IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN STRETCHING DRESSING AND FINISHING LACE AND OTHER LIKE FABRICS
Year: 1884

page_text: I LEONARD LINDLEY of Sherwood Street in the Town and County of the Town
of Nottingham Lace Dresser do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN STRETCHING
DRESSING AND FINISHING LACE AND OTHER LIKE FABRICS to be as follows
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The invention relates to improvements on the ordinary tentering frame (and not
to the progressive machine in which the fabric is moved gradually forwards) and my
prosent improvements have for their object to stretch the fabric in the direction of
its length in addition to the cross stretching which it has hitherto received
It frequently happens that although the required width is given to the fabric in
the ordinary tentering frame there is a certain amount in the length of the piece
which 18 sacrificed on account of the want of means whereby the piece could be
stretched in such direction
Now according to my present invention I mount the side bars carrying the
tentering hooks pins or clamps in guides within which such side bars are capable
of endway motion or I support them in other suitable manner so as to permit of
the required endway motion and I operate the carriages supporting said side bars
as heretofore in order to stretch the fabric in the direction of its width
In order to afford facility for stretching the fabric in the direction of its length
I adopt the following arrangement
The sections carrying the tentering hooks pins or clamps I employ either in a
separate or disconnected state or I lightly connect them together by cord or other
suitable means.
These sections rest within the aforesaid side bars close or nearly close together
the piece of fabric to be dressed or finished is attached to the tentering books, pins
or clamps in the usual way but the ends of the piece are attached to cross rods or
bars which rest upon the aforesaid side bars and upon supplemental bara running
alongside of such side bars I provide means whereby the said cross rods or
bars can when required be attached either to the longitudinal side bars or to the
supplemental bars.

page_text: Then in order to stretch the fabric in the direction of its length I fix one of the
cross bars or rods to the side bars and the other to the supplemental bars and
I give a short end wise motion to the side bars so as to carry with them the cross rod
or bar connected therewith, this action will to some extent carry the sections of
tentering hooks, pins or clamps with the said side bars and thereby obviate undue
strain on the fabric. Then when the desired traverse has been given to the side
bars in one direction I connect the cross rods or bars to the side bars and to tho
supplemental bars in roversed order so that that which was formerly connected to
the side bars is now connected to the supplemental bars and that which was
formerly connected to the latter is now connected to the former, I then give to the
side bars an end wise motion in the reverse direction to that before given to them
whereby I carry the cross rod or bar connected there with and the sections of
tentering hooks pins or clamps in an opposite direction to that previously given
to the other cross rod or bar I then if required reverse the connections of the
cross rods or bars and continue the process as above described until the requisite
endwiso extension of the fabric has been obtained the fabric is then finished in the
ordinary way
When the sections carrying the tentering hooks pins or clamps are connected
together so as to form an elastic series of hooks pins or clampa, oue end of the said
serics will be connected with one cross rod or bar and the other end to the other
cross rod or bar
In some cases short pieces of fabric would be sufficiently stretched if pulled in
one direction only, in this case the cross rods or bars will be fixed as before
described one to the side bars, the other to the supplemental bars, then by simply
moving the side bars in the one direction the requisite extension can be given to
the fabric
The endway motion may be given to the side bars by various mechanical means.

