Improvements in or relating to Stiffening or Supporting Bands or the like for Dresses or other Garments.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Mar., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 1st June, 1893--Accepted, 1st July, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Stiffening or Supporting Bands or
the like for Dresses or other Garments.
I, HENRY HILL of the firm of Balm Hill & Sons, 1 Mansfield Road, in the
Borough of Nottingham, Lace Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the covering or enclosing in textile fabric flexible steel
or other bands employed for stiffening or supporting dresses or other garments and
it has for its object the formation of such covering or textile fabric so that the
bands may be more readily secured to the garments.
In carrying out my invention one or more flexible steel or other suitable bands
are enclosed between threads passing from side to side of the band and secured at
each side to a border or selvedge extending beyond the edge of the band or bands,
such border or selvedge forming a means for readily attaching the band or bands to
the garment by stitching.
The bands may be enclosed in a fabric and the border or margin formed in a
warp lace machine, levers lace machine, lace curtain machine, or loom adapted for
weaving narrow fabrics.
In a warp lace machine the bands are carried into the work in the same manner
as an ordinary "straight thread" and are held in position between needles or sets
of needles on which pillar threads are worked by a bar provided with openings for
the passage of the bands.
The bands are enclosed between and held in the fabric by lacing or gimp threads
at the back and front which are operated by bars and shogged from one side of the
bands to the other and secured by the pillar threads on the needles, or sets of needles
on each side of the bands which also form the border or selvedge.
In a levers lace or lace curtain machine the bands may be introduced into the
fabric in the same manner, by removing carriages and points to allow of the
passage of the bands. The lacing or gimp threads enclosing the bands are in this
case secured by the gimp or spool threads and additional gimp threads may be
employed to form the border or selvedge.
In a loom the bands may be introduced in place of the warp threads occupying a
similar space and position to that in which it is desired to introduce the bands,
provision being made for the passage of the bands through the reed space and
shedding mechanism. The weft threads in this case are laid above and below the
bands and are also incorporated with the warp threads on each side of the bands to
form a selvedge.
Dated this 20th day of Marb 1803
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Of London, Liverpool, Manchester, and Nottingham,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Stiffening or Supporting Bands or
the like for Dresses or other Garments.
I, HENRY HILL, of the firm of Balm Hill & Sons, 1 Mansfield Road, in the
Borough of Nottingham, Lace 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 covering of flexible steel or other bands employed

page_text: for stiffening or supporting dresses or other garments, and it has for its object the
formation of such covering so. that the bands may be more readily secured to a
garment.
It will be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawings in which
Fig. 1 is an enlarged view showing a band covered or enclosed, according to my
invention, in a warp lace machine.
Fig. 2 is an enlarged view showing a band covered or enclosed, according to my
invention, in a levers lace or lace curtain machine, and
Fig. 3 is an enlarged view showing a band covered or enclosed according to my
invention in a loom.
In carrying out my invention one or more flexible steel or other suitable bands a
are enclosed between threads passing from side to side of the band and secured at
one or both sides to a border or selvedge b extending beyond the edge of the band
or bands such border or selvedge & forming a means for readily attaching the band
or bands a to the garment by stitching.
The bands may be enclosed and the border or selvedge 6 formed in a warp
lace, levers lace or lace curtain machine or a loom adapted for weaving narrow
fabrics.
In a warp lace machine (see Fig. 1) the bands a are carried into the work in the
same manner as ordinary "straight threads" and are held in position between
needles or sets of needles on which pillar threads are worked, by a bar provided
with openings for the passage of the bands.
The bands are enclosed by and held in the fabric by gimp threads cc at the back
and front, which threads e c are operated by bars and shogged from one side of the
band to the other, at which points they are secured by the pillar threads d d which
are looped by the needles in a well-known manner.
The selvedge or selvedges may be formed by additional gimp threads e e and
pillar thread the former of which are shogged to and fro and are alternately
secured by the pillar threads d and f.
In a levers lace or lace curtain machine (see Fig. 2) the band a may be intro-
duced into the fabric in the same manner by removing carriages and points to allow
of the passage of the bands at those points of the machine at which they are
inserted. The lacing or gimp threads cc enclosing the bands are in this case
secured by the carriage threads g g and warp or gimp threads h h and the
selvedges may be formed by additional lacing or gimp threads e e carriage
threads ii and warp or gimp threads jj.
In a loom (see Fig. 3) the band a may be introduced in place of the warp threads
occupying a similar space and position to that in which it is desired to introduce
the bands, provision being made for their passage through the reed space and
shedding mechanism.
The weft thread & may be alternately laid above and below the band a and is
also incorporated with warp threads b on each side of the band to form the
selvedges b b.
I do not however confine myself to the particular arrangement of the threads
described as it is obvious that they may be disposed in various ways and the same
result obtained.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is ;-
1. A stiffening or supporting band such as described enclosed by threads such
as c carried from side to side of the band and alternately secured at each side
substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
2. A stiffening or supporting band such as described enclosed by threads such
as c carried from side to side of the band where they are secured simultaneously
with the formation of a selvedge on one or both sides substantially as described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

page_text: 3. Enclosing a band and forming a selvedge or selvedges in a warp lace levers
lace or lace curtain machine substantially as described and illustrated in the accom-
panying drawings.
4. A stiffening or supporting band such as described enclosed by a weft thread k
incorporated with warp threads to form a selvedge or selvedges b substantially as
described and illustrated in Figure 3 of the accompanying drawings.
5. The combination with the band a of warp threads parallel and in the same
plane therewith and forming a selvedge when incorporated with the weft thread
substantially as described and illustrated in Figure 3 of the accompanying
drawings.
6. The stiffening or supporting bands respectively as described and illustrated in
Figures 1, 2 and 3 of the accompanying drawings.
1000
HENRY HILL.
W. P. Thompson & Boult,
Agents for the Applicant.