IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LACE MADE ON BOBBIN NET OR TWIST LACE MACHINES
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Butler, of the Town and County of the
Town of Nottingham, Lace Maker, and Robert Frederic Carey,
of Nottingham Park, in the County of Nottingham, Lace Manu-
facturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF LACE MADE ON BOBBIN NET OR TWIST LACE MACHINES."
Sealed the 1st January 1870, and dated the 3rd July 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Butler and
Robert Frederic Carey at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 3rd July 1869.
We, THOMAS BUTLER, of the Town and County of the Town of
Nottingham, Lace Maker, and ROBERT FREDERIC CAREY, of Notting-
ham Park, in the County of Nottingham, Lace Manufacturer, do here-
by declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF LACE MADE ON BOBBIN NET OR TWIST LACE MACHINES," to be as
follows:-

page_text: We make a woven substance of lace which is commonly called
gimping, and this we perform upon its surface with spots or other
ornaments for figuring, floating, or loose, or fastened. We employ two
gimp threads placed in the back of the other threads, and these threads
are moved on the front motion immediately underneath spots or other
surface work, then the threads move over the edge bobbin thread on the
back motion to fasten the threads to their own extremities. These two gimp
threads work exactly opposite to each other, and when one thread is
rising the other is falling, so that a dense mass of gimping or cloth work
is made. The next threads in front of the gimps are the straight threads;
these we place under and over the gimp threads by falling over them
on the edges or extremities of the gimps. These straight threads move
on the front motion, and by selecting alternate numbers of threads and
moving them on the front motion over the extremities of a gimp throw the
threads fall in woven. The remaining threads are then taken and moved
over the extremities of the next gimp throw on the front motion, when
they also fall in woven. The next threads in front of the straight threads
are twisting or lacing threads; one or more of these threads are upon
each extremity of the gimp throw, and by twisting they fasten the
gimps and hold them out to their proper width and allow the straight
thread to fall over as mentioned. The above describes a piece of gimping
or cloth work for ornamentation to be placed upon its surface. We
also gimp with threads placed contrarywise to those stated above,
that is to say, we employ twisters in back and gimp threads in front,
and these threads would require drafting just contrarywise to those

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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Butler and Robert Frederic Carey in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 3rd January 1870.

page_text: Maker, and ROBERT FREDERIC CAREY, of Nottingham Park, in the
County of Nottingham, Lace Manufacturer, send greeting.
of
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Third day of July, in the year
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Thomas Butler and Robert Frederic
Carey, Her special licence that we, the said Thomas Butler and Robert
Frederic Carey, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as we, the said Thomas Butler and Robert Frederic Carey,
our 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 LACE MADE ON BOBBIN NET OR
TWIST LACE MACHINES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we,
the said Thomas Butler and Robert Frederic Carey, our executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, 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 we, the said Thomas Butler and Robert Fre-
deric Carey, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that is
to say:
According to our Invention we make a woven substance of lace which
is commonly called gimping, for the purpose of placing upon its surface
spots or other ornamentations, whether the spots be floating spots or loose
spots, or spots fastened to the lace and consequently not floating, or
loose spots or made of other ornamentation than spots.
In carrying out our Invention we employ two gimp threads, which
threads are placed in the back of the other threads, and these gimp
threads are moved on the front motion immediately underneath spots or

page_text: other surface work; the gimp threads then move over the edge bobbin
thread on the back motion so as to fasten the gimp threads to their own
extremities. The two gimp threads work exactly opposite to each other,
and when one thread is rising the other thread is falling, so that a dense
mass of gimping or cloth work is made. The next threads in front of the
gimp threads are the straight threads; these straight threads we place
both under and over the gimp threads by the straight threads falling
over them on the edges or extremities of the gimp threads. These
straight threads move on the front motion, and by taking or selecting
alternate numbers of threads and moving them on the front motion over
the extremities of a gimp throw the threads fall in woven. We then
take the remaining threads and move them over the extremities of the
next gimp throw on the front motion, when they also fall in woven. The
next threads in front of the straight threads are twisting or lacing
threads; one or more of these threads is or are upon each extremity of
the gimp throw, and by these threads twisting or lacing with the bobbin
threads they fasten the gimps and hold them out to the proper width
and allow the straight threads to fall over as before mentioned. The
foregoing describes a piece of gimping or cloth work for ornamen-
tation to be placed upon its surface. We also purpose to gimp with
threads placed contrary wise to those stated above, that is to say,
we employ twisters in back and gimp threads in front, and these
threads would require drafting just contrarywise to those previously

page_text: Having thus described the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same may be performed, we declare that we claim, the
manufacture of the lace known as cloth work or gimping made from
warp threads or beam threads on bobbin net or twist lace machines,
substantially as herein described.
In witness whereof, we, the said Thomas Butler and Robert
Frederic Carey, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this
Thirty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
Witness,
THOMAS BUTLER.
(L.S.)
ROBERT
FREDERIC CAREY. (L.S.)
GEO. JON. ROBINSON,
Patent Office,
Nottingham.