US112625A - Improvement in skirts - Google Patents

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UNITED STAT-Es` CHARLES wf rErncE, JE., 0E BRISTOL, PENNSYLVANIA. f

f PATENT GEEICE.

*IMPROVEMENT INl SKIRTS,

' Specification forming part ouf Letters Patent No. l 12,625, dated March 14, 1871.

"To all wiz/om it may concerns; 1

` Be it known that I, CHARLES W. PEIROE., Jr., of Bristol, in the county of Bucks and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful ,Improvements in Skirts; and I do hereby declare the following to be a clear and ex- `act description of the same, sufficient to enable others skilled in the art torwhich my invention appertains to fully understand and use the same, reference being had` to the4 accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, `in whichs `Figure 1 is. a front view of a skirt partly turned up `at its lower edges and illustrating l `my complete invention. Fig. "2 is a repre- `sentation thereof before completion.r Fig. 3 j is a section of thelower edge thereof, in line :v

1x, Fig. 1

`Similar letters of reference indicate corres spending parts in the three figures.

"It is well known that the bottom or lower `edge of skirts is bound with some suitable material in ordertoprotect it from the great wear `to which it is subjected, aswell as to give a `nice appearance and finish to the skirt. This binding is expensive, and requires time and care to sew it on the skirt. I obviate these objections by my invention, which consists in `printing on the bottomedge of the skirt a sufflciently wide strip of such color as to resemble the binding which would be employed, then folding, turning up, or looping theedge so as 4 to leavea portion of the printed strip on the outside and aportion on the inside, and then `stitching or sewing the edge to the adjacent part of the skirt, so that there is presented j the appearance of binding both in color and the double or looped edge, which latter serves l `to protect the bottomof` the skirt in lieu of `lloinding. n l.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a and should be of such width as that a fraction thereof-say one-half-will be about equal to the width of binding when sewed onto thebotl tom of skirts. :I nowfold or turn up the bottom of the skirt so that a portion of `printed stripes will remain on the outside and the other portion be on the inside, then stitch or sew the edge. to the adjacent or contiguous part of the skirt, so that the seam or stitching will extend just within the edges of the sides of the printed stripe, and finally turn off .the1^ l original edge of the skirt, which nowfexists on the` inside beyond the stitching.

s It will be seen that the lowermost edge, C, of the skirt as now produced is double, and

appears to be bound. The double edge protects the bottom of the skirt soas to dispense' binding, while the printed stripe, as located,

r serves to make said double edge present the appearance of having been bound.

The stripe may be printed byanv welll-known process on the skirt, either before orafter it is made up, and if the latter is ornamented,

as at D, these ornalnentations and the stripe .B may be produced at the same time. The

stripe B may be made in variegated or plain colors. as most desirable.

It will be seen that Iv produce a simple and practical mode of finishing skirts, and dispense with the usual binding heretofore employed.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to-secure by Letters Patent, is-, 4 l

As a new article of manufacture, askirt having its lower edge printed in imitation of a binding, said printed portion being partially turned in and stitched to the inner face ofthe skirt so as to form a doubled edge, substantially as described.

'Ihe abovesigned by me this 30th day of November, 1870.

CHARLES W. PEIRCE, JR. Witnesses:

A. SWAIN, J. V. BUCKMAN.

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