Improvements in Producing Machine-made Lace, Netting, Bobbin Lace, and Lace Curtains, and the like of any Design in Different Colours
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Aug., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 14th May, 1900-Accepted, 7th July, 1900
Improvements in Producing Machine-made Lace, Netting, Bobbin
Lace, and Lace Curtains, and the like of any Design in Different
Colours..
GEORGE RYDILL, 20, Back Lawson Street, Dewsbury, Merchant, in the County
of York, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to improvements in producing machine made
lace, netting, bobbin lace and lace curtains and the like of any design in different
colours by printing the same with a machine in the form of stripes or a zig-zag
or round or square spots or in stripes diagonally or in any other suitable form
made to have a wavy effect upon the finished fabric which fabric or material
may be used for window curtains, antimacassars, ornamental trimming and other
purposes.
In carrying out this invention I take machine made lace, netting and bobbin
lace curtains of any colour or design and print on the fabric with a printing
machine suitably arranged colour or colours to print on the machine woven
netting or lace fabric or material in places where the colour or colours will pro-
luce the best effect, stripes or any other suitable design as it passes in a longi-
tudinal direction.
The lace, netting, bobbin lace and lace curtains and the like may be woven
with fast dyed coloured yarn or threads made of any material and then printed
with different coloured stripes and spots or the lace, netting, bobbin lace and
lace curtains and the like may be dyed any one fast colour after they are pro-
duced in the machine and afterwards machine printed with coloured stripes or
spots.
After the colour is applied the printed lace, netting, bobbin lace and lace
curtains and the like fabric passes on to a steaming chamber or oxidising chest
according to the class of work in hand or if required it is fixed developed or
modified in the manner required for its previous treatment.
Dated this 11th dow of
1000
GEORGE RYDILL.
COMIDELE DEECIFICATION.
Improvements in Producing Machine-made Lace, Netting, Bobbin
Lace, and Lace Curtains, and the like of any Design in Different
Colours.
I, GEORGE RYDILL, of 20, Back Lawson Street, Dewsbury, in the County of
York, Merchant, 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:-
This invention has reference to improvements in producing machine made

page_text: lace, netting, bobbin lace and lace curtains and the like-all of which are here-
after termed and included in the term curtain," of any design in different
colours by printing the design thereon with a printing machine of ordinary
construction in the form of, say, stripes, either in say, plain, straight, or in a
zig-zag form, or in round or square spots, or in diagonal stripes, or in any other
suitable form, such as, say, stripes made to have a wavy effect upon the finished
fabric, which fabric or material may be used for window curtains, antimacassars,
ornamental trimming, and other purposes. The above named printed stripes
or pattern may be in addition to the woven pattern formed on the lace producing
machine.
In the drawings hereunto annexed Fig. 1, is a part of a lace curtain made in
the usual manner with a pattern thereon.
Fig. 2, a piece of lace edging.
In carrying this invention into practice I take machine made lace, netting,
bobbin lace and lace curtains as made by machinery of ordinary construction,
either with or without a pattern formed thereon of any colour or design, and
print on the fabric thus made, with a printing machine of ordinary and well
known construction and suitably arranged with a colour or colours so as to print
on the curtain in places where the best effect will be produced stripes, or any
other suitable design, as it passes in a longitudinal direction through the print-
ing machine.
The design to be printed upon, say, the curtain may be in a variety of forms
such as for example, in any required number of stripes of the same or varying
widths which may be printed upon the curtain A, say, in three stripes at the
points between the dotted lines a b, c d, e f, which are shown produced beyond
the ends of the curtain in the same or varying colours and arranged at intervals
of the same or varying distances apart.
A coloured stripe may be printed on the edging B between the dotted lines g h.
When the design takes the form of coloured stripes they are arranged to run
either in a longitudinal, or diagonal, or transverse (one or more) direction, and
in either plain, or straight, or wavy, or zig-zag lines, or the design may take the
form of circles, or rings, or spots, or squares, or a combination of two or more
of them, and if desired the said stripes, or rings, or circles, or spots, or squares,
may be arranged to form a set pattern or patterns.
The colour or colours employed for the hereinbefore mentioned printing pur-
poses may consist of analine, or other dyes worked up to the consistency of
printing ink, or a similar colouring matter is used as is employed for printing
on calicoes and the like materials.
The curtain may be woven or made in the usual manner with or without a
pattern thereon with fast dyed coloured yarn or threads made of any material
and then printed with different coloured stripes, or spots, or both, or the curtain
may be dyed any one fast colour after it is produced in the machine and after-
wards machine printed with coloured stripes or spots or both as described.
After the coloured stripe or stripes, or spots, or squares, is or are applied as
described, the printed curtain is passed on to a steaming chamber or oxidising
chest according to the class or work operated upon or if required it is fixed, or
developed, or modified in the manner required for its previous treatment.
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 production of a fixed printed design or designs in one colour or in different
colours upon machine made lace, netting, bobbin lace, and lace curtains by the
means and in the manner substantially as hereinbefore described.
Dated this Flavanth day of May 1900
GEORGE RYDILL.