AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR MAKING AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF FIGURED BOBBIN NET, OR WHAT IS COMMONLY CALLED BOBBIN NET LACE
Year: 1834

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
DRAPER, of Basford, formerly of Old Radford, both in the County of
Nottingham, Lace Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth.
by His Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-fifth day of September, in the fifth year of His
reign, did, for Himself, His heirs, and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Samuel Draper, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege, and
authority, that I, the said Samuel Draper, my exors, adñors, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Samuel Draper, my exors, adññors, 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, my Invention of "AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR MAKING AN
IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF FIGURED BOBBIN NET, OR WHAT IS COMMONLY CALLED
BOBBIN NET LACE;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that
I, the said Samuel Draper shall cause a particular description of the nature
of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, 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 in part 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, 1, the said
Samuel Draper, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and ascer-
tained in and by the following description thereof, reference being had to the
Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon,
that is to say :-
My Invention has three features of novelty, by the application of which an
improved machine for making an improved manufacture of figured bobbin
net, or what is commonly called bobbin net lace, may be obtained, as will
be hereafter fully described. It may be desirable here to premise that in
making figured bobbin net lace by machinery, constructed according to any of
the known arrangements, three descriptions of threads (that is to say) threads
having three distinct names are used. First, the warp threads running longi-
tudinally, and from end to end of the piece of net, and which consists of a
number of threads wound on what is called the warp beam or roller. Secondly,
bobbin threads, which are the threads wound on separate bobbins, and
actuated with the carriages in which such bobbins are placed. Thirdly, extra
guide threads, which are usually separate threads passing through guides,
such threads in most instances coming from separate spools or bobbins which
turn on axes at suitable parts of the machine, these guide threads being
employed when figured lace is to be produced, or when breadths of plain net
are to be made, all which is well understood, and I have only thus mentioned
them in some degree the better to enable me to point out one distinct feature
of my Invention, which consists in dispensing with the warp beam, and
consequently with the ordinary warp threads and their guide bar or bars, and
substituting therefore an additional set of carriages with their bobbins, the
threads of which additional set of carriages are to make up for the ordinary
warp threads, as hereafter described.
The second feature of my Invention consists in the application of certain
lever drivers, one to each space (in which the carriages travel) between the
bolts, thus making each driver separate from and independent of every other
driver, whereby any carriage or carriages may be actuated wholly independent
of the other carriages, by which means figured bobbin net of an improved
manufacture, and varying in design, may be produced with much greater
facility than heretofore, and at the same time the pattern may from time to
time be changed even in the same piece with much less, difficulty than in the
present lace machines.
The third feature of my Invention consists in using the upper and lower
sets of carriages (for making the lace) with guides or elongations, as hereafter

page_text: described, with the view of keeping the threads of their respective bobbins
clear from one another, and thereby giving greater facility in taking up the
twist, and also in a great measure prevent what is called cotting of the
threads.
Having thus pointed out the objects of my Invention, I will proceed to
describe the Drawings hereunto annexed, which represent my Invention.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 represents parts of a front view of a machine, constructed according
to my Invention; Figure 2 is a transverse section, by which the relative
positions of the various parts will be evident to a competent workman
acquainted with this description of machinery. In each of these Figures,
as well also as in the several detached views, the same letters of reference
are used to denote the same parts wherever they occur. a, a, being the
front circular bolts; b, c, the back circular bolts, which, it will be seen,
are divided into two parts, the part being affixed to the back circular bolt
bar, and the part c is affixed to the bar d; consequently the bar d, with
its parts of bolts c, will be able to sling independently of the parts of the
bolts d, and the back bolt bar, with its parts of bolts b, independently
of the parts c, the object of which will be hereafter fully described. The
front bolt bar and its bolts a being at all times stationary, e, c, are the
upper circular combs and their comb bars, which bars are stationary. f is
the treadle shaft, which is actuated by the ordinary treadles, as is clearly
shown in the Drawing at Figure 2.. On to the treadle shaft f, are
affixed the projecting arms g, one at each end of the machine, and to these
arms the connecting bars or rods h are affixed by screws, there being slots
cut to allow of adjustment. To these bars or rods h, are connected the
rods i, which work the frame j, which swings on the axles or studs k.
This swinging frame j works the front and back catch bars 7, 1, as will be
fully described hereafter, the bars or rods i being connected to the bars
or rods h, and to the frame j by pins or axes m, as shewn in Figure 2. The
swinging frames j are one at each end of the machine, and have mortices n
cut therein, in order to allow of the axes o, on which the catch bars work,
being adjusted. There are two catch bars one at the front, and the other at
the back of the upper set of carriages working in the combs e. By this
means the working of the treadles will cause the frames j to oscilate on the
axes m at each end of the machine, which will cause the front and back catch
bars to work the upper set of carriages; 1, 1, are the catch bars on the
arms q, q, which arms turn on the axes o, o, at each end of the machine, and

