AN IMPROVED MODE OF MANUFACTURING BINDING TAPES
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Belier, of Aldermanbury, in the City of
London, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED MODE OF
MANUFACTURING BINDING TAPES." -A communication from abroad by
Henri Augustin Joseph Lauwick, of Comines (Nord), in the Empire
of France.
Sealed the 8th March 1870, and dated the 18th September 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Belier at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
18th September 1869.
İ, CHARLES BELIER, of Aldermanbury, in the City of London, Manu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "Ai
IMPROVED MODE OF MANUFACTURING BINDING TAPES," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to produce a tape that may be used as
a substitute for the piping now commonly used in dress and stay making,
for finishing the ragged edges of fabrics, and also for tapes generally in
which a filling cord is inserted for the purpose of being applied as a
finish to various kinds of work. The forming of edges and piping by

page_text: the application of tapes or strips of fabric enclosing a filling cord is an
operation of great labour, but by this Invention the tape is produced in
the loom with one selvage thickened and rounded as if a cord were sewn
in tape and ready to be fixed in its place. The tape may be twilled or
not as desired, and made of cotton, worsted, or other fibrous material.
In the tape loom I provide a double set of warp threads for the thickened
or rounded selvage, that is, an upper and a lower tier, and between these
I introduce one or more loosely twisted filling cords, and I so work the
harness that the upper and the lower tier will alternately be made to
form part of the open shed for the passage of the shuttle. I thus pro-
duce a thickened or rounded selvage on one edge of the tape and an
ordinary selvage at the other. This tape admits of being applied by the
aid of an ordinary sewing machine, whereas a special arrangement of
mechanism or hand labour is required to attach the hand made article,
for which this tape is an efficient substitute.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Belier in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 18th March 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
BELLER, of Aldermanbury, in the City of London, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Charles Belier, Her special licence
that I, the said Charles Belier, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles Belier, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED MODE
OF MANUFACTURING BINDING TAPES," being a communication to me from
abroad by Henri Augustin Joseph Lauwick, of Comines (Nord), in the

page_text: Empire of France, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Charles Belier, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the. said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Belier, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto
annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to
say):
The object of this Invention is to produce a tape that may be used as
a substitute for the piping now commonly used in dress and stay making,
for finishing the seams and protecting ragged edges of fabrics, and also
for tapes generally in which a filling cord is inserted for the purpose
of being applied as a finish to various kinds of work. The forming of
edges and piping by the application of tapes or strips of fabric enclosing
a filling cord is an operation of great labor, but by this Invention the
tape is produced in the loom with one selvage thickened and rounded
as if a cord were sewn into the. tape. The tape may be twilled or not as
desired, and made of cotton, worsted, or other fibrous material.
In the accompanying Drawing I have shewn by diagrams the mode of
manufacturing this improved binding tape.
Fig. 1 is a magnified view of the tape in plan view, and Fig. 2 shews
the same in edge view, the warp and the weft threads being shown in
different colors. By an inspection of these views it will be seen that I
provide in the tape loom a double set of warp threads for the thickened
or rounded selvage, that is, an upper and a lower tier, and between these
I introduce a loosely twisted filling cord. The harness I so work that
the upper and the lower tier will alternately be made to form part of
the open shed for the passage of the shuttle, and I thus enclose the
filling cord, producing at the same time a thickened or rounded selvage
on one edge of the tape and an ordinary selvage at the other.
Figures 3 and 4 shew two diagrams of open sheds, which permit of
the shuttle weaving a covering round the filling cord, as shewn at
Figures 1 and 2, and giving a twilled appearance to the tape. In the

page_text: Drawing the filling cord is shown as surrounded by twelve warp threads,
which are numbered from 1 to 12 respectively, but fewer or more may
be used as thought desirable. Referring now to the diagram Fig. 3 it
will be seen that the threads 1, 3, and 5 are lifted with the other raised
warp threads that are to form the flat portion of the tape. Through this
shed the shuttle is passed in the direction of the arrow, and it lays a
weft thread, as indicated by the black lines. The shed is now changed;
as shewn at Fig. 4, the lower warp threads forming the flat portion of
the tape being raised together with the threads 2, 4, 6 (those which were
before lifted, viz., 1, 3, and 5, being kept up) and the filling thread and
also threads 10 and 8 of the lower tier of warp threads. The shuttle will
now on its return lay in a thread, as shewn by the blue line, and thus
produce the interweaving figure shown at Fig. 2. If it is desired to
make a twill the two next succeeding sheds will differ from the former
ones, and in the return of the shuttle the threads 7, 9, and 11 will be
bound into the work. From this explanation it will be clear to any
tape loom weaver how to continue the operation so as effectually to cover
the filling thread, and to introduce any desired variation of surface into
the tape. I would remark that this tape admits of being applied by the
aid of an ordinary sewing machine, whereas a special arrangement of
mechanism or hand labour is required to attach the hand made article,
for which this tape is an efficient substitute.
Having now set forth the nature of the Invention of "An Improved
Mode of Manufacturing Binding Tapes," and explained the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that under the
above in part recited Letters Patent I claim, manufacturing binding
tapes in the manner and for the purpose above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Belier, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, the Eighteenth day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.