An Improvement in the Manufacture of Covered Whalebone and similar Stiffeners for Bodices and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Mar., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 15th Dec., 1896-4ccepted, 6th Feb., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in the Manufacture of Covered Whalebone and
similar Stiffeners for Bodices and the like.
I, JOHN HALL, Braid and Trimming Manufacturer, of Leek, in the County of
Stafford, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to an improvement in the manufacture of stiffeners
employed for ladies' bodices and other garments and the like and particularly to
stiffeners composed of two or more pieces of whalebone, French horn, vulcanite,
steel or other suitable material united by a covering of interlacing threads.
My improvement consists essentially in uniting two or more strips of whalebone
or the like by sewing them together and to a suitable backing in a sewing
machine the needle of which works in a zig-zag path and so produces a crossing
stitch.
Dated this 18th day of March 1906
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicant.
An Improvement in the Manufacture of Covered Whalebone and
similar Stiffeners for Bodices and the like.
I, JOHN HALL, Braid and Trimming Manufacturer, of Leek, in the County of
Stafford, 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 :-
My invention relates to an improvement in the manufacture of stiffeners
employed for ladies' bodices and other garments and the like and particularly to
stiffeners composed of two or more pieces of whalebone, French horn, vulcanite,
steel, or other suitable material united by a covering of interlacing threads.
My improvement consists essentially in uniting two or more strips of whalebone,
or the like, by sewing them together and to a suitable backing in a sewing
machine the needle of which works in a zig-zag path and so produces crossing
stitches.
Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawings show, on an enlarged scale, the
two strips a laid side by side upon a strip of tape b or other suitable backing, the
strips a being connected together and to the backing b by the cross stitches or
threads c which are applied by the needle or needles of what is well known in my
trade as a "zig-zag sewing machine."
Figures 3 and 4 are similar views respectively to Figs. 1 and 2 but show an
alternative form of cross stitch applied by the needle or needles of the zig-zag
sewing machine

page_text: Figures 5 and 6 are similar views respectively to Figs. 1 and 2 but instead of
the strip of tape & the two strips a are sewn together and to a cotton gut or other
central cord d, placed between them, by the cross stitches c applied by the
needle or needles of a zig-zag sewing machine as in the previous stiffener Figs. 1
and 2.
Any other suitable crossing stitch in addition to the examples given may be
applied by the needle or needles of a zig-zag sewing machine in the manner and
for the purposes herein set forth.
In each instance the improved stiffener is preferably encased in a sheath formed
by stitching together two pieces of galloon or ribbon ef as shown in Figures 7 and 8,
but this is not essential and forms no part of my present invention.
I am aware that prior to my present invention strips of whalebone or like
material have been simultaneously united and covered with interlacing threads in
a braiding machine and I wish it to be understood that I lay no claim to such
manufacture.
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. In combination, the strips of whalebone of like material, a, the backing band
the cross stitches c applied by the needle or needles of a zig-zag sewing machine to
form an improved dress stiffener substantially as herein set forth.
2. In combination, the strips of whalebone or like material a, the central cord d
and the cross stitches c applied by the needle or needles of a zig-zag sewing
machine to form an improved dress stiffener substantially as herein set forth.
Dated this 14th day of December 1896.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
17 St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for Applicant.