US2533891A

US2533891A - Dress trim

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Publication number: US2533891A
Authority: US
Inventors: Mcclintock La Zona
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1947-09-27
Filing date: 1947-09-27
Publication date: 1950-12-12
Anticipated expiration: 1967-12-12

Description

Dec- 12, 1950 LA zoNA MGcLlNTocK 2533,89]

DRESS TRIM Filed Sept. 27, 1947 IN V EN TOR.

Patented Dec. 12, 1950 UNITED sTATEs rATENT oFFicE 1 Claim.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in strip-form textile trim for use on millinery, garments or wherever found decoratively useful.

The object of the invention is to obtain a new article of manufacture so constituted that the same is comprised merely of a pair of like standard braids, of a kind readily purchaseable on the open market, whether alike in coloration or wholly or predominantly difierent in color, therefi by to produce a novel article having a uniquely attractive decorative effect.

The braid employed is what is sometimes called serpentine braid, but the same is more generally i known today as rick-rack trim. This braid is so woven that it has a zig-zag continuty along its length, which zig-zagging is self-sustaining and so persists during the life of the braid.

The new article of manufacture is made simply by effecting an interweaving or intertwining engagement between the two braids. This is done by arranging the successive portions of one braid which extend in opposite directions obliquely relative to the general line of extension of that braid so that said portions are liad fiatwisely across the successive similar portions of the other braid. As a result solely of this step, it was discovered that the two braids become permanently edgewisely interlocked at two points along each such portion of each braid. The new article, which may be designated a duplex rick-rack trim, has an unusual and novel surface appearance, which is very marked indeed when the two braids are wholiy or predominantly of diiferent colors; and the new article, further, has a distinctive serrated shape along its two sides over its entire length.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects and advantages thereof, reference will be had to the following description and accompanying drawing, and to the appended claim in which the various novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

In the acccmpanying drawing forming a material part of this disclosure:

Fig. 1 is a Composite view showing short lengths of the two like rick-rack braids of the familiar kind.

Fig. 2 shows on an enlarged scale a length of the new duplex rick-rack trim constituted by the two braids of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing an end portion of the new article, with the two braids partially disengaged.

Referring to the drawing more in detail, the 55 braid ID of Fig. 1 is, as is well known, characterized by a zig--zag continuity, composed of regularly alternating portions il and I2. Every portion II and iz, the two adjoining ones of which may be consic ered to provide a zig-zag unit, extends obliquely and at an angle of about 45 to the general line of extension of the braid. Thus each portion Il is at about a 90 angle to the adjoining portion EZ, and vice versa. Each joinder of a portion li and a portion l2 at a point inset from one side of the braid will be called a reentrant recess M, and each joinder of a portion l2 with a portion ll at a point inset from the opposite side of the braid will be called a reentrant recess 15.

The braid iii of Fig. l is exactly like the braid Hi. The oppositely inclined portions of the zigzag units of the braid IE are marked l'l and I 8. The recess resulting from each joinder of a portion i'l with a portion IS at a point inset from one side of the braid IE is marked l9, and the recess resulting from each joinder of a portion IB with a portion at a point inset from the opposite side of said braid is marked 20.

When the two braids are interwoven or intertwined, to effect looking engagement between their recesses, the new article of Fig. 2 is produced. In thus making the'new article of the two braids of Fig. l, and assuming the start of the intertwining is at the ends of said braids at the left in Fig. l, first the two recesses [4 and IS diagrammatically coupled by the Vertical dot and dash line 2l of Fig. 1 are interengaged, then the two recesses |5 and Z diagrammatically coupled by l the Vertical dot and dash line 22 of Fig. 1 are interengaged, then the next two pair of recesses M and IB are interengaged, then the next pair of recesses I5 and 20 are interengaged, and so on. When all the recesses along the lengths of both braids are so engaged, they become interlocked against casual or acoidental disengagement; as will become understood when it is noted that a lateral pull on either side of the new article in a direction to cause disengagement of any one pair of interengaged recesses is effectively opposed by a tightening up of a next adjoining pair of interengaged recesses.

In thus physically coupling the two braids by Way of their oppositely facing recesses, to complete the new article as in Fig. 2, all that is required is, With the two braids arranged to have their fiats generally maintained substantially parallel, first to move one of the braids edgewisely relative to and in one direction laterally of the other to effect one of the aforesaid engagements, then to move the last mentioned braid edgewisely relative to and in the opposite direction laterally of the latter to effect the next of said engagements, and so on. o

The braids ID and IB thereby are progressively interwoven or intertwined, and in such manner that every portion Il of the braid l flatwisely crosses a different portion I'l of the braid IG, and every portion l2 of the braid In flatwisely crosses a diif'erent portion IB of thezbr'aid lfifand also in such manner that, at either side of the' new article, according as a portion overlies or underlies a portion l'l, a portion IZ underlies or overlies a portion I8.

The side of the new article shown in Fig. 2 is the side thereof showing the portion -H of :the braid IG overlyingly crossing the portions ll of the braid l, and with the portions [8 of the braid IG underlyingly crossing the portions 12 of the braid ID. Thus zin Fig. 2, all the portions lzl jarefsubstan-tially hidden, except for thatone Fthereof there Vindicatedin broken lines and the tpart of `the one thereof fragmentarily seen at 'the zleft`of'-Fig.:2. 'IFhisirelationship of the parts is -picto'rially made fullytclear, however, at the lleft 1s`id'e -of fFig. 3.

'While -I fhave illustrated and described the -preferred embodiment of my invention, it is to :beu'nderstood that I 'do not limit myself to the fprecise =construction herein disclosed and the A new article of manufacture comprising a pair of fiat ribbons, each of said ribbons being zig-zagged laterally forming alternate portions extended at angles of '9o degrees with relation to each other forming at'ernate reentrant recesses along opposite sides of each ribbon, said ribbons being interlaced to form a flat composite `ribbon with the recesses extended inward from opposite sides of the ribbons nterengaged and the-portions of the ribbons which extend inopposite directions flatwisely passing alternately over and under one another. LA ZONA MCCLINTOCK.

REFERENCES VCl'lfill) 'The following references are of record 'in ithe -ijil-e fef this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name l Date 237,026 vKnauff Jan. 25, 1881 1490,091 Berlin c Julye, 1916 l 2,029fll2 Rabinowitz Feb. 4, 1936