Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 31st May, 1887
Complete Left, 29th Feb., 1888
Complete Accepted, 31st May, 1888
1, CAROLINE BROHL, of 54B Kochstrasse, Berlin in the Empire of Germany
Spinster, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
To this end I take a flexible rod which I cover by winding sewing cotton in layers
onto the same, and fastening the cotton by passing it through holes formed near the
extremities of the flexible rod until a knot is formed.
Afterwards one end of a thread is fastened to the last layer of the covering and a
loop of suitable length formned by passing the other end through the second layer of
cotton and giving it a lap round.
The rod is then turned around its axis for 180° and another loop formed by passing
the thread through the third layer of the covering & lapping the same once round,
after which the rod is turned again around its axis for 180° and the described
operation is repeated.
The top of the feather is formed in the same manner as described, and the knot
formed previously, utilized for fastening the loops.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Artificial Feathers.
I CAROLINE BROHL, of 54 Kochstrasse, Berlin, in the Empire of Germany,
Spinster 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 improvements in the manufacture of artificial feathers, and 5
refers to the construction of the feathers out of flexable pieces of steel, cane, or whale-
bone, wraped evenly and closely with a layer of wool, mohair, or covered wire, or
other similar substance, which forms the body of the feather, the covering material
is fastened in holes at the ends of the steel, cane, or whalebone, and a head formed,
by the material being passed several times through the hole at one end, as seen in 1
fig. 3.
A thread is then fastened to the last row of the covering material, and a loop
formed, as shown (a fig. 1 and 2) the covered piece of steel cane or whalebone is
then turned half round, and the thread threaded through the same ring of the
covering material, and a loop b formed on the opposite side of the body or rib of 1
the feather, and so on, forming loops alternatly on each side.
Fig. 1 shows the manner in which the thread a is drawn through the covering
material I, and then a loop formed, and again through the same ring, and thus
forming the beard a, then the body or rib is turned half round, on its axis, and the
thread drawn through the same ring I fig. 2, and the beard b is thus formed, and 2
again the body or rib is again turned half round, and the beard c formed in the same
manner, and so on till the required number of beards are formed.
Fig. 5 and 6 show in a larger scale the manner in which the thread is threaded
through the covering material of the body or rib of the feather.
In order to form the tip of the feather, the thread is simply passed through the 2
covering material forming the head, fig. 3.
Fig. 3 shows such a head before being threaded, and fig. 4 shows a finished tip, and
a few rows of the covering material.
By this arrangement of making artificial feathers, the pieces of steel, cane, whale-
bone, or other substance forming the body or rib of the feather, are completly a
hidden, and the formation of the beards on opposite sides of the body or rib attained,
and the possiability of the beards moving is done away with.

page_text: Having now particulary described and ascertained the nature of my Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, I declair that what I claim is :
1.). In artifical feathers, the flexable body or rib wound round with wool, mohair,
or other similar material for the purpose as described.
2.) In artifical feathers the flexable body or rib wound round with wool, mohair,
or other similar substance, in combination with a thread of any suitable material
threaded through said covering material for the purpose as described.
Dated this 29th day of February 1888