Improved Appliance for Making Rugs and Mats.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Dec., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 10th Mar., 1891-Accepted, 11th Apr., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Appliance for Making Rugs and Mats.
GEORGE PARSONS, Junior, Engineer, of 331, Goswell Road, Islington, London.
I do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
It is constructed
1st. I use a small spindle (of wire) at the end of which I form a handle.
2nd. An adjustable carrier or carriers is used and fixed in or on the spindle
at right angles.
I connect the 1
or 2 by means of a wire or with a piece of the material
to be used in the rug or mat making.
3rd. A wire frame is made with bearings at each end into which the spindle
is fixed & made to revolve.
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4th. The material to be used is then wound on the spindle and then sewn
together.
To prepare the spindle for work-each carrier is fixed in the hole formed through
and near each end of the spindle and according to the height required the carrier
is retained at that height by a loop made of thread or other suitable material
passing through a second hole in the spindle, the bottom of the loop holding the
bottom of the carrier.
A wire connecting piece is fixed into and in between the two carriers or a piece
of the material to be used can be fixed in between the carriers the whole forming a
kind of revolving gange for producing a row or successive rows of wool-cloth or
other suitable material.
The gauge is then fixed in a frame so it can be revolved and then wool, cloth
or other suitable material can then be coiled on the full length of the gauge or
shorter as may be required.
The coil so formed is retained on the gauge until it is sewn together or sewn on
a foundation of cloth or other suitable material either by hand or a sewing
machine.
The gauge can then be released from the coil by disconnecting the connecting
piece from the carriers along the side of which the coil has been sewn, remove the
carrier from the spindle-then the spindle and connecting piece can be drawn out
and away from the coil-the gauge is free to be fixed together again and successive
coils produced if required so as to form a kind of flower or rose or a pile or a fringe
for either a mat or rug.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Appliance for Making Rugs and Mats.
I, GEORGE PARSONS, Junior, of 331, Goswell Road, Islington, London, N.,
Engineer, 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 :-
This invention has for its object the production of a simple, efficient appliance,
which may be readily manipulated by hand, for the purpose of winding or coiling
wool, cloth or other suitable material into a series of loops to form fringes, frills or
the like to be used in the manufacture or decoration of fancy and other rugs and

page_text: mats and for similar purposes; the material so formed being arranged in rows to
form fringes or frills, or in imitation of flowers as rosettes or the like.
In the annexed drawing
Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved device or appliance, and
Figure 2 a sample of the material produced in accordance with my said inven-
tion; and,
Figure 3 a modification of the adjusting arrangement.
The improved appliance, as shown in Figure 1, comprises a base or stand a of
any desired shape, size and material, carrying two vertical supports a', in the upper
end of which is mounted in bearings a spindle A capable of being readily removed,
when required, and to which rotation is imparted by means of the crank end A!
Two or more carriers or distance pieces b, are inserted through openings near each
end of and at right angles to the spindle A, these carriers being connected to the
spindle A and adjusted to any required extent by means of the loops of wire or
thread c, or by means of a locking adjusting screw; nut, or equivalent; or, two
metal plates D are rivetted together, Figure 3, to form a spring clip which is
retained on the spindle A by the pin d. A rod, bar or equivalent B is supported
by means of the carriers or distance pieces 6 or clips D at the necessary distance.
from, and parallel to, the spindle A; it being readily understood that it is owing to
the distance of the bar or rod B from the spindle A that the size of the loops to be
formed, Figure 2 is determined. One or both of the carriers 6 is or are formed
with a spring curvature, or spring curvatures, b', in order that the end or ends of
the bar or rod B may be disengaged from the eye or eyes of the carrier or carriers b..
A pivotted catch c' or equivalent is adapted to one of the vertical supports a¹ of
the spindle A to allow of the latter being removed when necessary.
In order to prepare the spindle for work I proceed as follows:-
Each of the carriers b is fixed in the hole formed through and near each end of
the spindle A, and, after being adjusted, is retained in the required position by the
loops caforesaid each passing through a second hole in the spindle A, the outer
extremity of each of the loops holding the bottom forked end of each carrier b.
The wire connecting piece, bar or rod B is fixed into the eyes of and in between
the two carriers b, or, a piece of the material to be used can be fixed between the
carriers b, the whole forming a kind of revolving gauge for producing a row or
succession of rows of wool, cloth or other suitable material.
The gauge thus formed is then fixed in the bearings of the uprights al as shown,
and is held by the clip c¹, so that it can be revolved and the wool, cloth, or other
suitable material can then be coiled on the full length of the gauge, or shorter as
may be required.
The coil so formed is retained on the gauge until it is sewn together as in
Figure 2, or secured on a foundation of cloth or other suitable material either by
hand or by a sewing machine.
The gauge, after the spindle A has been detached from the uprights a¹, can then
be released from the coil by disconnecting the rod or bar B-along the side of
which the coil has been sewn-from one or both of the carriers b, then remove the
carrier from the spindle A, after which the spindle A. and bar or connecting
piece B can be drawn out and away from the coil.
The gauge is free to be fixed together again, and successive coils produced if
required so as to form a kind of flower or rose or a pile for either a rug or mat or a
fringe.
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 :-
First
described and shown.
The improved appliance for making rugs and mats substantially as herein
Second-In the apparatus referred to in the preceding claim the combination
with a spindle, mounted detachably in uprights on a foundational base or stand, of

page_text: a bar, rod or connecting piece parallel to the said spindle and connected thereto
and adjustable by means of clips or by means of carriers and flexible loops or
equivalents substantially as and for the purposes specified.
Dated this 28th day of February 1891.
JAMES STEVENSON,
Gray's Inn Chambers, 20, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Agent for Applicant.