IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU- FACTURE OF LACE
Year: 1885

page_text: I, EDWIN FRANCES, of Calais, in the French Republic, Lace Manufacturer, do
hereby declare the nature of my said invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF LACE," to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to the manufacture of a novel description of lace in which
the ordinary finings are converted into plush.
In the execution of my improvements, I proceed as follows, taking as example the
material known in the trade as "floss lace" in which the threads forming the fining
are usually arranged partly on the surface and partly in the body of the tissue.
I preserve this general arrangement in the manufacture of the tissue itself, but
reduce considerably the length of the threads which correspond with the ordinary
floss. I then cut through the middle these surface threads so as to convert each of
them into two floating ends, the result of which is to transform into plush the parts
of the design formed by those threads and to produce thereby a pile tissue hitherto
unobtainable by any known process of lace manufacture.
The threads which enter into the composition of the finings may be of different
colours and materials, and the thickness of the plush may be varied at will by
varying the number and length of these threads.
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PHILIP M. JUSTICE,
Applicant's Agent.

page_text: I, EDWIN FRANCES, of Calais, in the French Republic, Lace Manufacturer, do
hereby declare the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described, and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
My Invention relates to the manufacture of a novel description of lace in which
the ordinary "finings" are converted into plush.
In the execution of my improvements, I proceed as follows, taking as example
the material known in the trade as "floss lace" in which the threads forming the
fining are usually arranged partly on.. the surface and partly in the body of the
tissue. I preserve this general arrangement in the mauufacture of the tissue itself,
but reduce considerably the length of the threads which correspond with the
ordinary floss, I then cut through the middle these surface threads so as to convert
each of them into two floating ends, the result of which is to transform into plush
the parts of the design formed by those threads and to produce thereby a pile tissue
hitherto unobtainable by any known process of lace manufacture.
The threads which enter into the composition of the finings may be of different
colours and materials, and the thickness of the plush may be varied at will by
varying the number and length of these threads.
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It will be understood that my process is confined to the production of plush
surfaces on machine made lace to the exclusion of laces made by hand, to which it
is not practically applicable, and on which somewhat similar effects could be
produced by special manipulation.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim, is
The improvements in the manufacture of machine made lace consisting in the
conversion into plush of the ordinary "finings," in the manner and for the purpose
substantially as herein set forth.
(Dated the twenty sixth day of January 1986
PHILIP M. JUSTICE,
.Applicant's Agent.