Improvements in Belts, Braces, Garters, and other such Articles for Personal Wear, and in the Manufacture of the same.
Year: 1893

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Belts, Braces, Garters, and other such Articles for
Personal Wear, and in the Manufacture of the same.
I, THOMAS EDMUND WALE, of the Firm of T. E. Wale & Sons, Atlas Works,
Oozells Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
My invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of belts, braces,
garters, and other such articles for personal wear by which I produce such articles
of coils of wire so that while being light and elastic are strong porous and of
improved appearance and varied pattern. I also obtain a lateral stiffness where so
desired by which the band is prevented from wrinkling when in wear.
Figure 1, is a general view of one form of my band.
Figure 2, is a cross section on the line 1-2.
Figure 3, is a section through part of the machine for producing the wire coils.
Figure 4, is an enlarged view of the end of the coiling tool A.
Figure 5, is a cross-section through a band showing a modification to be hereafter
explained.
Figure 6, is a similar cross-section showing another modification.
Figure 7, is a view of part of a band showing a further modification by which I
obtain lateral stiffness:
Figure 8, is a cross section of Figure 7.
Figure 9, is a similar cross section to Figure 8 but showing a modification.
Figure 10, is a view of the buckle showing one mode of attachment.
In carrying my invention into effect I weave a number of coils of wire together
to form a pattern such as shown by Figures 1 and 2 in doing which I use coils of
wire prepared by a specially shaped coiling tool A Figures 3 and 4 so that a great
amount of elasticity in the band is the result. This tool A in place of having the
ordinary spiral groove is provided with the groove a¹ which before taking the spiral
course is bent sharply the reverse way as shown at a² being then brought in a
return direction at a³ prior to taking a spiral form around the tool by which means
the pitch of the wire is shortened and considerably more elasticity in each coil is
the result. The coils are. weaved together to form a variety of designs as for
instance as shown at Figure 1 in which the centre part B is formed of close weaving
the edges ¹ being formed of a coil formed of say four or five strands a similar
intermediate coil 62 being placed on each side and the whole formed together by
single coils 63. The edges of the band may be turned over to form a roll, or larger
coils of stronger wire may be placed along each side. The bands similar to that
shown by Figure 1 may be passed through a pair of rolls and flatteners as shown
in section by D Figure 5 and coils of wire E may run longitudinally along the band
as shown at Figure 6 either at the centre or at the edges. Cords of silk or other
material may be interwoven with the wire or run up the interior of the coils as
shown by F Figure 6 by which means the extent of the elasticity of the belt is
confined within a certain limit. For the purpose of laterally stiffening the bands,
cross or diagonal coils of wire may be interweaved with the longitudinal ones as
shown at Figures 7 and 8 or the cross coils H may be weaved outside the longi-
tudinal ones J as shown at Figure 9 by either of which means the band is prevented
from wrinkling. A variety of colored wires such as that of copper, brass, gold,
silver, or black japanned may be interwoven with each other to form a variety of
patterns. In some cases the one end of the band may be interwoven with the other
thus forming practically a continuous band but generally I prefer to attach buckles

page_text: of various designs which are attached to the bands by means of the teeth K
Figure 10 which are cut out and bent down into the woven wire thus retaining it
in the box L formed by the clasp or the teeth may be formed on the lower edge l
of the box and be turned up into the coils of the band. The metal fabric may be
divided at any point so that each half of the band may go in two directions as
shown by diagonal dotted lines on Figure 1 to effect which it is only necessary to
omit the interweaving of the two central coils as far as may be required for the
band to be divided.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
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1st. The improvements in belts, braces, garters, and other such articles for
personal wear and in the manufacture of the same, substantially as and for the
purpose herein set forth and shown upon the accompanying drawings.
2nd. In belts, braces, garters, and other such articles, the combination of trans-
verse coils interwoven with longitudinal coils substantially such as and for the
purpose herein set forth and shown.
3rd. In belts, braces, garters, and other such articles the combination of coiled
wire fabric with cords or strips of silk or other material substantially such as and
for the purpose herein set forth and shown.
4th. In belts, braces, garters, and other such articles the mode of and means for
fastening the ends substantially such as and for the purpose herein set forth and
shown.
5th. In the manufacture of belts, braces, garters, and other such articles the
particular formation of the groove A in the coiling tool substantially such as and
for the purpose herein set forth and shown.
6th. Passing belts, braces, garters, and other such articles through flattening
rolls substantially as herein set forth and shown upon the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 26th day of October 1893.
GEORGE BARKER,
77, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.