Improved Means for Protecting the Edges of Dresses from Wear or Injury.
Year: 1895

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Date of Application, 13th Apr., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Jan., 1896-Accepted, 22nd Feb., 16
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Protecting the Edges of Dresses from Wear or
Injury.
We, ADOLF MANN and ERNST SCHÄFER, both of Barmen, Siegesstrasse 26,
Germany, Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to an improved dress-guard to be attached to the lower
edge of ladies gowns in order to protect them from being worn at the bottom.
Ite particularity consists in this, that the protecting part proper will resist wear
and tear in every direction whether the dress will be pulled forwards or backwards
in a more or less horizontal direction as in the case when a dress is dragged forward
or backwards on the ground and it will also resist wear and tear when the dress is.
held in a vertical direction, standing as it were on the dress-guard. This is
obtained by the peculiar quality of the lower edge of the dress-guard which
is made of chenille or tufted cord from which threads stand out in all directions
radially, and thus the lower edge forms a sort of a small circular brush. The
"hairs" of this brush protect at the same time the thread by means of which the
chenille has been united to the band or ribbon which is attached to the dress.
Our dress-guard may therefore be shortly characterised as a combination of a.
flat stripe, either woven or braided, having one edge formed by chenille.
Dated this 5th day of April 1895.
KARL J. MAYER,
Agent for Adolf Mann and Ernst Schäfer.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Protecting the Edges of Dresses from Wear or
Injury.
We, ADOLF MANN and ERNST SCHÄFER both of Barmen, Siegesstrasse 26,
Germany, Manufacturers 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 relutes to an improved dress guard to be attached to the lower
edge of ladies gowns in order to protect them from wear and tear at the lower edges.
Its particularity consists in this that the protector proper is of such a nature and
design, that it will resist wear and tear in every direction and present to the
attacking obstacles or attacking forces always an other side but of same resisting
quality whether the dress be pulled forwards or backwards or slide on the ground
in a more or less horizontal direction and it will equally well resist wear and tear
when the dress is held in a vertical direction standing as it were on the dress-guard
itself.
This is obtained by making the lower edge of the new dress-guard of chenille or
tufted cord from which the threads stand out in all directions radially to the central
core like the hairs of a circular brush. These "hairs" however not only protect
the edge of the dress from wear and tear, but at the same time they cover the
thread by means of which the chenille has been attached to the band or ribbon
forming together with it the dress-guard and thus protect said thread from wear
and tear.

page_text: These are the two main points in which our new dress-guard or dress-protector
differs from other fabrics which have been brought out to serve a similar purpose.
Whilst in the old dress-guards the protecting hairs stand out in one direction only,
namely in the plane of the fastening ribbon or deviating from this plane only in a
very slight degree and therefore not being able at all to protect the fastening
threads; it lies in the nature of the chenille that its hairs start out in all directions
and even cover partly the lower part of the fastening ribbon.
The combination of the chenille may he made by weaving the chenille together with
the fastening ribbon; the chenille then forms the outer warp thread, or both may be
.worked together in the braiding machine, in which case the chenille will be wound
on a spool or bobbin that runs only on an end plate or notched disc of the braiding
machine without going over to an other disc; it may be even sewn to a woven ribbon
or to a braided lace, though the last method of making the dress-protector will be
rather dear in production. Neither of these methods however present any thing
new or any difficulties in making in themselves; it is the product that constitutes
the novelty.
The accompanying drawing shows in
Fig. 1 a side view of a short piece of the new fabric as made in the loom ;
Fig. 2. is a cross section of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3. is a side view of a piece of the fabric with a braided lace as fastening
strip.
Fig. 4 is a cross section of this.
Figs. 5, 6 and 7 represent the various manners of wear, when worn on a dress.
From the cross sections Figs. 2 and 4 it will be seen that the edge of the
fastening strip is completely surrounded by the radial hairs of the chenille as if
sunk into these hairs and therefore its connecting threads can only be exposed to
wear and tear, when the hairs of the chenille are destroyed. In making the chenille
therefore special care has to be applied to bind the hairs very firmly and the con-
nection between the chenille and the other part of the dress-guard must also be
done very carefully so that for instance the weft threads, when made as a woven
ribbon, form a second binding of the chenille hairs on their central thread.
Our new dress-protector also forms a nice and ornamental edge for a dress, and
being round, it looks more like the protecting cords which were in use formerly
and it can be made in any colour; it is advisable to use for forming the chenille
hairs a good quality of stiff wool.
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:
An improved means for protecting the edges of dresses from wear or injury
consisting of a flat strip which serves for being fastened to the dress and one edge
of which is formed by chenille, which
a.) When the flat strip is made in the loom, is bound to the ribbon by the
weft thread in forming the outer warp thread for the edge;
b.) When the flat strip is made in the braiding machine is wound on a bobbin
which runs on a corner disc only and there is interlaced with the other
lacing threads or
c.) When the flat strip is made separately as a woven ribbon or as a braided
lace, is sewn to one edge of the strip;
the whole as described and illustrated and for the purpose set forth.
ADOLF MANN,
ERNST SCHÄFER,
Per Karl J. Mayer,
Agent.