IMPROVEMENTS IN EMBROIDERING B MACHINERY, AND IN ORNAMENTING FABRICS.
Year: 1880

page_text: This Specification was, upon the 28th day of August 1886, amended under
Sections 18 to 21 of the Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Act, 1883.
[The Amendments are shown in erased and italic type.]
LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Heaven, of Manchester, in the County o
"
Lancaster, for an Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN EMBROIDERING B
MACHINERY, AND IN ORNAMENTING FABRICS.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Heaven at the Office.
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th November 1880.
ALFRED HEAVEN, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster.
IN EMBROIDERING BY MACHINERY, AND IN ORNAMENTING FABRICS.".
"IMPROVEMENTS
My Invention consists in certain improvements in embroidering by machinery,
and in ornamenting fabrics. I form circular, oval, or other shapes of velvet or
other material to be attached to, and embroidered with the cloth or other fabric in
the embroidering machine; when I use circular shapes the velvet or other material
to be attached is stamped or cut the exact size required, and a hole is at the
same time formed in the centro of the circular piece; and when the silk or other
thread has been fastened to the cloth in the machine I place on each needle at the
front of the machine a piece of the stamped cloth, the needle entering the holo
formed in the centre; the neodles are then passed through the fabric in the
machine and each piece of the stamped cloth is fastened on the fabric by the
machine exactly in the right position, no cutting and no adjusting by hand being
required.
When I attach a strip of velvet or other material to the cloth, I mark a line
along the centre of the strip, and place the strip on the needles, which pierce the
strip at the centro line. I can in this manner attach figures of any shape of velvet,
or other material, to the cloth in the machine.
I also attach in this manner material of any figure or shape to the cloth in the
machine to serve as padding for the embroidery, in this case the whole of the
figure is covered with embroidery stitches. The figures or shapes of velvet are
fastened to and embroidered with the cloth by the ordinary action of the machine.
Another part of my Invention consists in making loose diagonal, cross, or other
stitches on the fabric in the machine, and in threading strips or cords of velvet or
other material through the stitches thus made on the surface of the cloth.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Alfred Heaven in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 4th May
1881.
"IMPROVEMENTS
ALFRED HEAVEN, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster.
IN EMBROIDERING BY MACHINERY, AND IN ORNAMENTING FABRICS."
:
My Invention consists in certain improvements in embroidering by machinery
and in ornamenting fabrics.
I form circular, oval, or other shapes of velvet or other material to be attached
to and embroidered with the cloth or other fabric in the embroidering machine,
when I use circular shapes the velvet or other material to be attached is stamped
or cut the exact size required, and when the silk or other thread has been fastened
to the cloth in the machine I place on each needle at the front of the machine a
piece of the stamped cloth, the needle entering the centre of the stamped cloth,
the needles are then passed through the fabric in the machine and each piece of
stamped cloth is fastened on the fabric by the machine exactly in the right
position, no cutting and no adjusting by hand being required. When I attach
a strip of velvet or other material to the cloth in the machine I mark a line
along the centre of the strip and place the strip on the needles which pierce
the strip at the centre line. I can in this manner attach figures of any
shape of velvet or other material to the cloth in the machine. I also attach in
this manner material of any figure or shape to the cloth. in the machine to serve as
padding for the embroidery, in this case the whole of the figure is covered with
embroidery stitches. The figures or shapes of velvet are fastened to and embroidered
with the cloth by the ordinary action of the machine.
In performing my Invention I prefer to make use of guide bars to place the
velvet or cloth on the needles in which bars recesses are formed to receive the
figure of velvet or cloth to be stitched on the fabric in the machine, these bars
hold the velvet exactly in the right position and in the centre of each recess where
the velvet or cloth is placed, a hole is made in the bar for the needle to enter when
it pierces the cloth. When a guide bar is used the stamped velvet or cloth need
not be marked or punched where the needle is to enter.
And in order that my Invention may be fully understood and readily carried
into effect, I will describe the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, reference being
had to the figures and letters marked thereon.
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of part of a guide bar or cloth holder and Fig. 2 is an
end view of the same, showing a guide pin and part of the carriage. e is the guide
bar in which are circular recesses a exactly the size of the circular pieces of velvet
or cloth to be placed on the needles and the small holes in the centre are for the
needles to enter when they pierce the cloth. At each end of the guide bar is a
hole b, which fit on guide pins c fitted on the front carriage d of the machine,
which supports the needle holders. The mode of operation is as follows:-A
circular piece of velvet or cloth is placed in each recess in the guide bar the needles

