Improvements in Curtains, Blinds, and other Twist Lace Articles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Nov., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 16th July, 1896-Accepted, 22nd Aug., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Curtains, Blinds, and other Twist Lace Articles.
I, JOHN WHARTON, Manager, in the employment of Simon, May and Company,
Weekday Cross, Nottingham, Lace Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
Heretofore curtains, blinds, antimacassars and other articles made on twist lace
machines formed with a scollop, vandyke or other shaped edge have had such
edges secured by either passing them through a machine which stitched a binding
upon them or through a machine which formed overstitching on the edges.
Instead of which I cause each article to be formed with an additional border
outside the scollop or other shaped border, then each article where the borders
join is passed through a machine which forms two rows of stitches connected by
a thread crossing from one row to the other.
Each article then appears as if the outer border was stitched to the inner
border. The edges of the outer border may be made with a straight band or
with a scollop, vandyke or other shape and be left plain or be bound or cross
stitched.
Dated this Seventh day of November 1895.
Improvements in Ourtains, Blinds, and other Twist Lace Artico
I JOHN WHARTON, Manager in the employment of Simon, May & Company,
Weekday Cross, Nottingham, Lace Manufacturers, do, hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shows portion of one corner of a curtain sufficient to illustrate my
invention.
Heretofore curtains, blinds, antimacassars, and other a ticles made on twist lace
machines formed with a scollop, vandyke or other shaped edge have had such
edges secured by either passing them through a machine which stitched a binding
upon them, or through a machine which formed overstitching on the edges.
Instead of which I cause each article to be formed with an additional border 2
outside the scollop or other shaped border 1 then each article where the borders
join is passed through a machine which forms two rows of stitches 3 connected by
a thread 4 crossing from one row to the other.
Each article then appears as if the outer border was stitched to the inner
border. The edges of the outer border may be made with a straight band or
with a scollop, vandyke or other shape and be left plain or be bound or cross
stitched.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The construction and employment in curtains, blinds, antimacassars and other
twist lace articles of an additional border outside the usual scallop, vandyke or
other shaped border and forming two rows of stitches connected by a thread
crossing from one row to the other where the borders join substantially as
described for the purpose specified and illustrated in the drawings annexed.
Dated this Fifteenth day of July 1896.
H. W. GOUGH, C.E.,
Agent.