Improvements in the Manufacture of Strips used for Stiffening Ladies' Dresses and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Apr., 1898
Complete Specification Left; 9th Jan., 1899-Accepted, 4th Mar., 1899
PROVISIONAL
SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Strips used for Stiffening
Ladies' Dresses and the like.
We, ARTHUR NICHOLSON and JOHN HALL, both of the Firm of Brough,
Nicholson and Hall, of Leek, in the County of Stafford, Braid and Trimming
Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of strips used
for stiffening ladies' dresses and the like.
In the Specifications to the Letters Patent granted to Brougham (Rosenwald)
No. 14127/92, Bishop No. 24634/93 and Rosenwald No. 6894/95 the employment
of covered whalebone and various substitutes for whalebone is described for
stiffening ladies' dresses, but, according to our invention, we employ specially
prepared strips of cane which have been soaked in a solution of glycerine and
alum or other suitable liquid or liquids which will reduce the cane to such a
consistency that it can be penetrated by a sewing needle through and through
in any part without splitting or sustaining damage.
The strips of cane thus treated are shaved or made thin at the ends and joined
by glue, cement, or otherwise to form even strips of continuous length.
Any number of these strips, preferably two strips, are fastened together by
means of any suitable braiding, sewing or wrapping machine so as to form a
continuous braided or covered strip to be used as a stiffener for ladies' dresses
and the like.
Dated this 7th day of April 1898
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicants.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Strips used for Stiffening
Ladies' Dresses and the like.
We, ARTHUR NICHOLSON and JOIN HALL, both of the Firm of Brough,
Nicholson and Hall, of Leek, in the County of Stafford, Braid and 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: —
Our invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of strips used
for stiffening ladies' dresses and the like.
In the Specifications to the Letters Patent granted to Brougham (Rosenwald)

page_text: No. 14127 of 1892, Bishop No. 24634 of 1893 and Rosenwald No. 6894 of 1895
the employment of covered whalebone and various substitutes for whalebone is
described for stiffening ladies' dresses, but, according to our invention we employ
specially prepared strips of cane which have been soaked say for four or six hours
in a solution of twenty parts of glycerine and one part of alum or more or less,
or other suitable liquid or liquids which will. reduce the cane to such a con-
sistency that it can be penetrated by a sewing needle through and through in
any part without splitting or sustaining damage.
The strips of cane thus treated are shaved or made thin at the ends and joined
by glue, cement, or otherwise to form even strips of continuous. length.
Any number of these strips, preferably two strips, are fastened together by
means of any suitable braiding, sewing or wrapping machine so as to form a
continuous braided or covered strip to be used as a stiffener for ladies' dresses
and the like.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is:
1. The herein described improvements in the manufacture of strips used for
stiffening ladies' dresses and the. like said improvements consisting essentially
in treating strips of cane with a solution of glycerine and alum or other suitable
liquid which will reduce the cane to such a consistency that it can be, penetrated
by a sewing needle without splitting substantially as set forth.
2. Treating strips of cane with a solution of glycerine and alum or other suit-
able liquid which will reduce the cane to such a consistency that it can be. pene-
trated by a sewing needle, joining the ends of the prepared strips to form even
strips of continuous length, and combining any number, preferably two such
strips by means of any suitable braiding, sewing or wrapping machine so as to
form a continuous covered strip.
Dated this fith day of Januar 1800
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicants, 17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.