Improvements in the Manufacture of Frillings.
Year: 1899

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Frillings.
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I, WILLIAM STRANG, Junior, of 201, Greenhead Street, Glasgow, Scotland,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
Hitherto frillings have been made from plain woven cloth crimped, and gathered,
in a machine. The object of my invention is to make frillings from cloth woven
with crimped or goffered portions, which form the frilling proper, alternating
with uncrimped or ungoffered portions which form the sewing-on bands in the
finished fillings. The said cloth is cut into lengths including a crimped or
goffered portion and an uncrimped or ungoffered portion which have simply to
be hemmed along the edges to make a frilling complete with its band for attach-
ment to the article to which it is to be applied.
Dated this 10th day of February 1899
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Frillings.
I, WILLIAM STRANG, Junior, of 201, Greenhead Street, Glasgow, Scotland,
Manufacturer, 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:-
Hitherto frillings have been made from flat woven cloth, afterwards crimped,
gathered, goffered, or tucked, in a machine, or in machines. The object of my
invention is to make frillings from cloth woven with crimped, gathered, or
goffered, portions which are to form the frilling proper, alternating with portions
which are not so crimped or equivalently formed, that is which are flat, and which
are to form the sewing-on bands in the finished frillings.
The said cloth is cut into lengths including a portion crimped, or equivalently
formed, and a portion which is flat woven, the cuts being made at any suitable
lines, say, for example, midway of the width of the crimped, or equivalently
formed, portions and midway of the flat portions, so that each of the crimped, or
equivalently formed, portions forms two frillings proper, and each flat woven part
two sewing-on bands; or they may be cut along the junction line of a crimped,
or equivalently formed, portion with a flat woven portion so that each of the
crimped or equivalently formed portions forms one frilling proper and each of
the flat woven portions forms one band. The cut edges are then hemmed, or
otherwise treated, for example, by over-edge stitching, or the like, and so each
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page_text: length is formed into a complete frilling with its band for attachment to the
article to which it is to be applied.
The accompanying drawing represents a portion of a piece of cloth woven for
the purposes of my invention. The parts a a.are crimped, or equivalently formed,
in weaving, and the alternating parts bb are woven Hat. The cloth is then cut
along the lines cc for example, and the cut edges are hemmed, stitched overedge,
or equivalently treated, to prevent ravelling out of the threads. The crimped,
or equivalently formed, parts a, and the flat parts b, may be plain, or figured, as
desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim 1s:-
The manufacture of frillings from a cloth woven with crimped, or equivalently
formed, portions alternating with flat woven portions, by dividing the said cloth
into strips, each including a portion crimped, or equivalently formed, and a
portion which is flat woven, and then hemming, or otherwise protecting, the
cut edges as hereinbefore explained.
Dated this 28th day of February 1800
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.