page_text: the axes o, o, being affixed to the swinging frames (but capable of adjust-
ment), they are consequently moved to and fro with the frame j, and the
arms of the catch bars would also only partake of the same motion, but for
the rests or supports r, r, which are affixed to the front and back upper comb
bar. These rests or supports r, r, being placed with a view to lift the catch
bars from the carriages, and also prevent the catch bars falling upon the
carriages too suddenly, the supports r permitting the catch bars to be pro-
gressively lowered at suitable times, there being stops (not shewn in the
Drawing) placed at the back of the arms q, in order to prevent the catch bars
being thrown too far back; Figure 2 shows the back catch bars retaining the
carriages in the back upper combs c. The putting down of the left foot
treadle will cause the frame j to swing from back to front, which will carry
with it the back catch bar, and thus push the upper set of carriages into the
threads of the lower set of carriages. In the continued motion of the frame j,
the back catch bar will rest the supports r, which will throw back the blade
of it out of the carriages. At the same time the front catch bar will be
permitted by its supports to descend into the carriages, and will draw them
into the front combs; the putting down of the right foot treadle will produce
a like effect on the front catch bar, that is to say, the front catch bar will
drive the carriages into the threads, and then be lifted out of the carriages
whilst the back catch bar will descend, and draw the carriages again into the
back combs; s, s, are arms which swing on axes t, at each end of the machine,
and are intended to work the driving bar u, which drives out the carriages from
the lower back bolts b, and also from the bolts c, the driving bar u being con-
nected with the swinging arms s, s, merely by the pins v, by which means the
driving bar u moves with the arms s. In order to insure the carriages being
retained in their proper situations at the times of shogging either the bolt bar
b, or the bolt bar c, there are two bars which I call dividing bars w and a, from
end to end of the bolts, which coming between the ends of the bolts a, b, and c,
thereby separating the carriages in any one of those bolts from the carriages
which are in either of the other bolts. These bars w and turn on axes y, z,
and are worked by the swinging of the arms s by what are termed fingers or
bent arms attached to the arms s, which pass under such bars w and x, and raise
them alternately by the moving of the arms s, such bars w, x, falling out of the
way at the proper times. The cylinder, which works the lever drivers B, has a
series of strips of brass or other suitable metal C, which I call catches, which,
coming in contact with the ends of the lever drivers B, cause them to drive
the carriages out of the bolts a into the bolts c, and those carriages which
were in the bolts c into the bolts b. In order to relieve these lever drivers, so

