US560241A

US560241A - taylor

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Publication number: US560241A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1896-05-19
Anticipated expiration: 1913-05-19

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G; H. TAYLOR.

DRESS PROTECTOR.

'NQ. 560,241. Patented May 19, 1896.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIC GEORGE H. TAYLOR, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y.

DRESS-PROTECTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 560,241, dated May 19, 1896.

Application filed March 24, 1896.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. TAYLOR, a resident of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dress-Protectors, of which the following is a specification.

,My invention relates to dress-protectors of the character in which a cord is employed within the bight of the velveteen or other material of which the dress-protector is made. This cord is of such extent in cross-section as to form an enlarged bead at the lower edge of the protector to prevent the lower edge of the skirt, which is secured above the bead, from becoming abraded. Heretofore in dress-protectors of this character it has been customary to place the velveteen or other material of which the dress-protector is made in direct contact with the cord in the bight. This would result in the material sinking into the interstices formed between the strands in the cord and giving a corrugated appearance to the bead on the exterior of the protector.

The object of my invention is to overcome these and other defects found in dress-protectors heretofore made.

To this end my invention consists in the novel arrangement and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

Inthe accompanying drawings, wherein like letters indicate corresponding parts in the various views, Figure 1 is an inside face view of a portion of a dress-protector made in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is an outside face view of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical section on line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a face view of a portion of another form of dress-protector made in accordance with.

my invention. Fig. 5 is a vertical section on line 5 5 of Fig. 4.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents an outer fabric, which may be made of any suitable material, such as velveteen, and is preferably out upon the straight and corrugated at an angle to the length thereof, as indicated at a, so that the necessary elasticity had in a textile fabric out upon the bias is provided. A second fabric of buckram is provided, as indicated at B, which buckram fabric is out upon the bias, as indicated in Fig. 2. The two fabrics are doubled Serial No. 584,647. on, model.)

to form a bight b, in which is contained a cord C. This cord 0 is secured in the bight of the doubled fabrics, as by a line of stitching 0, which preferably passes through the cord and prevents longitudinal movement thereof in the bight of the fabric.

The dress-protector may be formed of an outer fabric A, covering one side thereof, as indicated in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, or may extend to the entire depth of the dress-protector on both sides, as indicated in Figs. 4 and 5. These fabrics A and B may be secured at the upper edge in any suitable manner, as

by a line of stitching (Z.

By my invention I am enabled to provide a dress-protector wherein the fabric may be cut upon the straight, thereby avoiding considerable waste inherent in protectors which are out upon the bias and at the same time provide a'protector which is cheap, efficient, and neat in appearance, the buckram in the fabric maintaining the outer fabric in a smooth condition and at the same time giving more body and stiffness to the article as a whole.

I am aware that it is old to employ buckram as a stiffening for the bottom of skirts and do not claim, broadly, the use of such buckram or the employment of buckram in combination with other textile fabrics; but

WVhat I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A dress-protector comprising an outer fabric, an inner fabric of buckram out on the bias, said inner and outer fabrics being doubled to form the bight and a cord contained within said bight and secured therein to form a'bead upon one edge of the dressprotector.

2. A dress-protector comprising an outer fabric, an inner fabric of buckram cut on the bias, said inner and outer fabrics being doubled to form a bight and extending throughout the entire depth of the dress-protector, a cord contained within said bight and secured therein to form a bead upon one edge of the dress-protector.

GEORGE H. TAYLOR. IVitnesses GEO. E. MoRsE, MAURIcE BLOCK.