A New Method of Fixing Balls, Tassels, and the like to the Borders of Bands, Curtains, Covers, for Decorating Purposes.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Aug., 1890
Complete Specification Left. 22nd Apr.. 1891-Accepted, 6th June, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New Method of Fixing Balls, Tassels, and the like to the Borders
of Bands, Curtains, Covers, for Decorating Purposes.
I, WILHELM HALSTENBACH of Barmen, Rhenish Prussia, Germany, Manu-
facturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a new manner and new means of fixing balls and tassels
and the like to the borders of bands, curtains, covers or other articles for
decorating purposes. Hitherto the tassels are fixed by means of a thread which is
slung double round the border threads or the points of an antlet lace and is tied
thereto, the ends being then passed through the centre of the tassel and a knot
being made below and thus the balls are held in place.
This method has two main draw backs, namely: the distances of the balls from
the edges of a band or curtain are never equal and it requires the utmost care,
which would not pay, to make them equal and secondly the balls or tassels are easily
stripped off the threads and the knot upon them when they are not very firmly
bound.
My method of fixing and the double pin hooks or harpoon pins I use therewith
prevents these draw backs.
I use a pin bent double in U shape, this I pass through or over the border threads
of the band or curtain to be decorated with balls or tassels so that it is suspended
thereon and then I pass the two pointed ends through or into the centre of the
tassel and turn back the ends so as to form two hooks and thus the tassels are fixed
safely and uniformly.
Instead of using a double pin as described I can use one having the shape of a
harpoon and which is stuck into the centre of the balls or tassels, the double hook
answering the same purpose as the two hooks of the double pin; the projecting end
of the harpoon pin is then bent round the border threads of the band to form an eye
or ear and is thus held safe and sure to the article to be decorated. The metal pins
being all of equal length and allowing no stretching the balls or tassels are all fixed
equally.
Dated this 23rd day of August 1890
KARL I. MAYER,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New Method of Fixing Balls, Tassels, and the like to the Borders
of Bands, Curtains, Covers, for Decorating Purposes.
I, WILHELM HALSTENBACH, of Barmen, Rhenish Prussia, Germany, Manu-
facturer 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:-
This invention relates to a new manner and new means of fixing balls and
tassels and the like to the borders of bands, covers, curtains for decorating
purposes.
Hitherto the tassels are fixed by means of a thread which is slung double round
the border threads or the points of a band or a lace and tied thereto, the ends being
then passed through the center of the tassels or balls and a knot made below and
thus they are held in place. This manner of proceeding has two main draw backs,
namely the distances of the balls from the edges of a band or curtain are never
equal and it requires the utmost care, which would not pay, to make them equal,
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page_text: and secondly the balls or tassels are easily stripped off the threads and the knots
upon them when they are not very firmly bound.
My method of fixing the tassels and the double pin hooks, I use therein, prevent
these draw backs and I attain by it not only the equality required in suspending
but also such a security in the fixing, that the balls or tassels can not be stripped off
except by using a comparatively great force.
The annexed drawing serves to illustrate the new method of fixing thetballs and
tassels and similar articles.
Fig. 1 shows a border with decorative balls fixed according to my method.
Fig. 2 shows the balls made up according to the old method.
Fig. 3 is a section of a ball fixed by means of a thread and knot.
Fig. 4 is a section of a ball with my improved fixture.
Fig. 5 is a bunch tassel with the new fixture.
Fig. 6 is a pin in original and finished state.
Fig. 7 is a variation of the pins used.
Fig. 8 is a section of a ball fixed by this "harpoon" pin.
By the old method (Fig. 3) a thread A is slung round the lace points B and tied
thereto, the ends being then passed through the middle of the ball and a knot C is
made below the binding of the ball and thus the balls are held in place.
Now it is evident that only by using the utmost care it will be possible to secure
equal distances between the knots and the points or borders of the lace; this care
failing, the consequence is a bad appearance as shown by Fig. 2: the tassels or balls
stand at unequal distances from the laces, being now too close by the border, then
the fixing threads stand off too long. Such unequal work does not satisfy the eye,
and it also needs not specially to be said that the tassels can easily be stripped off
the knots when the binding of the balls or tassels is not very fast.
Instead of tying the tassels by means of threads and holding them in place by a
knot, I make the fixture as follows:
I use a pin D bent double (Fig. 6) which I pass through or over the border
threads of the band or curtain to be decorated with balls or tassels and then I pass
this double pin through or into the center of the tassel and turn back the ends
(Fig. 6) below the binding of the latter (Figs. 4 & 5), so as to form two hooks and
thus the tassels are fixed safely and uniformly, so that it is almost impossible to strip
them off, whilst the distances between the lace points and the balls are all the same,
because the pins can not be lengthened, and the hooks, being all bent back by means
of the same tool, are also of equal lengths.
Instead of using the double pin, shown by Fig. 6, a single one of harpoon shape
having two hooks may be used, (Fig. 7 & 8) which is stuck into the center of the
ball or tassel, the anchor like double hook answering the same purpose as the two
hooks described before; the projecting end of the harpoon pin is then bent round
the border threads of the band or lace to form an eye or ear H and is so held safe
and sure to the article to be decorated.
The metal pins being all of equal length and allowing no stretching the balls
stand off from the lace all equally.
Figure 1 shows a band decorated with balls fixed according to my new method,
the balls having all the same distance from the border points and therefore they all
stand in one line.
The new manner of fixing the decorating balls and tassels allows the use of these
decorations with dresses, shawls and other wearing articles where the old manner
of fixing could not have been used on account of the unsafe manner, because they
would have been stripped off too soon.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
cliam is:
"A method of fixing balls, tassels and the like to the borders of bands, curtains,
covers for decorating purposes,

page_text: a by slinging a pin bent double in U shape through the border threads of these
articles and then passing the pointed ends through the center of the tassels
down below the binding where the ends are turned back to form two
hooks; or
6 by passing a double hooked or harpoon shaped pin through the center of the
tassels down below the binding and fixing the upper end to the border by
bending it round the border threads of the band, the whole as shown and set
forth."
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KARL I. MAYER,
Agent for W. Halstenbach.