page_text: soon as they have made part of their movement, and have actuated their
respective carriages, the drawing bar D, which is connected to and worked by
the swinging arms s, in like manner to the driving bar u, but that this bar D
works up and down on two inclined planes affixed one at each end of the
machine. The drawing bar D takes hold of the carriages, and assists in
driving them (that is to say), so many of the lever drivers B as are acted on by
the catches. A and C on the cylinder having driven forward their respective
carriages, the same will be carried forward by the drawing bar D; but with
respect to the carriages of such lever drivers as are not actuated by the catches
A and C of the cylinder, they will remain in the bolts a, for the drawing bar
D does not rise up under the bolts a so as to touch any carriages till they are
first driven forward part of the way by the lever drivers B. In addition to the
catches C on the cylinder, there are catches A, according to the placing of
which, as is hereafter fully described, so will be the pattern of the figured
bobbin net produced. The lever drivers are shown separately at Figure 3;
their shape and construction will therefore be understood; they respectively
move on a wire or axes, which is supported by the plates E, cast in leads E,
which are affixed to the bar F. One of these lever drivers is to be placed
within each space between the bolts a, by which they will be retained in their
places, and thus will each driver be free to be actuated independently of all other
of the lever drivers, as before mentioned. 1 would here remark, in order to
prevent complexity of the Drawing, I have omitted several parts which, being
well understood and in general use, have only to be named to enable the
machinest, acquainted with this description of machinery, put them in their
proper places. Thus, the springs and caster backs for the point bars are to
be applied as usual, excepting the point bars of this machine do not require to
be moved more than about half an inch in taking up. I have also omitted the
requisite stops to the bolt bars b and c for adjusting the quantity of motion
lengthwise, which, I would here state, is one gait when the machine is worked,
as herein-after described; that is, a distance of one space to the next in the
bolts band c. The means of turning the work roller to take up the work,
also the spurs for distending the work, are to be placed as usual. I have also:
omitted the fingers and levers for working the bolt bars, point bars, and pin
bars by their respective wheels, also for working the cylinder. I have also
omitted the drivers and clawkers, which are all well understood.
Drawings No. 5 and 6 show the wheels for working certain parts of the
machine, such being on the upright shaft at the right-hand end of the machine,
as is shown in Figure 1, in which Figure the number of the respective wheels
correspond with the numbers marked on the wheels in Drawings No. 5 and 6.

page_text: The wheel, No. 1 wheel, is a ratchet wheel, which is actuated by the ordinary
drivers and clawkers, moved by the working of the treadle or spindle bar, one
tooth each time either of the treadles descend; No. 2 wheel, for propelling
cylinder which has six teeth or notches, which, coming in contact with a
lever to which is attached a driver, works the cylinder one tooth of its ratchet
wheel at the descent of either of the treadles, and the ratchet wheel on the
axes of the cylinder has one hundred and eighty teeth; No. 3, wheel for
shogging the bolt bar c; No. 4, the wheel for shogging the back bolt bar b;
No. 5, wheel for moving in the driving bar u in it actuating a lever which
moves a half jack striking from the outside of the wheel; No. 6, wheel for
moving driving bar out of the back bolts by similar means to those last
described, but striking from the inner side of the wheel, there being a tooth
or notch to drive out and in whenever the catches A, C, act on the lever
drivers. No. 7, wheel to throw out lower point or stumb bar every time
there has been a cross or interlaying put on to allow of the crossings going
up. No. 8, wheel for shogging lower point or stump bar, which causes this
bar to shog to and fro one gait, single tier, twice in each mesh, that is to
say, shogs to the left hand and back in the first half mesh, and to the right
hand and back for the second half mesh to put on the twist. Nos. 9 and 10
are the wheels for throwing out the back and front point bars. The wheels
at the other end of the machine are of a similar character, as is well known
to a workman, but the wheel for actuating the cylinder is omitted. It is well
understood that these wheels work their respective parts of the machine by the
intervention of what are called levers and fingers, they being jointed by slots,
and have set and adjusting screws to adjust them correctly for their work.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
combining various movements requisite for carrying the Invention into effect,
I will now proceed to describe the manner of working the machine, commencing
from the position of the various parts, as shown in Figure 2, that is to say, the
right foot treadle is down, one-half of the lower set of carriages are in the
spaces between the bolts a, and the other half are in the spaces between
the parts of the back bolts c, the whole of the carriages of the upper set being
in the spaces of the back combs e.
I will here remark that in the first place it is my intention to describe the
various movements which take place in working to produce the plain part or
the ground of bobbin net lace. Having this description clearly in the mind,
it will become more readily evident by what means any figure, within the
capacity of the machine, may be produced, for in all cases there will be some
of the carriages actuated for making the plain net, whilst others are being

