Improvements in Twist Lace Fabrics.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Feb., 1887.
Complete Left, 2nd Apr., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 3rd May, 1887.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Twist Lace Fabrics.
We ALFRED LEES and FRANCIS HENRY LEES of Clyde Works, Radford
Nottingham Lace Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of our invention to
be as follows:-
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Our Improvements consist in producing twist lace fabrics with stripes of any width
required each stripe we form of plain or figured net of any known kind, or a spotted,
sprigged, or open work net, combined with a floral or other pattern upon it or the
floral or other pattern may be made upon or combined with one or more adjacent
stripes, alternately across the whole width of the machine. But in addition to any
arrangement of stripes as above described, we employ two or more different kinds of
material to form the stripes, such as cotton, silk, wool, linen thread or other materials,
one stripe we form of cotton and the next adjacent stripe or stripes of silk alternately,
or of silk and wool alternately, or we form the stripes of the three or more materials
alternately or in any other order.
The cotton, silk, wool, linen or other, threads employed are supplied separately from
a beam or beams or spools.
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page_text: Improvements in Twist Lace Fabrics."
We, ALFRED LEES and FRANCIS HENRY LEES, of Clyde Works, Radford, near
Nottingham, Lace Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of our invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
Our improvements consist in employing combinations of different materials, such as
silk and cotton, or silk cotton and wool or linen threads, or threads or cords of any
other material which can be used in twist lace machines.
The combination of threads, or of threads and cords employed are supplied from a
warp beam or beams, spools, or bobbins, arranged so that when such threads, or threads
and cords have been passed through the sley or sleys, and through the perforations in
the bars or through guides carried by bars and are worked up in the machine, the
twist lace fabric produced will be striped vertically during the process of manufacture.
We are thus enabled to produce. a variety of stripes and mixtures of different
materials, and by operating the threads by either of the methods employed in twist
lace machines we can produce stripes of plain net spotted, figured, or pile net, each
alternate stripe being formed of cotton, and each next adjacent stripe being formed of
silk, or we form the stripes of threads of any material which can be employed in twist
lace machines, and upon such stripes we make any figure or pattern required. That
is to say upon the silk stripes we can figure with silk and upon the cotton stripes we.
can figure with silk, or upon either stripes we can figure with threads of the same or
any other material or materials, according to the pattern or design we may wish to
produce. We make the stripes of any width we may require that is to say one stripe
may be made half an inch wide, or a greater or less width and the next stripe the same.
width, or a greater or less width.
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
The employment of threads of two or more different materials placed side by side
to form one or more adjacent stripes, each alternate stripe being of a different material
to the next-adjacent stripe, the said stripes running from end to end of the fabric
or fabrics made in twist lace machines, substantially as described in the foregoing
specification.