Improved Appliances for Making Tufted Rugs and Mats.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Apr., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 28th Dec., 1896-Accepted, 2nd Apr., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Appliances for Making Tufted Rugs and Mats.
ARTHUR PALMER, 2, Norton Villas Salisbury Road Ipswich Suffolk, Fitter.
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Two pieces of wood about two feet eight inches long, or any length required
& about three inches wide, by about 1 inch thick, each piece bevelled on one
edge, also gradually reduced in thickness from centre to the ends.
These pieces are to hold the sack cloth in its place, which will pass through them
as the rug is made.
The piece of wood at the top have small pins projecting through near the back
edge, about one eight of an inch, fitting into holes corresponding into the under
piece, also one thumb screw at each end to bring the 2 pieces together & one
spiral-spring at each end to lift the top piece from the bottom piece, when the
screws are released.
Also one piece of wood at each end of these pieces about eight inches long
& three quarters of an inch thick, attached to the under side of the long pieces by
a screw which they will turn on, so as to close up when not in use, the other end of
these pieces to be fixed to a table by cramps which pass through a hole near the
end of these pieces to prevent damage to table.
The rugs or mats are made by fixing pieces of cloth or wool or other material,
to canvas or sackcloth with string, with specially made needle, as follows:-
About 3 inches long & one eight thick, pointed at one end, half an inch from
this end an eye is drilled, from this eye the needle is groved on 2 sides the other
2 sides are notched to prevent the needle from dropping after it is forced through
the canvas, the other end is fixed to a handle on which is fixed a piece of wire
to form an eye standing out about one eight of an inch from the furrel on the
handle.
It is used as follows:
Thread the needle through the eye near the handle, then through the eye near
the point, force the needle through the canvas from the under side close up to the
bevelled edge of the long pieces, when a loop is formed then place the piece of
cloth or wool in the loop, pull the needle back & repeat this operation untill the
row is completed.
impro
ices for making Tufted Rugs and Mats.
I ARTHUR PALMER Fitter, of 2, Norton Villas Salisbury Road Ipswich in
the County of Suffolk, 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 :-
Do hereby declare the nature of this invention has for its object an improved
apparatus for the making of tufted rugs, and mats by which pieces of cloth, wool,

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hempen, or other suitable material are securely and quickly fixed, by string to
canvas or cloth. This apparatus is comprised of two pieces of wood (hereinafter
described as top, and bottom pieces, and for general use, two feet eight inches long
by one inch thick, each piece being bevelled on one edge, and which will be on the
top side of one piece, and on the under side of the bottom piece, these pieces are
gradually and slightly tapered from the centre to each end, upon the under side of
the top piece there are fixed a number of pins at various distances apart, which
project slightly from the under surface, these pins penetrate the material upon
which the tufted pieces are to be attached, keeping the said canvas, or cloth firmly
in its place, while the operation of attaching the said pieces is being effected-in
the bottom piece, holes corresponding with these pins are made, for the purpose
holding the canvas to the wood frame. At each end of the bottom piece is attached
a projecting foot, free to be set at any position for the purpose, these feet are of
sufficient length so as to be clamped to any convenient fixture, by this means the
apparatus is kept rigid while in use, upon one side of each of these feet is arranged
a sliding hook or roller support, which when required for use is pulled out, and by
a turn of a quarter of a circle, takes an abutment against a stop thus keeping these
said hooks or roller supports from shifting, and always parallel with the edges of
the top and bottom pieces, these sliding hooks when extended, carry a wood roller,
upon which the canvas or cloth, upon which the tufted pieces are to be attached,
has been previously fixed, going the width of the top and bottom pieces. The top
and bottom pieces are required when the apparatus is being used to be firmly
attached to each other this is done preferably by a bolt and nut, but it can also be
done by the use of a lever; to assist the releasing, springs are fixed at each end, and
between the top and bottom pieces, so that when the nuts are slackened the upward
pressure of the spring, assist the top piece to lift, this operation has to be done
when a fresh row has to be started.
The needle carrying the string or twine has specially made grooves, and eye,
through which the string is passed, near to its point, a short distance from the
point is a projecting eyelet which acts as a conductor to the string or twine,
preventing any entanglement, upon this needle is fixed a wood handle of any
convenient shape.
In the drawings hereto annexed I have shown the apparatus for the making of
tufted rugs and mats constructed as above described.
Figure 1. is a
plan.
Figure 2. is a front elevation.
Figures 3. and 4. are respectively a cross section showing a wooden frame to be
attached to any fixture for holding the canvas or cloth.
Figure 5. shows the needle for carrying the string or twine.
Figure 6. shows a lever for raising the top piece of wood.
A. Figures 1. 3. and 5. is the canvas or cloth for attaching the pieces of wool,
cloth or hempen.
B. Figures 3 and 5. is the string for securing the pieces of wool, cloth, or
hempen to the canvas or cloth, by means of a loop formed on the top of the canvas
or cloth.
C. Figures 1. 2. 3. 4 and 6. is the top piece of wood fitted with pins for securing
the canvas or cloth to the bottom piece of wood.
D. Figures 2. 3. and 4. is the bottom piece of wood forming part of the frame for
holding the canvas or cloth.
E. Figures 2 and 4. are pins, and for the purpose of holding the canvas or cloth
to the wood frame.
F. Figure 3. is a fixture to fasten the clamps to for holding the frame.
G and g. 1. Figures 1. 3. and 4. are the feet through which at one end a hole is
made for the clamps to pass through when fastened to fixture.
H. and h. 1. Figures 1 and 3. are the clamps for holding the frame to fixture.
J. and j 1. Figures 1 and 4. are the sliding hooks for supporting the roller upon
which the canvas or cloth is rolled.

page_text: K. Figures 1. 2. 3. and 4. is the roller upon which the canvas or cloth is
rolled.
L. and 1. 1. Figures 2 and 3. are the bolts and winged nuts for firmly attaching
the top and bottom pieces of wood between which is the canvas or cloth.
M. Figure 6. is a lever for raising the top piece of wood from the bottom
piece.
N. and n. 1. Figure 2. are the springs for lifting the top piece from the bottom
piece of wood.
O. Figure 5. is the needle for carrying the string or twine.
O. Figure 5. is the grove in needle.
o. 1. Figure 5. is the eye through which the string or twine pass.
o. 2. Figure 5. is the eyelet which acts as a conductor to the string or twine.
o. 3. Figure 5. is the handle of the needle of any convenient shape.
o. 4. Figure 5. is the loop which holds the pieces of wool, cloth or hempen to the
canvas or cloth.
Having in the foregoing details described the various parts and also method of
working this improvement, I declare what I claim is :-
1. General arrangement for a hand frame for the purpose of making tufted rugs
and mats, as set forth substantially as described.
2. The said frame comprising top and bottom pieces in combination with
projecting holding pins, in the top piece, and holes corresponding to them in the
bottom piece, substantially as described.
3. Securing the said top and bottom pieces when required by clamps and feet,
substantially as described.
4. Securing the top piece to bottom piece when in use, substantially as
described.
5. Automatically lifting the top piece of frame from the bottom piece for
releasing the holding pins from the material, substantially as described.
6. Detachable roller in combination with the said frame for carrying material,
substantially as described.
7. In combination with detachable roller, sliding and locking hooked supports,
substantially as described.
8. Needle grooved near its point in combination with a conducting eyelet,
substantially as described.
9. The use of this appliance and means above described, in combination,
forming an improved system of making by hand tufted rugs or mats, substantially
described.
Dash 22nd day of December 1896
ARTHUR PALMER.