AN, IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOBBIN NET OR TWIST LACE
Year: 1844

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
BODEN, of Derby, Lace Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Fourth day of June, in the seventh year of Her reign, did, for
Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Henry
Boden, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the
said Henry. Boden, my exors, adññors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Henry Boden, my exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention
of "AN, IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOBBIN NET OR TWIST LACE;"
in which, said, Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said Henry
Boden, shall cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in Her said
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in
and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Henry Boden, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and

page_text: the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof (that is to say):-
In the manufacture of bobbin net or twist lace, in bobbin lace or twist lace
machines, as heretofore practised, it has been usual to employ threads for
bobbin threads and for warp threads which have been formed by first spinning
single cotton yarns and then doubling such single yarn to form each thread,
as is well understood; and in performing such manufacture of thread for the
making of bobbin net or twist lace by machinery, it has been usual in twisting
the single yarn to perform that operation in such manner that the twist takes
place in a direction from right to left, and then in doubling the twist is caused
to be in the direction of left to right, which corresponds in direction with the
direction of movement of the carriages or traversing threads in bobbin net or
twist lace machinery; and it is desirable that such should be the case, other-
wise the twist, which necessarily takes place in the bobbin or traversing
threads, would untwist those threads in the act of making twist lace therewith
and weaken them. And I mention these circumstances in order that my
Invention may be better understood, which consists of the application of single
yarn in the manufacture of bobbin "net or twist lace by machinery; and I
apply such single yarn as the bobbin threads and as the warp threads, or I
apply it only to the bobbin threads, using doubled thread for the warp threads
when making bobbin net or twist lace by machinery. And in order that the
twist may be preserved in such single yarn when making it into bobbin net
or twist lace, I cause it to be spun in the same direction as the doubling of
the yarns has heretofore been performed, that is, the twist is put on from left
to right, which is the direction required by bobbin net or twist lace machinery
as at present arranged; if, however, the direction of working of such
machinery were reversed, then it would be desirable to reverse the direction of
the twist from that above mentioned when making bobbin net or twist lace
by machinery with single thread or yarn. The yarn must be of very good
quality, and as much twist, according to its number or size, as it will bear to
give it the maximum of strength, as is well understood by spinners. The
proper single thread or yarn being made (to the manufacture of which I make
no claim), the same is to be wound on the bobbins used in bobbin net or twist
lace machines, and worked into lace thereby, in the ordinary manner of working,
using warp threads of single or double yarn.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the best means I
am acquainted with for performing the same, I would have it understood, that
what I claim is, the manufacture of bobbin net or twist lace by machinery by

page_text: applying single cotton yarn as warp threads or bobbin threads, as herein
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Boden, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-four.