IMPROVEMENTS IN AND CONNECTED WITH TASSEL AND STRING HOLDERS
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I, ANNA MECHINIO of Berlin, Germany, Spinster, do hereby declare the nature
of said invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN AND CONNECTED WITH TASSEL AND
STRING HOLDERS," to bo as follows:-
This invention relates to tassel holders as applied in lace-fringe-and loop
work.
Hitherto fringe and tassel holders have been decorated by covering the samo
with thread.
This troublesome way of covering which is easily damaged and rendered unsightly,
is replaced by the following process.
The tubular tassel holder is divided lengthwise into halves or sectors, the core or
skeleton of which is made of wood, papier maché, metal or any other suitable
material. The core of each half or sector may have any suitable ornamental shape
and is covered with cloth, leather, or any other suitable material which has
previously been pressed in a suitable mould so as to accurately fit the surface of
that part of the skeleton on which it is mounted.
The covering thus pressed and stamped is fixed to the core by turning the ends
over the edges of the latter and by sewing and gathering these ends together.
The separate parts or halves thus covered are then put together and sewn to
each other so as to form the tassel or fringe holder.
Instead of securing the covering by sewing and gathering the same on the edges
of their respective cores or skeletons, these parts may be perforated at suitable
intervals and the covering secured to the same by cords or threads of suitable
material and pattern secured to threads passing through the perforations.
The divisibility of the tassel holder and the easy access to the interior of the
same permit a more solid connection between the cord, button and tassel.
The tassel holder is provided in its axial opening with a hook serving to secure
the tassel or string before the other half of the holdor is put on.
In order to firmly and accurately secure the different parts or sections they are
provided on their contact face with guide pins and secured by rings or by means of
a thread the ends of which are tied together.
This construction of the tassel bolder permits to modify the production of the
tuft or tassel proper. The tuft is composed of a series of fringes or narrow bands
sewn on to each separate half of the core, thus forming the tassel.
The core and the covering may be provided with recesses or apertures serving
to receive stones, glass, beads and other ornamental articles from the inside of
the core.
The said ornamental objects being provided with small eyelets for securing them
to the core.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION,
I, ANNA MECHNIG, of Berlin, Germany, Spinster, do hereby declare the nature
of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN AND CONNECTED WITH TASSEL AND STRING
HOLDERS, and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:—
Tassel and string-holders have hitherto, been adorned by covering them with silk.
or other thread, but such a kind of covering was troublesome, easily damaged, and
eventually unsightly, and can be advantageously replaced by the process of covering
described hereafter.
The cores of the tassel and string-holders are made in two or more longitudinal
sections, and each of these-parts-(made of wood, papier-maché, metal &) is covered 1
with some suitable stuff previously-pressed into the same-shape, and this covering
previously pressed and stamped, and, therefore, easily adapting-itself to the shapo
of the cores is securely fastened by lapping its edges round the core, and tying or
Bewing them fast.
---The-two halves of the core are then united and sewn together.
Instead of being sewn to the edges of the core, the stuff can be applied as
follows,
The sections or halves of the core are perforated at suitable places, and the
pressed stuff is secured-by-means of ornamental threads which are fastened in their
turn by binding-threads which pass through suitable-holes.-
The divisibility of the tassel, giving access to the interior of the samo, affords
also a securer connection between the holding string, button and tuft, and enables
the tassel to be taken off when the furniture is being cleaned and dusted. For.
this purpose a hook fis placed at the inside of the section of core, to which the
string-holder n is fastened. Then the other half or section of core is put on and,
in order to fit the two halves accurately together, they are provided with guide-
pins b and c and the parts are then secured and fastened together by a sliding
ring o or by a knotted thread.
The tuft too is more easily constructed, owing to the divisibility of the core and
accessibility of its interior.
It is composed of fringe or ribbon sewn to each section of the core and, when the
parts are put together it forms a closed tassel q.
In this manner the tuft is not connected, as hitherto, with the holding string,
but direct with the mould, and it cannot be pulled out at pleasure.
The half cores can also be provided with recesses and ornamental pieces d can be
set in from the interior. Of course, the covering cloth must also be cut out at such
places.
Such pieces are fastened to the core pieces by being sewn from the inside by
means of eyelets r attached to or formed on the ornamental pieces.
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
"I claim is
In tassels and string-holders
1. The method of making them out of cores split longitudinally into sections
which, before being put together, are covered singly with some suitable stuff
pressed into the same form as the cores.
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page_text: 2. The employment of cores divided longitudinally and provided with holes to
facilitate the fastening of the covering material pressed into the same form as the
mould.
3. The employment of recesses in the core-sections for introducing from the
interior ornamental pieces which can be fastened to the coro-section from the inside
by means of the surrounding holes.
4. The employment of guide-pins in the core-sections to ensure the latter fitting
accurately together.
5. The employment of holding-hooks, eyelets, pins and similar holding appliances f
at the upper part of the core-sections for the purpose of fastening and detaching the
string holder.
6. The method of making the tuft or tassel out of ribbon or fringe by sewing the
latter internally on to the core-section by means of the holes g Fig. V.
Dated this 18th day of May 1885.
ANNA MECHNIG.
By Herbert & Co., Agents,
67, Strand.