page_text: Fabrics
I LEONARD LINDLEY of Sherwood Street, in the Town and County of the Town
of Nottingham Lace Dresser do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN STRETCHING
DRESSING AND FINISHING LACE AND OTHER LIKE FABRICS 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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The invention relates to improvements on the ordinary tentering frame (and not
to the progressive machine in which the fabric is moved gradually forwards) and
my piesent improvements have for their object to stretch the fabric in the
direction of its length in addition to the cross stretching which it has hitherto
received
It frequently happens that although the required width is given to the fabric in
the ordinary tentering frame there is a certain amount in the length of the piece
which is sacrificed on account of the want of means whereby the piece could be
stretched in such direction
Now according to my present invention I mount the side bars carrying the
tentering hooks pins or clamps in guides within which such side bars are capable
of endway motion or I support them in other suitable manner so as to permit of
the required endway motion, and I operate the carriages supporting said side bars
as heretofore in order to stretch the fabric in the direction of its width
In order to afford facility for stretching the fabric in the direction of its length
I adopt the following arrangement.
The sections carrying the tentering hooks pins or clamps I employ either in a
separate or disconnected state or I lightly connect them together by cord or other
suitable means.
These sections rest within the aforesaid side bars close or nearly close together,
the piece of fabric to be dressed or finished is attached to the tentering hooks pins
or clamps in the usual way but the ends of the piece are attached to cross rods or
bars which rest upon the aforesaid side bars and over supplemental bars running
alongside of such side bars I provide means whereby the said cross rods or bars
can, when required, be attached either to the longitudinal side bars or to the
supplemental bars
Then in order to stretch the fabric in the direction of its length I fix one of the
cross bars or rods to the sido bars and the other to the supplemental bars and
I give a short endwise motion to the side bars so as to carry with them the cross
rod or bar connected therewith, this action will, to some extent, carry the sections
of tentering hooks pins or clamps with the said side bars and thereby obviate
undue strain on the fabric. Then when the desired traverse has been given to the
side bars in one direction I connect the cross rods or bars to the side bars and to
the supplemental bars in reversed order so that that which was formerly connected
to the side bars 18 now connected to the supplemental bars and that which was
formerly connected to the latter is now connected to the former I then give to the
Bide bars an end wise motion in the reverse direction to that before given to them

page_text: cross rods or bars e e¹ which rest upon the aforesaid side bars a a and over
supplemental bars f f running alongside of such side bars a a I provide clamps e³
or other suitable ineans whereby either of the cross rods or bars e e¹ can when
required be attached to the side bars a a and I provide pegs e³ or other suitable
nicans whereby either of the cross rods or bars e e¹ can when required be fixed in
position on the supplemental bars ff by passing the same into one or other of the
holes in such supplemental bars
Then in order to stretch the fabric in the direction of its length I fix one of the
cross bars or 1ods e e¹ to the side bars a a and I give a short end wise motion to
said side bars by means of the screws g as shown or in other convenient manner
so as to carry with them the cross rod or bar e or e¹ connected therewith, this action
will to some extent carry the sections b 6* of tentering hooks pins or clamps with
the said side bars a a and thereby obviate undue strain on the fabric Then when
the desired traverse has been given to the side bars a a in one direction I connect
the cross rods or bars e e¹ to the side bars a a and to the supplemental bars f f in
reversed order so that that which was formerly connected to the side bars a a is
now connected to the supplemental bars ff and that which was formerly connected
to the latter is now connected to the former, I then give to the side bars a a an
end wise motion in the reverse direction to that before given to them whereby
I carry the cross 1od or bar e or e¹ connected there with and the sections b b* in an
opposite direction to that previously given to the other cross rod or bar e or e¹
I then if required reverse the connections of the cross rods or bars e e' and continue
the process as above described until the requisite extension lengthwise of the fabric
has been obtained the fabric is then finished in the ordinary way
When the sections b 6* carrying the tentering hooks, pins or clamps are
connected together so as to form an elastic series of hooks, pins or clamps one end
of the said series may be connected with one cross rod or bar e e¹ and the other
end to the other cross rod or bar
In some cases short pieces of fabric would be sufficiently stretched if pulled in
one direction only in this case the cross rods or bais e e¹ will be fixed as beforo
described, one to the side bars a a the other to the supplemental bars ff then by
simply moving the side bars a a in the one direction the requisite extension can be
given to the fabric
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim 18
1 The peculiar arrangement combination and mode of operation of machinery
or apparatus employed in stretching dressing and finishing lace and other like
fabrics whereby in addition to stretching the fabric in the direction of its width as
heretofore I am enabled to stretch the same lengthwise substantially as herein
shown and described.
2 The peculiar combination and arrangement of side bars a a,-supplemental
bars ff-cross rods or bars e e¹, independent or lightly connected, series of
sections b b of tentering hooks, pins or clamps and means for connecting such
sections with the said side bars a a and supplemental bars ff substantially as
herein shown and described and for the purpose stated