IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO UPHOLSTERERS' TRIMMINGS
Year: 1885

page_text: We, WILLIAM CAMERON, and ALLAN COWLAND CAMERON, Managers to
Upholsterers' Trimming Manufacturers, both of 12, Cranbourne Street, Leicester
Square, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO UPHOLSTERERS' TRIMMINGS,"
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 certain improvements in or applicable to the manu-
facture of upholsterers' or upholstery trimmings, the special object of the Invention
being to provide means by which the ornamentation of such trimmings may be
more greatly varied than can be effected with the fibrous materials of which such
trimmings are at present solely composed, and by the application of which means
novel and more pleasing ornamental and artistic effects can be attained and
imparted to a class of goods generally singularly deficient in these qualities.
Such trimmings have hitherto been made up of worsted, cotton and silk cords,
gimps, fringes and ornaments, which are combined in various ways and colors
depending upon the intended application of the trimmings; but irrespective of the
way in which the trimmings are made up from such materials, there is a great
sameness and want of contrast and relief, and an almost total want of artistic effect
in their appearance, and, moreover, they catch and retain particles of dust and in
ordinary use quickly assume a dulled or soiled appearance and hence the application
of such trimmings is comparatively limited.
As hereinbefore mentioned, the special object of the present improvements is to
provide means of a nature which will avoid the above referred to disadvantages,
and will contrast in substance and appearance with the present materials used, and
by the application and use of which in combination with such materials as are at
present used novel and improved ornamental effects can be given to the trimmings,
which will greatly increase their value as means of ornamentation, and their
duration as regards remaining clean and of a presentable appearance, and will
render such trimmings more generally applicable than they are as at present
manufactured.
To this end, the Invention consists, essentially, in combining with the class of
goods known as upholsterers' trimmings in or subsequent to the manufacture
thereof, appropriate means of ornamentation made or composed of porcelain or

page_text: earthenware, and which can be readily moulded or formed into an infinite variety
of ornamental shapes or forms, and can be made up in any required color or colors
or in different colors, and can be used glazed or unglazed, and can be combined and
used in different ornamental shapes or forms and in different colors, and can also be
combined with or adapted to the trimmings in a great variety of ways..
Examples of the application of the present improvements are illustrated on the
accompanying two sheets of drawings as applied respectively to the manufacture
and ornamentation of a bell rope, and of a fringe.
In the former example illustrated on Sheet 1 of the drawings, the rose, 1, cord, 2,
and tassel, 3, are each shown as combined with and ornamented by the porcelain
or earthenware ornaments respectively marked, 4, 5, 6, the rose (by which the
rope is suspended) is provided with a central eye, 4, which is adapted to serve as
an additional means of enhancing the ornamental appearance of the rose, and is
also so applied as to separate and give a more ornamental appearance to the usual
worsted eye or central part of the rose.
The pull or cord, 2, is also shown as provided with a spherical ornament, 5, and
the depending tassel, 3, as provided with porcelain elongated ornaments, 6.
In the example illustrated on sheet 2 of the drawings, the fringe, 7, composed
of usual materials, is shown as adapted with both spherical and elongated
ornaments, 8, 9, of porcelain.
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The means of uniting the porcelain ornaments to the trimmings to be ornamented
may consist of holes made through the ornaments as in the examples illustrated
and by means of which they can be readily attached to the rose, cord, tassel, fringe,
or other trimming, part of the lattter being passed through the ornament, and tied,
unravelled, or otherwise suitably secured; but the porcelain ornaments may be
applied and secured in a great variety of other ways such as by external grooves
still further enhancing their ornamental appearance, and in or around which cords
or like parts forming part of the trimmings may be passed in such a manner as to
embrace and retain the ornaments, or the latter may be applied with projecting
parts or shanks of the same material or of metal or other suitable substance
affording a ready means of securing the ornament to the trimming; and as the
ornaments are of an imperishable nature, and can be washed or cleaned, they can
be removed from the soiled and otherwise useless trimming, and are available for
constant re-use while they remain whole.
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
Combining with upholsterers' trimmings in or subsequent to the manufacture
thereof any appropriate or suitable ornaments or means of ornamentation made or
composed of porcelain or earthenware, substantially as specified.
Dated this 4th day of September 1885.
DAY, DAVIES, & HUNT,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicants.
DAY, DAVIES, & HUNT,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicants.