AN IMPROVEMENT IN A PUSHER TWIST OR BOBBIN NET MACHINE
Year: 1825

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOW THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
DAY, of the Town of Nottingham, Lace Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King Georgo the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Eighth day of July, in the sixth year of His reign, did,.
for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said John
Day, and also to SAMUEL HALL, of the said Town of Nottingham, Lace Manu-
facturer, His especial licence that we, the said John Day and Samuel Hall,
our exors, adñors, and assigns, or such others as we, the said John Day and
Samuel Hall, our exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, our Inven-
tion of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN A PUSHER TWIST OR BOBBIN NET MACHINE;" in
which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso obliging us, the said John
Day and Samuel Hall, or one of us, by an instrument in writing under our
or one of our hands and seals, particularly to describe and ascertain the
nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference
being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Day, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention to consist in
using the bolt of what is commonly called Kendall and Morley's Machine
with pusher bars instead of the comb and bearer of ordinary pushing machines,
and also in reversing the position of the carriage, that is to say, by placing
the cars of the carriage upwards, and working that part of the carriage which
holds the bobbin below the bolt instead of above it, by which arrangement
pushers may be used much shorter than the usual length, and much of the
friction on the thread is prevented; and in further compliance with the said
proviso, I, the said John Day, do hereby describe the manner in which our
said Invention is to be performed, by the following description thereof, refe-
rence being had to the Drawing annexed, and the figures marked thereon,
Figure 1 represents the carriage in the position in which it is to be placed
in the bolt, that is to say, with the part which holds the bobbin downwards.
r, r, are the two ears to be acted upon by the locking bar, which may be used
in such machines as our said improvement is applicable to, though they are
pusher machines..
Figure 2. is the bolt of what is commonly called Kendall and Morley's
Machine, one third shorter than its length when used in Kendall and Morley's
Machines, and.is. to be screwed to the front of the bolt bar.
Figure 3 is: a view of the pushers which it will be seen are about one third
shorter than ordinary pushers, which: diminution in length prevents much of
the vibration, and causes the machine to work much more readily.
Now whereas our said improvement needs.no alteration to be made in those
ordinary parts of a lace machine not here described, and our said improvement
consisting only, of the new position in which the carriage is to be placed, and
in shortening and adapting the bolt and pushers thereto, as also in adapting a
bolt to a pusher machine generally, I have only thought it necessary to draw
those particular parts of a lace; machine, in order to explain our said Inven-
tion to which our said improvement immediately relates. And such our said
improvement being, to the best of our knowledge and belief, entirely new,
and never before. used within that part of His said Majesty's United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, His said Dominion of
Wales, or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, I do hereby declare this to be our
Specification of our said improvement, and that I do verily believe this our
said Specification doth comply in all respects, fully and without reserve or

page_text: disguise, with the proviso in our said herein-before in part recited Letters
Patent contained; wherefore we do hereby claim to maintain exclusive right
and privilege to our said Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Day, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, the Thirty-first day of December, One thousand eight
Inrolled the Second day of January, in the year of our Lord Ono
thousand eight hundred and twenty-six.