IMPROVEMENTS IN SPRIGGED, SPOTTED, OR FIGUREDCHI
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Burton, of De-ligne Street, in the Parish
of Radford, in the County of Nottingham, Lacè Manufacturer, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SPRIGGED, SPOTTED, OR FIGURED
Sealed the 5th March 1875, and dated the 7th November 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Burton at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
7th November 1874.
I, JOHN BURTON, of De-ligne Street, in the Parish of Radford, in the
County of Nottingham, Lace Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SPRIGGED, SPOTTED, OR FIGURED
NETS MADE ON THE BOBBIN NET OR TWIST LACE MACHINES," to be as
follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of
sprigged, spotted, or figured nets.
In making the ordinary spotted or sprigged net on the Levers' lace
machino it is usual to employ two or more thick threads to fill up the

page_text: spot, or to make a thick ring or edge round an open spot, the threads
being crossed or tied together at the top and bottom of each spot and
then allowed to run loose until the next spot requires making, when the
same motion of the bars are repeated, two warp threads and one bobbin
thread being used for making each pillar. The same explanation will
apply with a slight variation of bars for making sprigs. But in my
Invention, whether making spots or sprigs, I employ for each pillar
three warp threads and one bobbin thread, two warp threads being
employed in the ordinary manner, while the additional warp thread is
traversed as a weft, passing from left to right and right to left to form
the spot or sprig, or traversed from one pillar to another as may be
required to form an edge or ring round the spot or sprig, the bobbin
thread acting as a tie thread round which the warp threads pass; and
when the spot or sprig is formed, instead of allowing two or more thick
or embossing threads to run loose, forming a loop or clip between the
spots or sprigs, I plait them either in the pillar, or use them to form the
ground or ordinary bobbin net, so that by this means I produce a
sprigged, spotted, or figured net, with or without an edge or ring, and
by working the threads into the ground or pillars have no loose loops or
clips, thereby saving considerable labor in the finishing of lace.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Burton in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 4th May 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
BURTON, of De-ligne Street, in the Parish of Radford, in the County of a
Nottingham, Lace Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of November, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, {
give and grant unto me, the said John Burton, Her special licence
that I, the said John Burton, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said John Burton, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein

page_text: expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SPRIGGED,
SPOTTED, OR FIGURED NETS MADE ON THE BOBBIN NET OR TWIST LACE
MACHINES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John
Burton, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their; or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
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NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Burton, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
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This Invention has for its object the improvements in the manufacture
of sprigged, spotted, or figured nets.
In making the ordinary sprigged or spotted net on the Levers' lace
machine it is usual to employ two or more thick threads to fill up the
spot or to make a thick ring or edge round an open spot, the threads
being crossed or tied together at the top and bottom of each spot and
then allowed to run loose-until the next spot requires making, when the
same motion is repeated, two warp threads and one bobbin thread being
used for each pillar. The same explanation will apply with a slight
variation of bars when making sprigs. But in my Invention whether
making spots or sprigs I employ for each pillar three warp threads and
one bobbin thread, two warp threads being employed in the ordinary
manner, while the additional warp thread is traversed as a weft, passing
from left to right and right to left to form the spot or sprig, or traversed
from one pillar to another as may be required to form an edge or ring
round the spot or sprig, the bobbin thread acting as a tie thread round
which the warp threads pass, and when the spot or sprig is formed,
instead of allowing two or more thick or embossing threads to run loose,
forming a loop or clip between the spots or sprigs, I plait them either in
the pillar or traverse them from one pillar to another to form the ground
or ordinary bobbin net, the threads then return, still working in the
pillar or ground, until they have reached. their respective positions and

page_text: again join the other threads to make the next spot, so that by this means
I produce a sprigged, spotted, or figured net, with or without an edge or
ring round it, and by working the threads (when not making the spot or
sprig) into the ground or pillars have no loose loops or clips, thereby
saving considerable labor in the finishing of lace.
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Having now described the nature of my Invention and the manner in
which the threads are worked so as to give the desired effect, I would
have it distinctly understood that I lay no claim to any particular parts
of the machine; but what I do claim is, the making of spotted, sprigged,
or figured net without clips or loops on the ordinary bobbin net or 1
twist lace machine, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Burton, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fourth day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.