Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Dec., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 27th Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 2nd Nov., 1888
1, CHARLES GREY HILL of Arnot Hill, in the County of Nottingham, Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a method of attaching beads to frillings and other
trimmings. For this purpose I employ a thread laid zig zag to and fro across a band
of fabric, the thread forming the zig zag passing between adjacent beads threaded on
a string and laid lengthways of the band of fabric.
The zig zag thread is laid in any usual manner, for example, it may be wound
around two spiral wires on each side of the band and be either itself damped and
pressed by pressing rollers on to the band of fabric, or else be held down by à longi-
tudinal damped thread or threads which are similarly pressed down.
The pressing roll or rolls are grooved, or have a space between them to allow of the
passage of the string of beads as it is fed in.

page_text: Figure 1 is a side elevation, and
Figuro 2 is a plan of a machine for the manufacture of trimmings constructed in
accordance with my invention.
Figure 3 is a plan of some of the operative parts of the machine drawn to an
enlarged scale.
Figure 4 is a plan of a portion of the work drawn to the same enlarged scale.
Figure 5 shows the work in somewhat different form and Figure 6 shows a portion
of the machine in which the work shown by Figure 5 is produced.
In Figures 1 and 2 A is a bearing in which the hollow sleeve or axis B is carried ;
it has spur teeth upon it, and it is driven so as to rotate continuously by means of a
spur wheel gearing with the teeth. This spur wheel is not represented in the drawings.
The sleeve B carries a bobbin C from which a thread is drawn. The thread passes
ver suitable guides as the drawing indicates, and by the rotation of the sleeve B, the
thread is wound as indicated in Figure 3 and hereinafter described. D is an axis
terminating in a corkscrew spiral D. This axis has a bevelled wheel D² at its end
and another wheel gearing with this (not represented in the drawing) causes the spiral
to rotate continually. Alongside of the axis of the spiral D¹ a thread D is led. Fis
a tube or funnel down which the beads G previously strung upon a thread are led.
This tubo at its lower end terminates in an open trough F₁ which also serves to
guide the thread E. H. Haro a pair of narrow pressing rollers between which
the double band of their fabric I passes. These rollers being suitably driven draw
the work forwards continually. The sleeve B rotates in unison with the spiral Di
so that it leads the thread from the bobbin C into the spiral in the manner shown
in Figure 3. It also laps the thread around the troughlike lower end F¹ of the
tube F. and the beads being of a suitable size, the thread each timo that it comes
round falls into the space between one bead and the next in order upon the string.
In Figures 3 and 4 the zigzag thread is marked K.

page_text: The spiral carries forward the beads with the zigzag thread and presents them to
the pressing rollers H. H, where they meet the fabric I and also a thread L passing
from above beneath the upper pressing roller. The threads being slightly moist and
the rollers being heated, the pressure secures the threads to each other and to the band
of fabric, and so the work as represented in Figure 4 is obtained. In this way beads
are combined with a band suitable to be stitched on to any edge which the beads may
be required to ornament.
The fabric I may in some cases be dispensed with the band being formed entirely
of threads caused to adhero the one to the other by the operation of the pressing
rollers.
The work represented by Figure 5 is produced in a similar manner, except that two
spirals D D one on either side of the pressing rollers H are employed. The pressing
rollers in this case are made of increased width and the upper pressing roller is
grooved, so that the heads may pass beneath it without being broken.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A trimming consisting of beads strung upon a thread, and combined by the aid
of a zigzag thread with a band substantially as described.
2. Machinery for the manufacture of frillings and trimmings substantially as
described and illustrated by the annexed drawings.
Dated this 27th day of September 1888.
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents.