IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF NET LACE
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Nicolas Eugène Jeanroy, of 39, Rue de l'Echiquier,
Paris, in the Empire of France, and 4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
E.C., for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF NET
LACE."
Sealed the 8th June 1858, and dated the 14th January 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Nicolas Eugène Jeanroy
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
14th January 1858.
I, NICOLAS EUGÈNE JEANROY, of 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, in the
Empire of France, and 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, E.C., do hereby
declare the nature of my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF NET LACE," to be as follows, that is to say:
This Invention consists in employing flowers made by the loom or machine-
made flowers as a substitute for bobbin-made flowers for the manufacture of
net lace. The flowers or other ornament are cut from the net, to which they
are woven, by scissors or other convenient means, and are stitched by the
hand to a foundation of net or other similar tissue, arranging them to any
desired pattern.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Nicolas Eugène Jeanroy in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 12th July 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, NICOLAS
EUGÈNE JEANROY, of 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, in the Empire of France,
and 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, E.C., send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-first year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Nicolas Eugène Jeanroy, Her special licence that I, the said
Nicolas Eugène Jeanroy, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Nicolas Eugène Jeanroy, my 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 THE MANUFACTURE OF NET LACE,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Nicolas Eugène Jeanroý,
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 samo
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 Nicolas Eugène Jeanroy, 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, that is to say :-
My Invention consists in improvements in the manufacture of net lace,
with a view to obtain at lower cost an increased variety of design and rapidity
of production. To this end I replace the bobbin-made flowers and designs
hitherto employed in this manufacture by designs produced in the loom, which
are afterwards cut out by the hand or any suitable mechanical means.
These flowers or designs, thus prepared, are surrounded by a thread and
applied by the hand on "tulle" or net in the same manner as in the appli-
cation of Brussels lace. It is evident that by this means an unlimited variety

page_text: of designs may be produced, and their application to the net effected with a
rapidity and economy hitherto unattained...
I therefore claim as my improvements in lace manufacture the simple sub-
stitution of loom-made flowers or designs to those made by the bobbin as
hitherto, the subsidiary operations of cutting out of these designs, and their
application to the net groundwork, being performed in the ordinary way..
In witness whereof, I, the said Nicolas Eugène Jeanroy, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Tenth day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eigth.
Witness,
M. F. MENNONS.
N. E. JEANROY. (L.S.)