Improvements in the Decoration of Bobbin Net and such like Fabrics.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Dec., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 27th Aug., 1896-Accepted, 3rd Oct., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Decoration of Bobbin Net and such like
Fabrics.
I, BENJAMIN JOSEPH BARNARD MILLS of 23 Southampton Buildings in the
County of London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention,
a communication to me by Messrs. E. Vial & Cie., Manufacturers of 16 Rue Lafont,
Lyons in the Republic of France, to be as follows:-
The invention is applicable to bobbin net and other meshed fabrics made on lace
machinery. It consists in producing on the surface of these fabrics, by the weaving
itself, spots of a special form, thus giving to it an appearance analogous to that of a
chenilled fabric.
I will now aided by the accompanying drawings describe the conformation of
these spots and the means of producing them.
Fig. 1 shows the fabric flat as it is in the machine after its manufacture.
Fig. 2 shows it entirely completed and as seen in perspective.
Figures 3 and 4 show a plan and a section drawn to a larger scale of a spot as it
leaves the machine.
Figures 5 and 6 are like views of the same spot after having been finished.
The oblique lines a. a represent the meshes of the fabric which may be of any
desired form and are obtained by the ordinary working of the machine.
The undulated lines b. b represent auxiliary threads or yarn which are not
bound in with the fabric and serve only to assist in the formation of the spots.
These spots c. c are distributed over the fabric according to any desired design,
each of them is formed by the traverse of the threads in the usual manner with a
given number of loops secured to the fabric like ordinary spots by their ends e. e,
see Figures 3 and 4, and surrounding the two auxiliary threads b. b between which
they are formed and which limit their size.
In this stage of manufacture, the loops form a flat bundle of threads held against
the fabric by the tension of the auxiliary threads b, but if the auxiliary threads are
removed, the loops will assume a ring like form more or less wide and secured to the
fabric by a narrow base and projecting from one side only thereof. Figure 2 shows
in perspective the appearance of this new decoration which has the advantage of
leaving one surface of the fabric completely smooth and which further is of great
lightness and strength.
To remove the auxiliary threads b they can be drawn out by hand or they can
be destroyed by a solvent which will not attack the fabric itself.
Dond 4th December 1805
HARRIS & MILLS,
23 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents.

page_text: Improvements in the Decoration of Bobbin Net and such like
Fabrics.
I, BENJAMIN JOSeph Barnard MILLS, of 23 Southampton Buildings, in the
County of London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention,
(a communication to ine from Messrs. E. Vial & Cie., Manufacturers, of
16 Rue Lafont, Lyons, in the Republic of France,) and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
The invention is applicable to bobbin-net and other meshed fabrics made on lace
machinery. It consists in producing on the surface of these fabrics, by the weaving
itself, spots of a special form, thus giving to it an appearance analogous to that of
a chenilled fabric.
I will now, aided by the drawings accompanying my Provisional Specification,
describe the conformation of these spots and the means of producing them.
Fig. 1 shows the fabric flat as it is in the machine after its manufacture.
Fig. 2 shows it entirely completed and as seen in perspective.
Figs. 3 and 4 show a plan and a section, drawn to a larger scale, of a spot as it
leaves the machine.
Figs. 5 and 6 are like views of the same spot after having been finished.
The oblique lines a a represent the meshes of the fabric, which may be of any
desired form and are obtained by the ordinary working of the machine. The
undulated lines bb represent auxiliary threads or yarn, which are not bound in
with the fabric and serve only to assist in the formation of the spots.
These spots c c are distributed over the fabric according to any desired design ;
each of them is formed with a given number of loops secured to the fabric by their
ends e el, see Figs. 3 and 4, and surrounding the two auxiliary threads bb, between
which they are formed and which limit their size.
In this stage of manufacture the loops form a flat bundle of threads held against
the fabric by the tension of the auxiliary threads b, but if the auxiliary threads are
removed, the loops will assume a ring-like form more or less wide and secured to the
fabric by a narrow base and projecting from one side only thereof. Fig. 2 shows
in perspective the appearance of this new decoration, which has the advantage
of leaving one surface of the fabric completely smooth and which, further, is of
great lightness and strength.
To remove the auxiliary threads 6 they can be drawn out by hand or they can
be destroyed by a solvent which will not attack the fabric itself.
The method of making flat spots upon lace is well known; they are made upon the
lace machines by means of the same threads of yarn which form the tying of the meshes.
The inventors employ the same means but they give to the spots a greater width
in making them envelope two auxiliary threads of yarn, which, being afterwards
withdrawn, allow the spot to rise and become round as indicated in the drawings at
Fig. 2.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
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1. A new kind of spot employed in the decoration of bobbin net and such like
fabrics composed of juxtaposed loops, the reunion of which produces a hollow spot
in the form of a tunnel or tube attached to the fabric by a portion of its surface,
substantially as herein shown and described.
2. The means of obtaining, in the manufacture of bobbin-net and such like

page_text: fabrics, the spot herein described, by the employment of auxiliary threads around
which are successively passed the loops which, at the same time, are secured to the
fabric, these auxiliary threads being finally removed by being withdrawn or by a
solvent bath, substantially as herein shown and described.
3. The improvements in the decoration of bobbin-net and such like fabrics.
substantially as herein set forth.
Dated this 27th day of August 1896.
HARRIS & MILLS,
23 Southampton Buildings, Loudon, W.C., Agents.