AN IMPROVED BUCHE, FRILLING, OR TRIMMING
Year: 1884

page_text: I, WILLIAM HUTCHINSON FARMER, of the Midland Lace Company, Limited,
32, Stoney Street, in the town and county of the town of Nottingham, Lace
Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for AN IMPROVED
BUCHE, FRILLING, OR TRIMMING to be as follows:-
Horetoforo ruche frilling, or trimming has been goffered, pleatod, kilted or
crimped, either across the breadth of the fabric operated upon, or diagonally over
the breadth of fabric. Now my improvements consist in forming such goffer, pleat,
kilt, crimp, or other shape in the opposite direction that is to say in the direction
of the whole length of the fabric operated upon, and then taking such longitudinally
formed fabric and making it up, into ruchings, frillings, or trimmings, when made
up into ruchings, each ruche will form a puff of a semicircular or other shape, such
shape depending upon the shape of the former employed in the making up
machinery, being at a right or other angle to the length of the fabric. The fabric
employed may be of lace, muslin, ribbon, velvet, or other inatorial. By such means
I am enabled to produce ruche frilling, or trimmings of novel shapes not heretofore
cmployed.

page_text: Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for AN IMPROVED
RUCHE, FRILLING, OR TRIMMING and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to bo particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :—
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
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Figure 1 shows in plan, a short length of one pattern of my improved ruche
frilling or trimming, gophered, fluted, or crimped in the direction of its length.
Figure 2 shows a cross sectional view of the same.
Figure 3 shows a crošs šectional view of a longitudinal vandyked trimming.
Figure 4 a cross section of a gophered trimming, having the gophers reversely
inclined from the edges to the contre.
Figure 5, a cross section of a pleated trimming, the pleats being reversely
inclined from each edge towards the centre.
Figure 6, a cross section of a kilted trimming, the kilts being reversely inclined
from each edge towards the centre, and
Figure 7, a longitudinal box pleated trimming.
Heretofore ruche frilling or trimming has been gophered, pleated, kilted, or
crimped, either across tlie breadth of the fabric operated upon, or diagonally over
the breadth of the fabric.
My improvement consists in forming, ruche frilling or trimming, with the
gopher, pleat, kilt, crimp, or other shape, in the direction of the whole length of
the fabric operated upon, and then taking such longitudinally shaped fabric and
making it up into ruchings, frilling, or trimmings, when the fabric is to be made
into ruchings I pass two threads A and B, shown at Figure 1, through the centre
of the depth of the gopher plent, kilt, crimp or other shape, and repeat such threads
at equal distances apart, and after tying a knot at one end of each thread, by
pulling the opposite ends outwards, I cause the sides of the trimming to closo upon
the centre, the portion of trimming between two such pairs of threads, will then
form a pult of a semicircular or other shape, according to the distance the pairs of
threads are placed from the next adjacent pairs on each side, or form of the puff or
other shape, may be varied according to the shape of the former employed in the
making up machine employed.
The fabrics I use to form such frilling or trimming may be either lace, muslin, or
leise, silk, ribbon, velvet or other material. By sucli means I am enabled to
produce ruche, frilling, or trimming of novel shapes, not heretofore employed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of inay said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that wha
I claim is :-
The improved longitudinal ruche frilling or trimming, substantially as describe
and illustrated in the Drawings annexed.
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11 December 1881