USRE991E - Improvement in skeleton hoop-skirts - Google Patents

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= UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEO oznsAn NEUMANN, on new Youn, n. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN SKELETON HGOP-SKIRTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 25,976, dated November l, 1859; Reissue No. 99 l, dated i June 26, 1860.

To all when@ 15 ntmg/ concern:

Be it known that I, CJESAR NEUMANN, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Constructing Hoop Skirts, known as Skeleton Skirts; and I do hereby declare and ascertain my said invention, referring to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a view of my improved skirts. Figs. 2 and 3 show a mode of manufacturing the same.

My improvement is for the purpose of cheapening the manufacture of this inostimportant article of ladies7 wearing-apparel. lt supersedes the previously7 expensive modes of makf ing skeleton skirts, in which tapes and like materials were combined with the hoops by means of metal clasps or fastenings, or by sewing said tapes to the covered springs, or by sewing loops in tapes to insert the springs or forming loops therein by the expensive process of weaving, all of which is avoided by mypresent process of substituting for said tapes or other like articles simple twistel cord, which can be made by hand; but I prefer to use machinery therefor. The cord used may be made either before it is combined with the hoops or at the time the hoops are being inserted, the hoops being inserted in a bight or loop in the cord, however, made to combine the two.

"When the cord is made at the same time that the hoops are inserted, I proceed as follows: I take the ordinary sl'iring-hoops used in skeleton skirts, however constructed, and

first twisting a series of cords each of two or more strands twisted together, IA then at the proper point for inserting a hoop form a bight or loop in each cord and insert the hoop into the bight. I then, by the back twist, form the cords beyond the hoop and 'fasten them. I then make cords of sufficient length to insert a second hoop, and so on until the skirt is complete, the cords and hoops being at sufficient distance apart to form the desired fabric, which will diifer in the number of spring-hoops and cords according to the quality of the article manufactured.

This mode of connecting the springhoops of a skirt, it is obvious, admits of great rapidity of construction, and is much cheaper than the former systems of fastening by clasps, or by sewing or weaving in, thus combining a series of spring-hoops by means of a series of twisted cords, by which I form a cheap and substantial hoop-skirt.`

Having thus fully described my improved manufacture, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A skeleton skirt constructed as herein described.

CZESAR NEUMANN.:

Witnesses:

ALB. H. Hoort, JULiUs Hnivins,

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