IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR APPLYING FRINGES TO SHAWLS AND OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1844

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, SAMUEL
CUNLIFFE LISTER and JAMES AMBLER, of Bradford, in the County of York,
Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Fourteenth day of March, in the seventh year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
Samuel Cunliffe Lister and James Ambler, Her especial licence, full power,
sole priviledge and authority, that we, the said Samuel Cunliffe Lister and
James Ambler, our exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as we, the
said Samuel Cunliffe Lister and James Ambler, our exors, adñors, or assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, our Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR
APPLYING FRINGES TO SHAWLS AND OTHER ARTICLES;" in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso that we, the said Samuel Cunliffe Lister and
James Ambler, or one of us, shall cause a particular description of the nature
of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to
be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters
Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully
and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
Samuel Cunliffe Lister and James Ambler, do hereby declare that the nature
of our said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed,
are particularly described and ascertained in and by the following description
thereof, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the
figures and letters marked thereon (that is to say):-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shows a front view of the machine as it appears before the
material is put in to be fringed; Figure 2 shows a side view with the shawl
or other material in; Figure 3 shows a plan upon which the bobbins are put;
Figure 4 shews a side view and vertical section of the moving parts, together
with the bobbin A, with a worsted through the eye of the needle B.
In order that the application of the parts should be more clearly understood
we will now describe the process :-First, the needle B being threaded by the
hands of the workmen, as shewn in Figure 4. The cloth presser C, shown
in Figure 10, (which is made of wood) with an open space the same length
as the needle frame, and of sufficient width to allow the needles to pass
through, over which space is placed a piece of cloth which is pressed by the
workman down to the head of the needle, as shown in Figure 5. This cloth
being pressed down, the needle will hold the end of the thread until the needle
is inserted through the shawl or other material. The shawl or other material
is thus placed upon the points of the needles by the hands of the workmen,
and is pressed down the needle by the wire presser D, Figure 11, which is a
piece of wood similar to the cloth presser, only with a wire at proper distances,
as shown in Figure 11, so that each wire comes between each needle when the
workman presses the shawl down the needles, as seen in Figure 5. The wire
presser is then removed (after pressing the shawl to the bottom of the needles)
and the cloth presser C is slightly raised by the pullies H, H, (fixed on the
shaft Q, and the rods I, I, so as to cause the portion of the thread W,
between the eye of the needle and the shawl, to slacken, in order that the
workman may draw the loose end through the shawl. The thread being now
through the shawl, the beam E, Figure 12, seen also in Figure 1, is lowered
down the slide rods f, f, by means of the pullies G, G, fixed on the shaft N,
turned by the handle O. The beam being grooved, as shown in Figure 7, so
as to stride the needles, the press keys, being shown in Figure 18, are then
applied so as to hold the shawl between the cloth presser and the beam, and
also the ends of the thread being now held together between the beam and
the cloth presser, the beam, shawl, and cloth presser are then raised by the

page_text: pullies H, H, on the shaft Q, by the handle R, to the height required, and as
it is raised the thread is drawn through the needles so as to make the fringe
any length required, as shown in Figures 8 and 9. The press beam and
shawl being suspended by the catches M, the thread is cut by the workman
to any length required. We may here state that Figure 15 represents the
pin and tin cup upon which the bobbin runs.
We will now describe the needle, which is drawn the size we are now using
them, Figure 14. The eye T is at the point of the needle. It is fixed in a
brass bed J, which is fastened to an iron bar K, and screwed to the wooden
frame L, as shown in Figure 1.
Having thus described the nature of our said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, we wish it to be understood that what we
claim as our Invention is the mode of applying fringes to shawls and other
fabrics by using a series of needles.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Cunliffe Lister, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of September, in the
year
of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-four