An Adjustable Pin for Making Maltese or other Hand Made Lace.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Adjustable Pin for Making Maltese or other Hand Made Lace.
JOHN. WILLIAM HUGHES Oswald Street Redditch Worcestershire Engineer
WILLIAM HAROLD LAUGHER Eleven Queen Street. Redditch Worcestershire,
Machinist. do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-―
In the manufacture of this pin we use wire made from steel brass or any other
suitable metal and instead of bending it as it is now done with two legs forming
the shape of the letter U we bend the wire to right angles only. One of these
angles we use as one of the legs the other angle as a bar which we call the adjust-
ing bar. On this bar we place a movable slide which carries a wire forming the
other leg and corresponding to the one on the adjusting bar.
This slide is made fast or released for adjustments by a small set screw.
Dated this second day of March 1897
JOHN WILLIAM HUGHES.
W. H. LAUGHER.
An Adjustable Pin for Making Maltese or other Hand Made Lace.
JOHN WILLIAM HUGHES, Oswald Street Redditch Worcestershire, Engineer,
WILLIAM HAROLD LAUGHER, Eleven Queen Street, Redditch, Worcestershire,
Machinist, 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:-
In the manufacture of this pin we use wire round in section, and made from
Steel, Brass, or any other suitable metal. We do not, however, bend the wire,
which for illustration, we will suppose to be a piece about nine inches in length,
into a form resembling the letter U, but bend it so as to form a right angle. The
wire we use may vary somewhat in guage, but in the drawings filed herewith, wire
of about one-eighth of an inch in diameter is supposed to be used. Finer wire,
however, may be required for a pin intended for some kinds of lace work.
The right angle which we form in the piece of wire by bending it, will have
two limbs unequal in length, one of which we will call the "fixed uprights", being
rather less than five inches and one-half long, and the other horizontal one, called
the "slide bar" consequently shorter. The under side of this slide bar we flatten
by stamping, filing, or other ordinary process, so that it be suitable to receive
the action of a set screw.
We next prepare the adjusting, or more properly the adjustable bar. This is

page_text: a separate piece of wire of the same guage as that of the fixed upright, and is
secured by a screw thread at its lower extremity into a "slide piece," which is
a piece of metal about one-half of an inch in length and of a diameter sufficiently
greater than that of the adjusting, or adjustable bar, to allow of this being screwed
into it. Through this slide piece we drill horizontally a hole of sufficient internal
diameter to allow of the passage freely, yet not too loosely of the slide piece along
the slide bar and to meet this horizontal hole we drill and tap another hole
vertically from beneath to receive a set screw.
The adjusting, or adjustable bar, being fixed into the slide piece, we pass this
by means of the horizontal hole, on to the slide bar, when the adjusting or ad-
justable bar will be found to stand parallel to the fixed upright and equal to it
in height. It is only necessary then to apply the set screw, and this secures the
adjusting or adjustable bar upon the slide bar, at any distance, within the length
of this, to which we may choose to set it with regard to the fixed upright.
And in the illustration given in fig. 1. A represents the fixed upright, and B
the slide bar, while C. denotes the adjusting, or adjustable bar, and D) the slide
piece into which it is fixed, the set screw being shown at E.
And the action will be understood by referring to section fig. 2 12 being a section
of the slide bar (B. fig 1.) on which by means of its horizontal hole, can be moved
the slide piece D carrying the adjusting or adjustable bar C. while the set screw E
secures this last at any required point on the slide bar.
And in the manufacture and carrying out of our invention we use no tools or
appliances not commonly known to all workers in metal.
And the advantage gained by a pin made in accordance with our invention is,
that the lace worker, instead of having to use a number of the U-formed pins of
various widths between the limbs, to work the different widths of lace required,
can with one adjustable pin made as above described, work various widths of lace
by merely setting the adjusting, or adjustable bar to any required distance from
the fixed upright and there securing it in position by means of the set screw, while
the whole appliance is light and easily held in one hand.
And this also shows the application of our invention, for if it be required that
the lace shall be two inches in width, it is only necessary to set the adjusting, or
adjustable bar, to this distance from the fixed upright and extending the thread
from one to the other, work the lace in the usual manner, and so on with other
widths.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:
The above described method of constructing a pin for the use of handmade-lace
workers, this having an adjusting, or adjustable bar, which can be set at any
required distance, within the length of the slide bar, from the fixed upright; thus
enabling the lace worker to work lace of various widths with the one appliance;
the whole constructed substantially in the manner as above set forth.
Dated this Oct 05 1907
JOHN WILLIAM HUGHES.
WILLIAM HAROLD LAUGHER.