IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF EMBROIDERED EDGINGS OR STRIPS to be as follows:
Year: 1884

page_text: I, WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake, and Oo, Patent
Agents, Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex do hereby declare
the nature of my invention for " IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
EMBROIDERED EDGINGS OR STRIPS to be as follows:-
"
My invention relates to the manufacture of embroidery by machinery and
consists in producing a continuous strip instead of a piece of limited or short
length as at present.
By the process now in use, for the manufacture of Hamburg edgings, a strip of
muslin or cambric, wide enough to make several rolls of the required design is
inserted in the machine, being secured above and below by sewing or pinning to
strips of cloth wound around these rollers so that it can be rolled up as finished on
one roller, the cloth on the other rollers being long enough to prevent this.
The ends are secured by tenter hooks on the ends of the machine and the length
of the piece of work that can be produced is limited by that of the machine;
which is, in the largest size, 41/2 yards.
From this it results that no strip of embroidery can be produced of greater
length than four and one half yards, and as more than this number of yards is
packed in a box, it must be inade up of several pieces.
This length is so short that it often cuts to a disadvantage where sold by the
yard or used by the purchaser, leaving useless ends or remnants.
I avoid all these objections by producing the embroidery in continuous lengths,
that is, any reasonable lengths that may be desired.
My process consists in using a long length of muslin in the piece, securing one
end by tenter hooks, and the top and bottom to the rollers as usual, but in place of
cutting off the other end to the length of the machine, I sew on a piece of waste
muslin and secure this to the tenter hooks, while the unused part of the muslin lies
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page_text: upon the floor or upon a suitable shelf and is covered with a cloth, or enclosed in a
bag to protect it from the dust. When one length of embroidery is finished, it is
released from the hooks and rollers, a new length drawn into place and secured to
the rolls top and bottom, and by means of a piece of muslin sewed to the work,
secured to the tenter hooks as first mentioned; the other end is secured as before
by means of a strip of muslin to the other tenter hooks, and so on until the
material is used up.
Vertical rollers may be used, the unused material and the finished product being
wound upon them in place of allowing it to lie in heaps.

page_text: I WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co, Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature
of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF EMBROIDERED
EDGINGS OR STRIPS and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
"
This invention relates to the manufacture of embroidery by machinery, and
consists in producing continuous strips instead of pieces of limited or short length
as at present.
By the process now in use, for the manufacture of Hamburg edgings, a strip of
muslin or cambric, wide enough to make several rolls of the required design, is
inserted in the machine, being secured above and below by sewing or pinning to
strips of cloth wound around rollers, so that it can be rolled up as finished on one
roller, the cloth on the other rollers being long enough to permit this.
The ends are secured by tenter books on the ends of the machine. The length
of the piece of work that can be produced is limited by that of the machine, which
is, in the largest size, 4
yards.
From this it results that no strip of embroidery can be produced of greater
length than four and one half yards, and as more than this number of yards is
packed in a box, the quantity must be made up of several pieces.
These lengths also are so short that it often cuts to a disadvantage where sold
by the yard or used by the purchaser, leaving useless ends or remnants.
I avoid all these objections by producing the embroidery in continuous lengths,
that is in any reasonable length that may be desired.
My process consists in using a long length of muslin in the piece, securing one
end by tenter hooks, and the top and bottom to the rollers as usual, but, in place
of cutting off the other end to the length of the machine, I sew on a piece of waste
muslin and secure this to the tenter hooks, while the unused part of the muslin
lies upon the floor or upon a suitable shelf and is covered with a cloth, or enclosed
in a bag to protect it from dust. When one length of embroidery is finished, it is
released from the hooks and rollers, a new length drawn into place and secured to
the rolls top and bottom, and by means of a piece of muslin sewed to the work,
secured to the tenter hooks as first mentioned, the other end is secured as before
by means of a strip of muslin to the other tenter hooks, and so on until the
inaterial is used up.
Vertical rollers may be used, the unused material and the finished product being
wound upon them instead of allowing it to lie in heaps.

page_text: 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 is
The improvement hereinbefore described in the embroidering of muslin, whereby
a continuous strip can be produced.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
For the Applicant.