Improvements in or relating to Trimmings for Ornamenting Wearing Apparel.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Aug., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 20th May, 1899-Accepted, 24th June, 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Trimmings for Ornamenting Wearing
Apparel.
I, AGNES HANNAH RALLINSHAW, of South View, Kirkby Lonsdale, in the County
of Westmoreland, Wife of Thomas Morton Rallinshaw, of the same address,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates more particularly to improvements in pleated, gathered,
or like trimmings for ornamenting wearing apparel, and it has for its object
the manufacture of such trimming so that they may be subsequently secured to
the edge of a garment and the joint finished at one operation.
Heretofore such trimmings have been manufactured from a strip of material
of suitable width, which is first pleated or gathered, and then the pleated or
gathered edge secured to the edge of a straight narrow band of suitable material,
in order to hold the pleated or gathered portion in the form which it is to retain
This trimming is attached to the edge of a garment by sewing the narrow
band thereto, but in order to finish the attachment a second narrow band must
be subsequently sewn on the inner side, along the joint, one edge of which is
attached to the trimming and the other to the garment.
According to my invention the edge of the pleated or gathered strip of material
is secured at one operation, and preferably by sewing, between the two inner and
corresponding edges of two independent straight narrow bands, one of which
forms the outer band and the other the inner band.
The outer band may be embroidered or ornamented in any well known manner,
preferably prior to its attachment to the pleated or gathered portion of the
trimming, or may be manufactured with an ornamental design. Or it may be
formed of openwork or with transverse or diagonal threads, through which an
ornamental tape, ribbon, braid, or the like may be drawn.
To attach a trimming manufactured as described to a garment, the edge of said
garment is placed between the outer edges of the two bands, and is secured by
preferably stitching through the outer edges of the two bands, and the edge of
the garment which is placed between them.
A perfect joint is thus obtained at one operation both on the inner and outer
sides of the garment.
In a trimming comprised of two pleated or gathered strips of material, the
two inner edges of which are secured to the edges of a central straight band, I
use two independent bands, that is, an inner and outer band as in the trimming
previously described. One edge of the inner band is secured to the corresponding
edge of the outer band simultaneously with the attachment of the pleated or
gathered portion of the trimmings, whilst the other edge is left free, the pleated
or gathered portion on this side being merely attached to the edge of the outer
band.
In attaching this trimming to a garment, the edge of the latter is placed between
the trimming and the free edge of the inner band, and secured at one operation

page_text: by preferably sewing through the trimming and the free edge of the inner band,
and the edge of the garment which is placed between them.
Dated this 23rd day of August 1898
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.
CUMTUMIE DIEUTICATION,
Improvements in or relating to Trimmings for Ornamenting Wearing
Apparel.
I, AGNES HANNAH RALLINSHAW, of South View, Kirkby Lonsdale, in the County
of Westmoreland, Wife of Thomas Morton Rallinshaw, of the same address,
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 follow-
ing statement-
This invention relates more particularly to improvements in pleated, gathered,
or like trimmings such as frills or frillings for ornamenting wearing apparel, and it.
has for its object, the manufacture of such trimming so that they may be sub-
sequently secured to the edge of a garment, and the joint finished at one operation.
Heretofore such trimming have usually been manufactured from a plain or
ornamental strip of material of suitable width, which may be first pleated or
gathered, and the pleated or gathered edge secured to the edge of a straight
foundation band, in order to hold the pleated or gathered portion in the form in
which it is to be retained.
These trimmings are attached to the edge of a garment by sewing the straight
foundation band thereto, but in order to finish the attachment of a trimming made
in this manner, or make the inner side of the joint or point of attachment corres-
pond to the outer side a second band of suitable width corresponding to the
foundation band, must be subsequently sewn on the inner side, along the
joint, in order to conceal the raw edge of the garment, and also that of the pleated
or gathered strip of material.
The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying
drawings, in which
Fig. 1 is a front view, and
Fig. 2 is a sectional view of a trimming manufactured according to my
invention.
Fig. 3 is also a sectional view showing the mode of attaching the trimming to
a garment.
Fig. 4 is a front view, and
Fig. 5 a sectional view showing a modification.
Fig. 6 is also a sectional view showing the mode of attaching this trimming to a
garment.
Fig. 7 is a front view, and
Fig. 8 a sectional view showing my invention applied to a different form. of
trimming to that shown in Figs. 1 to 4.
Fig. 9 is also a sectional view showing the mode of attaching this trimming to
a garment.
Like letters indicate like parts throughout the drawings.
According to my invention the raw edge A¹ of the ornamental or pleated or
gathered strip of material A, is secured at one operation in the process of
manufacture, between the two corresponding edges BC of two independent
straight foundation bands BC, as shown, the band B forming say the front or outer