page_text: actuated for producing the figure:l parts of the bobbin net lace. By putting
down the left foot treadle, the back catch bar drives the upper set of carriages
into the threads of the lower carriages, as is shown in Drawing No. 3. The
cylinder is moved one tooth of its ratchet wheel, and actuates the whole of the
lever drivers B, whereby the lower set of carriages are driven into the back bolts
b and c. The back bolt bar and the bolt bar c are then (by their wheels) shogged
one gait to the right-hand of the workman, the carriages from the back bolts b,.c,
are driven into the bolts c and a, that is to say, those carriages which were in
the bolts bare driven into the bolts c, and those carriages previously in the
bolts c are driven into the bolts a; by this time the front catch bar draws the
upper tier of carriages into the front upper combs e, as is clearly shown in
the Drawing No. 4; the back bolt bar and the bolt bar c are shogged by
their wheels one gait to the left hand, consequently the carriages which, at the
commencement, were in the bolts a, have passed one gait to the right hand.
The right foot treadle is to be put down, and in so doing, the upper tier of
carriages are driven into the threads by the front catch bar, the cylinder is
driven one tooth, but does not actuate the lever drivers; there being no catch
A in the way of such lever drivers continuing the descent of the right foot,
the back catch bar draws the upper tier of carriages into the back combs.
The middle bolt bar c is shogged one gait to the right and back to the left.
The left foot treadle is again to be put down, the back catch bar drives the
upper tier of carriages into the threads, the cylinder is turned one tooth, but
there being no catch A in the way, the lever drivers are not acted on. The
bolt bar c shogs to and fro as before. The continued descent of the left foot
causes the front catch bar to draw the upper set of carriages into the front
combs. The back bolt bar shogs one gait to the right hand of the workman.
This completes the first half mesh. The right foot is again to be put down,
the front catch bar drives the upper set of carriages into the threads, the
cylinder is turned one tooth, and drives the bottom set of carriages by the
lever drivers into the back bolts b and c. The back bolt bar 6 shogs one gait
to the left, the driving bar in the back bolts
into the bolts c, d, consequently the carriages,
starting this movement of the foot, have passed one gait to the left. The
back catch bar brings the upper set of carriages into the back combs. The
left foot is to be again put down, the back catch bar drives the upper set of
carriages into the threads, the cylinder moves one tooth, but without acting
on the lower set of carriages, the front catch bar draws the upper tier of car-
riages into the front combs. The bolt bar c shogs one gait to the right and
drives the lower set of carriages
which were in the bolts cat

page_text: back again, to the right foot is again put down, the front catch bar drives the
upper set of carriages into the threads. The cylinder moves one tooth, but
does not actuate the lower set of carriages.
The back catch bar drives the upper set of carriages into the back combs.
The bolt bar c shogs one gait and back again; this completes a mesh. I
bave purposely omitted any mention of the upper front and back point bars
for taking up the twist, in order to prevent complexity; but I would now state
that these point bars take up at the finish of each half mesh. The back
points take up when the upper set of carriages are in the front combs, and
the front points take up the half mesh when the carriages are in the back
combs. These motions being continued would produce only plain net, or
what is commonly called bobbin net lace. It will now become more readily
evident from my future description how the machine is worked for producing
figured bobbin net. It is well known that in pillow lace a great variety of
patterns are produced by what are termed eyelet holes and fiuings, that is to
say, eyelet holes are where two or more meshes are made into one hole by the
diagonal threads not crossing, which would otherwise divide such hole into two
or more meshes. Finings is that appearance which is produced by the
diagonal threads crossing each other, and being held together as a tissue or
fabric by the vertical threads. Somewhat similar effects have to a certain
degree been obtained in bobbin net machines; but by my improved machine
for producing figured bobbin net, the same may be produced varying in
pattern and of an improved manufacture, not only by a varied use of these
two descriptions of ornamenting separately, but also combined together with a
variety of other appearances depending on the working of the machine. And
although it would be impossible to enter into a full description of every pat-
tern the machine is capable of producing, yet it will be desirable to give such
directions as to the working of the machine as will enable a workman to
understand in what manner the machine operates; and in doing so, I will make
choice of a simple pattern which shall run in constant succession from end to
end of the piece of lace; and as every pattern will more or less be produced
by similar actions, but depending on taste as to their figure and particular
placing, the description of such simple plattern will suffice.
Having described such simple pattern, a competent workman will readily
make such changes of the parts as will enable him to produce the patterns
desired and to the figure desired. I will suppose that it is wished to make square
patches of what is called finings, at certain intervals in regular succession
from end to end of the piece, and that such square patches shall be at equal

