An Improved Article of Manufacture to be used as a Dress Facing, Trimming, or Binding.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Sept., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 5th May, 1894-Accepted, 9th June, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Article of Manufacture to be used as a Dress Facing,
Trimming, or Binding.
CECIL SYDNEY WOOD Warehouseman 5 Roden Street Nottingham do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of a strip of velvet or other fabric, which by a process of
manufacture is made into an improved trimming or binding applicable to ladies'
dresses and other garments.
The trimming has folded edges, one undulated and the other not undulated.
The edge not undulated is tubular in form and is provided with a cord or
analogous stiffening.
The edge undulated is fluted or corrugated in such a manner as to render it
duplex, and easy to apply to the garment.
Dated this 2nd day of September 1893.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Article of Manufacture to be used as a Dress Facing,
Trimming, or Binding.
A communication from G. H. TAYLOR, South Fifth Avenue, New York, United
States of America.
I CECIL SYDNEY WOOD, 5 Roden Street, Nottingham, Manufacturers
Warehouseman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows a front view of my improved trimming as applied to a portion of
ordinary fabric.
Figure 2 shows in perspective an enlarged cross section of the trimming and
Figure 3 an underside view.
In the drawings the letter A represents the trimming produced from a strip of
velvet or other fabric which is doubled or laid around a cord B, or analogous
stiffener, forming a tube a around said cord. From this tube the strip of fabric is
extended outwards and is doubled preferably as shown at b, and this doubled
portion is placed against the edge or portion of the strip that likewise protrudes
from the tube a.
Next the edge c the strip forms a tubular longitudinally extending portion a
enclosing the cord or other stiffener B. A line of stitching d may be employed to
confine the parts in the described relation. That part of the strip of fabric which
forms the doubled portion bis fluted, corrugated or otherwise undulated, the
corrugations may extend at a right or other angle to the longitudinally extending
plain portion.
The first effect of the corrugation is to round the entire strip in manner indicated
in Figure 1, since the corrugation produces a shortening in the part b without in
corresponding manner shortening the part a. Hence the corrugation adapts the
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page_text: strip of fabric to the form needed as a dress protector allowing it however, to be
used also as a straight trimming whenever needed.
The strip A thus formed may be stitched by a row of stitches e to the ordinary
fabric D which is to carry the trimming, and if desired the outer end of the
corrugated portion 6 may also be united to the fabric D by stitches f.
if
The improved trimming instead of being made of a single piece of fabric, may
desired be composed of several pieces of divers colours, all when united forming
substantially what is shown with reference to the strip constituting the parts c, a
and b.
The trimming is intended to be so applied to the fabric D that on one side the
corrugated portion b and the tubular portion a will appear to view (as in Figure 1),
while on the other side nothing but the tubular portion a will be visible as in
Figure 3.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what mauner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
The construction and employment of improved dress facing, trimming or binding
substantially as described and illustrated in the drawings annexed.
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EM 1004
H. W. GOUGH, C.E.,
Agent.