page_text: band, and the band C the inner band, when the said trimming is secured to the
edge of a garment.
The raw edge A¹ of the pleated or gathered strip of material is secured between
the two straight bands BC as described, preferably by sewing a row of stitches
straight through the edges BC of the said bands, and the edge A¹ of the strip
of material A, which is between them.
The outer band B may be embroidered or ornamented in any well known manner,
preferably prior to its attachment to the other portions of the trimming, or it
may be manufactured with an ornamental design. Or if preferred it may be
formed of openwork or with transverse or diagonal threads or bars, through which
an ornamental tape, ribbon, braid or the like may be drawn.
If the bands BC are cut from a piece of material and have thus raw edges, the
said edges are turned in prior to their attachment to the ornamental or pleated
or gathered parts of the trimming as shown.
To attach a trimming, manufactured with a double foundation band as described,
to a garment, the edge D (see Fig. 3) of the said garment is placed between the
edges B2C of the outer band B and the inner band C, and is secured thereto by a
single row of stitches at the edges B2C2 of the said bands, the stitches being
carried straight through the two bands and the edge D of the garment which is
between them.
Trimmings manufactured according to my invention may thus be attached to
a garment at one operation, and with a single row of stitches, and at the same
time a perfect joint is obtained both on the inner and outer side, and the whole
of the raw edges both of the trimming and garment are concealed.
If preferred the band C on the inner side may be wider than the outer band B,
and be doubled as shown in Figs. 4 to 6. In this case the pleated or gathered
strip of material is secured between the edges BC of the two bands BC, and the
trimming attached to the edge of a garment as shown in Fig. 6 by a row of
stitches through the edges B2 of the band B, the edge D of the garment, and the
double edge C2 of the band C, leaving the doubled part C3 of the said band with
a free edge C+ as shown.
Trimmings are made with this part C on the inner band, to attach to the edges
of openings in a garment, and button holes are formed in the said part 03, in
order to provide a means of attaching one edge of the opening to the other.
The loose part 3 of the band C may be made of two or more thicknesses of
material if preferred, in order to strengthen it.
In a trimming such as that shown in Figs. 7 and 8, which is comprised of two
pleated or gathered strips of material secured to a central foundation band, I use
two independent foundation bands, that is an outer band B, and an inner band C,
as in the trimmings previously described. The raw edge A¹ of one pleated or
gathered strip of material A, is secured between the two edges BC of the
bands BC as shown, whilst the inner edge F¹ of the other strip of pleated or
gathered material F, is secured to the back of the edge 132 of the outer band B
by a row of stitches at this point.
In attaching the trimming to a garment, the edge 1 of the latter as shown in
Fig. 9 is placed at the back of the strip of material F, and between the edges B2C2
of the two bands BC, and is secured by a second row of stitches at or near the
edges B2C2 of the said bands, but the stitches are in this case carried through both
bands BC, the strip of material F, and the edge of the garment I).
In attaching this form of trimming to a garment a perfect joint is also made at
one operation both on the outer and inner side of the garment and with one row
of stitches.
Trimmings of this description may also if desired be made with a double inner
band as shown and described in reference to Figs. 4 to 6.
The invention may also be applied to trimmings comprised of an ornamental
strip of material which is not pleated or gathered, but is merely secured to a plain

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or ornamental foundation band in order to provide a ready means of attachment
to a garment.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is;
1. In a trimming for ornamenting garments securing the edge of the pleated
gathered or ornamental part of a trimming between the two corresponding edges
of two independent foundation bands between which bands the edge of the garment
may also be subsequently secured substantially as described.
2. A trimming for ornamenting garments comprised essentially of a pleated
gathered or ornamental part such as A an outer foundation band such as B and
an inner foundation band such as C the edge of the part A being secured between
the two bands BC and between which bands the edge of the garment may also
be subsequently secured substantially as described.
3. A trimming for ornamenting garments comprised essentially of a pleated
gathered or ornamental part such as A an outer foundation band such as B an
inner double foundation band such as CC³ the edge of the part A being secured
between the two bands BC and between which bands the edge of the garment
may also be subsequently secured substantially as described.
4. A trimming for ornamenting garments comprised of a pleated gathered or
ornamental part such as A an outer foundation band B and inner foundation
band between the edges B2C of which the edge of the part A is secured and a
pleated gathered or ornamental material such as F which is secured to the inner
side of the band B substantially as and for the purpose described.
as
5. Trimmings for ornamenting garments manufactured substantially
described and illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, 4 and 5, and 7 and 8 of the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 18th .....\………….. 1000
AGNES HANNAH RALLINSHAW,
Boult & Wade,
Agents for the Applicant.