improvements in the method of Finishing or Ornamenting the Edges or Selvages of Cotton Velvets and Velveteens.
Year: 1885

page_text: improvements in the method of Finishing or Ornamenting the
Edges or Selvages of Cotton Velvets and Velveteens.
I, HARVEY HEYWOOD, of Middleton, near Manchester, Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF
FINISHING OR ORNAMENTING THE EDGES OR SELVAGES OF COTTON VELVETS AND
VELVETEENS to be as follows:-
"3
The improvements relate to the edges or selvages of cotton velvets or velveteens
which are dyed after weaving, and have for object the production in the selvages
or on the surface thereof an ornamented or coloured effect by means of threads
of silk or other fibre being worked therein in imitation of the woven coloured or
ornamental effect produced by the loom in silk velvets.
To accomplish this and to effect my improvements, I employ a sewing machine
of a special or ordinary character for treating the selvages of such cotton velvets
and velveteens in the following manner.
"
The machine used, by preference, is such as will give to the thread or threads
the stitch known as "chain stitch," and the threads are sewn into the edge or
selvage of the fabric, and so arranged that the "chains or lock stitches lie on the
face side of the velvet or velveteen selvage, and side by side, very close together,
either two, three, four, or more rows of chains or other stitches in such manner
that they have the appearance, for the most part, of having been woven into the
cloth.
These chained threads may be all of one colour, or of various colours, or of parti-
coloured threads, and the length of the chain and breadth of the band produced
may be varied without departing from the peculiar character of the invention,
which mainly consists of the ornamentation of the edges or selvages of cotton
velvets or velveteens by means of a special or ordinary sewing machine with
chain or other stitch threads placed side by side therein or thereon.
Dated this 6th day of N-100E
WILLIAM GADD, C.E.,
Agent.

page_text: improve
Edges or Selvages of Cotton Velvets and Velveteens.
I, HARVEY HEYWOOD, of Middleton, near Manchester, Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF
FINISHING OR ORNAMENTING THE EDGES OR SELVAGES OF COTTON VELVETS AND
VELVETEENS," and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The improvements relate to the edges or selvages of cotton. velvets or velveteens
which are dyed after weaving, and have for object the production in the selvages
or on the surface thereof an ornamented or coloured effect by means of threads of
silk or other fibre being worked therein in imitation of the woven coloured or
ornamental effect produced by the loom in silk velvets.
To accomplish this and to effect my improvements, I employ a sewing machine
of a special or ordinary character for treating the selvages of such cotton velvets
and velveteens in the following manner.
The machine used, by preference, is such as will give to the thread or threads
the stitch known as "chain stitch," and the threads are sewn into the edge or
selvage of the fabric, and so arranged that the "chains," or it may be lock stitches,
lie on the face side of the velvet or velveteen selvage, and side by side, very close
together, either two, three, four, or more rows of chains or other stitches, in such
manner that they have the appearance, for the most part, of having been woven
into the cloth.
These chained threads may be all of one colour, or of various colours, or of parti-
coloured threads, and the length of the chain and breadth of the band produced
may be varied without departing from the peculiar character of the invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
The ornamentation of the edges or selvages of cotton velvets or velveteens, by
means of special or ordinary sewing machinery, with chain or other stitch threads
placed side by side therein or thereon substantially as described.