to be Used in such Manufacture.
Year: 1886

page_text: to be Used in such Manufacture.
I PHILIP ARTHUR NEWTON of the Office for Patents, 6 Bream's Buildings,
Chancery Lane in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The method of making rugs, mats, and like articles of household use, from
worsted, carpet waste, or other similar material, forms a very popular and
instructive home occupation for ladies and children. Such rugs or mats commonly
consist of a body piece of fabric, which is of coarse material, such as bagging,
ticking or canvas, having a tufted surface produced by sewing thereon loops of
worsted or other waste material.
The object of the invention is to provide a method, whereby such rugs may be
made more readily by the use of an ordinary sewing machine than has heretofore
been possible.
In carrying out the invention, strips of paste board, card board, or other
analogous fragile material, which will be readily pierced by the needle of a sewing
machine, are provided in any suitable length, and of any desired width, say about
one inch. These pieces of card board or analogous material, are of uniform
thickness and width throughout. These strips are then wound from end to end
with worsted, yarn, finely cut rags, carpet waste, or other materials, which it is
desired to employ in making the rugs. Such wound strips are then sewn to a body
piece of fabric by an ordinary sewing machine, the needle of the sewing machine
puncturing the card board strips, and thereby weakening or severing them along
the line of sewing. After the strip is so sewn to the fabric, the worsted, or other
winding material, at the edges of the strip, is cut with a knife or scissors, and then
the card board or other strip, which has been nearly or quite cut in two on the
line of sewing, may be readily removed in two parts leaving the worsted or other
material attached to the body fabric in short pieces or tufts stitched through at or
near their centre, upon the fabric. In sewing these wound strips, one after another,
upon the body fabric, it is desirable to leave the outer edge of each wound strip
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uncut until the next wound strip has been tucked under said outer edge and sewn
to the body fabric. By this means, each strip may come more accurately into
place with reference to the line of stitching previously formed, than would be
possible if both edges of the last strip applied were cut, and the portions of the
strip removed, before the next strip were placed in position and sewn to the body
fabric.)
In lieu of making these strips of card board or other material, straight, they may
be cut out in curved or other fanciful forms, and then wound with material by
hand, and sewn to the body fabric.
An important advantage of the method above described, is, that the strips of
card board, or other material, may be wound in quantity, or they may be purchased
in lots, at fancy stores, already wound, in condition to be sewn to a body fabric.
In making rugs which are to have, when finished, a design or pattern in different
colors, this method is very advantageous, as it is only necessary to run a line of
stitching through the wound strip itself, and then the strip may be cut up into
pieces of any desired length, and in this way strips, or short portions thereof, of
any length and color, may be obtained for producing the desired pattern in a rug.—
The strips of card board, or other material, when wound, are of uniform width and
thickness throughout, and hence these wound strips may be sewn to the body
fabric by a line of stitching at any point between the edges of the strips.-For
making the principal portion of a rug, the wound strips will ordinarily be sewn to
the body fabric by a line of stitching extending midway between the edges of the
strip, but if desired, this line of stitching may be placed very near one edge of the
wound strip, and after the cardboard strip is removed, the winding material will
have the appearance of fringe upon the body fabric.
As before stated, the strips of card-board already wound with material may be
made an article of sale by fancy stores, but the invention also includes a very
simple and cheap device which may be employed as an attachment to a sewing
machine, and by which straight strips may be quickly wound with worsted or
other covering material.-This attachment consists of two oppositely arranged
spindles, which are mounted in bearings adjustable toward and from each other
upon a bar, or rod, and this bar or rod is adjustably held in a base-plate, by which
it may be attached to the bed of a sewing machine.
The two spindles are provided with flat chucks or plates, at the inner ends, which
are so constructed that the ends of the strip of cardboard or other material may be
readily engaged with or disengaged from them.-The chuck or plate upon one
spindle may have a hook which is turned backward, and which may be engaged
with a hole in the end of the card board strip, and the chuck upon the opposite
spindle may have a pin which will also engage with a hole in the opposite end of
the strip, and a pivot keeper which may be turned or swung across the strip to hold
it in engagement with said pin.
