Improvements in the Manufacture of Twist Lace Curtains and the like:
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Mar., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 14th Dec., 1899-Accepted, 27th Jan., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Twist Lace Curtains and the
like:
We, ROBERT FREDERICK CAREY, Managing Director of the Firm of Carey &
Sons, Limited, Lace Manufacturers, of Heathcote Street, Nottingham, and JOHN
HENRY WATSON, Manager, of 6, Milk Street, in the City of London, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide a ready means for attaching lace
curtains and the like to the ordinary hooks by which they are supported.
For this purpose we employ near the top of the curtain two adjacent warps
which are stouter than the ordinary warps used in making the fabric and the
spool thread working between these warps is also preferably stouter than the
other spool threads.
In making the curtain the strip of fabric between these two warps is alternately
tied on both sides to the remainder of the fabric and Kept distinct, long holes
or slits being so formed at intervals on each side of it. This strip is very strong
containing as it does the two stout warps and the stout spool thread and is
therefore admirably adapted for hanging onto the hooks.
In some cases we turn over and hem the end of the curtain so as to hide strip
formed as above described which is at the back.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Twist Lace Curtains and the
like.
We, ROBERT FREDERICK CAREY, Managing Director of the Firm of Carey &
Sons, Limited, Lace Manufacturers, of Heathcote Street, Nottingham, and Joun
HENRY WATSON, Manager, of 6, Milk Street, in the City of London, 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:-
The object of this invention is to provide a ready means for attaching lace
curtains and the like to the ordinary hooks, by which they are supported.
For this purpose we employ as shown in the drawing near the top of the
curtain two adjacent warps a which are stouter than the ordinary warps 6 used
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page_text: in making the fabric and the spool thread a working between these warps is
also preferably stouter than the other spool threads d. e are the bobbin threads.
In making the curtain the strip of fabric between these two warps is alternately
tied on both sides to the remainder of the fabric and kept distinct, long holes
or slits being so formed at intervals on each side of it. This strip is very
strong containing as it does the two stout warps a and the stout spool thread e
and is therefore admirably adapted for hanging onto the hooks.
In some cases we turn over and hem the end of the curtain so as to hide strip
formed as above described which is at the back.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
1. Lace curtains or the like having two adjacent warps stouter than the
ordinary warps the strip of fabric between these two warps being alternately
tied in on both sides and left free substantially as described.
2. The manufacture of twist lace curtains and the like substantially as described
and illustrated in the drawing.