An Improved Binding for Ladies Dresses."
Year: 1897

page_text: "An Improved Binding for Ladies Dresses."
We, HUMPHREY HUMPHREYS, Buyer, and EDWARD TOOTAL BROADHURST,
Manufacturer, both of 56 Mosley Street, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:--
This invention is applicable to that class of protective binding which is usually
applied to the lower edge of ladies' skirts or dresses, to prevent wear and tear,
and for other similar purposes, and ordinarily consists of a strip of corded velve-
teen, plain velveteen or other suitable piled fabric, cut on the bias, and about
twice the width of the binding required.
This binding as hitherto produced and sold, required to be doubled or folded
along the middle longitudinally and them to be stitched on to the skirt, that is,
Another way
stitching through the skirt and a double. thickness of pille fabric.
is to place the binding with its pile surface against the skirt, close to the edge
thereof, and stitch it to the skirt along one edge of the binding, then fold over
and stitch along the remaining edge of the binding, thus making a double stitch-
ing all round the skirt.
According to our invention we produce a complete finished binding which only
requires to be once stitched, and that only through a single thin soft material such
as braid or tape, or any other suitable material.
For this purpose we take a strip of the corded velveteen, plain velveteen, or
other suitable material, cut on the bias, but preferably narrower than usual, and
folding or doubling this longitudinally along the centre we place therein edgeways
a piece of braid or tape or any other suitable material of such a width that when
one of its edges lies close against the bottom of the fold its other edge projects,
say, about one eighth of an inch more or less beyond the doubled edges of the
velveteen or other strip, and in this position we stitch the tape or braid and the
doubled fabric firmly togther by a single row of stitching along about the middle.
In this state the complete binding is ready for use and is rolled or otherwise
made up for sale, and when required to be applied to a skirt or dress all that is
necessary to be done is merely to sew or tack the same to the dress at the required
distance from the bottom thereof through the projecting edge of the tape or braid
aforesaid, thus saving labor to the seamstress, hanging better and producing a
more ornamental effect.

page_text: 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 follow-
ing statement:-
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This invention is applicable to that class of protective binding which is usually
applied to the lower edge of ladies' skirts or dresses, to prevent wear and tear,
and for other similar purposes, and ordinarily consists of a strip of corded velve-
teen, plain velveteen or other suitable piled fabric, cut on the bias, and about
twice the width of the binding required.
This binding as hitherto produced and sold, required to be doubled or folded
along the middle longitudinally and then to be stitched-on to the skirt; this
necessitated stitching through the skirt and a double thickness of pile fabric.
Another way is to place the binding with its pile surface against the skirt, close to
the edge thereof, and stitch it to the skirt along one edge of the binding, then
fold over and stitch along the remaining edge of the binding, thus making a
double stitching all round the skirt.
According to our invention we produce a complete finished binding which only
requires to be once stitched, and that only through a single thin soft material such
as braid or tape, or any other suitable material.
The invention will be readily understood on reference to the accompanying
drawing which shews in sections and perspective a binding made according to this
invention.
For this purpose we take a strip a of the corded velveteen, plain velveteen, or
other suitable material, cut on the bias, but preferably. narrower than usual, and
folding or doubling this longitudinally along the centre we place therein edgeways
a piece of braid or tape or any other suitable material 6 of such a width that when
one of its edges lies close or almost close against the bottom of the fold as shewn
its other edge projects, say, about one eighth of an inch more or less beyond the
doubled edges of the velveteen or other strip a, and in this position we stitch the
tape or braid b, and the doubled fabric a firmly together by a single row of stitch-
ing along about the middle.
In this state the complete binding is ready for use and is rolled or otherwise
made up for sale, and when required to be supplied to a skirt or dress all that is
necessary to be done is merely to sew or tack the same to the dress at the required
distance from the bottom thereof through the projecting edge of the tape or braid
aforesaid, thus saving labor to the seamstress, hanging better and producing a
more ornamental effect.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:-
The combination of a doubled strip of suitable fabric such as velveteen with a
strip of suitable material (such as braid or tape) inserted in the doubled fabrio
and reaching or nearly reaching the end of the fold and projecting from the edges
so that when stitched together as hereinbefore set forth a complete binding is
obtained ready for use.