Improvements in Bindings for Skirts and other Garments.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bindings for Skirts and other Garments.
I, THOMAS ELSON, of 13 Range Road, Alexandra Park, Manchester, retired
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The improvements refer to skirt bindings, that is to say to the bands or ribbons
which are sewn on to the bottoms of skirts or other garments for
and ornamentation thereof; and have for object the production of a band or strip
of fabric woven on the bias or cross, and having a velvet, velveteen, or corded
velvet, or other similar centre, with a plain or other non-piled surface on either side
thereof, forming an edging thereto, for sewing the band to the garment.
To accomplish this and to effect my improvements I weave, in an ordinary loom
with jacquard, dobby, or other pattern motion, as piece goods, a weft pile fabric
whether of all cotton or otherwise, having stripes of weft pile arranged diagonally
across the piece, at such angle as is found most suitable, and which stripes of weft
pile are alternated with portions of plain or other firm weaving not forming
pile.
The weft pile stripes may be woven as velvets, velveteens, or as cords, and may
be cut into pile in the ordinary manner by means of what is known as fustian
cutting, and the fabric may undergo all the usual operations of bleaching, dyeing,
dressing and finishing. The piece is then cut up into strips or bands on the bias
or cross either by hand or mechanical means, by dividing the plain or other
non-pile portions between the cut pile diagonal stripes. These strips or bands
have by this means a plain or other non-pile edging on each side of the cut pile
centre, which is more suitable for sewing on to the bottoms or borders of garments
than the ordinary strips of velvet cut on the bias from a piece which is woven
as an all over cut pile fabric, and which at present is for the most part employed.
Variations in detail may be made, such as in the width of both the diagonal cut
and uncut stripes, the character of weaving in the same, and in the manner of
making up the goods for the market without departing from the peculiar character
of the invention.
Dated this 9th day of June 1807
Improvements in Bindings for Skirts and other Garments.
I, THOMAS ELSON, of 13 Range Read, Alexandra Park, Manchester, retired
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
[Price 8d.]

page_text: the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:—
The improvements refer to bindings for skirts and other garments, that is to say
to the bands or ribbons which are sewn on to the bottoms of skirts, or edges of
other garments for the protection and ornamentation thereof; and have for object
the production of a band or strip of fabric woven on the bias or cross, and having
a velvet, velveteen, or corded velvet, or other similar cut pile centre, with a plain
or other non-piled surface on either side thereof, forming an edging thereto, for
sewing the band to the garment.
To accomplish this and to effect my improvements, I weave in an ordinary loom,
with jacquard, dobby, or other pattern motion, as piece goods, a weft pile fabric,
whether of all cotton or otherwise, having stripes of weft pile arranged diagonally
across the piece, at such angle as is found most suitable, and which stripes of weft
pile are alternated with portions of plain or other firm weaving not forming pile,
as illustrated in the accompanying sheet of drawings.
The weft pile stripes a may be woven as velvets, velveteens, or as cords, and
are then cut into pile in the ordinary manner by means of what is known as fustian
cutting, and the fabric may undergo all the usual operations of bleaching, dyeing,
dressing and finishing. The piece is then cut up into strips, ribbons or bands on
the bias or cross either by hand or mechanical means, by dividing the plain or
other non-pile portions between the cut pile diagonal stripes, as for instance
where shown by the dotted lines c, or the strips may be divided otherwise than
in the centre of the plain or non-piled fabric.
These strips or bands have by this means a plain or other non-pile portion
forming an edge on either side of the cut pile centre, which is more suitable for
sewing on to the bottoms or borders of garments, and like purposes, than the
ordinary strips of velvet cut on the bias from a piece which is woven as an all
over. cut pile fabric, and which at present is for the most part employed.
Variations in detail may be made, such as in the width of both the diagonal cut
and uncut stripes, the character of weaving in the same, and in the manner of
making up the goods for the market, without departing from the peculiar
character of the invention.
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:
Lengths of band or binding of the character indicated manufactured by weaving
in the piece alternate diagonal stripes of cut pile as at a and non-pile as at b and
afterwards dividing the same on the bias or cross as at lines e between the cut pile
stripes.
Dated this 5th day of T..1.. 1007
WILLIAM GADD, C.E.,
64, Barton Arcade, Manchester, Agent for Applicant.