An Improved Manufacture of Vells.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 16th July, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 11th Feb., 1892-Accepted, 12th Mar., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Manufacture of Vells.
We, JOSEPH WHITE of No. 3 Barker Gate, Nottingham, Lace Manufacturer,
and WILLIAM HUTCHINSON FARMER, of Stoney Street, Nottingham, Lace
Manufacturer and Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
Our invention relates to the manufacture of a novel kind of veil suitable for
women's use that is to say, a mask formed of lace, the pattern of which may be.
dense or solid, or partially transparent, so as to shew the colour of the complexion,
and having openings for the eyes, which may or may not be covered by open net
or lace, and also having a portion formed of open net or lace, of any suitable
pattern or design as desired, extending below the mask, and forming a fall or veil
for the lower portion of the face.
The combined lace mask and fall is so made that it may be used either as a fall
or as a mask. It may be made by hand, or may be machine made, and may be
composed of silk, cotton, or any other material from which lace can be manu-
factured, and may be various in pattern and design..
Dated this 16th dow of Inle 1901
ERNEST DE PASS,
78, Fleet Street, London, and 6, Victoria Street, Nottingham,
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Manufacture of Veils.
We, JOSEPH WHITE of No. 3 Barker Gate, Nottingham, Lace Manufacturer,
and WILLIAM HUTCHINSON FARMER, of Stoney Street, Nottingham, Lace
Manufacturer and Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement, reference being had to the accom-
panying drawings and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say.:—
Our invention relates to the manufacture of a novel kind of veil suitable for
women's use, which we term "mask fall" or "mask-veil" which will be found to
constitute an important improvement in the trade connected with veils.. This
novel article is composed of lace, the pattern of which is so arranged as to cause
the upper part of the veil to be dense or solid, or partially transparent as compared
with the other part of the veil. The improved veils are sometimes made with
openings for the eyes which may, or may not, be covered by open net, or lace. The
lower part of the veil is formed of open net, or lace, of any suitable pattern or
design of a comparatively transparent character extending below the mask and
forming a fall or veil for the lower portion of the face.
The combined lace mask and fall or veil is-so made that it may be used either as
a fall or as a mask.
And in order that our invention may be readily understood, we will describe the
same fully with reference to the annexed drawings, in which:
Fig. 1 shows the combined mask and fall formed of lace and open net, and
without openings for the eyes.
a is the mask and c is the fall or veil.
Fig. 2 shows the combined lace mask and veil or fall, in the dense or solid
portion of which are formed openings 6 for the eyes.

page_text: Fig. 3 shows the combined lace mask and veil or fall also having openings b
in the dense portion or mask a, but which openings are covered with open net,
or Ince, ; of a character similar to that of which the veil or fall portion is
composed!
This novel article of manufacture may be composed of silk, cotton, or any other
material from which lace can be manufactured by lace machinery of a suitable kind
so arranged as to produce the veil or piece of lace intended for a veil having the
part intended to serve as a kind of mask of increased thickness or density as
regards pattern as compared with the part left open. The selection and arrange-
ment of the machinery will be effected in the required manner by those acquainted
with lace work without any difficulty. The mask portion may be made with, or
covered with, a design, or made: as dense or solid as desired, while the portion
forming the veil or fall may be a very light and open net, or similar in material
and design to ordinary lace falls and veils.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we'
claim is:-
1. The new kind of veil manufactured' substantially as herein described.
2. The manufacture of the new kind of veils substantially as described and
illustrated in the annexed: drawings
Dated this 11th day of February 1892.
ERNEST DE P'A'SS,
78, Fleet Street, London, and 6, Victoria Street, Nottingham,
Agent for the Applicants.