IMPROVEMENTS IN LACE DRESSING FRAMES EM PLOYED IN THE DRESSING OF LACE OR OTHER FABRICS
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Dobson, of the Firm of Messieurs William
and Frederick Dobson, of the Town and County of the Town of
Nottingham, Lace Dressers, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
LACE DRESSING FRAMES EM PLOYED IN THE DRESSING OF LACE OR OTHER
FABRICS."
Sealed the 15th May 1863, and dated the 17th November 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Dobson at
the Office of, the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the.
17th November 1862.
I, WILLIAM DOBSON, of the Firm of Messieurs William and Frederick
Dobson, of the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham, Lace Dressers,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
LACE DRESSING FRAMES EMPLOYED IN THE DRESSING OF LACE OR OTHER FABRICS,"
to be as follows:-
Heretofore the pins fixed on the sides and ends of the frames employed by
lace dressers for dressing lace or other fabrics have been naked and exposed
to view, so that when the roller or rollers used in dressing the lace or other
fabrics has or have passed over them, the roller or rollers have been injured
by the contact, and the pins also (so that other pins have had to be constantly
substituted for them); the contact of rollers and pins also causes con-
siderable loss of the dressing material, which clogs the pins, necessitating
frequent washing thereof. These disadvantages involve expense and loss of

page_text: time. Now the object of my Invention is to obviate these evils, and for this
purpose I cover the pins in the following manner :-I employ a strip or piece
of wood, or other suitable material, of any required shape and size, whether
composed of vegetable, animal, or other substance, and this I cover with
flannel or other suitable material. This strip or piece, thus or similarly
covered, I place over the pins before mentioned, by which means I entirely
prevent the possibility of injury either to the rollers or the pins. The pins so
covered will require to be washed less frequently than heretofore, and there
will also be less liability of the fabrics being damaged while being dressed.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Dobson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
16th May 1863.
.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
DOBSON, of the Firm of Messieurs William: and Frederick Dobson, of the
Town and County of the Town of Nottingham,. Lace Dressers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of November, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said William Dobson, Her special licence, that I, the said William
Dobson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said William Dobson, 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 "Iм-
PROVEMENTS IN LACE DRESSING FRAMES, EMPLOYED IN THE DRESSING OF LACE OR
OTHER FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said,
William Dobson, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly 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 William Dobson, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-

page_text: the same may be performed, I declare that I claim, as my improvements in
lace dressing frames employed in the dressing of lace or other fabrics, the
method of covering or protecting the pins as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Dobson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
Witness,
GEO. JON. ROBINSON,
Patent Office,
Nottingham.
WILLIAM DOBSON. (L.S.)