Lurex and lame

claireshaeffer

claireshaeffer

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We had this discussion several months ago but I didn't have an opportunity to look it up.
Lurex is a trademark of Rockwood Industries for a metallic and yarn fiber. The reference I used --Fairchild's Dictionary of Textiles (7ed.) didn't indicate when it was issued. I wonder if this was an early metallic yarn that replaced real metallics.

Lame' is any fabric woven with flat metallic yarns. Originally, the yarns were gold or silver; today they can be slit-film, a synthetic metallic, or a metallic/yarn thread.
Claire Shaeffer
 
What a coincidence - I just thought about that discussion too today! In the German fashion magazine from 1958 that I bought at the antiques fair yesterday, there's a Lurex ad:

lurex.jpg


It says that Lurex is a non-oxydising metallic yarn, and that Lurex is only being produced by the Dobeckmun Company, a Division of The Dow Chemical Comapany, Cleveland/Ohio, London and Amsterdam.
It also adds which companies the "end-fabrics" being shown in the ad are by.

For the context - this is not just your normal everyday fashion magazine, this is one only showing couture and expensive fashion, and the ads have an emphasis on expensive things too (lots of fur ads, Swiss watches, Mercedes cars, Lufthansa Senator service, American cosmetics etc. ).

Karin
 
I have a touch of insomnia tonight/this a.m. so looked at the Patent & Trademark site.

There are three relevant postings there (or four - not going back to look). Basically it says the first use was May 4, 1945. Registered Jan. 1, 1946. First owner was Dobeckmun Co.

It was assigned by Dobeckmun to Dow Chemical in 1957.

Over the latter two filings/postings there were numerous assignments ... nine with one and ten with the other - most with Dow or a Dow connection involved. It appears to have ended in 2004 with assignment to a Swiss Bank through the Cayman Islands.

I'm usually more clear than this but there are just too many assignees involved and I'm finally getting sleepy.

You can do the search here: http://www.uspto.gov/index.jsp

Begin with the last listing for Lurex and work upward.

"Typed Drawing
________________________________________
Word Mark LUREX
Goods and Services (EXPIRED) IC 023. US 043. G & S: YARN AND THREAD COMPRISED EITHER IN WHOLE OR IN PART OF LAMINATED FILM HAVING A METALLIC APPEARANCE, INCLUDING GIMP COMPRISED OF A FILAMENT OR YARN SPIRALLY OVERWRAPPED WITH COATED OR LAMINATED FOIL WHICH HAS BEEN SLIT TO A NARROW WIDTH, SAID OVERWRAPPING IMPARTING A METALLIC APPEARANCE. FIRST USE: 19450504. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19450504
Mark Drawing Code (1) TYPED DRAWING
Serial Number 71483516
Filing Date May 18, 1945
Current Filing Basis 1A
Original Filing Basis 1A
Registration Number 0418535
Registration Date January 1, 1946
Owner (LAST LISTED OWNER) DOBECKMUN COMPANY, THE UNKNOWN CLEVELAND, OHIO
Assignment Recorded ASSIGNMENT RECORDED
Type of Mark TRADEMARK
Register PRINCIPAL
Live/Dead Indicator DEAD

_________

Total Assignments: 3
Serial #: 71483516
Filing Dt: 05/18/1945 Reg #: 418535
Reg. Dt:
Mark: LUREX

Assignment: 1
Reel/Frame:
0033/0069
Received: Recorded: 09/06/1957 Pages: 3

Conveyance:
ASSIGNS THE ENTIRE INTEREST IN SAID MARK, TOGETHER WITH THE GOOD WILL OF THE BUSINESS ASSOCIATED THEREWITH, EFFECTIVE AS OF AUG. 31, 1957.

Assignor:
DOBECKMUN COMPANY, THE

Exec Dt: 08/30/1957
Entity Type: CORPORATION
Citizenship: OHIO


Assignee:
DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY, THE

MIDLAND, MICHIGAN"

I'm paraphrasing here ... In 1979 Dow Badische (Dow had earlier assigned to Dow Badische) as assignor assigned the mark to Badische Corp.

In 1980 Badische assigned the mark to Metal Film Co., Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Rockwood Industries, Inc., Greenwich, CT.

Lots and lots of assignments. You may wish to look at the above site.
 
Found out the cause for my insomnia - sick, sick, sick. Good thing about communicating online. You can't catch germs that way.

If I'm repeating what's already known, I apologize.

Anyway, here's a link to the obituary of Karl E. Prindle. It states ... "He also developed Lurex ...." He worked for Dobeckmun and retired from Dow. I assume Dow bought out Dobeckmun.

http://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=PKE
 
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