US362995A

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Publication number: US362995A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1887-05-17
Anticipated expiration: 1904-05-17

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W. PRETTY, Jr.

EYELET TAPE.

No. 362,995 Patented May 1'7, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

XVILLIAM PRETTY, JR, OF IPSVVIOH, COUNTY OF SUFFOLK, ENGLAND.

EYELEiT-TAPE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 362,995, dated May 17, 1887.

Application filed July 2-2, i884. Serial No. 133,507.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM PRETTY, J r., a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, and a resident of Ipswich, Suffolk county, England, haveinvented certain new and useful. lm p rovements in Eyelet-Tapes, of which the following is a specification. Y

My invention is an eyelet tape or binding for various purposes, consisting of a cont-inuous strip adapted to be cut into pieces of varying length, and having a body portion with eyelets inserted therein, and with two flaps at the edge adapted to be sewed or otherwise secured to another fabric or other article. The strip consists of a tape which throughout a part of its width is formed as a single fabric, while the remaining partis formed as two distinct fabrics or layers joined together only at the line ofjunction with the single-fabric portion.

The tape may be made in any suitable way so as to form selvage edges. One portion,varying in width according to the width of the tape and the purpose for which it is intended, is formed or woven as a thick single fabric, and the other portion is formed or woveninto two complete fabrics or plies connected together only where they meet and join to the single or thick fabric.

For the purpose of adding strength to the thick single portion of the tape or binding, it may be woven with a twill or corded, and extra cords or warp-threads may be inserted therein. This portion is thereby strengthened, and furnishes a greater support for the eyelets or fastening devices that may be attached to or inserted therein.

One simple way of producing the tape is as follows: Two sets of warpthreads-an upper, 6, and lower, 7-are provided, and the weft or filling thread or threads may be traced as running from the selvage on one side to the selvage on the outside of one of the single layers or plies and back again, interweaving part of the way with the upper and some of the lower warpthreads, as indicated in Fig. 5, and the remainder of the way with the upper threads only, then again traversing the warp and interweaving with the under threads and some of the upper threads part of the way,and with (No model.) Patented in England Januaryll. 188i, No.126.

' the lower threads only the remainder of the way, thereby forming a fabric part of which is double ply, as from lto 2, Fig. 5, and the remainder of which is divided into two single plies, as 2 to 3, and 2 to 4.

At stated places in the thick portion each shoot of the weft may be caused to interweave with both sets of warp-threads, producing a thick band or cord running along the tape or binding from end to end.

\Vhen extra strength is desired,the whole of the thick portion may be so woven, forming a series of parallel ribs or cords, and extra warpthreads of larger size or greater number may be so woven, forming a very strong and firm corded portion. When the eyelets or other fastening devices are properly inserted into or secured upon this portion,they are very securely held and are capable of resisting great wear and-strain.

This tape or binding may be applied to a great variety of uses, and is particularly desirable as a binding for the bolting cloth or silk used for milling purposes, when the two thinner portions or plies may be secured to the edge of the cloth in any suitable manner, and the eyelets or fastening-hooks being inserted into the thick portion form a substantial means for stretching the cloth.

The tape or binding may also be used in the manufacture of corsets, waists, bustles, crinoline, &c., or, in fact, of anything that requires a firm stay piece or edge, and especially where these edges are to be laced or drawn in any manner. It can be woven in continuous pieces of any convenient length and cut to suit, the thinner layers or plies furnishing a convenient and substantial means of joining it to any fabric or material desired.

Referring to the accon'ipanying drawings, forining a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective view of one form of the tape. Figs. 2 and 3 are sectional views, and Fig. 4 is a plan view. Fig. 5 illustrates one mode of weaving the tape.

The thick portion of the tape A has a selvage, a, and the thinner portion or plies, BO, preferably have selvage edges 1) c, and are joined together and to the thicker portion on the line 0:. The eyelets D or fastening de vices E may be applied at any desired intervals and in any suitable manner. In Fig. l the thick part is shown as woven withatwill, it, throughout the greater portion of its width, and with ribs or cords c on eachside,while in Fig. 4 a series of ribs or cords, a, are shown.

In Fig. 5 the upper and lower warp-threads are indicated at 6 and 7, respectively, and the weft-thread at S 9. The part 8 of the weftthread interweaves with the upper warpthread, 6, for a distance, and then, traversing the warp, it interweaves with one of the lower warpihreads, 7, and, returning, it again interwcaves with the threads 6, and so 011 from 1 to 2. The part 9 of the weft'thread interweaves with the warp-threads 6 and 7 in a like manner to the part 8, interweaving with thelower warpthread, 7, for a distance, and then traversing the warp and interweaving with one of the warp-threads, 6, and returning and again interweaving with the warpthrcads 7, and so on from 1 to 2. From 2 to 3 the part S of the weft-th rcadinterweaveswith the warp-threads 6 only, forming the single ply O, and from 2 to 4 the part 9 of the weitthread interweaves with the warp-thread 7 only, forming the sin gle ply D.

I do not claim a woven strip having a thick body port-ion and with two overlying edge flaps forming partof the strip and woven with the body part; and I am aware that such strips have been used in corsets.

I am also aware that strips of fabric have been folded round corset-steels and sewed. to cover the steel and leave two overlying flaps,

through which eyelets have been passed; and I do not claim a strip having edge flaps and eyelets.

My invention is distinguished from the things specified in the fact that I provide a continuous strip with a series of eyelets sup ported by a body portion, and with two overlying flaps projecting from the edge of the strip, the same constituting a salable article adapted to be cut into pieces of any desired length, and to be used for many purposes.

I elaiin- 1. As an article of manufacture, a eontinuous strip consisting of abody portion provided with a series of eyelets inserted therein at intervals throughout its length, and with two flaps, both joined to and extending from one edge, the whole woven as one integral fabric, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. As an article of manufacture, a continuous flexible woven strip consisting of a body portion of double ply provided with longitudinal strengtheningribs,and two single-ply flaps extending and both united to said edge and all woven together as one integral fabric, the body portion provided with a series of eyelets at intervals along its length, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

\VILLIAM PRETTY, JR.

\Vitnesses:

R. H. llfIACDONALD, Henna \VARNER.

from one edge of the body portion,