page_text: being stationary at the front of the machine one end of the piece of embroidery
thread in each needle having been fastened to the cloth in the machine at the
lower edge of each figure to be embroidered, the guide bar is then pressed on to
the needles and a needle pierces the centre of each circular piece of velvet or cloth;
the guide bar is then removed and the velvet remains on the needles, the machine
is then put in motion and the needles pass through the cloth in the machine in
the centre of each figure, thus fastening the circular pieces of velvet to the cloth in
the machine, the needles are then drawn through at the front just above the edge
of each figure and returned through the edge of each figure to the back of the
machine. This operation is again repeated to secure the velvet on the cloth, and
then the embroidery is proceeded with as desired.
Fig. 4 shows a circular piece of velvet with the three fastening stitches, which
secure it to the cloth in the machine, and are cut away when the embroidery is
finished when desirable.
Fig. 3 shows a guide bar with the recesses connected by slots to receive figures
of velvet or other material connected by a strip of the same material.
Figs. 5 and 6 show figures completely embroidered.
Velvet or.other material of any color, figure or design, may be placed on the
needles by suitable guide bars to be attached to the cloth in the machine and
partly covered with embroidery or to serve as padding and be wholly covered with
embroidery, or the velvet or other material may be placed on the needles by hand
without the use of guide bars.
Having stated the nature of my Invention, and described how the same is to bẹ
performed,
I declare that I claim, I do not claim ornamenting Fabrics generally by
fastening thereon shapes of velvet or other material or otherwise than by placing
such shapes on the needles of an Embroidering Machine and fastening them by
stitches as hereinbefore described but what I claim is :-
Placing pieces of velvet or other material of the exact size and shape required on
the needles of an embroidering machine as and for the purpose herein described,
that is to say in the manner as hereinbefore described in page 2 lines 41 and 42
and page 3 lines 1 to 11 and lines 18 to 22 and for the purpose therein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Heaven, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Third day of May, One thousand eight hundred and eighty
one.

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Heaven, of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN EMBROIDERING BY
MACHINERY. AND IN ORMAMENTING FABRICS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Heaven at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th November 1880.
ALFRED HEAVEN, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster.
"IMPROVEMENTS
IN EMBROIDERING BY MACHINERY, AND IN ORNAMENTING FABRICS."
My Invention consists in certain improvements in embroidering by machinery,
and in ornamenting fabrics. I form circular, oval, or other shapes of velvet or
other material, to be attached to and embroidered with the cloth or other fabric in
the embroidering machine; when I use circular shapes the velvet or other material
to be attached is stamped or cut the exact size required, and a hole is at the
same time formed in the centre of the circular piece, and when the silk or other
thread has been fastened to the cloth in the machine I place on each needle at the
front of the machine a piece of the stamped cloth, the needle entering the hole
formed in the centre; the needles are then passed through the fabric in the
machine, and each piece of the stamped cloth is fastened on the fabric by the
machine exactly in the right position, no cutting and no adjusting by hand being
required.
When I attach a strip of velvet or other material to the cloth I mark a line
along the centre of the strip, and place the strip on the needles, which pierce the
strip at the centre line. I can, in this manner, attach figures of any shape of velvet
or other material to the cloth in the machine.
I also attach in this manner material of any figure or shape to the cloth in the
machine to serve as padding for the embroidery; in this case the whole of the
figure is covered with embroidery stitches. The figures or shapes of velvet are
fastened to and embroidered with the cloth by the ordinary action of the machine.
Another part of my Invention consists in making loose diagonal, cross, or other
stitches on the fabric in the machine, and in threading strips or cords of velvet or
other material through the stitches thus made on the surface of the cloth.

