Year: 1887

page_text: I, JOHN CRYER of the firm of Beardsworth & Cryer, of 22 Castle Street Falcon
Square in the City of London, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
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My Invention relates to the manufacture of indoor caps usually worn by female
domestic servants. These caps are made of a foundation of muslin covered at top by
a trimming which is puckered or drawn so as to give the desired puffy or ornamental
appearance, the edges of the cap being further ornamented by the application of
trimmings of various designs.
The object of my invention is to cheapen the cost of manufacture of these caps, and
I accomplish this by producing the foundation and the top trimming at one and the
same time by superposing two thicknesses of plain muslin or equivalent material cut to
the same size, and blocking them in heated cast iron moulds of the proper shape or
configuration the combined heat and pressure causing the two thicknesses to adhere
without the aid of sewing.
Or, the same end may be attained by superposing two thicknesses of muslin one
plain and the other figured, and causing the two to adhere in the same manner.
Dated thin 04th das of Novemba 1007
J. CRYER.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London,
Patent Agents.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Women's Indoor Caps.
I, JOHN CRYER, of the firm of Beardsworth and Cryer, of 22, Castle Street,
Falcon Square, in the City of London, 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 :-
My Invention relates to the manufacture of indoor caps usually worn by female
domestic servants. These caps are usually made up on a plain foundation of muslin
dressed or stiffened and brought to the desired shape by being
"
"blocked or pressed
on a heated mould, this foundation being covered at top by a figured muslin which is
stitched to the foundation by hand and which is puckered or drawn so as to produce
the desired puffy or ornamental appearance.
The object of my invention is to lessen the cost of manufacture of these caps by
moulding or blocking both the foundation and the top covering or trimming therefor
(which together constitute what I term the "body") at one and the same time, in
such manner that no hand sewing is required and the desired puffy or ornamental
appearance is produced.
The operation is performed by superposing the two thicknesses of muslin or
equivalent material cut to the same size, and blocking them together in heated cast
iron moulds of the proper shape or configuration to give the desired finished shape
to the article, the combined heat and pressure causing the two thicknesses to adhere
together without the aid of sewing.
The two thicknesses are of different materials the under one being plain dressed
muslin (i.e. the ordinary material of which cap foundations are made) and the outer
one being undressed (preferably figured) muslin or other ornamental fabric which is
slightly moistened to cause the two fabrics to adhere together when blocked. In
this way, the outer fabric receives its permanent ornamental form and is supported in
shape by the inner or foundation fabric which also receives the same shape.
The accompanying drawing represents in perspective and in cross section, one
example of the corrugated configuration which may be given to the body of the cap,
the style of ornamentation being susceptible of various modifications, and limited only
by the conditions inherent to blocking that is to say, the configuration must be such
that the block, may be readily inserted in, and removed from, the mould without
liability of tearing or otherwise injuring the fabric, and for this and other reasons,
the configuration would generally be curvilinear, sharp corners and angles being
avoided.
The body of the cap having been blocked or moulded as above described, is then
"wired" at the edge in the usual way of wiring cap foundations, that is to say, a wire
is applied along the edge of the body around its entire circumference and is held in
place by a binding strip of dressed muslin enveloping the wire and caused to adhere
to the inner and outer surfaces of the cap body by heat and pressure.

page_text: The cap body thus made requires only to be trimmed in the usual way of
trimming caps of which the foundations have been previously covered by hand.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is ;
The herein described manufacture of bodies for women's indoor caps, of two thick-
nesses of muslin one dressed and the other undressed which are caused to adhere
together and also to receive the desired ornamental form, by blocking with the aid of
heat and pressure, as specified.
Dated this 24th day of December 1887.
JOHN CRYER.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London,
Patent Agents.
JOHN CRYER.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London,
Patent Agents.