Improved Mode of Covering with Fabrics Thin Blades or Strips of Metal or other Material such as are Used for Stay Busks and other Purposes.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 25th May, 1886.
Complete Left, 23rd Feb., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 25th Mar., 1887.
RESERV
Improved Mode of Covering with Fabrics Thin Blades or Strips
of Metal or other Material such as are Used for Stay Busks
and other Purposes.
We, JULES DUFAUX and HENRI MATHIEU, both of 23 Boulevard de Strasbourg,
Paris in Republic of France, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows
This invention relates to an improved mode of covering with fabric thin blades or
bands of metal or other material, such as are used in various industries, as, for instance,
for stay busks, crinoline steels and the like.
According to the methods at present employed, such covering is effected either by
cementing, sewing, or weaving a covering of textile material, paper, leather, &c. on
blades or bands of definite lengths, or by cutting continuous lengths of such blades or
bands already covered with fabric into definite lengths and then providing the ends of
the lengths with inetal or other coverings.
The first mentioned method has the disadvantages that the covering is effected by
hand, and is therefore slow and expensive, in addition to which, the material being
folded over at the ends, these become inconveniently thick.
The second named inethod also has the disadvantage of requiring the slow and
expensive process of covering the ends with metal by hand.
According to the present invention such blades or bands are covered with textile
fabric with the ends closed up without folding or separate caps, and this operation is
effected entirely by machinery, thus dispensing with all hand labor. For this purpose
I weave a tubular fabric which, at certain intervals of its length, is formed as a single
The distance between the two
fabric by uniting the two sheds in the known manner.
points where the tube is thus closed corresponds with the length of the blade or band
to be covered, and after weaving the fabric of this length and before closing the same
I introduce the blade or band into the same and then close it by single weaving;
when this has been effected to a certain extent, the tubular weaving is again com-
menced and continued until another length is made, into which a second blade is
inserted, and so on, thus producing in the loom a continuous length of tubular fabric

page_text: containing a series of blades separated from each other by single weaving, which may
then be separated either singly or in sets, by cutting through the single weaving, which
then serves to enclose the ends of the separate blades.
Instead of effecting the weaving in an ordinary shuttle loom, it may be effected in
à tubular plaiting machine, in which case the fabric may be woven directly on to the
blade, the ends of which are closed in by portions of flat plaiting.
Also, instead of producing only a single tubular weaving, a fabric may be produced
having two or more tubes formed side by side by alternate single and double weaving
in the width of the fabric, in a similar manner to that employed in corset weaving,
and the blades or bands thus situated side by side can then be separated by cutting
through the fabric .longitudinally between the blades. In weaving such coverings
either for single blades or for several blades side by side, there may be formed on
one or both sides of the blade a width of single weaving sufficient to afford the lateral
attachment of the blade or busk to the corset or other article. The weaving at the
single parts may be effected in any known manner for preventing the fraying of the
threads when cut through.
The blades may be provided with holes or slots, or lateral notches or undulations, to
facilitate their attachment by sewing.
ABEL & IMRAY,
28, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicants.

