Improvements in Kite Tailing.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Applicatior, 29th July, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Dec., 1896-Accepted, 13th Mar., 1897
Improvements in Kite Tailing.
GEORGE GRANTHAM MANDER 10 Newport Place Bradford Yorks Clerk, do-
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
An improved kite tailing having the cross pieces, sewn, woven; or otherwise-
attached to a strip of paper, or other flexible material, running the entire length.
Thus making it untangleable.
Dated this 98th day of July 1896
GEORGE GRANTHAM MANDER.
I, GEORGE GRANTHAM MANDER, of 10, Newport Place, Bradford, in the County
of York, Clerk, 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 :-
This invention consists of the herein described improvements in kite tailing.
Heretofore kite tailing has usually been made by fixing pieces of paper in loops at
certain distances apart along a string or the like, but kite tailing made in this way
has the disadvantage that it easily becomes entangled.
Kite tailing made in accordance with this invention will not entangle and can
be made more quickly than can the same length of kite tailing of the ordinary
kind.
According to this invention the paper or cardboard or other suitable cross pieces
are laid cross-wise and sewn glued or otherwise fixed to a narrow strip of flexible
The
paper or tape or like material running the entire length of the tailing.
accompanying drawing illustrates a short length of kite tailing made in accordance with
this invention where the paper or cardboard or other like cross pieces are marked a
and the continuous narrow strip of paper to which the cross pieces a are fixed is
marked b. c is the line of stitching running all along the narrow flexible strip b and
securing the cross pieces a thereto. I prefer to fix the cross pieces a to the central
strip by sewing from end to end as this is a quick and ready method and moreover
the stitching strengthens the paper strip b. It will be evident however, that, without
departing from the nature of my invention, the strips a may be glued or otherwise
similarly fixed to the strip band that when the latter is woven as a tape the strips.
of paper a may be inserted in position in the threads of the same during the process.
of weaving.
When the kite tailing is made as above described it will be found that it can be
dropped in a heap on the floor or otherwise mixed up without being entangled.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A kite tailing formed of a narrow strip of paper or tape or the like, with
paper, or like cross pieces laid and sewn or glued or otherwise similarly fixed
cross-wise on the same at certain intervals apart substantially as hereinbefore set
forth.
2. A kite tailing formed of a narrow woven tape or the like with paper or like
cross pieces woven cross-wise in the same at certain intervals apart, substantially
as hereinbefore set forth.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.