IMPROVEMENTS IN FABRICS MADE ON THE LEVERS' OR TWIST LACE MACHINES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Henry Steegmann and Edward Birkhoad
Steegmann, of the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN FABRICS MADE ON THE LEVERS' OR
TWIST LACE MACHINES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Henry
Steegmann and Edward Birkhead Steegmann at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 24th
October 1874.
WC, ROBERT HENRY STEEGMANN and EdwARD BIRKHEAD STEEG-
MANN, of the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FABRICS
MADE ON THE LEVERS' OR TWIST LACE MACHINES," to be as follows:—
Heretofore veils, falls, scarfs, mantillas, and similar articles made on
the Levers or twist lace machines, with plain or ornamented centres,
have had borders or ornamental edges sewn, embroiderd, or otherwise

page_text: secured to the sides afterwards. Now we propose to dispense with such
labour by designing patterns with borders or ornamental edges upon two
or more sides thercof; the cards for such patterns being punched and
placed upon the machines, articles will be produced entire without
having to apply any other border or ornamental edge afterwards.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Robert Henry Steegmann and Edward Birkhead
Steegmann in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 22nd April 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wc, ROBERT
HENRY STEEGMANN and EDWARD BIRKHEAD STEEGMANN, of 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 Twenty-fourth day of October, in the
year of our Lord One thousand cight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said Robert Henry Steegmann
and Edward Birkhead Steegmann, Her special licence, that wc, the said
Robert Henry Steegmann and Edward Birkhead, Steegmann, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others.as we, the said
Robert Henry Steegmann and Edward Birkhoad Steegmann, our
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 "IMPROVEMENTS
IN FABRICS MADE ON THE LEVERS' OR TWIST LACE MACHINES," upon the
condition (amongst others) that we, the said Robert Henry Steegmann
and Edward Birklicad Steegmann, our executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under our, 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

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Robert Henry Steegmann and
Edward Birkhead Steegmann, do hereby declare the nature of our said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to bo
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following state-
ment:-
Heretofore veils, falls, scarfs, mantillas, and similar articles made on
the Levers' or twist lace machines, with plain or ornamented centres,
have had borders or ornamental edges sewn, embroidered, or otherwise
secured to the sides afterwards. Now we propose to dispense with such
labour by designing patterns with borders or ornamental edges upon
three or more sides thereof; the cards for such patterns being punched
and placed upon the machines, articles will be produced entire without
having to apply any other border or ornamental edge afterwards, thus
dispensing with considerable labour and expense.
In witness whereof, we, the said Robert Henry Steegmann and
Edward Birkhead Steegmann, have hereunto set our hands and
scals, this
day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.
Witness,
H. W. GOUGH, C.E.,
ROBERT HENRY STEEGMANN. (L.S.)
EDWARD B. STEEGMANN.
(L.S.)
Nottingham.