page_text: distances across the machine. Let it be supposed that the patch shall be at
every ninth, tenth, and eleventh mesh across the machine, and that such
patches shall be at every tenth, eleventh, and twelfth meshes throughout the
length of the piece of lace; therefore such finings will be a square of three
meshes each way.
I have described the cylinder as having a series of
strips of metal or raised surfaces C from end to end, which I have called
catches; these are for the purpose of producing plain net.
In order to accom-
modate the machine for making the pattern above mentioned, a strip of
metal or other material A, of the exact width of three lever drivers, is to be
affixed on the cylinder in those places where the carriages were missed in
making plain net, as above described, and such as are shown at A, A, Figures
1 and 2, that is, in such manner as to come against the ninth, tenth, and
eleventh lever driver across the machine, whereby every motion of the treadles
will actuate those carriages. Thus supposing the machine to be started from
the position shown in Figure 2, and that the first motion be gone through, and
that there is at every ninth, tenth, and eleventh lever driver a catch A, the
second move will at all those positions produce the fining; at the third motion
the lever drivers will come in contact with the next catch A; the fourth
movement will come to the same catches as make the ground or plain net,
but which will continue making the finings in the places desired; the fifth
motion brings the next catch A into action; and the sixth motion the next
catch A, and this motion completes the mesh. The cylinder being prepared
with similar catches A for the next two meshes, a similar result will take place.
Plain net is then to be made by omitting the catches A till the next tenth row
of meshes comes to be made; then again the catches A are to be in their places
(that is, two catches A between each of the catches C, which work the plain
net) for making the three next meshes, and the cylinder being thus set out
with catches A, the length of lace will be produced of the pattern above
mentioned.
taste.
And it may be desirable to remark that, according to the number of lever
drivers acted upon by the catches A, and their situations on the cylinder, so
will be determined the pattern to be produced, all which must depend on
It should, however, be stated that it is not necessary that the patterns
should run in straight lines in the length of or across the piece, on the contrary,
they may be run in almost any direction, say for instance, curved or vandykes.
Thus, supposing that the first line of meshes having the fining commenced at
every ninth, tenth, and eleventh mesh across the piece to be performed, that
then in working the second row of meshes, the catches A were so placed as to
come against and actuate the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth lever drivers

page_text: across the width of the piece, and that in working the third row of meshes, the
twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth lever drivers were acted on, this would pro-
duce a pattern of patches of fining, sloping diagonally across the width of the
piece of lace. If it is desired to work in gymp threads in varied directions,
say for instance, around the diagonal patches of finings above described,
ordinary guides (carrying such gymp threads) on a guide bar are to be placed
in my improved machine, such bar having the requisite shogs, as is well
understood, placed just below the straight edges; in such case there are to
be no catches A, C, opposite the three lever drivers ninth, tenth, and eleventh
of the first row of meshes; no catches A, C, opposite the eighth, ninth,
tenth, eleventh, and twelfth drivers in the second row of meshes, and no
catches A, C, opposite the seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, cleventh, twelfth, and
thirteenth lever drivers in the third row of meshes during the making three
courses of meshes, by which means such spaces are left unworked, the gymp
threads are then laid in from the thirteenth to the ninth meshes of such
unworked patches, these patches are now to be completed, the other carriages
which have worked the three rows of meshes ahead are now to stand still till
the work (whether of net or of finings or both) is completed by catches A, C,
operating for three courses of meshes on the lever drivers, which have been
missed in working the three courses of meshes in the other parts of the bobbin
net. The gymp bar shogging one mesh each course to bring back the gymp
threads from the ninth to the thirteenth mesh, this produces what in the trade
is termed "turning back of the gymp threads." It should, however, be
remarked that, for this description of working so many of the lower points, a
stump must be made moveable to be thrown out of the way of the threads of
such patches when they are left unworked.
I
may here perhaps very correctly illustrate this part of my description by
observing that what I have above given may be said (if I were speaking of
music) to be a scale of notes, the result of arranging and combining such
notes depending on the taste of the composer.
I will now suppose that it is desired to allow eyelet holes to form at every
tenth mesh across the width of the piece of bobbin net; in this case no catches
A, C, are to be placed on the cylinder opposite every one of the lever drivers
at each tenth mesh, by which means those lever drivers will be missed; the
cylinder in no way acting on the lever drivers; but the carriages opposite such
tenth drivers will remain in the front bolts a during the first three motions,
and thus eyelet holes will form. The working of the machine in other
respects is the same as that described for making plain net; and it will be
evident to every lace maker that in case an open space be left in every other.