page_text: Improved Mode of Covering with Fabrics Thin Blades or Strips
of Metal or other Material such as are Used for Stay Busks
and other purposes.
We, JULES DUFAUX and HENRI MATHIEU, both of 23 Boulevard de Strasbourg,
Paris in the Republic of France, 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 :-
This invention relates to an improved mode of covering with fabric thin blades or
bands of metal or other material, such as are used in various industries, as, for instance,
for stay busks, crinoline steels and the like.
According to the methods at present employed such covering is effected either by
cementing, sewing or weaving a covering of textile material, paper leather &c., on
blades or bands of definite lengths, or by cutting continuous lengths of such blades or
bands already covered with fabric into definite lengths and then providing the ends of
the lengths with metal or other coverings.
The first mentioned method has the disadvantages that the covering is effected by
hand, and is therefore slow and expensive, in addition to which the material being
folded over at the ends, these become inconveniently thick.
The second named method also has the disadvantage of requiring the slow and
expensive process of covering the ends with metal by hand.
According to the present invention such blades or bands are covered with textile
fabric with the ends closed up without folding or separate caps, and this operation is
effected entirely by machinery, thus dispensing with all hand labour. For this purpose
we weave a tubular fabric which, at certain intervals of its length, is formed as a single
fabric by uniting the two sheds in the known manner. The distance between the
two points where the tube is thus closed corresponds with the length of the blade or
band to be covered and after weaving the fabric of this length and before closing the
same we introduce the blade or band into the same and then close it by single weaving;
when this has been effected to a certain extent, the tubular weaving is again commenced
and continued until another length is made, into which a second blade is inserted, and
so on, thus producing in the loom a continuous length of tubular fabric containing a
series of blades separated from each other by single weaving, which may then be
separated either singly or in sets, by cutting through the single weaving which then
serves to enclose the ends of the separate blades.
Instead of effecting the weaving in an ordinary shuttle loom, it may be effected in a
tubular plaiting machine, in which case the fabric may be woven directly on to the
blade, the ends of which are closed in by portions of flat plaiting.
Also, instead of producing only a single tubular weaving, a fabric may be produced
having two or more tubes formed side by side by alternate single and double weaving
in the width of the fabric, in a similar manner to that employed in corset weaving,
and the blades or bands thus situated side by side can then be separated by cutting

page_text: through the fabric longitudinally between the blades. In weaving such coverings
either for single blades or for several blades side by side there may be formed on one
or both sides of the blades a width of single weaving sufficient to afford the lateral
attachment of the blade or busk to the corset or other article. The weaving at the
single parts may be effected in any known manner for preventing the fraying of the
threads when cut through.
The blades may be provided with holes or slots or lateral notches or undulations, to
facilitate their attachment by sewing.
Our above described invention will be readily understood on reference to the accom-
panying drawings, which show various arrangements for carrying the same into
practice. Fig. 1 shews a simple woven tubular fabric, the weaving being formed into
a single fabric at a, and after a lengthic has been woven corresponding to the length
of a steel Fig. 2, this is introduced, and the fabric is again closed beyond it by single
weaving at d, so that the steel is entirely enclosed in the fabric. A certain length of
the single weaving d having been produced, the tubular weaving is again resorted to
as at Fig. 3, and a second steel having been introduced the tube is again closed by
single weaving as at d¹ Fig. 4, and so on, thus producing a continuous fabric consisting
of pockets cele² &c. containing steels, alternating with portions of single weaving d d¹ d²,
the fabric being either without selvages at the sides as at Fig. 5 or with them as at
Fig. 13. These lengths of fabric are then cut through the single woven parts at s, so
as to produce the separate steels enclosed in a casing with closed ends, as at Fig. 6.
Or for certain purposes the fabric may be utiliséd with several steels in combination.
Figs. 7 and 8 shew the combination of several tubular weavings arranged side by
side in one fabric, the tubes being either formed in the direction of the length as at
Fig. 7 or in the direction of the width as at Fig. 8, the single weaving between the
steels being cut through if it be desired to use the steels separate from each other.
Fig. 9 shews a front view and section of the fabric with a single lateral selvage, and
Fig. 10 shews the same with two selvages. Any well known means may be used for
preventing the fraying of the single fabric when cut through.
The steels may be formed with any desired openings as at Fig. 11 or with undulating
edges as at Fig. 12 for affording means of attachment.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is :
The herein described improved mode of covering lengths of steel or other material
with woven or plaited fabric consisting in producing a tubular fabric separated into
separate tubular lengths or pockets by intervening portions of single weaving, the
lengths of steel or other material being inserted into the pockets as the weaving
proceeds so as to have their ends enclosed by the single weaving.
Dated this 23rd day of February 1887.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicants.