US704033A - Skirt facing and binding. - Google Patents

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No. 704,033. Patented luly 8*, |902.

W. J. HAY.

SKIRT FACING AND BINDING.

(Application led Nov. 5, 1900,' Renewed May 29,'1902.

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT `OFFICE.

WILLIAM J. I-IAY, or osIIKosH, WISCONSIN.

SKIRT FACING AND BINDING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 704,033, dated July 8, 1902.

Application tiled November 5,1900. Renewed May 29. 1902. Serial No. 109.452. (No model.)

To all whom it' may concern:

Be itknown that LWILLIAM J HAY, of Oshkosh, in the county of Winnebago and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Skirt Facings and Bindings, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which are a part of this specification.

My invention has relation to improvements in skirt facings and bindings.

In skirt-bindings as now ordinarily con structed the so-called facing-strip is usually made of mackintosh-cloth, which on its outer side is of some solid color corresponding to the color of the material of the skirtas, for instance, green-while the inner side of the facing is of a different color, usually white with checked dark stripes. The construction of these bindings is such that when the binding-strip becomes worn the inner or Wrong side of the facing-strip is necessarily exposed to view by reason of the fact that the lower edge of said facing is turned forwardly in order to form a filling for the fold of the binding-strip. When the wrong side of the facing thusv becomes exposed, it is obvious that a very unsightly appearance results in view of the fact that the color of the exposed facing-strip does not correspond to or match with the color of the skirt.

It is the object of my invention to provide an improved form of skirt facing and binding which shall obviate the above-pointed-out objections; and with this end in view the invention consists of the devices and parts or their equivalents, as hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is Il. Fig. 6 is a vertical section of the completed binding attached to a fragment of a Fig. 7 is an outer face View of Fig. 6;

skirt.

and Fig. 8 is a View similar to Fig. 7, but with parts broken or worn away to thereby disclose the supplemental strip, which in lny in-V vention is of the same color as the skirt.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 9 indicates a facing-strip, 10 a binding-strip, and 11 a separate inner supplemental strip. The rst step in the construction of the binding is to secure the supplemental strip 11 to the inside and at the lower edge of the facing-strip by a line of stitches 12, with the wrong side of the supplemental strip outermost, and leaving a substantial portion of the supplemental strip projecting below the facing-strip, as clearly shown in Fig. 1. The next step in the construction of the binding is to turn the supplemental `strip upwardly, as shown clearly in Figs. 4 and 5, forming a groove, in which andalou g which groove the binding-strip 10 is placed, andthe three members are secured together by a line of stitches 13, the portion of the supplemental strip projecting above the stitch-line 13 forming a iap 14. The'binding-strip is now folded away from the facing-strip and about the iiap 14, bending and folding with it so much of the iap v14. as is above the stitch-line 13, the binding-strip being inally brought around on the other or inner side of the facing-strip in the manner shown in Figs. 6 and 7 and is secured to the inner side of the facing-strip by a line of stitches l5. The binding-strip thereby forms a cover over and around the supplemental strip and around the lower edge of the facing-strip. The outer or facing portion of the facing-strip is now placed against the outer side of the skirt 16 at the lower edge thereof and is thensecured thereto and also to a lining 17, if such lining is usedby aline of stitches 18. The facing-strip is now brought around the lower edge of the skirt and upwardly against the inner side of said skirt, the lower edge of the skirt at the saule time being folded upwardly, as shown in Fig. 6.' The facing-strip is now secured ator near its upper edge to the skirt by sewing it to said skirt or to the lining, as indicated by the numeral 19. The result is to form by means of the binding and facing strips a rib or roll that projects a little below the lower edge of the skirt and also projects inwardly laterally therefrom, and as the inner separate supple- IOO the skirt a neat appearance to the garment is still preserved. In the old form of construction,wherein the separate supplemental strip is not employed, but in lieu thereof the lower edge of the facing-strip is turned, said facing-strip must necessarily be turned in 'such direction that the wrong side thereof will be exposed when the binding-strip Wears, and hence an unsightly appearance is thereby presented. It is obvious that in my invention this objection is entirely obviated.

What I claim as my invention is- A skirt facing and binding, consisting of a facing-strip a separate supplemental strip looped around and secured to the lower edge of the facing-strip,with its outer face outermost, and which outer face is adapted to be of the same color as the skirt to which the facing and binding is attached, a bindingstrip also arranged within the loop of the supplemental strip, the three members being stitched or secured together, and the bindingstrip turned down and around the supplemental strip and inally brought around on the inner side of the facing-strip and secured to said inner side, the completed facing and binding being adapted to be secured to the lower edge of a skirt on the inner side of the skirt, and with the roll projecting inwardly, laterally therefrom, the separate supplemental strip being of considerable thickness, and thereby forming a filling for the completed roll.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM J. HAY. Vitnesses:

THEO. EBEMAN, I. J. McNIcHoL.

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