Improvements in Millinery Trimmings and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Aug., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 6th May, 1895-Accepted, 8th June, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Millinery Trimmings and the like.
I, SARAH SYMONS of 7 Smith Street, Guernsey, Channel Islands, Milliner,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Heretofore bows such as are used in millinery have been stiffened by a bent piece
of wire inserted in the lower limb or part of the bow. In actual use this stiffener
is apt to slip out of the bow. Now according to my invention I provide a stiffener
made of light wire gauze open enough to allow the needle to pass freely through
and thus enable it to be tacked on in one or more places if required. The stiffener
when applied to ladies' bows is generally more or less of the contour of a crutch
that is to say an upright part in some cases to inch wide and with a crossbar
below all cut out of one piece of wire gauze. The upright part is stiffened by
being folded over double or along one or both edges or by a piece or pieces of
thin wire inserted, enfolded or otherwise united thereto. The crossbar part is bent
up with a gentle curve or otherwise and takes its place in the bottom of the lower
limb of the bow thus keeping it in shape. In order to keep it securely in place
I may turn up one or more of the points or ends of the wire of the gauze at each
end of the crossbar for the purpose of catching into the silk.
For some purposes
I make the stiffener without the crossbar. The stiffener will in all cases have to
be suited in form to the form of the article it is to stiffen.
Dated this 7th day of August 1894.
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.
Improvements in Millinery Trimmings and the like.
I, SARAH SYMONS of 7 Smith Street Guernsey, Channel Islands, Milliner,
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 :-
Heretofore bows such as are used in millinery have becu stiffened by a bent piece
of wire inserted in the lower limb or part of the bow. In actual use this stiffener
is apt to slip out of the bow. Now according to my invention I provide a stiffener
made of light wire gauze open enough to allow the needle to pass freely through
and thus enable it to be tacked on in one or more places if required. The stiffener
when applied to ladies' bows is generally more or less of the contour of a crutch
that is to say an upright part in some cases to inch wide and with a cross bar
below all cut out of one piece of wire gauze. The upright part is stiffened by
being folded over double or along one or both edges or by a piece or pieces of thin
wire inserted, enfolded or otherwise united thereto. The cross-bar part is bent up
with a gentle curve or otherwise and takes its place in the bottom of the lower
limb of the bow thus keeping it in shape. In order to keep it securely in place,
I may turn up one or more of the points or ends of the wire of the gauze at each
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page_text: end of the crossbar for the purpose of catching into the silk but I do not usually
find this necessary.
For some purposes I make the stiffener without the cross-bar.
The stiffener will in all cases have to be suited in form to the form of the article it
is to stiffen. Instead of wire gauze I may use other light material springy in
itself or rendered so by the còmbination therewith of springy strips or wire; such
material being provided with small holes in one or more suitable places for enabling
it to be tacked on to the bow or collar or other part of a dress which is to be
stiffened or it may be perforated all over.
On the accompanying drawings I have shown some suitable forms of stiffener,
supposed to be made of wire gauze, which I prefer and having one or two
longitudinal comparatively thick stiffening wires which by preference are woven in
during the weaving of the wire gauze.
I
Fig. 1 is a front view of a stiffener for a bow, Fig. 2 a side view of same inserted
in a bow, and Fig. 3 a front view of the bow with the stiffener shown in dotted
lines. It consists of the upright part or stem A and a crutch or cross bar B below,
all (by preference) cut out of one piece of wire gauze having a central stiffening
wire C woven in. The crossbar B is bent up as shown and takes its place in the
bottom of the lower limb of the bow D, thus keeping it in shape, the stem A, being
tacked to the bow at its upper end which is generally found sufficient for keeping
it in place in the bow.
Fig. 4 shows a stiffener consisting merely of a stem A. Fig. 5 shows how such
a stiffener may be bent sideways when it is applied to the stiffening of a collar or
revers. Fig. 6 shows a stiffener with two stiffening wires C.
Instead of using the wires C one on both edges of the stiffener may as stated be
folded over with a narrow pleat.
These stiffeners of wire gauze are painted over to keep them from rusting and
thereby soiling the fabric to which they are applied.
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.
1. Stiffeners for bows, collars and other parts of dress made of wire gauze with
one or more stiffening wires C or folded edges as described.
2. A stiffener for bows consisting of a stem A and a crutch or cross bar B, made
of wire gauze or other suitable sheet material in the manner described.
3. A stiffener for collars and other parts of dress consisting of a stem A made
of wire gauze or other suitable sheet material in the manner described.
Dated this 6th day of May 1895
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.