page_text: SPECIFICATION-in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Alfred Heaven in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 4th May
1881.
ALFRED HEAVEN, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster.
"IMPROVEMENTS
IN EMBROIDERING BY MACHINERY, AND IN ORNAMENTING FABRICS."
My Invention consists in certain improvements in embroidering by machinery,
and in ornamenting fabrics.
I form circular, oval, or other shapes of velvet or other material to be attached
to and embroidered with the cloth or other fabric in. the embroidering machine.
When I use circular shapes the velvet or other material to be attached is stamped
or cut the exact size required, and when the silk or other thread has been fastened
to the cloth in the machine I place on each needle at the front of the machine a
piece of the stamped cloth, the needle entering the centre of the stamped cloth;
the needles are then passed through the fabric in the machine and each piece of
stamped cloth is fastened on the fabric by the machine exactly in the right
position, no cutting and no adjusting by hand being required. When I attach
a strip of velvet or other material to the cloth in the machine I mark a line
along the centre of the strip and place the strip on the needles, which pierce
the strip at the centre line. I can in this manner attach figures of any
shape of velvet or other material to the cloth in the machine. I also attach in
this manner material of any figure or shape to the cloth in the machine to serve as
padding.for the embroidery; in this case the whole of the figure is covered with
embroidery stitches. The figures or shapes of velvet are fastened to and embroidered
with the cloth by the ordinary action of the machine.
In performing my Invention I prefer to make use of guide bars to place the
velvet or cloth on the needles, in which bars, recesses are formed to receive the
figure of velvet or cloth to be stitched on the fabric in the machine; these bars
hold the velvet exactly in the right position, and in the centre of each recess, where
the velvet or cloth is placed, a hole is made in the bar for the needle to enter when
it pierces the cloth. When a guide bar is used the stamped velvet or cloth need
not be marked or punched where the needle is to enter.
And in order that my Invention may be fully understood and readily carried
into effect, I will describe the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, reference being
had to the figures and letters marked thereon.
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of part of a guide bar or cloth holder, and Fig. 2 is an
end view of the same, showing a guide pin and part of the carriage. c is the guide
bar, in which are circular recesses a exactly the size of the circular pieces of velvet
or cloth to be placed on the needles, and the small holes in the centre are for the
needles to enter when they pierce the cloth. At each end of the guide bar is a
hole b, which fit on guide pins c fitted on the front carriage d of the machine,
which supports the needle holders. The mode of operation is as follows:-A
circular piece of velvet or cloth is placed in each recess in the guide bar, the needles
being stationary at the front of the machine; one end of the piece of embroidery
thread in each needle having been fastened to the cloth in the machine, at the
lower edge of each figure to be embroidered, the guide bar is then pressed on to
the needles, and a needle pierces the centre of each circular piece of velvet or cloth;
the guide bar is then removed, and the velvet remains on the needles; the machine
is then put in motion and the needles pass through the cloth in the machine in
the centre of each figure, thus fastening the circular pieces of velvet to the cloth in
the machine; the needles are then drawn through at the front, just above the edge
of each figure, and returned through the edge of each figure to the back of the
machine. This operation is again repeated to secure the velvet on the cloth, and
then the embroidery is proceeded with as desired.

page_text: Fig. 4 shows a circular piece of velvet with the three fastening stitches which
secure it to the cloth in the machine, and are cut away when the embroidery is
finished when desirable.
Fig. 3 shows a guide bar with the recesses connected by slots to receive figures
of velvet or other material connected by a strip of the same material.
Figs. 5 and 6 show figures completely embroidered.
Velvet or other material of any color, figure, or design, may be placed on the
needles by suitable guide bars, to be attached to the cloth in the machine and
partly covered with embroidery, or to serve as padding, and be wholly covered with
embroidery; or the velvet or other material may be placed on the needles by hand
without the use of guide bars.
Having stated the nature of my Invention, and described how the same is to be
performed,
I declare that I claim,-
Placing pieces of velvet or other material of the exact size and shape required on
the needles of an embroidering machine, as and for the purpose herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Heaven, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Third day of May, One thousand eight hundred and eighty
one.
ALFRED HEAVEN. (L.S.)