IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ODAMPATON LATION OR FRINGES AND TRIMMINGS.
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Bird Bailey, of Cheltenham, in the County
of Gloucester, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
ODAMPATON
LATION OR FRINGES AND TRIMMINGS.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Bird Bailey at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
5th September 1865.
I, THOMAS BIRD BAILEY, of Cheltenham, in the County of Gloucester,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ORNAMENTATION OF FRINGES AND TRIMMINGS," to be as
follows, that is-to-say-:--
This Invention consists in ornamenting fringes and trimmings such as are
used for upholstery, for dress, and other like purposes, by the introduction of
patterns or designs worked in mosaic upon the body of the fringe or trimmings
by means of tubes, beads, or other forms introduced into each strand or
length of the fringe or trimming. These tubes or other forms may be made
of wood, either painted or covered with silk or other suitable covering, glass,
porcelain, paper, felt, or any other suitable material; these tubes are slipped
up the strands of the fringe or the threads of a trimming, the colours being
selected in accordance with the design required, so that when the fringe or
trimming is completed a pattern apparently in mosaic is produced upon the
body of it, giving a very rich and brilliant appearance.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Bird Bailey in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 3rd March 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,. THOMAS
BIRD BAILEY, of Cheltenham, in the County of Gloucester, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of September, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Thomas Bird Bailey, Her special license that, I, the said Thomas
Bird Bailey, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said Thomas Bird Bailey, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ORNAMENTATION OF FRINGES AND TRIMMINGS,"
upon the condition, amongst others, that I, the said Thomas Bird Bailey,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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 Thomas Bird Bailey, 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, that is to say:-
This Invention consists in ornamenting, fringes and trimmings such as are
used for upholstery, for dress, and other like purposes, by the introduction of
patterns or designs worked in mosaic upon the body of the fringe or trimmings
by means of tubes, beads, or other forms introduced into each strand or length
of the fringe or trimming. These tubes or other forms may be made of wood,
either painted or covered with silk or other suitable covering, glass, porcelain,
paper, felt, or any other suitable material; these tubes are slipped up the
strands of the fringe or the threads of a trimming, the colours being selected
in accordance with the design required, so that when the fringe or trimming

page_text: is completed a pattern apparently in mosaic is produced upon the body of it,
giving a very rich and brilliant appearance.
If the device upon the fringe or trimming is to be worked out in silk, tubes
made of paper, wood, metal, or other suitable material are first cut into
proper lengths to form the design; these are then covered with silk, after
which the colours are arranged to form the different shades required; the
tubes are then slipped up the strands of the fringe or trimming, and arranged
upon the body of it in such order as to work out the device intended, crest,
monogram, fleur de lys, or other design, to keep the pieces forming the device
in position, and prevent their disarrangement. The strands upon which they
are placed may be sewed, tied, or otherwise secured together so that the fringe
or trimming when completed has the appearance of a solid drapery, and if
requisite holes may be made in any part of the tubes or pieces composing
the device, through which holes the securing threads can be passed to further
assist in maintaining the ornamental arrangement of the parts.
When metal tubes or forms are used, they may be employed either sepa-
rately or soldered together to form the design, and afterwards painted or
gilded, and designs of the nature of shields, escutcheons, or medallions may
be attached to the body of the fringe by means of tubes secured to the back
of the device, through which tubes the strands of the fringe may be
passed.
If glass be employed, the ornamentation may be produced with beads or
tubes of suitable lengths and colours, and if required these can be cemented
upon the strands or secured in any suitable way.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I claim, without limiting myself to these
precise details, the several improvements in the ornamentation of fringes and
trimmings by the introduction of patterns or devices worked in apparent
mosaic upon the body of the fringes or trimmings, in manner herein more
fully set forth and specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Bird Bailey, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Second day of March, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-six.
THOMAS BIRD (L.s.) BAILEY.