IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS APPLICABLE TO BOBBIN NET OR TWIST LACE MACHINES
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George John Newton, of Old Radford, in the
County of Nottingham, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS APPLICABLE TO BOBBIN NET OR TWIST LACE
MACHINES."
Sealed the 26th April 1876, and dated the 6th November 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George John Newton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 6th November 1875.
I, GEORGE JOHN NEWTON, of Old Radford, in the County of Notting-
ham, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS APPLICABLE TO BOBBIN NET OR TWIST LACE
MACHINES," to be as follows:-
Instead of the horizontal springs heretofore employed to pull the top
and bottom bars the reverse way to the lift of the jacquard selecting
them, I employ a frame secured to the machine to support one or more

page_text: series of axles, each axle carrying a number of pulleys, one pulley to
cach bar employed; over each pulley a gut, chain, or cord is passed, the
upper end of which is secured to the end of the bar furthest from the
jacquard; the lower end of the gut, chain, or cord I attach to a weight
or else to one end of a spring, the opposite end of the spring being
secured to the floor, or a framing secured to the floor, or any convenient
part of the machine.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said George John Newton in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 4th May 1876..
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
JOHN NEWTON, of Old Radford, in the County of Nottingham, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of November, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said George John Newton, Her
special licence that I, the said George John Newton, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George John
Newton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after during the term therein 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 Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS APPLICABLE TO BOBBIN
NET OR TWIST LACE MACHINES," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said George John Newton, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their liands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and

page_text: lift of the jacquard selecting them in my first modification of apparatus
I employ a frame A, see Figures 1, 2, and 3, secured to the end
standard A² of a lace machine by tie rods A'; the frame is also secured
to and supported by two standards B firmly bolted to the floor; the
frame supports several series of axles C, each carries a number of
pulleys D; there is one such pulley to each thread carrying bar D'
employed in the machine; over each pulley a gut, cord, or chain E is
passed, the upper end of which is secured to the end of the bar furthest
from the jacquard; the lower end of the gut, cord, or chain I attach to
a weight E', or else to one end of a spring F; the opposite end of the
spring being secured to the floor or to a bar F¹ attached to the standards B
at each end. The sides of the axle carrying frame I connect by two tie
rods, the outermost of which is shewn partly broken away at Figure 2,
as are also five of the six axles so as to shew their relative position.
The side of the frame shown at Figure 4 is set out for six axles, and
cach axle carrying 50 pulleys the apparatus will operate 300 bars. If a
greater number are required it is only necessary to lengthen the sides of
the frame A so as to support more axles, and to form the tops of the
standards B of a length to correspond.
In the above modification only one series of axles are shown, but in
the second modification I employ two series of axles C¹, C², the outer
ends of each series being carried by the sides of the frame A, and the
inner ends of each series being carried by an intermediate bearing
bar A³, the ends of which rest upon and are secured to the tie bars
which connect the sides of the frame A; the two series of axles are set
at such an angle with respect to cach other that a more direct pull
upon the bars may be obtained, and undue pressure of the pulleys upon
each other obviated. There are gut, cords, or chains and weights E' as
in the first modification. The weights are kept apart by and move up
and down between the sley plates G, which are supported at each end
by a slotted bearing bar G¹ secured to the standards B, and held in the
bar G¹ by caps G². When the average weights E¹ do not operate sundry
bars which carry a greater number of thread than usual I employ a
greater weight, or I attach one end of a spring F to the bottom of the
average weight and secure the opposite end of the spring to the floor or
a bar, as described in my first modification.
By employing apparatus arranged as described in the above modifi-

page_text: cation considerable less space is required than heretofore occupied by
the horizontal spring frame employed.
In witness whereof, I, the said George John Newton, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Third day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.
.
Witness,
H. W. GOUGH, C.E.,
Nottingham:
GEORGE JOHN NEWTON. (L.S.)