An Improved Tatting Shuttle.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Jan., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 13th Oct., 1892-Accepted, 14th Jan., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Tatting Shuttle.
I, ANNIE ELIZABETH WEBB PHILLIPS, Holbrook, Hartley Street, Wolver-
hampton, in the County of Stafford, Art Embroiderer do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows :-
The improvement in shuttle consists of a hook, formed upon the end of one fang,
by shaping it off similar to a crochet hook on the inside, thus making it harmless to
work with, and in order to use the said hook, the other fang on same end is
shortened and rounded, but left long enough to prevent the cotton from slipping off
block. This hook being formed of part of shuttle in the said manner, does not
necessitate the putting down of the shuttle to pick up a pin, needle, or crochet hook,
to pull the cotton through loops made by operator. Can be made out of same
material as at present used.
Dated this 14th day of January 1892.
FREDK. WALKER,
11, Furnival Street, Holborn, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Tatting Shuttle.
I, ANNIE ELIZABETH WEBB PHILLIPS, of Holbrook, Hartley Street, Wolver-
hampton, in the County of Stafford, Art Embroiderer, 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 :-
My invention relates to an improvement in Tatting Shuttles, namely. One half
of the shuttle is shorter than the other, so as to allow on the other half of the
shuttle a hook, pin head, point, or other suitably shaped instrument, to be either
made out of the terminal end of the fang of that half, or inserted into it, or affixed
to it, by any convenient method, or such hook, pin head, or point, may be made out
of a separate plate, or affixed to a separate plate, and then such plate may be
fastened on to the shuttle. The purpose for which this said hook, pin head, or
point, is used, is to draw the cotton thro: the picotted loops (as shewn in Fig. 7)
which are made in the process of tatting, and thereby preventing the necessity of
putting the shuttle out of the operators hands, while the said operator picks up a
pin, or crochet hook, for the purpose of drawing cotton thro picotted loops made.
This shuttle can be made of vulcanite, ivory, pearl, tortoiseshell, metal or any
suitable material.
Fig. 1. is a shuttle in section, C is the hook on the terminal end of the longer half
of the said shuttle, A is the shorter half of such shuttle. This is a side
elevation.
Fig. 2. is a shuttle, A is the shorter half of such shuttle, showing how it is
rounded off at A upon that half, C, shows the longer half of the shuttle, and the
hook upon the terminal point of such half. This is a front elevation.
Fig. 3. shows a similar shuttle to that in Fig. 1, but D. is shaped like the head of
a pin. This is a side elevation.
Fig. 4 shows a similar shuttle, to that in Fig. 3, but the crochet hook at E, is
inserted in the terminal end of the fang of shuttle.
Fig. 5. shows a similar shuttle to that in Fig. 3, but the hook in that case is not
inserted in, but fastened to the shuttle, by means of rivits, or any other convenient
means. This is a side elevation.

page_text: Fig. 6 shows a similar shuttle to
longer half made into a point, or a
plate. This is a front elevation:
that in Fig. 4, but with the terminal end of the
point can be attached by means of a separate
:
Fig. 7. E is a piece of tatting, Gis a-shuttle, B. is the shorter half of the said
shuttle, A is the longer half of the said shuttle, C is the. crochet hook upon that
longer half, F is a loop on the design E, & D is the thread being drawn through
that loop F, and the hook C is shown to be carrying the thread.
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Having now described particularly and ascertained the full nature of my.said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that, what I
claim is
A tatting shuttle, with one fang shorter than the other, in order that the longer
fang may be worked with to advantage and the said other fang has upon it a crochet
hook, or a protuberance shaped like the head of a pin, or a pin point, thus avoiding
the necessity of putting down the shuttle, and picking up a separate instrument, to
make the stitch, which was the ordinary mode in tatting, according to the old
method.
Dated this 12th day of October 1892.
ANNIE ELIZABETH WEBB PHILLIPS,
Applicant.