IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CRINOLINES AND TRIMMINGS PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Tombs, of Holloway, in the County of
Middlesex, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF CRINOLINES AND TRIMMINGS
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Tombs at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
9th May 1864.
I, EDWARD TOMBS, of Holloway, in the County of Middlesex, Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF CRINOLINES AND TRIMMINGS," to be as follows:-
In order to prepare steel or other suitable material for the manufacture of
crinolines, strips of the material are passed between a pair of rollers, either
plain or fluted, the axes of which are not parallel but slightly inclined to each
other, so that one edge of the material is subjected to a greater pressure than
the other which causes the material to wind itself concentrically in the form
in which the crinoline is to be made up. A trimming for crinolines and skirts
or other articles of wearing apparel is made by forming a tube or piping in a
sewing machine of any suitable material, either with or without a frilling or
flouncing attached thereto, within this tubing or piping a cord may be enclosed
and made fast at one end, the drawing of which cord will give any required
amount of fulness to the trimming.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edward Tombs in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
8th November 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
TOMBS, of Holloway, in the County of Middlesex, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
..
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-seventh year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Edward Tombs, Her special licence that I, the said Edward Tombs, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward
Tombs, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF CRINOLINES AND TRIMMINGS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Edward Tombs, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment 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 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 Edward Tombs, do hereby declare the
nature of the 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 :-
"
In order to prepare steel or other suitable material for the manufacture of
crinolines, strips of the material are passed between a pair of rollers, either
plain or fluted, the axes of which are not parallel but slightly inclined to each
other, so that one edge of the material is subjected to a greater pressure than
the other, which causes the material to wind itself concentrically in the form
in which the
the crinoline is to be made up. A trimming for crinolines and
skirts, or other articles of wearing apparel, is made by forming a tube or
piping in a sewing machine, of any suitable material, either with or without a
frilling or flouncing attached thereto, within this tubing or piping a cord may

page_text: be enclosed and made fast at one end, the drawing of which will give any
required amount of fulness to the trimming.
With reference to the first part of my said Invention which consists simply
in giving an unequal thickness, breadthwise, to the strip of steel or other
material for the manufacture of crinolines and other purposes, I would remark
that this may be effected by means of cylindrical rollers, the axes of which are
not parallel but slightly inclined to each other, by conical rollers with parallel
axes; by parallel cylindrical rollers furnished with an angular groove or
grooves of the exact form which it is desired to give to the strip of steel or
other material; or by passing the material through suitably formed dies or
draw plates, I do not therefore confine myself to any precise mode of obtaining
the desired result, as there are many ways in which that may be readily and
conveniently effected, what I claim as constituting the first part of my said
Invention is, the method of inducing a concentric curling in strips of steel or
other material for the manufacture of crinolines or other purposes, whatever
means may be employed for that
purpose.
In performing the second part of my said Invention, that is to say, in
making trimmings for crinolines or other articles of wearing apparel, I take
a strip of linen, silk, velvet or other suitable material, of a proper width, and.
by passing it through a folder or guide twist it into a cylindrical or tubular
form, in which state it is stitched by a sewing machine in the ordinary manner.
If the trimming consists simply of a tubing or piping without any frill or
flounce attached thereto, the tube after stitching is drawn back through a
tube and inverted, that is, it is turned inside out, and at the same time a cord
may be introduced to give any required substance and solidity to the piping.
If the piping has a frill or flounce, a cord is introduced at the time of stitching,
and the piping is not inverted. By making one end of the enclosed cord fast,
and drawing the other, any required amount of fulness can be readily given
to the frilling or flouncing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Tombs, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
EDWARD TOMBS. (L.S.)