US1459472A

US1459472A - Means for making fringe for ladies' hats

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Publication number: US1459472A
Authority: US
Inventors: Krause Lou
Original assignee: SLYT EDGE Co Inc
Current assignee: SLYT EDGE Co Inc; SLYT EDGE COMPANY Inc
Priority date: 1922-03-29
Filing date: 1922-03-29
Publication date: 1923-06-19
Anticipated expiration: 1940-06-19

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June 19, 1923. 1,459,472

L. KRAUSE MEANS FOR MAKING FRINGE FOR LADIES HATS Filed March 29, 1922 s Sheets-Sheet 1 ATTQRNEY June 19, 1923. 1,459,472

L. KRAUSE MEANS FOR MAKING FRINGE FdR LADIES HATS Filed March 29, 1922 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR A TTORNE Y June 19, 1923. 1,459,472,

- L. KRAUSE MEANS FOR MAKING FRINGE FOR LADIES HATS Filed March 29, 1922 a Sheets$heet a lNl/EIVTOR A TTOR/VEI Patented June 19, 1923.

team LOU KRAUSE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR .TO

MEANS r03 MAKING FRINGE non LADIES Application filed March 29, 1922.

T 0 all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, LOU KRAUSE, a citizen of the United States, residing at 603 Broadway, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in" a Means for Making Fringe for Ladies Hats, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to produce a novel and attractive ornamental fringe, useful in the womens hat industry and else where, in an expeditious and effective manner. This is accomplished by forming substantially-parallel close-together slits adj acent and inwardly of the edge, and p1nk ing the edge so as to remove the margin and form free pointed, dentated or scalloped ends on the resulting tongues between the slits.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating the invention:

Fig. 1 is a perspective fragmentary view illustrating the first step of the process as preferably practised;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view illustrat ve of the second step;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary plan View of a. hat-brim or other piece of material in the course of the process;

Fig. 4 is an illustration of a ladys soft felt hat, unfringed; and

Fig. 5 is an illustration of the same hat fringed in accordance with my method.

A piece of material m, which may be a hat brim, is fed through a sewing machine, or like machine, wherein, in the case of a sewing machine, a knife-blade 2 is mounted on the reciprocatory bar 8 corresponding to the needle-bar, in place of a needle. 4 is a special presser-foot having a slot 5 for the passage of the knife. The material is fed with its edge in contact with a suitable gage 6, so that as the material is advanced the knife or cutter is moved into and out of the material so as to form a series of slits 7. These slits or cuts are relatively close together and substantially parallel with each other and substantially radial or normal to the edge, and their outer ends are adjacent form of fringe and ing the outer HATS.

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and inward ofthe extreme edge, leaving a continuous margin or binding.

The edge is then passing it beneath a 8, coacting in the ordinary manner of pinking rollers with an suitable adjustable vided in connection with this pinking step. The pinking roller ortool' produces a relatively fine scallop or, dentation', and acts near the outer ends of the slits 7, so as to intersect these slits and free the ends of the tongues 11, which are thus formed with pointed or dentated extremities. The naridle pressure roll 9. A gage lO'is likewise pro- 5 star EDGE COMPANY, rne aooae rona'rron or NEW roan.

pinked, preferably by driven pinking roller row strip 12 which is cut off constitutes waste and may be as slight as desired.

The final result, after loosening and slightly roughing up the tongues, as seen in F 1g. 5, for example, is a very desirable thickened and pointed fringe, which naturally falls into major scallops and waves of an irregular character, and thus by'a very simple process givesdistinction and value to a plain soft felt hat shape of the kind such as shown in Fig. 4. The invention is also applicable to other materials and ar tioles of apparel or otherwise, and may be varied in its particular carrying out, and is not necessarily limited to the particular sequence of steps. In general, I believe that I am the first to produce this particular in this way, and also to recognize its special value in hats ofthe type and material referred to.

What is claimed as new is:

1. The method of producing a fringed edge upon a soft felt fabric comprising cutting close-together slits in the material adjacent and inwardly of the edge, and servportion of the material beyond said slits. I

2. The method of producing a pointed fringed edge upon a soft felt fabric com prising cutting close-together slits in the material adjacent and inwardly of the edge,

ing roller.

- LOU KRAUSE.