One of the spindles is provided with a small pulley, and the device may be
employed as an attachment to a sewing machine, the base plate being secured to
the bed of the sewing machine in such a position that the pulley on the spindle
will come in frictional contact with the fly wheel or driving belt of the sewing
machine Sewing machines are frequently provided with bobbin-winding attach-
ments, which may be operated by simply working the treadle, crank wheel, and
fly or band wheel of the sewing machine without operating the needle, and this
attachment may be used in the same manner.-It is only necessary to attach the
ends of the card-board or other strip to the plates or chucks on the spindles, and
by operating the sewing machine treadle, the spindles and strip will be rapidly
turned, and the worsted or other material can be guided by the band, and traversed
along this strip as the winding progresses.
The essential features of the invention which is above described in detail
consist in :-
1. The improvement in the art of making rugs and analogous articles, consisting
in providing strips of cardboard or other fragile material of approximately uniform

page_text: width and thickness, in winding such strips with worsted or other covering
material from end to end, in sewing the strips so wound to a body fabric by a line
of stitching extending lengthwise of the wound strips, and in then severing the
winding material at the edges of the strips, and removing the portions of the strips
on opposite sides of the lines of sewing, leaving the wound material in the form of
tufts attached to the body fabric.
2. The improvement in the method of making rugs and other articles, consisting
in winding strips of cardboard or other fragile material with worsted or other
covering material, in sewing such strips to a body fabric by lines of stitching
extending lengthwise of the strips, and in then cutting the covering or winding
material at the edges of the strips, and removing the portions of the strips
remaining on opposite sides of the lines of stitching, each strip being inserted
under the edge of the strip previously sewn to the body fabric, before the material
is cut at the outer edge of such previously wound strip.
3. As a new article of manufacture, a strip or strips of card board or other fragile
material which will be readily pierced by the needle of a sewing machine, and which
are of approximately uniform width and thickness from end to end, wound with
worsted or other covering or tufting material, and for use in the manufacture of:
rugs and other articles.
4. The apparatus for winding strips with worsted or other covering material,
consisting of two spindles provided with flat chucks or plates for holding the ends
of the strip, a bar or rod on which the spindles are mounted, and a base plate
supporting the bar or rod, and adapted to be secured to the bed of a sewing
machine in such position that a pulley on one of said spindles will be driven by
frictional contact with the driving belt or pulley of the sewing machine.
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I PHILIP ARTHUR NEWTON of 6 Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent 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:-
The method of making Rugs, Mats, and like articles of household use from
worsted, carpet waste, or other similar material, forms a very popular and
instructive home occupation for ladies and children.-Such rugs or mats commonly
consist of a body piece of fabric, which is of coarse material, such as bagging,
ticking, or canvas, having a tufted surface produced by sewing thereon loops of
worsted or other waste material.
The object of the invention is to provide a method, whereby such rugs may be
made more readily by the use of an ordinary sewing machine than has heretofore
been possible.
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In carrying out the invention, strips of paste board, card board, or other analogous
fragile material, which will be readily pierced by the needle of a sewing machine, are
provided in any suitable length, and of any desired width, say about one inch.-
These strips are then wound from end to end with worsted yarn, finely cut rags,
carpet waste, or other materials which it is desired to employ in making the
rugs. Such wound strips are then sewn to a body piece of fabric by an ordinary
sewing machine, the needle of the sewing machine puncturing the card board
strips, and thereby weakening or severing them along the line of sewing. After
the strip is so sewn to the fabric, the worsted or other winding material at the
edges of the strip is cut with a knife or scissors, and then the card board or other
strip, which has been nearly or quite cut in two on the line of sewing, may be
readily removed in two parts, leaving the worsted or other material attached to
the body fabric in short pieces or tufts stitched through at or near their centre
upon the fabric.
In lieu of making these strips of cardboard or other material, straight, they may
be cut out in curved or other fanciful forms, and then wound with material by
hand and sewn to the body fabric.
An important advantage of the method above described is, that the strips of
card board or other material may be wound in quantity, or they may be purchased
in lots, at fancy stores, already wound, in condition to be sewn to a body fabric.—
In making rugs which are to have, when finished, a design or pattern in different
colors, this method is very advantageous, as it is only necessary to run a line of
stitching through the wound strip itself, and then the strip may be cut up into
pieces of any desired length, and in this way strips or short portions thereof, of
any length and color, may be obtained for producing the desired pattern in a
rug. The strips of card board or other material, when wound, are of uniform
width and thickness throughout, and hence these wound strips may be sewn to the
body fabric by a line of stitching at any point between the edges of the strips.-

page_text: For making the principal portion of a rug, the wound strips will ordinarily be
sewn to the body fabric by a line of stitching extending midway between the
edges of the strip, but if desired, this line of stitching may be placed very near one
edge of the wound strip, and after the card board strip is removed, the winding
material will have the appearance of fringe upon the body fabric.
