Improvements in Artificial Leaves.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 14th June, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 26th Feb., 1894-Accepted, 14th June, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Artificial Leaves.
Miss LUCIE ALEXANDRINE PIFFER Milliner and Dressmaker 14 Duke Street
Manchester Square W., London do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
Artificial leaves made of fine wire covered with chenille each leaf is made upon
a suitable flat shape having a slot along the centre through which the covered wire
passes being led to & from the edge of the shape & the successive involutions of
the wire being secured by the twisting of suitable plan wires.
4th October 1893.
LUCIE ALEXANDRINE PIFFER.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Artificial Leaves.
Miss LUCIE ALEXANDRINE PIFFER 14 Duke Street Manchester Square
Milliner 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 :-
Artificial leaves made of fine wire covered with chenille. Each leaf is made
upon a suitable flat shape having a slot along the centre through which the wire
passes being led to and from the edge of the shape & the successive involution of
the wire being secured by the twisting of suitable plat wires.
The 3 sheets of drawings accompanying this Specification show the invention
and the manner of carrying the same into effect-
Fig. 1. front of zinc plate A. on which leaf is formed.
cc one pair of wires.
dd another pair of wires.
b b. a third pair of wires.
EE chenille.
Fig. 2. is a back view of Fig. 1. showing the socket a by which the plate A is
mounted on a support K. Fig. 5 & 6.
Fig. 3. is a bar to support reel G. Fig. 4. on which the chenille is wound as
shown in Fig. 6.
Fig. 5 machine side view.
Fig. 6 machine facing in working order.
In Figs. 5 & 6 the plate A is shown mounted on a support K. & surrounded by a
ring I on which a number of circular wooden discs are strung and serve to hold
the pairs of wires b b., d. d., c. c. in place when not being handled. The ring I is
supported by bars L.
To obtain the result I take a zinc leaf A mounted on a raised support K fixed on
a table. This zinc leaf A has divers shapes according to designs required.
In the middle of each zinc plate there is a slit wide enough to allow the passage
of the chenille E. To start making the leaf I take three lengths of fine wire of
12 inches each I bend them in two in the middle I fix the two first pairs C, D on
that portion of the chenille which is to form the point of the leaf and the third b
a little lower down from the point descending from the middle to keep the centre
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of the leaf in its right place the other two from the point help to take hold of the
-chenille which passes to and fro on the zinc leaf these three pairs of wire grip the
chenille each time that it passes between them the wires are twisted around it to
keep the chenille in the desired shape of leaf. The finished leaf is then removed
'from the zinc plate A.
Having now particularly described & 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,―
1. Artificial leaves made from chenille in the manner described.
2. The apparatus herein described for making artificial leaves.
Dated this 13th day of June 1894.
LUCIE ALEXANDRINE PIFFER.