IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ORNAMENTAL FABRICS TO BE USED AS INSERTIONS, EDGINGS, BINDINGS, OR OTHER TRIMMINGS
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Drysdale, of the Firm of Alexander, Son, and
Drysdale, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain, Sewed Muslin
Manufacturers, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF ORNAMENTAL FABRICS TO BE USED AS INSERTIONS, EDGINGS, BINDINGS, OR
OTHER TRIMMINGS"
Sealed the 20th February 1877, and dated the 26th August 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Drysdale at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 26th August 1876.
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ROBERT DRYSDALE, of the Firm of Alexander, Son, and Drysdale, of Glasgow, in
the County of Lanark, North Britain, Sewed Muslin Manufacturers "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ORNAMENTAL FABRICS TO BE USED AS INSERTIONS,
EDGINGS, BINDINGS, OR OTHER TRIMMINGS."
This Invention has for its object the manufacture or production of an ornamental
fabric in an improved manner, specially adapting it for being satisfactorily used for
"insertions," or "edgings," or "binding," or other trimming purpose.
In carrying out the Invention, muslin or any other suitable woven fabric is
ornamented with embroidered work by means of the Swiss embroidering machine,
or by any other suitable machine. This embroidering is done in rows or lines, and
the fabric is afterwards cut or divided between the rows or lines so as to form com-
paratively narrow strips suitable for the purposes in view.
It is not new to embroider ornamental rows or lines directly across or along a
woven fabric, that is parallel to the weft or parallel to the warp, but such
embroidering is not suitable for the trimmings which it is the object of the present
Invention to produce.
It is an essential feature of the Invention to embroider the fabric in diagonal
rows or lines, and to subsequently cut it into diagonal strips, in order that such
strips may in consequence of being thus cut diagonally as regards the warp and
weft be able to assume without puckering such curved forms as occur in applying
the material in trimming either as insertion, edging, binding, or otherwise.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Robert Drysdale in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 22nd February
1877.
ROBERT DRYSDALE, of the Firm of Alexander, Son, and Drysdale, of Glasgow, in
the County of Lanark, North Britain, Sewed Muslin Manufacturers. "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ORNAMENTAL FABRICS TO BE USED AS INSERTIONS,
EDGINGS, BINDINGS, OR OTHER TRIMMINGS."
My said Invention has for its object the manufacture or production of an
ornamental fabric in an improved manner, specially adapting it for being satis-
factorily used for "insertion," or " edging," or 'binding," or other trimming
purpose.
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It is an essential feature of my said Invention to embroider muslin or any other
suitable woven fabric in rows or lines which are diagonal, or inclined to the warp
and weft of the fabric as originally woven, and to subsequently cut the fabric into
diagonal strips, in order that such strips may in consequence of being thus cut
"bias" (as it is sometimes termed), that is diagonally, as regards the warp and
weft, be able to assume without puckering such curved forms as occur in applying
the material in trimming, either as insertion, edging, binding, or otherwise.
In carrying out my Invention the woven fabric is ornamented with embroidered
work by means of the Swiss embroidering machine, or by means of any other
suitable machine. This embroidering is done in rows or lines, and the fabric is
afterwards cut or divided between the rows or lines, so as to form comparatively
narrow strips suitable for the purposes in view.
It is not new to embroider ornamental rows or lines directly across or along a
woven fabric, that is to say, parallel to the weft, or parallel to the warp; but such
embroidering is not suitable for the trimmings which it is the object of my
Invention to produce.
My said Invention is put into practice in the simplest and most economical
manner, without its being necessary to reconstruct or modify the ordinary Swiss
embroidering machine. The needles of the machine oparate on the fabric exactly
as though forming embroidered rows or lines parallel to the warp, or to the weft of
the fabric in the ordinary way, but the fabric is fixed in the frame of the machine
so that its warp and weft are inclined to the rows or lines thus embroidered. The
woven fabric is prepared for the embroidering machine by being divided by
diagonal cuts into lengths suitable for the frame of the machine, and the lengths
thus diagonally cut are joined together by what were originally their selvedges.
This forms a piece of fabric the threads of which are inclined to the new outer
edges, and this piece is then cut across to form comparatively short pieces which
can be fixed singly in the embroidery frame just like an ordinary fabric. When
the embroidering is completed the piece is cut or divided into strips in the ordinary
way, but in consequence of the herein-before described preparation or arrangement
of the fabric before fixing it in the embroidery frame, such strips will be cut bias,
or diagonally, as regards the threads of the fabric. The cut edges of the strips may
be folded in so as to form what is known as "taping" by manufacturers of
trimming materials, and such "taping" can be used in the various ways in which
ordinary "taping" is used, and with great comparative advantage wherever it has
to be curved.
Having thus particularly described my said Invention and what I believe to be
the best mode of performing the same, I have to state that I do not restrict myself
to the precise details herein-before described, but that what I believe to be novel
and original, and claim as the Invention secured to me by the herein-before in part
recited Letters Patent is, the ornamenting of woven fabrics by the Swiss or other
suitable embroidering machine, in a suitable manner for being cut bias or diagonally,

page_text: and the so cutting of them to serve as insertions, edgings, bindings, and other
trimmings, substantially as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Drysdale, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-first day of February, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.
Witness
EDMUND HUNT,
Patent Agent,
Glasgow.
ROBERT DRYSDALE, (L.S.)