As before stated, the strips of cardboard already wound with material, may be
made an article of sale by fancy stores, but the invention also includes a very
simple and cheap device, which may be employed as an attachment to a sewing.
machine, and by which straight strips may be quickly wound with worsted or
other covering material. This attachment consists of two oppositely arranged
spindles, which are mounted in bearings adjustable toward and from each other.
upon a bar or rod, and this bar or rod is adjustably held in a base plate, by which
it may be attached to the bed of a sewing machine.
In the accompanying drawing,
Fig. 1 is a plan of a rug or mat which embodies the present invention, one
corner portion only of the same being completed.
Fig. 2 is a transverse section of a portion thereof.
Fig. 3 represents one of the cardboard or similar strips wound with worsted or
other covering material, and ready to be sewed upon the body fabric of a rug
or mat.
Fig. 4 represents a strip of cardboard which is slotted at the middle of its
length, so as to facilitate the sewing.
:
Fig. 5 is a detail view illustrating the manner in which one covered strip is
tucked under the edge of an adjoining strip, and sewed to the fabric before the
covering material upon the outer edge of such adjoining and previously sewn strip.
is cut.
Fig. 6 shows a portion of a wound strip, and illustrates the manner of making
fringe therefrom for the border of a mat or rug.
Fig. 7 illustrates a cardboard strip cut in the form of a horse shoe, and wound
with covering material; and
Fig. 8 is a side elevation of a machine or attachment for a sewing machine for
winding the strips.
Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the Figures.
In carrying out the invention, a body fabric A is first provided, of proper size to
make the rug or mat, and which may be of canvas, ticking, burlap, or other
suitable cheap material.
Strips B of cardboard, paper board, or other suitable of analogous material,
which will be readily pierced by the needle of a sewing machine, are provided, of
substantially uniform width, as shown in. Figs. 3 and 4, and these strips are wound
with a covering material by any suitable mechanism or apparatus, such for
example as that hereinafter described. The covering material C
may be of
worsted, carpet rags, or other fabric, and is wound closely from end to end of
the strip. A number of strips thus wound with covering material of the desired
colors are first procured or prepared, and are then secured to the body fabric A,
each by a line of stitching b, which passes both through the covered strip and the
body fabric, as is best shown in Fig. 5.--The cardboard or other strip B is so
weakened by the sewing operation that its parts on each side of the securing seam
or stitching b may be removed as soon as the covering material C is cut at the
edges of the strip.-When the material has been thus cat and the portions of the
strip B removed, the covering material C will be left in the form of tufts secured
to the body fabric A by lines of stitching, and will present substantially the
appearance shown in Fig. 2.
To facilitate the sewing of the covered strip to the body fabric, the strip may be
provided with long narrow slots d, as shewn in Fig. 4, which extend nearly its
entire length.
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In applying the wound strips to the body fabric, it is preferred to insert each
strip beneath the outer edge of the strip last previously sewn to the fabric, as is

page_text: illustrated in Fig. 5, before the covering material, at the outer edge of said
previously sewn strip, is cut. This is because it is much casier to insert the.
covered strip under the outer edge of the strip last sewn, than it would be to
insert the covered strip under the last row or line of tufts which are left by the
removal of the portion of the strip after the covering material is cut at its edge.
Fig. 6 illustrates how the fringe may be made. This may be done by simply
taking a strip B wound with covering material as above described, and running
a line of stitching b through it nearer one edge than the other. The line of
stitching b may serve to secure the covered strip directly upon the edge of the rug
or mat, or the fringe may be first made by making the line of stitching b
through the strip, and then cutting the covering material at the edges of the
strip, and sewing the fringe to the rug or mat by a second line of stitching.-In
Fig. 1, the mat is shown provided at the end with fringe C¹, formed as described,
and in Fig. 6 is represented the covered strip B as having the covering material
severed at its edges throughout a portion of the strip.
