An Improved Loaded Tape or Fabric for Use in Dressmaking, Tailoring, and for other purposes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Apr., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 31st Dec.. 1895-Accepted, 29th Feb., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Loaded Tape or Fabric for Use in Dressmaking,
Tailoring, and for other purposes.
I, ALEXANDER BAKER of 25 Royal Arcade Newcastle on Tyne in the County
of Northumberland, Medical Student, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
:-
The purpose of this invention is to produce a loaded or heavy fabric adapted
to be cut or made in suitable sizes aud lengths and of sufficient flexibility to be
used for various purposes of attachment to fabrics which require to be weighted,
for instance in dressmaking for loading the lower edges of skirts and other portions
of dress to or within which at present single weights are sewn, or in tailoring for
insertion within the lower edges of trowser legs for correcting tendency to shrink
or to unequal stretching causing bagginess at the knees, or for instance along the
lower edges of curtains, or the edges of table cloths, or for similar purposes.
The improved fabric is made by quilting together two pieces of textile fabric,
woven, knitted plaited or otherwise made, or two pieces of kid or other leather, or
a piece of leather and a piece of fabric; that is to say connecting said pieces by
two series of parallel lines of stitching crossing each other obliquely or otherwise
in such a way as to produce a number of cells in each of which is a weight or
weights preferably in the form of leaden shot or pellets, round or of other shape
and flattened if desired. Such fabric may be in the form of tape of any convenient
width or may be made in pieces of suitable dimensions, and may be cut to the
length or shape necessary for the purpose for which it is to be employed.
Dated this 6th day of April 1895.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
Agents to Applicants.
An Improved Loaded Tape or Fabric for Use in Dressmaking,
Tailoring, and for other purposes.
I ALEXANDER BAKER, of 25 Royal Arcade, Newcastle on Tyne in the County
of Northumberland, Medical Student, 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 :-
The purpose of this invention is to produce a loaded or heavy fabric adapted to
be cut or made in suitable sizes and lengths and of sufficient flexibility to be used
for various purposes of attachment to fabrics which require to be weighted, for
instance in dressmaking for loading the lower edges of skirts and other portions of
dress to or within which at present single weights are sewn, or in tailoring for
insertion within the lower edges of trouser legs for correcting tendency to shrink
or to unequal stretching causing bagginess at the knees, or for instance along the
lower edges of curtains or the edges of table-cloths, or for similar purposes.
The improved fabric is made by quilting together two pieces or folds of textile
fabric, woven, knitted, plaited or otherwise made, or two pieces or folds of kid or
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page_text: other leather, or a piece of leather and a piece of fabric; that is to say connecting
said pieces by two series of parallel lines of stitching crossing each other obliquely,
or by other forms or arrangement of the stitching lines, in such a way as to produce
a number of cells in each of which is a weight or weights preferably in the form
of leaden shot or pellets, round or of other shape and flattened if desired. Such
fabric may be in the form of tape of any convenient width or may be made in
pieces of suitable dimensions and may be cut to the length or shape necessary for
the purpose for which it is to be employed.
The annexed drawings show different types or systems of stitching, and in all
of them T represents the leather or fabric, S the stitching and A the weights or
pellets.
Fig. 1 represents a method of quilting in lines parallel and square with the
length of the fabric;
Fig. 2 shows what is generally termed diagonal quilting;
Figs. 3, 4 and 5 show three methods of grouping in each of which the pellets
are severally surrounded by lines of stitching.
It may be observed that the material (loaded tape) may be cut at short distances
without damaging the rest. Any substance may be employed either as outside
casing or as weight. The weights may be of any shape or size. There may be
any number of rows of weights. The weights may be sewn in or fastened in any
way deemed best.
The weights may be fastened in straight rows, diagonally or
otherwise. The cloth may be divided into compartments, one or more weights
being fastened in each compartment. The weights may be arranged in any way
conducive to the production of a cloth having weight and flexibility.
Having now particularly described. and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what, I
claim is
1. A loaded fabric consisting of two pieces or folds of similar or diverse textile
or other flexible material between which weights are fastened at intervals in order
to form a flexible weighted band or sheet severable into portions for the purposes
described.
2. The loaded fabrics constructed as hereindescribed and represented in the
drawings combining weight and flexibility for the purposes set forth.
Dated this 31st day of December 1895.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
18 Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C.,
Agents to the Applicant.