Improvements in Beaded Trimmings, applicable to the Manufacture of Frillings, Ruchings, and the like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Oct., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 16th July, 1892-Accepted, 1st Oct., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Beaded Trimmings, applicable to the Manufacture
of Frillings, Ruchings, and the like.
CECIL SYDNEY WOOD 200 Blue Bell Hill Nottingham Manufacturers
Warehouseman I do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
This invention consists of a beaded trimming, which may be used in the
manufacture of frillings and other articles.
The beads are strung upon a continuous thread, and so much as may be necessary
of the said thread is fastened in a zig-zag direction upon or between bands or
sections of fabric in such a manner that each bead is separately secured, and if a
single bead is broken or the portion of thread holding a single bead is cut, the
others remain intact.
I am aware that other beaded trimmings have been made, but in former
productions two threads have been used, the one upon which the beads have been
strung, being laid lengthways of the fabric, and secured thereto by a second thread
worked in a zig-zag direction.
In the invention here claimed the thread upon which the beads are strung is the
sane that is worked in a zig-zag direction ou or between bands or sections of fabric,
thereby giving each bead a detached appearance not shewn in other productions.
Instead of sections of fabric a band may be made of a sufficient number of
threads to which the zig-zag thread may be secured.
The thread may be fastened to the bands or sections of fabric by the application
of heat & moisture.
Dated this 15th day of October 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Beaded Trimmings applicable to the Manufacture
of Frillings, Ruchings, and the like.
CECIL SYDNEY WOOD 200 Blue Bell Hill Nottingham Manufacturers
Warehouseman 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 relates to an improved beaded trimming applicable to the
manufacture of frillings &c., of which the following is a description.
The beads having been threaded or strung on a continuous thread are set along
the edge or face, the said beads being attached to bands or sections of fabric by
the above mentioned thread in a zig-zag or undulating direction-i.e. the thread is
undulating, the beads being parallel with the fabric.
My object is to construct a trimming so that the beads will be securely retained
in place, no matter at what place the trimming is cut. Hitherto the beads on
similar trimmings were so held that when cut several beads dropped off.
The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention.
Figure 1 is a face view of beaded trimming.
Figure 2 is a modification thereof.
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Figure 3 is a top view partly in longitudinal section on the line 3 - 3 Fig. 1.
Figure 4 is a cross section on line 4-4 Fig. 1.
Figure 5 is a cross section on line 5-5 Fio 2

page_text: A is the band or sections of fabric forming body of trimming.
bare the beads, and d is the thread holding same.
The thread d is undulating as shewn in Figs. 1 & 2, its main portion being
placed on fabric A while the loops may project beyond the edge to retain the beads.
The undulating body of the thread d is secured in suitable manner to the
fabric A.
Two modes of fastening it are shewn.
In Figures 1. 3. & 4 it is shewn retained between 2 thicknesses a a of fabric
that constitute the body A. that are united by means of gum or paste:
In Figures 2&.5 rows of stitches C. C. are shewn for confining the thread: df to
the body A., which body may be one or more thicknesses.
The method adopted for applying the thread & beads to the fabric.is.as follows:
The beads b. b are first strung on the thread d, a necessary space being allowed
between the beads. The thread d, (the portion occupying this. space) is. then
formed in an undulating or zig-zag direction (as shewn on the drawings), by means
of small blades working in front of metal rollers, usually known as trapping rollers.
As the blades release the thread the rollers secure it, the beads. passing through
grooves or outside the trapping portion. The rollers are heated by gas, or by other
means. The thread d or the sections a. a. of fabric, or both, may be moistened by
water with the addition of gum, paste, or other adhesives if necessary. The heat
of the rollers dries the moisture & presses the thread & fabric together so that
the thread d becomes secure to the body A. The machine employed is. same as
used in the manufacture of ordinary loop & similar trimmings.
The end of each loop is completely concealed in & protected by the bead which
it carries, yet each bead can freely turn on the loop which carries it.
By means of the undulating thread d whose body extends to a greater or less
extent over the face of fabric A the beads are properly retained, & none will drop
off nor slide on the thread d even if the fabric is cut at any place between beads.
The beads to which I here refer have but a single aperture.
Frillings trimmings & the like are made in long strips & cut into short lengths
for customers, and it is essential that the beads on these short lengths shall remain
in place.
Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1. declare that what I
claim is
1. An improved beaded trimming wherein the beads are secured to the sections
of fabric by the same thread upon which the beads have been strung the said
thread being undulating.
2. The beads are secured in such a manner that though having a detached
appearance on the edge of the fabric,, no matter where the trimming is cut the
beads will not fall off.
Dated thin 14th do of T 1000