IMPROVE- MENTS IN CERTAIN APPARATUS APPLICABLE TO SEWING MACHINES
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles James Parry, of the Firm of Parry and
Briddon, of the City of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, for the
Sealed the 16th March 1860, and dated the 23rd September 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles James Parry
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
23rd September 1859.
I, CHARLES JAMES PARRY, of the Firm of Parry and Briddon, of the City
of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Shirt Front and Collar Manu-
facturers, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN CERTAIN APPARATUS APPLICABLE TO SEWING MACHINES," to be as
follows:-
I form a banding and binding of cloth or other material, by causing it to
enter a flattened tube exactly its own width, the edges of which tube. are
turned inwards at the end where the cloth is delivered, so as to double the
cloth, and also to turn in the edges, thus forming a binding or banding which
covers the edges of the cloth or material in the usual-manner..

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles James Parry in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 22nd March 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
JAMES PARRY, of the Firm of Parry and Briddon,-of-the-City-of-Manchester,
in the County of Lancaster, Shirt Front. and Collar Manufacturers, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Charles James Parry,. Her special licence that I, the said
Charles James Parry, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Charles James Parry, 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 CERTAIN APPARATUS APPLICABLE TO SEWING
MACHINES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Charles
James Parry, 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
....
NOW KNOW YE; that I, the said "Charles James Parry, do hereby
declare, the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the, following statement (that is to say):
I form a banding or binding of cloth or other material, by causing it to
enter a flattened.tube exactly its own width, the edges of which tube' are at a
short distance from the. entrance turned over in order to fold down both edges
of the cloth as it is drawn through. The edges so turned down then gradually
approach each other, so as to fold.the banding exactly. in the middle, and
enable it to embrace the edge. of the material to which it has to be applied,
thus placing one-half of the banding on the face of the material, and the other

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half on the reverse side, by which means both edges of the banding are
attached to the cloth or material at the same moment and by the same stitch,.
the aforesaid gradual approach of the edges of the banding being caused by
gradually doubling the tube towards the end where the banding is delivered.
The manner in which my Invention is to be performed will be clearly
understood by referring to the figures and letters on the accompanying Sheet
of Drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a top view of one form and size of the
banding apparatus as it appears when attached to a sewing machine; Fig. 2,"
a side view of the same; and Figs. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8, are sections of the
flattened tube at different positions of its length.
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In Figs. 1 and 2, a is the end of the 'flattened tube at which the cloth or
material enters, which end is shewn transversely in Fig. 3. At a short distance
from the said end the edges of the tube are bent over, as seen at b, and also in
the section, Fig. 4, the depth of the bends corresponding with the desired
depth of the folds; the tube is then gradually curved to the end at which the
cloth is delivered, as shewn by the sections, Figs. 5, 6, 7, and 8, so that when
the cloth enters flat, as at c, it shall be delivered at the other end folded at the
edges, and also doubled in the middle, in consequence of its following the
bends of the tube. The aforesaid flattened tube may be attached to the sewing
machine in any convenient manner, but in Fig. 1 I shew at da web or plate
of metal, soldered or otherwise fastened to the tube, which plate is placed on
the bed of the machine, and held firmly by a screw or bolt which passes
through the hole e. The tube may not only be made of one piece of metal, as
shewn in the Drawings, but it may be composed of two or more parts, and
formed of any length and width required, and also any portion of the tube
between the completion of the first bends to the delivery end may be cut
away, so as to leave only the bent edges and the bottom plate of the tube.
Having thus fully described the nature and particulars of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire it to be
distinctly understood that I do not confine myself to the precise details
herein set forth, as such may be varied or modified without departing from
the principle thereof; but I claim as my Invention, and which to the best of
my knowledge and belief has not been hitherto used within the realm, the
employment of a flattened tube with its edges turned in a short distance from
one end, and afterwards gradually curved and doubled towards the other end,
so that a strip of cloth or other material shall, by passing through the tube,
become folded and doubled, so as to form banding or binding, as such tube is
in

page_text: applicable to sewing machines, and is herein described and illustrated in the
accompanying Sheet of Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles James Parry, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty..
CHARLES JAMES PARRY. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named Charles James Parry
in the presence of
E. J. HUGHES, Patent Agent,
Manchester