IMPROVE- AR ADDING TO LACE MACHINERY.
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Oldknow, of Villa Road, in the Town and
County of the Town of Nottingham, for the Invention of “IMPROVE-
AR ADDING TO LACE MACHINERY.
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Oldknow at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
2nd January 1873.
I, JAMES OLDKNOW, of Villa Road, in the Town and County of the
5 Town of Nottingham, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FABRICS IN TWIST LACE MACHINERY,"
to be as follows:-
The machine consists in producing a new manufacture by the applica-
tion of embroidery threads in ornamental designs upon the surface of
O fabric known as "tape" or "muslin" bands.
In carrying out my improvements I attach the embroidery threads to
the surface of the fabric by operating those threads to the desired figure

page_text: or pattern by means of the jacquard in such manner as to bring them
into position to be caught and retained by the bobbin threads in their
traverse, such bobbin threads constituting at the same time the weft of
the tape or muslin and the means of attachment of the embroidery
threads to the surface of that tape or muslin in the parts or order desired,
depending on the pattern to be obtained.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James Oldknow in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 1st July 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
OLDKNOW, of Villa Road, in the Town and County of the Town of
Nottingham, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Second day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said James Oldknow, Her special license
that I, the said James Oldknow, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said James Oldknow, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF FABRICS IN TWIST LACE MACHINERY," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said James Oldknow, 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 James Oldknow, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :-

page_text: The Invention consists in producing a new manufacture of fabric in
twist lace machinery by the application of embroidery threads in
ornamental designs upon the surface of that class of fabric known as
tape or muslin bands. The tape or muslin band consists of a number of
warp threads operated alternately under and over a "bobbin thread,"
which bobbin thread is caused to traverse at regular intervals across such
warp threads, and interlace with them, so as to become the weft of the
said tape or band.
In carrying out my improvements I attach the embroidery threads to
the surface of the fabric by operating those threads to the desired figure
or pattern by means of the jacquard in such manner as to bring them
into position to be caught and retained by the bobbin threads in their
traverse, such bobbin threads constituting at the same time the weft of
the tape or muslin and the means of attachment of the embroidery
threads to the surface of that tape or muslin in the parts or order desired,
depending on the pattern to be obtained.
Having thus described my Invention, and means which I adopt in
carrying the same into effect, I would have it understood that what I
claim is, the improvements in the manufacture of fabrics in twist lace
machinery whereby embroidery threads in ornamental designs are
produced upon the surface of such fabrics, substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Oldknow, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.