Improvements in the Manufacture of Lace Window Blinds, Curtains, and similar Goods.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 1st Jan., 1895-Accepted, 2nd Feb., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Lace Window Blinds, Curtains,
and similar Goods.
I, ROBERT FREDERICK CAREY, Managing Director of the Firm of
Carey & Sons Limited, of Stoney Street, Nottingham, Lace Manufacturers, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to lace window blinds curtains and similar goods in which
a cord is introduced during the process of manufacture by which the fabric can be
afterwards drawn up into pleats.
In making such goods the difficulty has hitherto been that the cords have had
to be fine and therefore not sufficiently strong because owing to the gauge of the
machine and consequent closure of the carriages only a thin cord could pass. To
overcome this I take out one or more carriages and points which enables me to use
a cord or tape of a width otherwise unattainable.
The way I work is as follows. I make a band of three or more gaits cloth on
the face of the work and on the reverse side I hold the cords or tapes in position
by another thread worked from a steel or guide bar which also moves three or
more gaits. The cord thus runs through a tube or groove and is perfectly free or
loose in its action.
Dated this and dar of Amil 1901
Improvements in the Manufacture of Lace Window Blinds, Curtains,
and similar Goods.
I, ROBERT FREDERICK CAREY, Managing Director of the Firm of
Carey & Sons Limited, of Stoney Street, Nottingham, Lace Manufacturers, 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:-
This invention relates to lace window blinds, curtains and similar goods in which
a cord is introduced during the process of manufacture by which the fabric can be
afterwards drawn up into pleats.
In making such goods the difficulty has hitherto been that the cords have had
to be fine and therefore not sufficiently strong because owing to the gauge of the
machine and consequent closure of the carriages only a thin cord could pass. To
overcome this I take out one or more carriages and points which enables me to
use a cord or tape of a width otherwise unattainable.
The way I work is as follows:-I make a band of three or more gaits cloth on
the face of the work and on the reverse side I hold the cords or tapes in position
by another thread worked from a steel or guide bar which also moves three or more
gaits. The cord thus runs through a tube or groove and is perfectly free or loose
in its action.

page_text: The drawing is a transverse section of part of the machine employed.
a is the work bar, bb the point bars, 61 61 the points, c c the catch bars, d d the
comb bars, d¹¹ the combs, 9 a carriage, h its bobbin, the bobbin thread, k the
warp thread guide bar, the warp thread, 7 the spool thread guide bar, the spool
thread and m one of the jacks.
All this is old and well understood and is only shown to make my modifications
clear.
n is a bobbin from which the tape n' is supplied, the tension of the tape being
regulated by the spring n² and nut n³. o is a tubular guide for the tape carried on
an arm o' fixed to the comb bar d. This guide and arm are directly beneath the
place of the carriage or carriages which have been removed.
p is a guide bar for the single thread p' by which the tape is covered at the back
of the fabric.
As above described the bar p is shogged, three or more gaits either continuously
or intermittently.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1. The manufacture of lace window blinds curtains and similar goods by removing
one or more carriages from the machine.
2. Lace window blinds curtains and similar goods in which one or more pillars
are omitted so as to allow of the insertion of a comparatively wide tape.
3. The manufacture of lace window blinds curtains and similar goods substantially
as described and illustrated by the drawing.
Dated this 27th day of December 1894.