THE MANUFACTURE OF EDGEINGS AND QUILLINGS MADE SIMULTANEOUSLY ON LACE OR WARP LACE MACHINERY
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Gadd, of Langsyne Terrace, in the Town
and County of the Town of Nottingham, Lace Manufacturer, for the
Invention of "THE MANUFACTURE OF EDGEINGS AND QUILLINGS MADE
SIMULTANEOUSLY ON LACE OR WARP LACE MACHINERY."
Sealed the 22nd May 1860, and dated the 15th December 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Gadd at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 15th
December 1859.
I, WILLIAM GADD, of Langsyne Terrace, in the Town and County of the
Town of Nottingham, Lace Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "THE MANUFACTURE OF EDGEINGS AND QUILLINGS MADE
SIMULTANEOUSLY ON LACE OR WARP LACE MACHINERY," to be as follows:-
In ordinary machinery employed for the manufacture of lace or warp lace,
what are called "edgeings" are made alone, and what are called "quillings"
are made alone, each on different machines; whereas I propose to make both
edgeings and quillings at one and the same time, and on the same machine;
and this I perform by means of an arrangement of the warp and what are
called "thick" threads in the top and bottom bars of the machine, which bars
are actuated by a jacquard apparatus or wheels, or by pin plates or chains, or
by the jacking of the threads.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Gadd in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
15th June 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
GADD, of Langsyne Terrace, in the Town and County of the Town of Not-
tingham, Lace Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said William Gadd, Her special licence that I, the said William Gadd, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William
Gadd, 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 "THE MANUFACTURE OF EDGEINGS
AND QUILLINGS MADE SIMULTANEOUSLY ON LACE OR WARP LACE MACHINERY,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Gadd, 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 Seal Patent Office
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Gadd, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say :—
My Invention consists in manufacturing edgeings and quillings simul-
taneously on one and the same lace or warp lace machine (instead of on
separate machines) in the manner herein-after described. In ordinary
machinery employed for the manufacture of lace or warp lace, what are called
"edgeings" are made alone, and what are called "quillings" are made alone,
each on diffrent machines; whereas I propose to make both edgeings and
quillings at one and the same time, and on the same machine; and this I
perform by means of an arrangement of the warp and what are called "thick"
threads in the top and bottom bars of the machine, which bars are actuated

page_text: by a jacquard apparatus, or by wheels, or pin plates, or chains, or by the
jacking of the threads.
Having thus set forth the nature of the said Invention, I now proceed fully
to describe the manner of performing the same. In the ordinary manufacture
of lace edgings, such edgeings are made alone and upon one machine, that is,
the entire machine is employed in making edgeings which are manufactured
in one piece of lace, with divisions for drawing, cutting, or tearing the same
into breadths. The same observations will apply equally to the manufacture
of quillings, which likewise, in the ordinary manufacture, are produced alone
on a separate machine from that used for the manufacture of the edgeings;
whereas, according to my Invention, I manufacture edgeings and quillings
simultaneously on one and the same machine by arranging the warp threads
and those which are called "thick" threads in a proper manner for the manu-
facture of edgeings in some parts of the machine, and for the manufacture of
quillings in other parts of the same machine, either alternately, that is to say,
one edgeing and one quilling at a time, or two edgeings and one quilling, or
two edgeings and two quillings, or in any other varied manner. When the
threads are thus arranged in the manner above described, they are actuated
in their movements in the top or bottom bars by a jacquard, or by wheels, or
pin plates or chains, or other equivalents suitable thereunto, or by the jacking
of the threads, as threads are actuated in the ordinary manner of lace
manufacture.
In the ordinary manufacture of edgeings, the edgeings are divided either
by hand or by machinery into breadths, and are then joined to a quilling or
quillings, which quilling or quillings have been previously divided into
breadths after they have been made on the machine; whereas my edgeings
and quillings being produced simultaneously on the same machine are likewise
joined on the machine; consequently they are divided into breadths of an
edging and a quilling, that is, an edgeing and quilling are joined in one
breadth of lace, or a quilling and two edgeings, or two quillings and two
edgeings, or any other varied manner of division; thus in part superseding the
necessity of joining edgeings to quillings after they are made, and this is the
main advantage resulting from my Invention. This article of manufacture so
produced is intended for the same object as the ordinarily joined edgeings and
quillings, namely, for the manufacture of rouches for bonnet and cap fronts
and other articles. I manufacture quillings in the several varieties of what is
called Mechlin net, and the material I prefer to use in the manufacture of the
quillings is cotton. In the manufacture of edgeings, I prefer to use silk, spun
silk, cotton, or an union or combination of any of these fabrics.

page_text: And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is, the
manufacture of edgeings and quillings simultaneously on one and the same
lace or warp lace machine, in the manner herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Gadd, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
Witness,
GEO. JON. ROBINSON,
Patent Agent,
Nottingham.
WILLIAM GADD. (L.S.)