IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TASSELS FOR UMBRELLAS PARASOLS AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Mary Hanson Harris of 90 Fore Street in the City of
London (wife of Alfred Thomas Harris of 90 Fore Street aforesaid)
Manageress for an Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
TASSELS FOR UMBRELLAS PARASOLS AND OTHER PURPOSES
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Mary Hanson Harris at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd April 1883.
MARY HANSON HARRIS (wife of Alfred Thomas Harris) of 22 Schofield Street
Hackney Road in the County of Middlesex [90 Fore Street in the City of
London] Manageress IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TASSELS FOR
UMBRELLAS PARASOLS AND OTHER PURPOSES
Whereas these tassels have heretofore been made in separate parts the covered
mould being one part and the braid or cord the other part.
Now my invention does away with this source of weakness to the Tassels as
my invention is that the covering of the mould and the braid or cord are woven
or made all in one piece in the following way
:
Take a wooden mould of the required shape or size weave over the same with
Cotton or silk sufficient to cover it to any given pattern and continue the same
tightening the material after leaving the mould without cutting and continuing it
the required length of cord or braid finishing with covering over another mould at
the other end to correspond

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Mary Hanson Harris in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
2nd October 1883.
MARY HANSON HARRIS of 90 Fore Street in the City of London Wife of
Alfred Thomas Harris of 90 Fore Street aforesaid Manageress IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF
UMBRELLAS PARASOLS AND
PURPOSES
TASSELS
FOR
OTHER
This Invention has for its object Improvements in the Manufacture of Tassels
for Umbrellas Parasols and other purposes and more especially relates to making
the Covering of the Mould of the Tassel and the Braid or Cord in one
continuous piece thus obviating a great source of weakness. All tassels hitherto
having been made with covered mould in one piece and the cord or braid in
another
For the purpose of carrying out my invention I take a wooden mould of the
desired forin and similar to moulds hitherto in use and I cover it by weaving over
it Cotton or Silk to the desired pattern This is done by any of the well known
methods now in use When the Mould is completely covered I lighten the Silk or
Cotton at the base of the Mould And I continue to weave the same in the form of
a Cord or braid finishing by Covering over another Mould at the other end to
correspond with the same piece of Silk or Cotton In this manner a Tassel is
produced the Mould or Moulds of which are covered with material which is
continuous and in one piece with the braid or Cord-Having thus described the
nature of my said invention and the manner of performing the same I would have
it understood that I claim
The production of a Tassel or Tassels the covering of the mould or moulds of
which are woven in one continuous piece with the Cord or braid
1n' witness whereof I the said Mary Hanson Harris have hereunto set my
hand and Seal this first day of October in the year of Our Lord One thousand
■sight hundred and
d eighty
three
Signed Sealed and delivered
by the above
Mary Hanson
MARY HANSON HARRIS
(L.S.)
named
Harris
in the presence of
W: BAGOT: HARTE
Solicitor
14 Union Court
Old Broad Street
E C.