page_text: catch C, and there be no catches A in the way all around the cylinder opposite
certain lever drivers, so that in its revolving it in no way interferes with such
tenth (or other determined) drivers, excepting for making the bobbin net, the
width of the lace will be divided into breadths at those places. From the
foregoing description, a workman will be able so to arrange the various parts
as to enable him to make use of my improved machine, and produce figured
bobbin net of an improved manufacture, changing his patterns with great
facility, owing to the lever drivers being each of them capable of performing
any part of the process, and to be varied from performing one particular process
to another; thus, at one moment any determined number of the lever drivers
may be acting to produce the plain parts of the bobbin net, whilst others
are performing the figure of the ornamental pattern; whilst in other parts
of the lace such lever drivers as were working the plain net or ground may
become those for producing the figure, and such variation may be constantly
changing, and such changes may be at every row of meshes, owing to each of
the lever drivers acting only within its own space or bolt, and in no way
dependent on its neighbour.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of con-
structing the same with an arrangement of movements suitable for carrying it
into effect, and having also described the manner of working the same, I would
have it understood that I am aware that additional combs or bolts have been
before used in lace machines, but in such cases they have been for different
purposes to that for which I now employ the additional set of carriages with
their bobbins, for in those instances the warp beam and ordinary warp threads
and their guides have been retained. And I am also aware that in some
machines, such, for instance, as the pusher machines, separate pushers (but of a
different construction to my lever drivers, which are not placed on a moveable
pusher bar, as heretofore with respect to common pushers opposite certain
selected carriages, which separate pushers are at times moved out of the way in
order to omit acting on their carriages when it is desired to make breadths or
when eyelet holes are to form; but in these instances the carriages are worked
by moving pusher bars carrying the whole of the pushers, that is to say, those
cast in their leads as well as those separate ones, which make up for those
which are broken out or removed from the leads, as is well understood in
pusher machines or machines where pusher bars are used. And I am also
aware that cylinders or driving wheels, somewhat resembling that shown and
described, have been before used in lace machines for various purposes,
amongst others for actuating separate pushers opposite such places as it is
desired to make eyelet holes, such cylinders or driving wheels being made to

page_text: move the separate pushers out of the way of the carriages, which it is desired
to omit when eyelet holes are to be produced, such cylinders or wheels being
carried by the ordinary moving pusher bars, which ordinary pusher bars I have
dispensed with. The cylinder, as used by me, has no effect on the lever drivers
of those carriages, opposite which at any time it is desired that eyelet holes
should be permitted to form; the cylinder nor any part thereof acting on those
lever drivers opposite which eyelet holes are forming.
I do not claim the use of a cylinder in whatever manner used in a lace
machine, nor indeed any of the parts separately herein-before described, nor
in combination, other than is hereafter particularly set forth and distinctly
claimed. And with respect to the third feature of my Invention, I am aware
that carriages with elongations or guides have been before made and have
been used for supplying and working what are termed lacing threads for
lacing breadths together, but have not been used as the carriages for pro-
ducing the bobbin net or ornamental figure thereto. I do not therefore make
any claim to the carriages with guides or elongations, but only to the manner
of using them for producing bobbin net. I would therefore have it understood
that what I claim as my Invention of an improved machine for making an
improved manufacture of figured bobbin net, or what is commonly called
bobbin net lace, consists in the application of the three following feastures of
novelty,―
First, the dispensing with the warp beam, and consequently the ordinary
warp threads and their guides, and supplying their places by an additional set
of carriages and their bobbins, and thus working with all bobbin threads in like
manner to making lace on the pillow, as above described.
Secondly, the lever drivers B, one within each space of the bolts a, each
lever driver being independent of its neighbour, whereby the description of
work performed by each of the carriages may be constantly varying in the
same piece of figured bobbin net, as above described.
And, thirdly, the application of carriages, having guides or elongations for
making the net for the purpose of facilitating the taking up, and also for
preventing cotting of the threads, particularly in working figured bobbin
net, as shown in the Drawings; but I do not claim the carriages or their
guides, or their use for working lacing threads, as above mentioned.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Draper, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand cight hundred and thirty-five.
SAMUEL (L.S.) DRAPER.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-fifth day of March, in
the year of our Lord 1835, the aforesaid Samuel Draper came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-fifth day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.