AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR WINDING LACE OR OTHER SIMILAR FABRICS OR TISSUES ON CARDS OR OTHER MATERIALS
Year: 1861

page_text: Sealed the 17th June 1862, and dated the 20th December 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Walkland at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 20th
December 1861.
I, GEORGE WALKLAND, of Saint Pierre-les-Calais, in the French Empire, Lace
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN
IMPROVED MACHINE FOR WINDING LACE OR OTHER SIMILAR FABRICS OR TISSUES ON
CARDS OR OTHER MATERIALS," to be as follows:-
In the ordinary method of winding lace upon card the operator turns the
machine with one hand and holds the lace with the other, and is obliged to
pay the greatest attention in order that the shifting or disposing of the lace
upon the card may be regular. Lace badly wound or carded is usually badly
pressed, but when the thick parts of the lace are regularly laid over the thin
parts, the whole is of the same level, and consequently receives the pressure
equally. I propose to effect this by the use of an improved machine of the
following construction:-To a suitable framing I connect and adapt the
following parts, first, a long axle, on one end of which is fixed a winch handle,
and on the opposite end a flat piece of metal, with slots formed therein, into
which other slotted pieces of metal are adjusted horizontally to suit the width
of the card placed therein, and on which the lace is to be wound. All these
parts are well known, and in common use, and it is the adaptation thereto and
combination therewith of the following mechanism, which constitutes this

page_text: Invention, that is to say, between the two ends of the aforesaid long axle, and
thereon I fix a piece of metal, around which are adjusted two curved pieces of
metal forming a thread or parts of two threads of a screw, said pieces being
capable of being adjusted or moved, and held fast so as to constitute either
right or left handed screws for altering or changing the direction of rotary
motion of a worm wheel, into the teeth of which said threads take or gear for
imparting alternate circular motion to said worm wheel and following parts
connected thereto, and therewith said worm wheel is fixed on a short axle
mounted in another framing separate and distinct from the first-mentioned
framing, said second framing being connected by its upper end to the long
axle before mentioned, and at that end thereof which is nearest to the winch
handle before mentioned upon the short axle aforesaid of the worm wheel, a
heart-shape cam is fixed and revolves therewith for the purpose of imparting
alternate reciprocating movement to a sliding piece of metal, in which are
adjusted two rollers which embrace the edge of the aforesaid cam at opposite
points. There is a small pin fixed to the aforesaid sliding piece of metal, and
said pin takes in a slot formed in a flat vibrating piece of metal, connected by
a pin at a point below the former pin, said latter pin being fixed in another
part of the second or auxiliary framing before mentioned, the lower end of
said vibrating piece of metal has a slot formed therein, in which is passed a
pin, fixed into another vertical piece of metal affixed to a long horizontal
sliding piece, so that as said vibrating piece of metal moves backward and
forward by the action of the heart-shape cam before mentioned, the aforesaid
long sliding piece is moved backward and forward, and by means of a flat
piece of metal fixed to one end of said long sliding piece, and having small
holes through same near the top edge thereof, in two of which are placed two
pins, at distances asunder, according to the width of the lace to be wound, the
lace being placed between said pins, and one end affixed to the card on which
the lace is to be wound, and the other end of the lace guided by hand; by these
means the lace is distributed and wound uniformly around the card throughout
its entire length. When it is desired to obtain a greater range of action of the
sliding lace guide or distributor than can be effected by the vibrating piece of
metal before described, I then remove said piece and put said distributor
into gear with the teeth of the aforesaid worm wheel, a tooth rack being
formed on the edge of the sliding piece of the distributor for that purpose.
By these means said sliding piece may be moved backward and forward by the
worm wheel nearly its entire length, and thus a much larger card can be
filled than by the use of the vibrating piece before described.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Walkland in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
20th June 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
WALKLAND, of Saint Pierre-les-Calais, in the French Empire, Lace Manu-
facturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said George Walkland, Her special licence that I, the said
George Walkland, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said George Walkland, 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
"AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR WINDING LACE OR OTHER SIMILAR FABRICS OR TISSUES
ON CARDS OR OTHER MATERIALS," upon the conditions, amongst others, that I,
the said George Walkland, my executors or administrators, by, an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly 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 George Walkland, do hereby declare
the nature of said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, that is to say:-
In the ordinary method of winding lace upon card, the operator turns the
machine with one hand and holds the lace with the other, and is obliged to
pay the greatest attention in order that the shifting or disposing of the lace
upon the card may be regular. Lace badly wound or carded is usually badly
pressed, but when the thick parts of the lace are regularly laid over the thin
parts, the whole is of the same level, and consequently receives the pressure
equally. I propose to effect this by the use of an improved machine of the
following construction:-To a suitable framing I connect and adapt the
following parts. First, a long axle, on one end of which is fixed a winch

