US1236999A - Edging. - Google Patents

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ALBERT 1V. TRISCHETT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

EDGING.

Application filed October 12, 1916.

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Be it known that I, ALBERT W. TRIS CHETT, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of New York, borough of Bronx, in the county of Bronx and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Edgings, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to ornamental edgings used for trimming undergarments and other articles of apparel, and more particularly to that class of edgings in which the distinguishing feature of ornamentation is cord looped along the lower margin.

The object of the invention is to provide as a new article of manufacture an edging of this character which may be easily and economically manufactured, and in which the cord is reliably secured to the margin of the strip, with the loops or depending bights of the cord free and projecting below the margin if desired.

The invention consists in certain details of construction by which the above objects are attained, to be hereinafter described and claimed.

The accompanying drawings form a part of this speciiication and show the invention as it has been carried out in practice.

jFigure l is a front View of a short length of the improved edging.

The remaining iigures are on a greatly exaggerated scale.

Fig. 2 is a face view of a fragment corresponding to Fig. l.

Fig. Sis a corresponding view of the rear or reverse face.

Fig. 4c is a section taken transversely of the strip, on the line --i in Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the gures.

A is a narrow strip of fabric, usually cotton or linen, forming the body of the edging, and B is the ornamental cord secured thereto along the lower margin; the upper edge of the fabric, shown as serrated, offers sufficient material for the attachment of the edging to the garment or other article to be trimmed, by stitching it thereto as usual.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 14;, 1917. Serial No. 125,313.

The lower raw edge of the strip is folded upon itself as at A? and the material again fofded as at A1 to conceal the raw edge and form a hem serving to present an attractive margin but mainly to strengthen or reinforce the lower margin to which the cord B is attached.

The cord is fed to and laid upon the strip in serpentine bends or convolutions by a suitable machine which also secures the cord tothe strip by a line of stitches C extending through the upper bends BlL of the cord and through the three thicknesses of fabric forming' the hem, and the stitches and bends BL are so spaced and proportioned that each of the latter receives a stitch on each side of its center line, thus firmly securing it to the strip.

The reinforcement of the strip permits the cord to be sewn close to the lower marginal edge without danger of the stitches breaking away from such edge and releasing the cord, and the lower loops or bights B2 while thus iirmly supported may hang free and project below the marginal edge as far as may be desired by the designer.

By reason of its tasty appearance edging of the looped-cord type is a popular design butas heretofore manufactured is objectionable because the attachment of the cord to the strip is insecure, and when the cord becomes accidentally detached at intervals the ornamental effect is completely lost. The present invention offers an article in which the cord is reliably attached while permitting the loops to hang free and to eX- tend below the edge, thus greatly enhancing the appearance.

I claim:-

As an improved article of manufacture, a narrow strip of fabric folded upon itself at one edge and the material again folded within the rst-named fold to conceal the raw edge of the material and forming a reinforced hem, a cord laid in serpentine bends upon the reinforced margin of said strip with the free lower bights of the cord extended beyond said reinforced edge, and a line of stitches passed through the upper bends of Said cord and through the three thicknesses of the fabric at the reinforced above set forth afliX my signature, in edge, said stltches being spaced and proporpresence of two Witnesses.

tioned so that each of the upper bends of ALBERT XV. TRSGHETT. the cord receives a stitch on each side of Vitnesses. 5 the center line. D. JESSE TRISGHETT, In testimony that I claim the invention CHARLES R. SEARLE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

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