IMPROVEMENTS IN CARRIAGES EMPLOYED IN BOBBIN-NET OR TWIST LACE MACHINES."
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Spowage, of the Town and County of the
"
Town of Nottingham, for an Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN CARRIAGES
EMPLOYED IN BOBBIN-NET OR TWIST LACE MACHINES."
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Spowage at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd November 1881.
WILLIAM SPOWAGE, of the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham.
IMPROVEMENTS IN CARRIAGES EMPLOYED IN BOBBIN-NET OR TWIST LACE
MACHINES."
Carriages of the usual construction employed in bobbin-net or twist lace
machines frequently wrong gate, that is to say, in passing from one set of combs
to the opposite set of combs the threads press upon a carriage, and cause it to
pass into the gate or division provided for the next adjacent carriage. To obviate
this I provide each carriage with one or more studs or projections upon one or
both sides near each breast of the carriage. The position of the studs varies
according to the guage of the machine, but in any case each stud rides clear of the
combs as the carriage is passed into or out of them. The projection of the studs is
nearly equal to the space between the carriages when they are in the combs, but
yet leaves sufficient space for the passage of the threads between the carriages.
By such means the perpendicularity of the carriages is ensured as they pass
between the combs, and wrong gateing is thus prevented.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said William Spowage in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 1st May
1882.
WILLIAM SPOWAGE, of the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CARRIAGES EMPLOYED IN BOBBIN-NET OR TWIST LACE
MACHINES."
Carriages of the usual construction employed in bobbin-net or twist lace
machines frequently wrong gate, that is to say, in passing from one set of combs
to the opposite set of combs the threads press upon a carriage, and cause it to pass
into the gate or division provided for the next adjacent carriage. To obviate this
I provide each carriage with one or more studs or projections upon one or both
sides near cach breast of the carriage. The position of the studs varies according
to the gauge of the carriage, but in any case each stud rides clear of the combs as
the carriage is passed into or out of them. The projection of the studs is nearly
equal to the space between the carriages when they are in the combs, but yet
leaves sufficient space for the passage of the threads between the carriages. By
such means the perpendicularity of the carriages is ensured as they pass through
the space between the combs, and wrong gateing is thus prevented.
In the accompanying Drawings
Figures 1 and 2 are respectively a side view_and_edge_view_of-a-carriage-
provided with one stud near each breast of the carriage on one side only.
Figures 3 and 4 are respectively a side view and edge view of a carriage shewing
the approximate relative position of one or more studs projecting from one or both
sides of the carriage.
When employing two studs near cach breast of the carriage I may place one
stud at A and a second at D, or in the positions shewn at F and C, or E and B,
but I do not confine myself to the exact position of either stud, as I may sometimes
prefer to place a stud higher than the stud B, the position of the stud or studs
varying according to the gauge of the carriage; but in any case each stud rides
clear of the combs as the carriage is passed into or out of them. The projection of
the studs is nearly equal to the space between the carriages when they are in the
combs, but yet leaves sufficient space for the passage of the threads between the
carriages. By such means the perpendicularity of the carriage is ensured as they
pass through the space between the combs, and wrong gateing is thus prevented.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I declare that I claim,-
The construction of carriages with one or more studs near each breast of the
carriage projecting from one or both sides of the carriage, substantially as herein-
before described and illustrated in the Drawings annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Spowage, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty ninth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
Witness,
H. W. GOUGH, C.E.,
Nottingham.
WILLIAM SPOWAGE. (L.S.)