An Improved Mode of Preparing Ornamental Fabrics for the Market.
Year: 1890

page_text: ate of Application, 17th Mar., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 16th Dec., 1890-Accepted, 17th Jan., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Mode of Preparing Ornamental Fabrics for the
Market.
I, JACOB STEIGER-MEYER, of Herisau, Switzerland, but at present of 8 Falcon Street,
in the City of London, Embroiderer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to complete the manufacture of embroidered edging
and flouncings in such a manner as to enable the general public to apply the goods
to garments without the intervention of skilled labour.
It has been an increasing practice, of late years, to work up the embroidery into
garments before putting the same into the market, owing to the skill demanded in the
proper application of the material.
I now propose to take this class of goods, after they have undergone the bloaching
and finishing process, and submit their top or joining edges to the action of a goffering
or crimping machine, and subsequently, by hand, or by a suitable machine, to insert
into the goffered goods a basting thread, the drawing of which, preparatory to applying
the fabrics, will cause the same to pleat up in the lines of the creases exactly as is
required before attaching the embroidery to the edges or other parts of garments.
The goods prepared as described will be submitted to the market in a flat state as
heretofore, and will therefore offer no difficulty in the packing of the same, or, from
increased bulk, canse extra expense in transport; moreover, no skill will be required
to apply the embroidered fabrics to the garments which they are intended to
ornament.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Mode of Preparing Ornamental Fabrics for the
Market.
I, JACOB STEIGER-MEYER, of Herisau, Switzerland, but at present of 8 Falcon Street,
in the City of London, Embroiderer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to bo performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in und by the following statement :-
The object of this invention is to complete the manufacture of embroidered edgings
and flouncings in such a manner as to enable the general public to apply the goods to
garments without the intervention of skilled labour.
It has been an increasing practice of late years, before putting the embroidery on
the market, to work it up into garments, owing to the skill demanded in the proper
application of the material.
To avoid the supposed need for this course of proceeding, I now propose to take this
class of goods, after they have undergone the bleaching and finishing process, and submit
their top or joining edge to the action of a machine which will insert into the goods a
basting or running thread, the drawing of which, preparatory to applying the fabrics,
will cause the same to pleat up exactly as is required before attaching the embroidery
to the edge or other parts of garments.
I am aware that it has been the practice with the manufacturers of frilling, in order
to produce the result now aimed at, to introduce into the weaving of frillings, a
running or basting thread, which guided the crimping of the frilling, but as these

page_text: goods are necessarily subjected to the processes of hleaching and dressing, bofore
submitting them to the market, an adhesion of the running thread so introduced into
the fabric can scarcely be avoided, and hence an imperfect and upsatisfactory result
has been obtained.
My invention avoids this difficulty, while it provides for the ready application, by
unpractised hands, of my embroidered fabrics, to be used in the making of
garments.
In the accompanying drawing,
Fig. 1 shows in face view a portion of an embroidered fabric as prepared according
to my invention, and in the form in which it will be presented to the market.
Fig. 2 is a plan or edge view, shewing the same fabric as gathered up or drawn to
the form which it will take prior to being attached to a garment.
In these figures, a u, are two parallel Fasting or running threads, which are inserted
in the fabric, when the same is presented in a crimped or pleated form to the point of
the needle or needles charged with the basting thread or threads.
In carrying out the invention, I prefer to use a sewing machine of the class for
which Letters Patent were granted to Leonard Bostwick, dated April 2nd 1844, which
machine, by a simultaneous operation, crimps the fabric and inserts the threads therein.
Or in place of using a machine of this class, I may pass the fabric between crimping
rollors, and insert, by hand, the basting or running thread or threads.
When it is desired to apply the edging or flouncing thus prepared, it will only be
necessary to put tension on the threads, and press back the fabric, to obtain the even
pleating or crimping of the latter, and bring it to the form of Fig. 2, and, from the
throads being louse in the fabric, no difficulty will be experienced in obtaining the
goffered effect desired.
The goods prepared as described with reference to Fig. 1, it will be obvious, will
require no practised skill in applying them to the garments which they are intended
to ornament; moreover these embroidered fabrics will be submitted to the market in
a flat state, as heretofore, and will therefore offer no difficulty in the packing of the
sume, or, from increased bulk, cause extra expense in transport.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
The mode above described with reference to the drawing, of preparing for the
market ornamental fabrics suitable for edgings and flouncings.
Dated this 11th day of December 1890.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.
PACOT
TANIRO 10
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NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.