Year: 1899

page_text: Reprinted as amended in accordance with the decision of the Comptroller-General,
of 11th day of May, 1900.
We, ROBERT LUM MCLAUGHLIN and ALFRED CRAWFORD MCLAUGHLIN, trading as
R. L. and A. C. McLaughlin, at 15, Broadway, in the City of Paterson, County of
Passaic, and State of New Jersey, U.S.A., Braid and Dress Trimming Manufacturers,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The general objects of our invention are to provide a facing for garments, and
particularly for skirts, that can not only be inexpensively and readily manufactured
and will be well adapted to adequately protect the garment against wear, but which
will be in itself durable and attractive. A special object of the invention is to
so shape or cut the facing, or the component parts to form it, that it will set nicely
and smoothly against the garment, especially where the latter is a skirt wherein the
the circumference varies more or less throughout its length.
We have fully illustrated our invention in the accompanying drawings, wherein,
Fig. 1 shows a piece of the material from which the facing is formed, showing
the manner of cutting the same so as to produce the component parts or strips of
said facing;
Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view, somewhat enlarged, of a piece of the material
from which said facing is formed;
Fig. 3 is a view of the facing in its completed form; and,
Fig. 4 is an enlarged transverse sectional view taken on the line x-x in
Fig. 3.
In order to produce our improved facing we take two pieces a, b, of suitable
material, both preferably textile, and secure them together, in laminated arrange-
ment, by means of some adhesive substance c, such as glue or mucilage, which
is disposed between them. The two pieces selected should be of considerable
length, for out of them is to be cut a number of strips which are to compose the
finished facing.
Having thus formed a practically integral and single piece of material, we cut the
same transversely along parallel curved lines d which are described about points that
are coincident with the central line of the material, being arcs of circles. We then
cut off the ends of each strip c', thus outlined, upon lines which extend radially from
the center about which the outermost are of the strip is described, to each of
its ends.
Though these strips may be cut out by band, we prefer to employ a machine for
this purpose in which a die is used that will cut out the whole strip at once.
Having thus produced the several strips, we secure them together, as by stitching f,
into a single curved piece such as is shown in Fig. 3.
The arcs which the side edges of each of the strips c¹ constitute should preferably

page_text: be of a circle whose radius is about twenty four feet, but it may be more or less, as
desired.
A binding g, which consists of a cord that is stitched along the inner curved edge
of the otherwise completed strip of facing, may be provided so as to strengthen
the facing and more firmly secure its component portions or strips together.
The completed facing is secured to the inside of the skirt along both of its
longitudinal edges with the one that has the binding uppermost.
Owing to the curvature in the facing, wrinkles or tacks, that would otherwise form
if the facing were straight and because the lowermost circumference of the skirt is its
greatest one, are obviated, the normal shape of the facing when in position conforming
to that of said skirt.
The two layers of material may be secured together back to back (back surface to
back surface) or with the front surface of one adjacent to the back surface of the other;
but we prefer the latter disposition, as the facing will thus have a "right" and
wrong" side.
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J. P. BAYLY,
28, Fulham Place, London, W., Agent for the Applicants.
Improvements in Facings for Garments.
We, ROBERT LUM MCLAUGHLIN and ALFRED CRAWFORD MCLAUGHLIN, trading as
R. 1. and A. C. McLaughlin, at No. 15 Broadway, in the City of Paterson, County of
Passaic, and State of New Jersey, U.S.A., Braid and Dress Trimming 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 :--
The general objects of our invention are to provide a facing for garments, and
particularly for skirts, that can not only be inexpensively and readily manufactured
and will be well adapted to adequately protect the garment against wear, but which
will be in itself durable and attractive. A special object of the invention is to so
shape or cut the facing, or the component parts to form it, that it will set nicely and
smoothly against the garment, especially where the latter is a skirt wherein the
circumference varies more or less throughout its length.
We have fully illustrated our invention in the drawings filed with the Provisional
Specification, wherein,
Fig. 1 shows a piece of the material from which the facing is formed, showing the
manner of cutting the same so as to produce the component parts or strips of said
facing;
Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view, somewhat enlarged, of a piece of the
material from which said facing is formed;
Fig. 3 is a view of the facing in its completed form, and,
Fig. 4 is an enlarged transverse sectional view taken on the line xx in Fig. 3.
In order to produce our improved facing we take two pieces a, b, of suitable
material, both preferably textile, and secure them together, in laminated arrangement,
by means of some adhesive substance c, such as glue or mucilage, which is disposed
between them. The two pieces selected should be of considerable length, for out of
them is to be cut a number of strips which are to compose the finished facing.
Having thus formed a practically integral and single piece of material, we cut the
same transversely along parallel curved lines & which are described about points that
are coincident with the central line of the material, being arcs of circles. We then

page_text: cut off the ends of each strip c¹, thus outlined, upon lines which extend radially from
the center about which the outermost are of the strip is described, to each of its ends.
Though these strips may be cut out by hand, we prefer to employ a machine for
this purpose in which a die is used that will cut out the whole strip at once.
Having thus produced the several strips, we secure them together, as by stitching f,
into a single curved piece such as is shown in Fig. 3.
The arcs which the side edges of each of the strips c¹ constitute should preferably
be of a circle whose radius is about twenty four feet, but it may be more or less, as
desired.
A binding g, which consists of a cord that is stitched along the inner curved edge
of the otherwise completed strip of facing, may be provided so as to strengthen the
facing and more firmly secure its component portions or strips together.
The completed facing is secured to the inside of the skirt along both of its longi-
tudinal edges with the one that has the binding uppermost.
Owing to the curvature in the facing, wrinkles or tucks, that would otherwise form
if the facing were straight and because the lowermost circumference of the skirt is
its greatest one, are obviated, the normal shape of the facing when in position
conforming to that of said skirt.
The two layers of material may be secured together back to back (back surface to
back surface) or with the front surface of one adjacent to the back surface of the
other; but we prefer the latter disposition, as the facing will thus have a "right"
and a 16 wrong" side.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that
what we claim is :-
The manufacture of a skirt facing or binding composed of several segmental pieces
of a material composed of two thicknesses of textile material cemented together such
segmental pieces being united together end to end and being cut each with its upper and
lower edges correspondingly curved and its end edges straight and on the radial line of
such curve the whole of such segmentul pieces when united having a continuous curve in
a single plane substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described and
illustrated.
1 As an article of manufacture, u skirt facing consisting of an elongated-segment-
shaped-piece-of-suitable-material, substantially as described.
2. As an article of manufacture, a composite-skirt-facing consisting of un
elongated-segment shaped piece of suitable material, said-piece-comprising a series
of strips secured together at their ends, substantially as described.
3: As--an-article- of manufacture, a- composite skirt-fucing consisting of an
elongated segment shaped piece of suitable textile-material, said piece comprising
a series of strips secured together at their ends, and each strip consisting of two
layers-adhesively-secured together, substantially as described.
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, London, W., Agent for the Applicants.
THA of na
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, London, W., Agent for the Applicants.