Improved Manufacture of Patohes or Pieces Used for Repairing or Strengthening Wearing Apparel, Table Linen, Sheets, Towels, and other Woven Fabrics.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Mar., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 5th Dec., 1895-Accepted, 6th Mar.,
1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Manufacture of Patohes or Pieces Used for Repairing or
Strengthening Wearing Apparel, Table Linen, Sheets, Towels,
and other Woven Fabrics.
I, ELIZA BROOM, of 6, Leicester Villas, Saint Paul's Road, Clifton, Bristol, in
the County of Gloucester, Dame, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My invention relates to loose patches or pieces such as are woven or knitted
with a selvedge all around same and used for stitching or attaching over or under
worn parts of wearing apparel, table linen, or sheets, towels, and other woven
fabrics. These patches so far as I know have always hitherto been made of even
thickness throughout their whole area, and when applied and fixed a surrounding
ridge or inequality of surface necessarily exists which is objectionable for many
reasons.
The object of my improvement is to remedy this defect and inconvenience as for
as possible, aud therefore according to my invention I knit, weave, or otherwise
make by machine or hand loose patches (preferably matching in colour and texture
any article to be repaired) having a greater thickness about their mid-area, and a
lesser thickness about their selvedge. The greatest mid-thickness may be the same
as or greater than that of the fabric to which the patch is to be applied, and this
thickness is gradually reduced towards the selvedges and in fact so tapered down
consistent with strength that the sum of the thicknesses of the selvedge and the
edges of the worn fabric (to which the patch is to be applied) equal about the
thickness of the main body of the original garment or fabric, and hence the seam
at the joint is flush and almost imperceptible.
Dated this Ath dow of March 1905
J. C. CHAPMAN,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Manufacture of Patches or Pieces Used for Repairing or
Strengthening Wearing Apparel, Table Linen, Sheets, Towels,
and other Woven Fabrics.
I, ELIZA BROOM, of 6, Leicester Villas, Saint Paul's Road, Clifton, Bristol, in
the County of Gloucester, Dame, 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 atatóment :-
My invention relates to loose patches or pieces such as are woven or knitted
with a selvedge all round same and used for stitching or attaching over or under
worn parts of wearing apparel, table linen, or sheets, towels, and other woven
fabrics.
These patches so far as I know have always hitherto been made of even and
constant thickness throughout their whole area, and when applied and fixed to the
old material a surrounding ridge or inequality of surface necessarily exists which is
objectionable for many reasons,

page_text: The object of my improvement is to remedy this defect and inconvenienco as far
as possible, and therefore according to my invention I knit, weave, or otherwise
make by machine or hand, loose patches (preferably matching in colour and texture
any article to be repaired) having a greater thickness at and about their mid-areu.
and a lesser thickness at and about their selvedge, so that when sewn on and
applied over any thin area, or over a hole with thin margin, the joining seam will
be practically imperceptible.
In making my new kind of patches they may be knitted by hand with two
needles in the ordinary way, another yarn or yarns being introduced where the
extra thickness commences and discontinued where it ceascs. When made by
machinery an ordinary knitting frame may be employed provided with splicing
apparatus. The patches are woven by the ordinary thread carrier and the mid-area
thickened simultaneously by means of a splicing or thickening thread or threads
laid on by the splicing carrier. For stockings in similar mauner a footing stocking
frame may be employed.
In further explanation of my invention I will refer to the annexed drawing in
which both the figures are sections of original material F of a thickness y worn
into a hole extending over a distance H. P is the loose patch, of which the
greatest mid-tbickness may be the same as or greater or less than that y of the
original fabric F to which the patch is to be applied, and this thickness x is
reduced towards the selvedges either gradually from the mid-area as shown
in Fig. 2, or in the selvedges s themselves as shown in Fig. 1, to a thickness equal
to that y of the original fabric F less the average thickness of the edges or margin
of the worn part of the fabric F or hole H therein, and for a distance approxi-
mately equal to the width thereof. The patch is in fact so tapered down around
its selvedge consistent with strength and durability that the sum of the thicknesses
of its selvedge and the worn edges of the original woven fabric F is equal to
about the thickness of its mid-area and of the main body y of the original
garment or fabric F, and hence the seam at the joint is flush and practically
imperceptible. The size or area of the new kind of patches is immaterial to my
invention, and it is intended that a certain number of such patches should be sold
if desired along with the new garment or fabric for future use as and when
required.
am aware that it is not new to manufacture loose patches of equal thickness or
substance throughout and with selvedges all round, and 1 do not claim such patches
as my invention, but
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the samo is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The manufacture and use of loose patches or pieces for repairing or strengthening
wearing apparel or other woven fabrics having a greater thickness and substance
of material about and over their mid-area and a lesser thickness and substance at
and about their selvedges, as and for the purpose above set forth.
Dated this 5th day of December 1895.
Dated this 5th day of December 1895.
For the Applicant,
J. C. CHAPMAN,
70, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Chartored Patent Agent.