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adjusted or moved and held fast, so
handle, and on the opposite end a flat piece of metal with slots formed therein,
into which other slotted pieces of metal are adjusted horizontally to suit the
width of the card placed therein, and on which the lace is to be wound.
these parts are well known, and in common use, and it is the adaptation
thereto, and the combination therewith of the following mechanism which
constitutes this Invention, that is to say, between the two ends of the afore-
said long axle, and thereon I fix a piece of metal, around which are adjusted
two curved pieces of metal forming a thread or parts of two threads of a
screw, said pieces being capable of being
as to constitute either right or left-handed screws for altering or changing the
direction of rotary motion of a worm wheel, into the teeth of which said
threads take or gear for imparting alternate circular motion to said worm
wheel and following parts connected thereto and therewith. Said worm wheel
is fixed on a short axle mounted in another framing separate and distinct
from the first-mentioned framing, said second framing being connected by its
upper end to the long axle before mentioned, and at that end thereof, which is
nearest to the winch handle, before mentioned, upon the short axle aforesaid
of the worm wheel a heart shape cam is fixed, and revolves therewith for the
purpose of imparting alternate reciprocating movement to a sliding piece of
metal, in which are adjusted two rollers, which embrace the edge of the
aforesaid cam at opposite points. There is a small pin fixed to the aforesaid
sliding piece of metal, and said pin takes in a slot formed in flat vibrating
piece of metal connected by a pin at a point below the former pin, said latter
pin being fixed in another part of the second or auxiliary framing before-
mentioned; the lower end of said vibrating piece of metal has a slot formed
therein, in which is passed a pin fixed into another vertical piece of metal
affixed to a long horizontal sliding piece, so that as said vibrating piece of
metal moves backwards and forward by the action of the heart shape wheel
before mentioned, the aforesaid long sliding piece is moved backward and
forward, and by means of a flat piece of metal fixed to one end of said long
sliding piece, and having small holes through same near the top edge thereof,
in two of which are placed two pins at distances asunder according to the
width of the lace to be wound, the lace being placed between said pins, and
one end affixed to the card on which the lace is to be wound, and the other
end of the lace guided by hand; by these means the lace is distributed and
wound uniformly around the card throughout its entire length. When it is
desired to obtain a greater range of action of the sliding lace guide or distri-
butor than can be effected by the vibrating piece of metal before described, I
then remove said piece, and put said distributer into gear with the teeth of

page_text: sliding piece of the distributor for that purpose. By these means, said sliding
piece may be moved backward and forward by the worm wheel nearly its
entire length, and thus a much larger card can be filled than by the use of
the vibrating piece before described.
In order to explain my said Invention as completely as possible, I now
proceed to describe the best means I am acquainted with for carrying the
same into practical effect, reference being had to the illustrative Sheet of
Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the numeral figures and letters of reference
marked thereon respectively, as follows:-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved machine; Figure 2, an end
view thereof; Figures 3, 4, 5, 6, detached parts, hereinafter particularly
described and referred to. At each of the foregoing Figures I employ similar
letters of reference to denote corresponding parts in so far as such parts appear
or can be seen at each of such said Figures respectively.
A is a handle for giving motion to the axle E, divided worms F of novel
'construction fixed on said axle, and the adjustable arms B, B, for holding the
cards around which the lace is to be wound; the worms F gear or take into
the worm wheel G, and impart rotary motion thereto. H is a heart wheel
fixed on the axis of the wheel G; I, I, racks or star plates connected to the
excentric II by a pin, on which they turn, so that at each rotation of the
wheels G and H, one of the aforesaid star wheels strikes against a pin J fixed
in the framing M', and denotes the number of yards wound on the cards.
J' is the main framing of the machine to which the several parts of the
mechanism are connected; K is a piece of metal capable of sliding along the
slot 1 in the piece M', to which it is connected by thumb screws and pins L, L.
L' is a pin fixed in the piece K; this pin takes in a slot formed in a vibrating
piece of metal O, the fulcrum whereof is a pin M. Fixed in the framing M¹
of the piece O, in which
there is a slot 2, formed through the lower end
another pin P takes, said pin being adjusted in a piece of metal R fixed to a
bar S, supported by and sliding in the parts 3, 3, of the framing M'; T, a
small piece of board fixed on the end of the bar S; V, V, are small holes, in
any two of which pins are placed according to the width of the lace or other
article to be wound, said pins being employed to guide the lace on to the
card. When it is required to fill larger cards than could be filled by the
above described mechanism, I then employ the following arrangement:-I
remove the piece O and raise the bar S until the teeth 4 of the rack thereof

page_text: gear into the teeth of the wheel G; by this arrangement the bar S may be
moved outwards its entire length.
I now proceed to describe the construction of the piece F, and the
mechanism for reversing the direction of the winding motion of the machine,
as follows, and by reference to Figures 3, 4, 5, of the accompanying Sheet of
Drawings, where it will be seen that the thread or worm Z is made in three
parts respectively marked 3, 4, 5; the part 3 is fixed to the piece F, and is
formed with two pivots **; the parts 4 and 5 fit on to said pivots, and the
upper ends of said parts are connected to a · piece of metal 6 (shewn at
Figure 3), capable of moving horizontally on a pivot fixed to the piece F.
The points of the piece 6 pass through slots × in the piece F, as shewn in
plan view, and said points each take in a hole formed in the threads 4, 5;
7 is a piece of metal for locking the piece 6 in any desired position so as to
work either as a right or as a left-handed screw, as at Figure 4, for reversing
the direction of the winding motion. Figure 5 shews the divided threads in
a straight line with each other, in which position they would produce no
effect; 8 is a strong spring for holding the piece 7 up. At Figure 6 is
represented the shape of the pieces of metal marked Y, Y, at Figure 1, to
which the framing M¹ is screwed. Two pins or screws a are passed through
the framing J¹, as at Figure 1, and upon the points of said pins or screws the
pieces Y, Y, are suspended, as at Figure 6.
Having now fully described and set forth the nature and object of my said
Invention of "An Improved Machine for Winding Lace or other similar
Fabrics or Tissues on Cards or other Materials," together with the best means
I am acquainted with for carrying the same into practical effect, I would
remark, in conclusion, that I hereby declare my Invention to consist in, and I
claim the mechanical combinations and arrangements of parts above described
and represented as constituting an improved machine for winding lace, and
especially I claim the parts represented at Figures 3, 4, 5, for reversing the
direction of motion of the winding mechanism, as above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Walkland, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
GEORGE WALKLAND. (L.S.)