Improvements in Skirt-bindings.
Year: 1890

page_text: of Application, 25th Nov., 190-Accepted, 17th Jan., 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Skirt-bindings.
We HENRY CHRISTIAN FREDERICK KOCH and JOHN POWLEES BRINCKERHOff Peto
both Merchants of Sixth Avenue and 20th Street in the City County and State of
New York, U.S.A., 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 :-
In finishing the skirts of ladies' dresses a velvet binding is used which heretofore
was cut from the piece and applied as a binding to the lower edge of the skirt. The
edges of this binding are turned in, which turned in edges render the binding thick
and clumsy.
The object of my invention is to supply to dress makers and others a skirt binding
which is made up ready for use and which can be instantly applied without delay
incident to cutting it off the piece and which reduces the thick and clumsy appearance
of the binding heretofore in use; and the invention consists of a skirt binding formed
of a piled central portion of suitable width, an plain unpiled side portions having cut
edges whereby the side portions may be readily folded and thereby the thickness of
the edge of the skirt reduced.
In the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 represents a front view of my improved skirt binding;
Figure 2 is a vertical transverse section of the same on the line 1-1 Fig. 1 and
Figures 3 and 4 are vertical transverse sections of my improved binding and of the
old style of binding respectively, shown as applied to the lower edge of a skirt.
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.
In the drawings A represents a skirt binding which is made in any suitable length
as found convenient for use and which is composed of a middle piled portion a such
as cotton or silk velvet, and of plain unpiled side portions b b of less width, which are
not woven with a selvedge in the nature of piled fabrics woven on a band loom, but
which are cut into longitudinal strips from a piece woven specially for this purpose,
so that no selvedge is obtained. A binding of such construction gives a better finish
to the edge of the skirt, for the smooth side portions are readily folded inwardly as
they have no piling at the folded portions of the binding whereby all the advantages
of the old style velvet or velveteen skirt binding are obtained without rendering it so
thick and clumsy as the same.
My improved skirt binding is supplied in strips of from four to five yards in length,
the original woven piece being cut into longitudinal strips for this purpose. The
binding is thereby furnished ready for use and can be sewn on to the skirt with great
facility.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is
A skirt binding composed of a middle piled portion and of plain unpiled side
portions, said portions having cut edges without a selvedge substantially as hereinbefore
set forth and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 22nd day of November 1800
POPPLEWELL & Co.,
17 & 18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicants.