IMPROVED ARRANGEMENT AND COMBINATION OF APPLIANCES CON- *NECTED WITH LACE MACHINES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Aaron Mosley, of Southey Street, in the Town
and County of the Town of Nottingham, Mechanic, for the Inven-
tion of "IMPROVED ARRANGEMENT AND COMBINATION OF APPLIANCES CON-
*NECTED WITH LACE MACHINES."
Scaled the 2nd June 1874, and dated the 4th April 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Aaron Mosley at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
4th April 1874.
I, AARON MOSLEY, of Southey Street, in the Town and County of the
5 Town of Nottingham, Mechanic, do hereby declare the nature of, the
said Invention for "IMPROVED ARRANGEMENT. AND COMBINATION OF APPLIANCES.
CONNECTED WITH LACE MACHINES," to be as follows:-:
This Invention relates to improved arrangement and combination of
appliances connected with lace machines, whereby the movement of the
O bobbin carriages is expedited in their travel and consequently more work
produced in a given time, the parts being less complicated than in,
existing machines, besides which a positive pause of the landing bars.

page_text: takes place alternately while the others are drawing the carriages across
the work and bringing them back again.
In carrying my Invention into effect I attach one of the ends of two
links to a quadrant or triple ended plate which works from a fixed
centre. The other end of one of these links is connected to an arm
fixed on the end of a shaft which is mounted in bearings at the front of
the machine. This shaft has other arms fixed upon it which are con-
nected by links to the front landing bar. The free end of the other link
is connected to an arm fixed on the end of a shaft, which is mounted in
bearings at the back of the machine. This shaft has other arms fixed
upon it which are connected by links to the back landing bar. The
landing bars are connected in the usual way to the back and front joints,
both joints being centred upon the centre pin or centre of the machine.
The landing bars have feet or projections fitted on for holding in place
the front and back catch bars respectively, both of which are furnished
with rollers working on curved surfaces formed on a fixed portion of the
machine for compelling the catch bars to rise and fall at the proper time
for drawing the carriage from one side of the work to the other. The
carriages are free to slide in combs which are fixed to comb bars in the
ordinary manner.
The quadrant herein-before mentioned is caused to oscillate by a link
or connecting rod attached to it, and working by means of a crank
excentric or other mechanical appliances.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Aaron Mosley in the Great Seal Patent Office 2
on the 1st October 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, AARON
MOSLEY, of Southey Street, in the Town and County of the Town of
Nottingham, Mechanic, send greeting.
"
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters 3
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of April, in the year of our Lord;
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-seventh year.
of Her reign, did, for. Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant.
unto me, the said Aaron Mosley, Her special licence that I, the said,

page_text: Aaron Mosley, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Aaron Mosley, 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 "IMPROVED ARRANGEMENT AND COMBINATION OF
APPLIANCES CONNECTED WITH LACE MACHINES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Aaron Mosley, 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 Scal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
5 Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Aaron Mosley, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to bo
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:-
) The object of my improvement is to effect a more rapid movement to
and fro of the carriage of lace machines. I arrange the working
meclianism of the machine in the manner which I explain in tho
following description.
The Invention consists in attaching one end of each of two links to a
5 quadrant which works from a fixed centre. The other end of one of
these links is connected to an arm fixed on the end of a shaft, which is
mounted in bearings at the front of the machine. This shaft has other
arms fixed upon it which are connected by links to the front landing
bar. The free end of the other link is connected to an arm fixed on the
end of a shaft which is mounted in bearings at the back of the machine.
This shaft has other arms fixed upon it which are connected by links to
the back landing bar. The landing bars are connected in the usual way
to the back and front joints, both of which are centred upon the centre
pin of the machine... The landing bars have feet or projections fitted on
5 for holding in place the front and back catch bars respectively, both
catch bars are fitted with roller's working on curved surfaces formed on
à fixed portion of the machine for. compelling the catch bars to rise and

page_text: fall at the proper time for drawing the carriage from one side of the
work to the other. The carriages are free to slide in combs which are
fixed to comb bars in the ordinary manner.
The quadrant hercin-before mentioned is caused to oscillate by a link
or connecting rod being attached to it, and worked by a crank or
excentric or other mechanical appliance.
+
The manner in which I carry my Invention into effect is represented.
in Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying Drawings, where W is the link
or connecting rod leading from the crank or excentric on the shaft
driven by a strap or otherwise as found desirable; B is quadrant
working on the fixed centre C, so that the bar W communicates a
to-and-fro movement to it corresponding to the throw of thic crank or
excentric. This quadrant B has connected to it one end of each of the
two links A, A; the other ends of these links A, A, are attached by pins
to the lower end of the arms D, E, on the shafts. F, G; on the shafts
F, G, are fixed other arms H, K, which are connected by links L, M, to
pins 1 and 2 fixed on the landing bars P, Q, which are centred upon.
the centre pin R of the machine. Feet X, Y, are fixed on the landing
bars P, Q, for carrying the front and back catch bars S, T, which act
as catches to fit in the notches of the carriages U to draw them from one
side of the work to the other alternately. The catch bars S, T, are pro-;
vided with rollers so that as the carriage U. is drawn to one side or to
the other of the work, the catch bars S, T, are caused to rise by the
rollers riding up the incline V, and become disengaged from the notch
of the carriage U to allow it to pass to the other side of the work.
Figure 2, clearly shows the carriage drawn to one side of the work, and
by the apparatus being the same on cach side of the machine it will be
casily understood how the carriage can be drawn to the opposite side of
the machine.
It will be observed that the whole of the moving parts are very simple,.
and from their simplicity are not liable to get out order.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I do not
confine myself strictly to the arrangement of the links and other parts of
the apparatus as above described and shown, as the same may be
differently arranged to suit different forms or constructions of machines,
but what I do claim as my Invention is,-
}

page_text: Firstly. The arrangement of the working parts as herein-before described
and represented in Figures 1 and 2 of the Drawings annexed for the
purposes set forth.
Secondly. I claim that by the arrangement as substantially shown,
I obtain a complete pause of one landing bar with the part fixed upon
it, while the opposito landing bar is performing its required motion of
drawing the carriage across, and bringing it back again for the opposite
catch bar to take it and repeat the same motion.
In witness whereof, I, the said Aaron Mosley, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of September, One
thousand cight hundred and seventy-four.
Witness to the signature
of A. Mosley,
J. TAUNTON,
4, St. Peter's Street,
Old Radford,
Nottingham.
A. MOSLEY. (L.S.)