IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HOOK GUIDES USED IN MACHINES FOR THE MAKING OF LACE OR OTHER FABRICS
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Burton Haskard, of Wollaton Street, in the
Town and County of the Town of Nottingham, Spring Point and Guide
Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF HOOK GUIDES USED IN MACHINES FOR THE MAKING OF LACE OR OTHER
FABRICS."
Sealed the 4th January 1860, and dated the 6th July 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Burton Haskard
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
6th July 1859.
I, SAMUEL BURTON HASKARD, of Wollaton Street, in the Town and County
of the Town of Nottingham, Spring Point and Guide Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF Hoox GUIDES USED IN MACHINES FOR THE MAKING OF LACE OR
OTHER FABRICS," to be as follows:-
Heretofore hook guides have been constructed each having a round hole at
the upper end of the stem for the threads to pass through, which form of guide
imparts an acute angle to the threads passing through them, causing them
frequently to break and the guides to wear fast, and thereby entailing waste of
material, loss of time, and expense. Whereas, according to this my present
Invention, I manufacture book guides with an oblong or nearly oblong hole,
and with the beard at the upper or lower part thereof as convenience or fancy,

page_text: may suggest. The adoption of this form of hole affords to a small-headed book
guide all the advantages of a large-headed one of the description heretofore
used, for by forming the guide with an oblong hole the thread will pass through
it with greater freedom than through a round one; moreover it will hold the
thread in a proper position, and by bearing the beard and hole sidewise it takes
off the angle of the thread and prevents it from breaking, and my improved
guides will also wear much longer, by reason of there being less stress or
burden upon them. I propose to use this my inproved hook guide either
crosswise or parallel in the stem as occasion may require.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Burton Haskard in the Great Seal Patent Office.
on the 6th January 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
BURTON HASKARD, of Wollaton Street, in the Town and County of the Town
of Nottingham, Spring Point and Guide Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Samuel Burton Haskard, Her special licence that I the said Samuel
Burton Haskard, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said Samuel Burton Haskard, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter 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 Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HOOK GUIDES USED IN MACHINES FOR THE
MAKING OF LACE, OR OTHER FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Samuel Burton Haskard, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particu-
larly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Samuel Burton Haskard, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to

page_text: be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, reference being had to the accompanying Draw-
ings, and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say :-
My Invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of hook guides
used in machines for the making of lace or other fabrics. Heretofore hook
guides have been constructed each having a round hole at the upper end of
the stem for the thread to pass through, which form of hook guide imparts an
acute angle to the threads passing through them, causing the threads frequently
to break and the guides to wear fast, and thereby entailing waste of material,
loss of time and expence. Whereas, according to this my present Invention, I
manufacture or construct hook guides with an oblong or nearly oblong hole,
and with the beard at the upper or lower part thereof as convenience or fancy
may suggest. The adoption of this form of hole affords to a small-headed
hook guide all the advantages of a large-headed one of the description here-
tofore used; for, by constructing the guide with an oblong hole, the thread
will pass through it with greater freedom than through a round one, moreover
it will hold the thread in a proper position, and by bearing the beard and hole
sidewise it takes off the angle of the thread and prevents it from breaking, my
improved guides will also wear much longer by reason of there being less stress
or burden upon them. I propose to use this my improved hook guide either
crosswise or parallel to or with the stem as occasion may require.
I now proceed to explain my Invention more particularly with reference to
the accompanying Drawings. Figure 1 represents a hook guide constructed
according to my improvements in front and side view, the front view shews a
book guide for the front and back bars of a bobbin net machine, the hook
guide to the left being for the front of the machine, and the one to the right
for the back of the machine. The side view represents the same hooks as
seen from the end of the machine in which they are used. The beard or point
of this hook does not lie close to the stem but is raised a little from it, which
allows the thread to be passed into the hole of the book guide without having
recourse to a hook to draw the thread through the hole; the upper part of the
guide has a neck or bend as seen in the front view, which allows the thread to
stand quite perpendicular or parallel to the stem of the hook guide, the thread
has no unnecessary stress upon it at any time, the guide shogging it where
required. This hook has the beard pointing into the frame in which it works.
Figure 2 shews in front and side view a hook guide having the beard parallel
to the stem and crossed over it to the right or left side, the beard pointing
outward from the frame in which it is used, the front and side views are placed
in the same relative positions as the first described. Figure 8 represents in

page_text: side view a hook guide similar to the first described but having the beard
turned up to the top or nearly to the top of the hole as shewn in side view.
Figure 4 represents in front and side view a stump bar hook guide for casting
in leads to screw to a stump bar or to be soldered into a stump bar separately,
and having a hole of an oblong shape with the beard point standing close to
the stem in front, the thread in this guide is threaded through the hole with a
hook; when the guide is constructed with the beard raised a little from the
stem, the thread may be passed between the beard and stem, the stem being
straight into the hole without using a hook. Figure 5 is a side view of a
guide similar to the above but having a neck or bend at the upper end of the
beard close to the stem or a little way from it. Figure 6 (front view) is
similar, but has the hole placed on the right or left of the straight stem. All
the above-mentioned hook guides may be constructed with a straight stem or
with a neck or bend near the upper end, and may have the beard lying, close
to or a little raised from the stem and with the point of the beard pointing out,
from, into, or to the right or left of the machine in which the said hooks may
be used, the hook guides are also formed of any required size and gauge.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention and the manner
in which the same may be performed, I declare that what I claim is, construct-
ing a hook guide with an oblong or nearly oblong hole for the thread to pass
through, the beard being at the upper or lower part as desired, as herein-before
described and represented in the accompanying Drawings hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Burton Haskard, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fourth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
Witness,
SAMUEL BURTON HASKARD. (L.B.)
GEO. JON. ROBINSON, Patent Agent,
Nottingham.