An Improvement connected with the Selvage Edge or Edges of Bodice and Dress Stiffeners.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Apr., 1895-Accepted, 18th May, 1805
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement connected with the Selvage Edge or Edges
of Bodice and Dress Stiffeners.
I, GUSTAVE ROSENWALD, of the Firm Rosenwald Brothers, 27 Noble Street,
City of London, Warehousemen do hereby declare the nature of my said 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 making the selvage edge or edges of bodice and dress
stiffeners in such manner that the stiffeners can be more readily sewn to a garment,
either by overhand stitching or by a running or a back stitch, the selvage edge or
edges being very pronounced and definable, whereby the sewing to a garment is
more readily and easily effected and the needle kept clear of the steel, whalebone,
French horn, or other material constituting the stiffening substance during the
sewing operation.
The selvage edge or edges by my said invention are of such a character that the
stiffeners can be sewn to a garment or fabric by the sewing machine, there being in
most cases a hollow or channel between the steel or other substance and the
extreme edge of the selvage in which the machine thread would lodge.
For the purpose of my invention, I arrange an extra thread, threads, or cords,
or narrow tape like strips of material in or to a braiding machine, in such manner
that the weaving threads enclose said extra thread, threads, cords, or narrow tape
like strips within them at the edges, the fillings or extra threads or their equivalents
forming by such enclosure a rib or fillet along the outer edge or edges of the
selvage portion, each and every part of the extra threads or their equivalents being
locked by the twistings or weavings of the covering threads throughout the length
of the stiffener strip.
The stiffening material may be single strips or lengths to be cut to lengths as
desired, or two or more of the stiffening material can be covered in close connection
edge to edge by interlacing threads of a braiding machine, the travel of the bobbins
being so arranged that they throw their threads alternately over and under the
stiffening substance or substances for interlocking them and constituting single
strips, and with a rib selvage on one or on both outer edges of such strip.
An example of a braiding machine for effecting the above rib selvage will be
found in the drawings annexed to our previous Patent No. 14127 of 1892, but I do
not limit myself to the arrangement there shown, as other types of braiding machines
can be adapted for the purpose.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. The novel manufacture of dress and like stiffeners with a rib selvage or
rib selvages, as and substantially in the manner described.
2. The braiding of strip material used for dress and bodice stiffeners to constitute
combined strips by alternate over and under interlacing of the braiding threads,

page_text: with an enclosure of extra thread or threads, cords or tape like liners forming a
rib selvage, as set forth.
DL:
CAL 100
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said G. Rosenwald.