US40877A - Improvement in ruffles - Google Patents

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rutile is made,

- composed ot' a single piece of cloth doubled the plaits and frills -then' double it by turning b'oth edges inward .and folding them down,

,each other, as shown at d,'the folds a. a being lUNTTED STATES EMMA 0. VVOOSTER,

PATENT `Fries..

oF Nnw'ronK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN HUFFLES.l

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. L10,87 7, dated December 8, 1,863.

To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Beit known that 1, EMMA C. Woos'rnn, of the city, county, and State of New York, have iuveuteda new and Improved Ruille and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdraw-- ings, forming part of this specification, in Which- Figure 1 is a face view of a piece ot'the ruffle. Fig. 2 is a back or under side view ofthe snne. Fig. 3 is a transverse section'ot' the same. Fig. 4 is a transverse section of the strip of muslin or other material of which-the representing it as prepared for nt'ing. Fig. 5'is a back view of the `guide by which the strip'is prepared tbrllnting.; Figs. 6, 7, and 8 are transverse sections of the guide y in the lines y, and -z of Fig. 5.

Similar letters ot' reference indicate correspoudingparts in the several figures.

Thisinvention consists in a two-ply ruftle by turning inward and folding both ot' its edges, having the two edges secured by two lines otl sewing or stitching, runuing'lengthwise o ,t' the piece, with two frills which extend outward from the'said lines oil stitching and with a series ot'ilattened plaits between them, the stitching serving the purpose of confining as well as theedgesof the piece.

To enable, others skilled in .the art to make my rutile, I will proceedto describe its manufacture with reference to the drawings.

l tirst takeastrip ot muslin or other fabric of double the intended width of the rutile, and

y as shown in Fig. 4, in such lines as to maire the two edges meet at a greater or less distaneei'rom the two edges ofthe strip, according as the two frills b bare desired to be the same or of dilerent. Widths, the .meeting 'of the edges being intended to come in .theeenter ot the ilattened or bandlike portion c ofthe rutile between lthe two `and the sides ot' frills. The strip, having beenthus folded, is

tinted or crimped transversely and aportion of its width flattened, as shown at c, and it is l then stitched or sewed longitudinally in the two lines'e e within the said attened portion and on opposite sides of the lined, in which the edges meet. The' rutile made in this way requires'no hemming when made from a rawe'dged strip, as the raw edges are secured by the same two seams' or lines ot' sewing ve c, which secure the frills and the plaits ofthe ilattened or band-like portion e of the rutile, andthe frills are composed ot' two thicknesses of fabric. 1

This rutile may be formed in various. ways, but I propose to make it by the machine which constitutes the subjectlmatter of Letters APatent No. 39,328, granted to me on the 21st dayl ot' July, 1863, merely substituting for the common st1aightguide descrihed'in the speciication of those Eetters Patent a foldingguide, G, such' as is represented -in Figs. 5, 6,17, and 8 ofthe accompanyingdrawings. ,The entrance to 'this guide, which is at the lett-hand end of Fig. 1, is made in the form of flat tube of a width equal to double the intended width of the ruffle, in order'that the strip of which the rutile is to be composed may enter it without previous folding. At a short distance from the mouth the under side ot' the tube is open, i

having oniy a narrow rim,ff, on each side, the lguide are gradually turned till it assumes at or nevar the 'righthand end, which is close, or nearly so, to the lluting-rollers, the form shown in Fig. S. The

strip, in being` drawn through this guide, hy

and toward the ilutingrollers, is foldedin the manner shown in Fig. 3, and in this condition delivered between the rollers to be tinted and flattened. Atl er the rui'tie has come from the ru't'tling or iluting machinejt--is taken to a sewing-machine and sewed or stitched in thev two lines ce. This machine should preferably be a double ones-that is to say, should have two pertoratingineedles and the necessary appliances for producing both lines of stitching or sewing at once.

What; I claim as my inventiomand desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The two-ply rutile herein described,` composed ot' a single piece ot' cloth, folded, tinted, or crimped, .and scwed or stitched, substantially as herein specified. y l

EMMA C. WOOSTER. Witnesses:

irnos. s. J. Dominas, GEO.' W.

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