Not only may straight strips be wound with covering material and applied as
described by sewing directly through the covering material and the paper strips,
but strips or figures of fanciful curved forms may be cut out of cardboard, and be
wound with material either by hand or by machine, and afterwards sewed to the
body fabric.
In Fig. 7 we have represented an irregularly shaped strip cut in the form of a
horse shoe, and then wound with covering material, and it will be obvious that
covered strips of other fanciful shapes may be sewed to a body fabric, and after
the covering material is cut at the edges, the portions of the strip may be removed,
leaving the figure of fanciful shape formed by tufts upon the body fabric.
Any desired figure or design may be produced in a mat or rug by means of a
suitable number of strips wound with different colored materials. The strips may
be sewed to the fabric in rows extending directly across it, and when it is desired
to introduce any length or portion of a contrasting color, as for example one half
an inch in length, a portion of that length may be cut from a strip wound with
the desired color, and such severed portion sewed directly upon the fabric in line
with other strips or portions of strips which are wound with covering material of
a different color or colors.-Where the covered strips are to be thus severed into
short lengths for use in producing different patterns, it will be advantageous to run
a line of stitching through them lengthwise, before they are sewed to the body
fabric, in order that the covering material shall not unwind from the short pieces
or sections into which they are cut.
In Fig. 8 is represented a simple attachment for a sewing machine which may be
employed for winding strips in quantity.-D designates a base piece or bar on
which two head stocks D¹ may be adjustably secured at any desired distance apart
by set screws d.-In the two stocks or bearings are arranged spindles D' D', which
are provided with chucks or holders D* D* for engaging and holding the two ends
of the strip B.-The chucks D D5 may consist simply of flat plates provided with
engaging devices for receiving the strip.-The chuck D, for example, may have
upon its face a rearwardly projecting hook d, which engages a perforation or
slot b¹ in the end of the strip B, and the other end of the strip may have a simple
round hole or perforation, which receives a pin d³ upon the chuck or plate D³.-
This end of the strip may be retained upon the pin d by a pivotted keeper d³,
which swings in a plane parallel with the face of the chuck or holder.
The spindle D³ may be rotated positively by the engagement of a wheel d* upon
it, with the fly wheel or driving pulley of a sewing machine.
In Fig. 8 is shown the bar D as supported by a base plate Do, which may be
secured by a thumb screw e to the bed E of a sewing machine in such position
that the wheel or pulley d will be in frictional engagement with the fly wheel or
driving pulley E¹ of the sewing machine. When it is not desired to use the
attachment, the screw e may be taken out, and the whole attachment may then be
removed from the sewing machine, leaving it free for ordinary use.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to
me by my Foreign Correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :—
1. The improvement in the art of making rugs and analogous articles, consisting
in providing strips of cardboard or other fragile material of approximately uniform
width and thickness, in winding such strips with worsted or other covering
material from end to end, in sewing the strips so wound to a body fabric by a line
of stitching extending lengthwise of the wound strip, and in then severing the
winding material at the edges of the strips, and removing the portions of the strips
on opposite sides of the lines of sewing, leaving the wound material in the form
of tufts attached to the body fabric, substantially as herein described.
2. The improvement in the method of making rugs and other articles, consisting
in winding strips of cardboard or other fragile material with worsted or other
covering material, in sewing such strips to a body fabric by lines of stitching
extending lengthwise of the strips, and in then cutting the covering or winding
material at the edges of the strips, and removing the portions of the strips
remaining on opposite sides of the lines of stitching, each strip being inserted
under the edge of the strip previously sewn to the body fabric before the material
is cut at the outer edge of such previously sewn strip, substantially as herein
described.
3. As a new article of manufacture, a strip or strips of cardboard or other
fragile material, which will be readily pierced by the needle of a sewing machine,
and which are of approximately uniform width and thickness from end to end,
wound with worsted or other covering or tufting material, and for use in the
manufacture of rugs and other articles, substantially as herein described.
.4. The apparatus for winding strips with worsted or other covering material,
consisting of two spindles provided with flat chucks or plates for holding the ends
of the strip, a bar or rod on which the spindles are mounted, and a base plate
supporting the bar or rod, and adapted to be secured to the bed of a sewing
machine, in such position that a pulley on one of said spindles will be driven by
frictional contact with the driving belt or pulley of the sewing machine, substan-
tially as herein described.
Dated this 16th dow of Namba 1004