Improvements in the Manufacture of Tubular Tapes.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Mar., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Sept., 1890-Accepted, 25th Oct.,
1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Tubular Tapes.
I, ARNOLD BALLY, of Schoenenwerd, Switzerland, Manufacturer, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows :—
This invention relates to the manufacture of tubular tapes such as are employed for
covering the bones or steels for ladies' dresses and the like. Heretofore inconvenience
has arisen by reason of the ends of the bone breaking through the fabric where it is
turned back around the end of the bone and this has especially been the case when
such tapes have been manufactured with one face of a silk or similar delicate fabric.
According to this invention I weave the tape of three thicknesses instead of two as
heretofore either in places only or throughout the whole length.
When such tapes are in use the fabric where turned back over the end of the bone
consists of two thicknesses of material, one of which may be as stout as may be
desirable without in any way detracting from the appearance as the other or outer
fabric may be of silk or other ornamental material.
Dated this 11th day of March 1800
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Tubular Tapes.
I, ARNOLD BALLY, of Schoenenwerd, Switzerland, Manufacturer, 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 :-
This invention relates to the manufacture of tubular tapes such as are employed for
covering the bones or steels for ladies' dresses and the like. Heretofore inconvenience
has arisen by reason of the ends of the bone breaking through the fabric where it is
turned back around the end of the bone and this has especially been the case when
such tapes have been manufactured with one face of a silk or similar delicate fabric.
According to this invention I weave the tape of three thicknesses instead of two as
heretofore either in places only or throughout the whole length.
When such tapes are in use the fabric where turned back over the end of the bone
consists of two thicknesses of material, one of which may be as stout as may be
desirable without in any way detracting from the appearance as it is covered by
another or outer fabric which may be of silk or other ornamental material.
Figure 1 shows to an exaggerated scale a transverse section of a tubular tape made
in accordance with my invention.
Figure 2 shows similarly exaggerated a longitudinal section of the tape with the
steel or bone within it. The tape is here shown turned in at the end as it would be
in use and the strong middle fabric is thus interposed between the end of the steel or
bone a and the face fabric.
The face of the tape in its tubular part marked a is preferably of silk and twill
woven. The middle fabric b has a warp of strong cotton and so has also the back
fabric c. At the sides of the principal tubular part of the tape are two bands d d of
plain taffetas weaving and outside these are the selvages e é and these I weave as a
simple tube.
Figure 3 is a diagram showing the arrangement of the warp in the loom ; the dots
represent the silk face warp threads; the small circles represent the strong warp
usually of cotton forming the back fabric and the triangles represent the similar
strong warp forming the middle fabric.
Figure 4 is a diagram showing the piercing of the cards.

page_text: During weaving the successive picks of the weft pass in regular succession through
the face fabric a the back fabric c and the middle fabric &, then again through the face
fabric u and go on.
It is not essential that the face fabric a and the middle fabric & should be entirely
disconnected; by a slight alteration in the working of the warp threads they may be
more or less attached.
As it is at the part of the tape adjacent upon the end of the steel or bone that the
middle fabric is mainly needed the weft may in some cases be omitted from this fabric
in other parts; the middle warps being for a space left without weft.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what 1
claim is :-
1. A tubular tape substantially as described in three thicknesses a face, a back and
a middle fabric and between the middle fabric and the back fabric a space suitable to
receive a steel, bone or other stiffener.
2. The manufacture of tubular tapes with a strong middle fabric behind the face
substantially in the manner described.
Dated this 16th day of September 1890.