
aspects of the invention other transparent
so
lustrous material of an equivalent nature
may be used.
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\Vhile the preferred embodiment of the in
vention has been herein illustrated and de»
scribed, it will be understood that the inven~
tion may be embodied in other forms within
the scope of the following claims.
Having thus described the invention, What
is claimed is :—
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1. A lustrous, decorative fabric compris
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ing as a warp a set of ?at, thin, decorative
non-transparent strips, and another set of
thin, ?at strips of transparent regenerated
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cellulose,-said fabric havingstrips of one set
of warp strips interposed between strips of
the other set, and having thin, weft threads
whereby adjacent warp strips are positioned
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close together and substantially in the same
plane, said weft threads being spaced rela
tively far apart whereby the surfaces of the
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portions of said warp strips between said
weft threads form individual light-re?ecting
facets.
2. A lustrous, decorative fabric compris~
ing as a warp a- set of ?at, thin tinsel strips
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and a set of~?at,-thin strips 'of transparent,
regenerated cellulose, said fabric having
strips of one set of warp strips interposed be
tween strips of the other set, and having '
thin, weft threads whereby adjacent warp
strips are positioned close together and sub~
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stantially in the same plane, said weft threads
being spaced relatively far apart whereby
the surfaces of the portions of said warp
strips between said weft threads form indi
vidual light-reflecting facets.
3. A lustrous, decorative fabric compris
ing as a warp a plurality of sets of thin, ?at,
light-re?ecting strips, one of said sets being
composed of thin, flat strips of non-trans
parent regenerated cellulose and another set
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composed of transparent regenerated cellu
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lose, said fabric having strips of one set in
terposed between strips of the other set and
having thin, weft threads whereby adjacent
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warp strips are positioned close together and
substantially in the same plane, said weft
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threads being spaced relatively far apart
whereby the surfaces of the portions of said
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