Improvements in the Manufacture of Skirt or other Dress Bindings.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Oct., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Skirt or other Dress Bindings.
I, LEVI FISH, of Spa Mill, Marsh Lane, Preston, in the County of Lancaster,
Cotton Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The improvements relate to the manufacture of skirt or other dress bindings,
and have for object weaving of the same in the form of a double fabric which
divides, by means of a cutting knife into strips having a tufted edge at one
border containing a double quantity of weft threads to the ground or woven
portion at the other border of each strip; and the invention forms a further
improvement upon an invention for which Letters Patent were granted to me
dated 18th of June 1897, and numbered 14834.
To accomplish this, and to carry out my present invention, I weave a double
fabric in manner somewhat similar to that described in the specification above
cited; but instead of weaving reciprocally plain or other non-piled stripes and
floated weft pile stripes, I weave reciprocally in the double fabric plain or other
ground stripes alternately with stripes formed of long tufts of floated weft over
empty dents, in such manner that when one edge of these tuft wefts is cut on
each face of the double fabric, by means of a cutting knife, the parts will
draw asunder in separate strips suitable for bindings, each strip having a plain
or other ground woven portion with a tufted portion or fringe forming a border
thereto, and this tufted portion will have double the number of weft threads,
forming such fringe in any given length, to the number of weft threads form-
ing the plain or other ground portion.
It will be seen that by this mode of manufacture, half the weft threads form-
ing the tufts or fringe of the binding strips will extend through and form part
of the ground portion, while the other half will consist of short portions slightly
longer than the width of the fringe and bound into the edge of the ground part
by the warps, which are operated so as to so hold them when the separation into
strips by cutting takes place. By this means a very effective and rapidly pro-
duced tufted or fringed binding suitable for dress skirts or other garments is
produced.
Variations in detail, such as in the material, width of binding or the tufts or
fringe thereof, and the quality of weaving, may be made without departing
from the peculiar character of the invention.
Dated this 28th day of October 1899
WILLIAM GADD, C.E.,
64, Barton Arcade, Manchester, Agent for Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in the manufacTUTE OF R
I, LEVI FISH, of Spa Mill, Marsh Lane, Preston, in the County of Lancaster,
Cotton Manufacturer, 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 improvements relate to the manufacture of skirt or other dress bindings,
and have for object weaving of the same in the form of a double fabric which
divides, by means of a cutting knife, into strips having a tufted edge at one
border containing a double quantity of weft threads to the ground or woven
portion at the other border of each strip; and the invention forms a further
improvement upon an invention for which Letters Patent were granted to me
dated 18th of June 1897 and numbered 14,834.
To accomplish this, and to carry out my present invention, I weave a double
fabric in manner somewhat similar to that described in the specification above
cited but instead of weaving reciprocally plain or other non-piled stripes and
floated weft pile stripes, I weave reciprocally in the double fabric plain or
other ground stripes alternately with stripes formed of long tufts of floated
weft over empty dents, in such manner that when one edge of these tuft wefts
is cut on each face of the double fabric, by means of a cutting knife, the parts
will draw asunder in separate strips suitable for bindings, each strip having
a plain or other ground woven portion with a tufted portion or fringe forming
a border thereto, and this tufted portion will have double the number of weft
threads, forming such fringe in any given length, to the number of weft threads
forming the plain or other ground portion.
It will be seen that by this mode of manufacture half the weft threads form-
ing the tufts or fringe of the binding strips will extend through and form part
of the ground portion, while the other half will consist of short portions slightly
longer than the width of the fringe and bound into the edge of the ground part
by the warps, which are operated so as to so hold them when the separation
into strips by cutting takes place. By this means a very effective and rapidly
produced tufted or fringed binding suitable for dress skirts or other garments
is produced.
But that the improvements may be better understood I will, with the aid of
the accompanying drawings, proceed more fully to describe means employed
by me.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is a diagram showing the method of weaving the double fabric in
accordance with my present improvements, and Fig. 2 is a similar diagram
showing the floated wefts cut, and the fabrics in condition to be drawn asunder
into strips.
The same letters indicate corresponding parts wherever they occur. And it
will be understood that for the sake of clearness the diagrams are greatly
exaggerated both as to the position and distances apart of the threads forming
the woven fabrics.
a, b, are the respective warp threads of the two portions of the double fabric;
c, d, are, respectively, the weft threads for forming the fabrics and binding such
together; and e is one of the weft threads forming the extra threads of the
tufted portions.

page_text: The weft threads c, d, are shown passing round warp threads of their recip-
rocal fabrics; while the extra wefts e are bound into each fabric alternately,
passing from one fabric to the other in the form of floated weft, so as to supple-
ment the floats of the threads c, d.
For the sake of clearness, the return of weft e is omitted from the drawings.
It will be seen that when the floats, or pile threads, are cut, at or about the
points f, as shown in Fig. 2, each fabric will be divided into strips; and that
the short ends of the floats c, e or d, d, may be drawn out of their reciprocal
fabrics so as to entirely separate the strips from each other.
By this means, strips are produced having a plain woven portion, with a
tufted portion or fringe forming a border thereto, which tufted portion contains
double the number of weft threads which are contained in the plain or other
ground portion.
Variations in detail, such as in the material, width of binding or the tufts or
fringe thereof, and the quality of weaving, may be made without departing from
the peculiar character of the invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
The manufacture of tufted or fringed bindings which are first woven in the
piece in the form of double fabrics and have a greater or double the number of
weft threads in the tuft or fringed portion to the ground or other portion, and
which result is accomplished by weft threads which go to form tuft or fringe
alternately in each of the fabrics aforesaid and which when cut near the edges
or extremities of such tufts or fringes are thereby divided and separated into
strips or bindings of the character and in manner substantially as herein shown
and described.
Dated this 13th day of July 1900.
WILLIAM GADD, C.E.;
64, Barton Arcade, Manchester, Agent for Applicant.