AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF TRIMMING OR BORDERING FOR SKIRTS OF DRESSES AND OTHER LIKE ARTICLES OF DRESS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Badcock, of the Firm of James Badcock
and Son, of Westmoreland Buildings, Aldersgate Street, in the City
of London, Skirt Manufacturers, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
MANUFACTURE OF TRIMMING OR BORDERING FOR SKIRTS OF DRESSES AND OTHER
LIKE ARTICLES OF DRESS."
Sealed the 30th June 1874, and dated the 18th April 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Badcock at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
18th April 1874.
I, JAMES BADCOCK, of the Firm of James Badcock and Son, of West-
moreland Buildings, Aldersgate Street, in the City of London, Skirt
Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF TRIMMING OR BORDERING FOR SKIRTS OF DRESSES
AND OTHER LIKE ARTICLES OF DRESS," to be as follows:-
:
This Invention or discovery relates to an improved manufacture of.
trimming or bordering for skirts of dresses and other like articles of
dress, whereby novel effects and artistic designs or devices can be pro-
duced upon the exterior thereof.

page_text: The Invention or discovery consists in sewing or embroidering by
mechanical means upon the surface of felted and other fabrics of which
skirts of petticoats, dresses, costumes, and other similar articles are
made, wool thread which has been dyed in various shades or colours in
the direction of its length while in the thread or yarn before the twisting
or spinning operation has been performed.
The wool thread in coloured shades can be used alone or in con-
junction with other fabrics, such as silk, alpaca, or the like, such fabric
being sewn down (in design) previous to the wool sewing, or by the wool
thread itself.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James Badcock in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 17th October 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
BADCOCK, of the Firm of James Badcock and Son, of Westmoreland
Buildings, Aldersgate Street, in the City of London, Skirt Manufacturers,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said James Badcock, Her special
licence that I, the said James Badcock, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said James Badcock, 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 "AN IMPROVED
MANUFACTURE OF TRIMMING OR BORDERING FOR SKIRTS OF DRESSES AND OTHER LIKE
ARTICLES OF DRESS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said James Badcock, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, 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

page_text: 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 James Badcock, 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 thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention relates to an improved manufacture or bordering for
skirts of dresses and other like articles of dress, and consists in employing
wool that has been dyed in varying tints or shades of the same colour in
the direction of its length, such one colour dye tinted wool being sewn
into and upon the material "in pattern" by a " Bonnaz " sewing
machine, to produce a trimming or bordering of great novelty and
pleasing effect.
The patterns in which the sewing can be produced are subject to
changes to any extent, and the one colour dye tinted wool thread can
be used alone or in combination with other material, such as braid,
ribbon, &c., sewn as a strip upon a skirt to form a ground trimming
thereon. The one colour dye tinted wool thread can however be sewn
by the "Bonnaz" sewing machine upon the strip or ground trimming
in pattern, the colours of the skirt or other article of dress, the colour of
the strip, and the colour of the tinted wool thread being in harmony or
in contrast one with the other, as desired.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as the
improved manufacture before recited, the employment of one colour dyc
tinted wool thread, that is, wool thread dyed in varying tints or shades
of the same colour in the direction of its length sewn "in pattern" in
and upon skirts of dresses and other like articles of dress by a "Bonnaz "
sewing machine, as set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Badcock, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of October One thousand