Improvements in Elastic Woven Bands for Suspenders, Girdles, and such like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 9th June, 1896-Accepted, 1st Aug., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Elastic Woven Bands for Suspenders, Girdles, and
such like.
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We, ABRAHAM HÜCKING and ERNST HÜCKING, both of Elberfeld, Lärchen-
strasse No. 13 Rhenish Prussia, Germany, and Joint Partners of the Firm of
Abraham Hücking, Suspender 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 elastic woven bands with a hollow woven central part,
or huse-like woven longitudinal central part, into one side or thickness of stuff of
which we secure metallic eyelets so, that ou the one side the band show's a central
row of eyelets and on the other side the band shows no interruption of its uniform
and plain surface and no eyelets. The holes of the eyelets therefore penetrate
only through one side of the hollow woven part, or through half the thickness of the
woven baid, and are covered on the inside by the other half-thickness of the woven
fabric; in thus making these bands, their elasticity is more durable at the central
hollow woven part, in leaving one half of its middle part with uninterrupted rubber
warps; no india-rubber warp threads of this half being cut through and the
eyelets being so fastened in the other half of the middle part of the fabric, that
by their being perfectly beaded over the edges of the holes on both sides of their
respective side of the hollow woven part, thereby keeping the india-rubber warps,
which may have been cut through in punching the hole for the eyelet, solidly
cramped between the borders of the bead of the eyelet and so conserving their
cc-operation in the elasticity of the band. These bands are exceedingly well
suited for making suspenders, girdles and the like, showing no metal parts at all
projecting any where; they are also very well suited for surgical purposes and
orthopedical apparatus. They allow readily the regulation of length, when a hook
is fixed to an end or another point of their length, which may be hooked into the
eyelets at any desired point; in being used as bandages their advantage consists
in their having the one side, hearing on the body of the user, free from any
metallic or other hard uncomfortable projections, but presenting a smooth plain
and uniformly woven surface.
The accompanying drawing illustrates our invention and shows:
Fig. 1 a front view of the band showing a part of the hollow woven middle
strip cut open and folded back to show the beaded eyelet from the inside;
Fig. 2 a back view of the same;
Fig. 3 a longitudinal section through the double hollow woven part of the band
with eyelets in one half side;
Fig. 4 a cross-section of the band along line I . . . 1.
Fig. 5 a cross section of the band along line II. ... II.
Fig. 6 shows the band as applied for making braces or suspenders thereof,
Fig. 7 shows a longitudinal vertical section through Fig. 6,
Fig. 8 is partly a side view of a tool for inserting the eyelets into the hollow
woven part.
Fig. 9 is a plan and partly horizontal section of Fig. 8,
Fig. 10 is a longitudinal vertical section of part of Fig. 9;
Fig. 11 is a cross-section of the band with the tool after fixing an eyelet into
one side of the hollow part, in enlarged scale;

page_text: Fig. 12 is a longitudinal section of the band with an eyelet, in enlarged
scale.
Fig. 13 is a top view of a band with several eyelets already fixed and the tool
in place for inserting one eyelet more.
The band of our invention is woven in the ordinary ribbon-loom in known
manuer, with a strong elastic side part, A, A, right and left of the hollow woven
part B, using an indin-rubber warp thread of determined tension as well for the
solid woven side-parts as for each warp of the hollow woven parts, taking care to
give to the two rubber warps in the middle strip the same tension which is given to
the side parts, so that the product of weaving has a smooth surface and an equal
elastic resistance to an extending force.
In the upper side or half of the hollow woven strip of the web, we insert in such
distances from each other as we consider convenient, metal eyelets C which are
beaded round the border of the hole as well on the outer side as on the inside of
the hollow part, grasping so firmly between their ring-beads the thickness of the
web, so that the continuity of the elastic baud is not interrupted, the eyelets
forming the coupling member between the accidentally separated warp threads
and weft threads when making the holes for inserting the eyelets.
We make the beading of the eyelets equal on both sides of the thickness of the
one side of the hollow woven part, so that the inside bead of the eyelet is made so
as if it were made from the outside, and this without causing any injury to the
other half side of the hollow woven part, so that its exterior appearance is that of
an ordinary smooth plain elastic woven band.
This effect of beading from the inside of the hollow woven strip is produced by the
tool shown Figs. 8 to 13. We introduce into the middle, hose-like woven part of
the band, a flat bar F of sufficient length; the end of it has a short nipple G
formed on the upper flat side, which nipple stands up in a dished or countersunk
rounded cavity of the flat bar, and its height not exceeding the thickness of the
woven stuff.
A sliding bar H is guided in slits J by pins K of bar F and is forked at its end,
this bar can be pushed forward to embrace the nipple G, its thickness is equal to
the height of the nipple. When eyelets have to be fixed in the hollow part of the
band little holes are cut in those places of the upper side of the hollow web where
the eyelets have to be fixed; the rod or bar Fis then introduced into the hose-
like middle part of the band so, that the nipple G projects out of the respective
hole; an eyelet is then put over the nipple into the woven stuff and then the
eyelet is driven home and beaded over afterwards in the known manner, by putting
it under a press as shown in Figs. 8 and 10 in partly a longitudinal section, and
driving down the stamp G; the lower bead is formed therein on the cavity round
the nipple on the bar, as shown in an enlarged scale in Fig. 11, in cross-section;
the bar F, wheu laid unde" the stamp G', forms the support for the upper part
of the web, the sliding bar H being then pulled back, the bottom plate P of the
press supporting the whole.
The stamping operation done, the sliding bar H is pushed forward again, to
lift, the beaded eyelet with the upper side of the hollow band out of the nipple,
the bar is shifted forward to the next hole for an eyelet and after pulling
back the bar H, an eyelet blank again is inserted in the hole and so forth as
before.
As shown in Fig. 12 by the longitudinal section of the middle part of the band,
each eyelet is beaded over from the interior of the hollow woven part as well as
from the outer surface, and the firmly grasping of the warp-threads and rubber
warp-threads by the eyelet restitutes to the web the continuity of warps which
may accidentally have been cut in making the hole for the eyelet. Instead of
cutting the holes for the eyelets the same may be made in the loom direct by
weaving, which however, as will be known by any weaver, requires two shuttles for
making that part of the fabric.
The described elastic band with eyelets in one side of the hollow middle part

page_text: may be used for making gentlemen's suspenders, as illustrated in Figs. 6 and 7; a
band of convenient length is provided at one end with a metal hook D, which is
inserted into the hollow woven part and fixed there by sewing or such like
attaching means, so that the hook is protruding outwardly on the same side, where
the eyelets are, and directed backwards over the band; by inserting this hook into
an eyelet in lower or higher place, the suspender can be shortened or lengthened,
as seen in Fig. 7 in dot and dash and in full lines respectively.
In a similar way the elastic bands of this new kind may be applied to orthopedic
apparatus.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manuer the same is to be performed, we declare, that what
we claim is :
A hollow woven or hose-like elastic band with eyelets C in one side of its
central partition, the said eyelets C being suitably distanced from each other and
beaded from both sides, so that the outer and inner beads of the eyelets are
grasping firmly the one partition of the hollow part, leaving the other partition of
the hollow part intact, so that the eyelets are visible only on one side of the
band, but are covered by the other side of the hollow woven middle-part.
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SM 1000
ABRAHAM HÜCKING,
ERNST HÜCKING,
Per Karl J. Mayer,
Agent.
ABRAHAM HÜCKING,
ERNST HÜCKING,
Per Karl J. Mayer,
Agent.