Improvements in the Manufacture of Chenille Lace Curtains and such like Fabrics.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 31st July, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 30.h Apr., 1894-Accepted, 31st Aug., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Chenille Lace Curtains and
such like Fabrics.
I, EDWARD COPE, of New Basford near Nottingham, Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
These improvements have reference to the manufacture of chenille lace curtains
as described in my Specification No. 15,644 in the year 1892.
In the said Specification it is explained that dummy carriages (or carriages
without bobbin threads) are employed alternately with carriages having bobbins
from which threads are drawn and worked up into the fabric together with chenille
threads to form the chenilles.
According to my present invention in order to aid in keeping the chenille threads
in place I employ dummy carriages of peculiar form having each a horn projecting
upwards and terminating at the centre of the machine. The points corresponding
to these dummy carriages may be omitted. Or I may employ in connection with
dummy carriages of ordinary form short threads of suitable material as cotton,
each attached by one end to the top of dummy carriage, and reaching up to and
terminating slightly beyond the centre of the machine; otherwise these threads
occupy the same position as the usual bobbin threads. Or may use pieces of wire
instead of aforesaid threads and the wire may if desired be flattened. Some of the
machine points may in some cases be omitted.
In making chenille lace in place of employing dummy carriages I may provide
carriages with thread bobbins as usual but the thread a destructible thread serving
to hold the chenille threads in place whilst it is worked up into fabric but
afterwards destroyed.
With the same end I in some cases use draw threads and these are removed from
the lace after the lace leaves the machine.
Dated this 20th day of Jul, 1843
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Chenille Lace Curtains and
such like Fabrics.
I, EDWARD COPE of New Basford near Nottingham, Manufacturer, 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:-
These improvements have reference to the manufacture of chenille lace curtains
as described in my Specification No. 15,644 in the year 1892.
In the said Specification it is explained that dummy carriages (or carriages
without bobbin threads) are employed alternately with carriages having bobbins
from which threads are drawn and worked up into the fabric together with cheuille
threads to form the cheuilles.
According to my present invention in order to aid in keeping the chenille threads
in place I employ dummy carriages of peculiar form having each a horn projecting
upwards and terminating at the centre of the machine. The points corresponding
to these dummy carriages may be omitted. Or I may employ in connection with

page_text: dummy carriages of ordinary form short threads of suitable material as cotton, each
attached by one end to the top of dummy carriage, and reaching up to and
terminating slightly beyond the centre of the machine; otherwise these threads
occupy the same position as the usual bobbin threads. Or I may use pieces of wire
instead of aforesaid threads and the wire may if desired be flattened.
In the annexed drawing a horned dummy carriage such as I employ is
represented.
It is made of sheet metal and it is similar in form to the ordinary bobbin
carriages in conjunction with which it works, except that the dummy carriage is
not adapted to carry a bobbin and that the dummy carriage is provided with a horn
extending from a point a corresponding with the top or head of the ordinary 'bobbin,
carriage, to a point which is slightly above the centre of the circular are in which
the carriages when at work pass to and fro from front to back and from back to
front of the machine. The point or upper end of the horn of the dummy carriage
operates to replace the absent bobbin thread, it keeps in place the chenille or like
thread which as described in my former Specification is laid across the dummy
carriage and it retains the chenille loops for a time when they have passed above
the line at which the point bars release the work. Not until the loop is secure
does it finally pass off from the point of the horn. The fabric in the usual way
passes upwards over the face of the stationary blade to the work roller upon
which it is wound.
In place of employing these horned dummy carriages I sometimes use dummy
carriages without horus but with a strong thread or fine metallic wire attached.
This thread or wire just like the thread from a bobbin carriage is taken up into the
work and it serves to keep in place the threads which are laid across and around it.
But the thread or wire of the dummy carriage at its lower end is fixed to the
dummy carriage and at its upper end it terminates at a short distance above the
centre of the machine. These threads or wires attached to the dummy carriages
enter work sufficiently far to ensure that they shall remain tightly strained but
nevertheless not so far as to prevent the work from leaving the threads or wires
freely as the completed fabric is progressively wound up upon the work roller.
By the means described in this Specification the loops of the chenille thread or
like thread are more securely retained than they are by the operation of the point
bars working as described in the Specification of my former Patent.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:
1. In the manufacture of chenille lace curtains and such like fabrics the use
substantially as described of dummy carriages provided with horns projecting
to the centre of the machine and extending above the tops of the ordinary
carriages.
2. In the manufacture of chenille lace curtains and such like fabrics the use
substantially as described of dummy carriages each having a thread or wire fixed
to it at one end and at the other end entering for a short distance into the work.
Dated this 28th day of Anril 1894
EDWARD COPE.