IMPROVEMENTS IN COMBS EMPLOYED IN TWIST LACE MACHINES."
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Spowage, of the town and county of the town
of Nottingham for an invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN COMBS EMPLOYED IN
TWIST LACE MACHINES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Spowage at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th July 1882.
WILLIAM SPOWAGE, of the town and county of the town of Nottingham.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN COMBS EMPLOYED IN TWIST LACE MACHINES."
My improvements consist in forming a tab or projection on the underside of the
comb blades nearest the bars carrying the threads on one or both sides, the
thickness of the gate when the blades are placed together, and the metal cast on
them, the projections form a solid rib of comb underneath the nose, and holds
them (the blades) firm; by this means the carriages travel safer from one comb bar
to the other, and also tends to prevent wrong gating.
The projections may be made by hammering down the lower edge of each blade,
or by inserting a stud projecting from one or both sides, or by turning down the
projection at right angles to the blades.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said William Spowage in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
7th October 1882.
WILLIAM SPOWAGE, of the town and County of the town of Nottingham.
“IMPROVEMENTS IN COMBS EMPLOYED IN TWIST LACE MACHINES."
My improvements consist in forming a tab or projection on the underside of
the comb-blades nearest the bars carrying the threads, on one or both sides, the
thickness of the gate; when the blades are placed together and the metal cast on
them, the projections form a solid rib of comb underneath the nose and holds
them (the blades) firm by this means the carriages travel safer from one comb bar
to the other, and also tends to prevent wrong gating.
The projections may be made by hammering down the lower edge of each blade,
or by inserting a stud projecting from one or both sides or by turning down the
projections at right angles to the blades
Figures 1 and 2 are side views of my improved combs in position on the comb
bars which are shown in section.
Figure 3 is a side view of one of the comb blades shown at Figure 1, and,
Figure 4 is a front view of a few of such blades in the relative position, they
occupy when cast together.
My improvements consist in forming one or more tabs or projections B or B'
on the underside of each comb blade A when only one projection is formed on
each blade, it occupies about the position shown at Figure 1, near the end of the
blade nearest the bars carrying the threads, when two projections are formed on
each blade, one B is placed at the end of the blade, and the second B' interme-
diately between the first and the comb lead, the position and number of the
projections will vary as required. Each projection may be made by hammering
down the lower edge of each blade, or by inserting a stud projecting from one or
both sides, or by turning down the projections at right angles to the blades as
shown at Figure 4.
In either case the projections form a solid rib or ribs of comb, underneath the
nose and holds the blades firm, by such means the carriages travel safer from one
comb bar to the other, and it also tends to prevent wrong grating.
In witness whereof I the said William Spowage, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twelfth day of September, in the year of our Lord, One
thousand eight hundred and.eighty two.
Witness,
HW GOUGH CE
Nottingham
WILLIAM SPOWAGE. (L.S.)