IMPROVEMENTS IN STRETCHING OR TENTERING AND IN DRESSING OR FINISHING LACE OR OTHER FABRICS AND IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREIN
Year: 1866

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Francis Bryan Baker and Leonard
Lindley at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition,
on the 14th December 1866.
We, FRANCIS BRYAN BAKER and LEONARD LINDLEY, Lace Dyers and
› Dressers, both of Sherwood Street, Nottingham, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN STRETCHING OR TENTERING AND IN
DRESSING OR FINISHING LACE OR OTHER FABRICS AND IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS
EMPLOYED THEREIN," to be as follows:-
The Invention has for its object improvements in stretching or tentering
and in dressing or finishing lace or other fabrics, and in machinery or
apparatus employed therein, and relates,--
Firstly, to improved means of stretching or tentering lace or other fabrics
in dressing frames. For this purpose we mount one or more of the pins
upon which the fabric is fixed upon separate bars working on rods or bars
running the length and breadth of the frame at the sides and ends thereof.
The bars carrying the pins are connected together by links in the manner of
lazy-tongs, so that by communicating motion to any of such links motion is
also communicated to the others of such links, thereby regularly and evenly
distending the fabric fixed upon the pins or points.

page_text: Secondly, the Invention relates to improved means of distributing the
dressing or stiffening material upon the fabrics to be dressed or stiffened,
and for this purpose we employ a box in which the dressing or stiffening
material is placed; this box is provided with a roller working in the dressing or
stiffening material, and other rollers fixed one underneath the box and one at
each side thereof. Around these rollers an endless sheet or cloth is passed,
and on the ends of the two outside rollers are fixed flanged or grooved pulleys
which run upon and are supported by a suitable tramway formed by preference
of wire stretched between suitable framing formed on or carried by the
dressing frame, such flanged or grooved pulleys serving to support the
distributing apparatus and at the same time to give motion to the endless
sheet or cloth carried thereby. The roller working within the box supplies
the dressing or stiffening material to the endless sheet or cloth, which passing
around the other rollers supplies the dressing or stiffening material to the lace
or other fabric to be stiffened in the passage of the apparatus over such
fabric, the endless sheet or cloth may be of canvas, horsehair, or other
suitable material. Instead, however, of employing an endless sheet or cloth
as described, a series of rollers may be employed to convey the dressing or
stiffening material from the box to the lace or other fabric to be dressed or
stiffened.
The Invention relates, thirdly, to an improvement upon a Patent granted
to Francis Bryan Baker, dated December 20th 1860, No. 3131, and consists in
breaking up the dressing or stiffening material applied to the silk or other
threads before they are worked up into lace or other fabrics, this we effect by
stringing, or calendering, or other suitable means, as will be well understood.
By these means facility is afforded for working the threads into lace or other
fabrics, the dressing or stiffening being afterwards revived by steaming.