Improvements in the Manufacture of Stays or Corsets and in Apparatus therefor.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Apr., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 22nd July, 1891-Accepted, 12th Sept., ‘1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Stays or Corsets and in
Apparatus therefor.
We, WILLIAM HENRY SYMINGTON, and WILLIAM ANDERSON, both of. Market
Harborough, in the County of Leicester, Stay Manufacturers, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to the manufacture of stays or corsets.
The method hitherto employed of connecting the different parts of corsets is
open to some objection and chiefly for the reason that frequently too much or too
little material is taken in by the operative when stitching the seams whereby,
notwithstanding the fact that the parts of the corset are properly shaped, the
finished corsets are not made with certainty of standard size and shape.
The chief object of our invention is to obviate the difficulty above referred to
and to this end we connect the adjacent parts of corsets by means of bands or
strips of material which are specially arranged and are sewn to the edges to be
connected on both the underneath and top side of the corset.
In practice we apply both strips simultaneously preferably by means of a double-
needle machine and we hold the band or strip at the underside of the work in its
necessary position by a guide which preferably consists of a slot in the needle
plate of the machine.
With this construction corsets of standard size and shape can be made with
certainty as in making the seams it is only necessary to bring the edges of.the
parts to be connected into contact without turning in or folding the edges of the
fabric as has been heretofore usual. Some further advantages of our invention in
addition to that before referred to are that considerable saving in the cost of
seaming is effected and that the seams are flatter, neater and stronger than seams
made in the ordinary manner.
Dated the 29th dex of April 1801
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,. Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Stays or Corsets and in
Apparatus therefor.
We, WILLIAM HENRY SYMINGTON, and WILLIAM ANDERSON, both of Market
Harborough, in the County of Leicester, Stay Manufacturers, 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 :-
Our invention relates to the manufacture of stays or corsets.
The method hitherto employed of connecting the different parts of corsets is
open to some objection and chiefly for the reason that frequently too much or too
little material is taken in by the operative when stitching the seams, whereby,
notwithstanding the fact that the parts of the corset are properly shaped the
finished corsets are not made with certainty of standard size and shape.
The chief object of our invention is to obviate the difficulty above referred to,
and to this end we connect the adjacent parts of corsets by means of bands or
strips of material which are specially arranged and are sewn to the edges to be
connected on both the underneath and top side of the corset.
In practice we apply both strips simultaneously, preferably by means of a double-
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page_text: needle machine, and we hold the band or strip at the underside of the work in its
necessary position by a guide which preferably consists of a slot in the needle-plate
of the machine.
With this construction, corsets of standard size and shape can be made with
certainty, as in making the seams it is only necessary to bring the edges of the
parts to be connected into contact without turning in or folding the edges of the
fabric as has been heretofore usual. Some further advantages of our invention, in
addition to that before referred to, are that considerable saving in the cost of
seaming is effected and that the seams are flatter, neater and stronger than seams
made in the ordinary manner.
To enable our invention to be fully understood we will describe the same with
reference to the accompanying drawing, in which :-
Figure 1 is a view of a portion of a corset illustrating the method of connecting
the different parts; and
Figure 2 is a section on the line xx, Figure 1 ;
Figure 3 is a side elevation of a portion of a "Singer" double-needle machine
which is a kind of machine that may with advantage be employed and there is
applied to this machine a needle-plate slotted according to our invention ;
Figure 4 is a front elevation of the same; ard,
Figure 5 is a plan of the slotted needle-plate detached.
a, a, Figures 1 and 2, indicate two sections of a corset which are to be con-
nected, and b, b are the bands or strips of material which are sewn to the edges to
be connected on both the underneath and top side of the corset by two rows of
stitches c, c.
The edges of the bands b, b, as shewn, are turned in so as to form
neat edges upon the said bands. d, d are the two needles of the machine by which
the rows of stitches c, c are applied.
e is the presser-foot which is provided with a slot or opening through which
one of the bands or strips b is led, and g is the needle-plate having a slot h formed
therein in accordance with our invention, through which slot the other band 6 is
led in a manner which will be clearly understood by reference to Figure 4. i is
the feed of the machine.
With this construction of machine it will be readily understood how the
bands b, b can be applied on both sides of the fabric in accordance with our
invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. Forming the seams of corsets by the application to the edges of the fabric
intended to be connected on both the underneath and top side thereof of bands
or strips of material secured by two rows of stitches applied simultaneously,
substantially as, and for the purposes, described.
2. The manufacture and use of corsets the seams of which are formed
substantially in the manner hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accom-
panying drawing.
3. The use for seaming corsets in the manner herein before described of a sewing
machine such as that to which reference is hereinbefore made having in
combination with the slotted presser-foot a slotted needle-plate, substantially as
described.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.