Abstract:
IMPROVED ARTIFICIAL FUR An artificial fur composed of a warp pile fabric comprising a ground construction and pile yarns fixed to the ground construction and present in the form of fiber bundles within the ground construction. The pile yarns are composed of guard hair fibers and under fur fibers the constituent fibers in the pile portion being opened and raised and the guard hair fibers of the pile yarns having the top ends thereof tapered. Plural kinds of pile yarns differing in at least one of the fineness, color, thickness, and length of fiber are used and a stripe pattern is manifested on the pile surface by arranging the alignment and/or density of the pile yarns appropriately.
Abstract:
AN IMPROVED METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING ARTIFICIAL FURS An improved method for manufacturing an artificial fur from a material pile cloth such as a double velvet weave fabric, a knitted pile fabric provided with two ground constructions and a plurality of connecting piles connected these two ground constructions, and a material pile cloth provided with a plurality of looped piles projected upward from a ground construction fabric or knitted fabric or non-woven fabric. In the method of this invention, the continuity of the pile yarns of the material pile cloth is broken by sliding separation, so as not to break at least a partial number of material fibrous material which will becomes guard hairs of the final artificial fur. In the apparatus for carrying out the above-mentioned method, a separating member having a unique construction is preferably utilized so as to carry out the above -mentioned breaking of the continuity of the pile yarns of the material pile cloth.