AN IMPROVEMENT IN HAND FRAMES FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF EMBROIDERED TRIMMINGS
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Browett, of the City of Coventry, Manu-.
facturer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN HAND FRAMES FOR THE
MANUFACTURE OF EMBROIDERED TRIMMINGS,"
Sealed the 7th October 1864, and dated the 14th April 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Browett at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
14th April 1864.
I, FREDERICK. BROWETT, of the City of Coventry, Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN HAND FRAMES.
FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF EMBROIDERED TRIMMINGS," to be as follows:-
Whereas embroidered trimmings of gimp, braid, or thread, and other
embroidery, have heretofore been made upon a solid wooden roller having
pins or pegs inserted therein for forming the pattern, which method presents
a difficulty in respect to the sewing of the same and is otherwise inconvenient.
Now my Invention consists in the construction and employment of a hollow.
frame or hoop of metal with holes or perforations through the same between
the pins or pegs fixed thereon for forming the pattern of the embroidery. The
worker is thus enabled to pass her needle through and stitch the threads.
together at the points of intersection. The frame from being hollow, light,
and perforated is conveniently managed.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Frederick Browett in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
14th October 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FREDERICK
BROWETT, of the City of Coventry, Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-seventh year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Frederick Browett, Her special licence that I, the said Frederick
Browett, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Frederick Browett, 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT
IN HAND FRAMES FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF EMBROIDERED TRIMMINGS,”, upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Frederick Browett, 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 Frederick Browett, 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 thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say:-
Whereas embroidered trimmings of gimp; braid, or thread, and other
embroidery, have heretofore been made upon a solid wooden roller having
pins or pegs inserted therein for forming the pattern, which method presents
a difficulty in respect to the sewing of the same and is otherwise inconvenient.
Now my Invention consists in the construction and employment of a hollow
frame or hoop of metal with holes, of perforations through the same between
the pins or pegs fixed thereon for forming, the pattern of the embroidery. The
worker is thus enabled to pass her needle through and stitch the threads
together at the points of intersection. The frame being hollow, light, and

page_text: perforated is conveniently managed. In some cases the perforations are not
necessary, and then I form the frame without them.
Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying Drawings are respectively an elevation
and a plan of a hand frame constructed according to my Invention.
A, A, is a hoop with holes or perforations a, a, formed through it; b, b, are
the pins or pegs fixed on the hoop A for forming the pattern of the embroidery.
Figures 3 and 4 are respectively a plan and side elevation of a different
shaped frame. A is the body of the frame; b, b, are metal pins; c, c, are
wooden pegs, and d, d, are holes Figures 5 and 6 shew similar views of a
similarly shaped frame in which the holes are dispensed with. Figure 7 is a
side view of a curved frame carrying pins or pegs, or both, and
holes or not.
provided with
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, constructing hand
frames for the manufacture of embroidered trimmings in the form of a hollow
frame or hoop with or without holes or perforations through the same between
pins or pegs fixed thereon substantially as and for the purpose herein-before
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Browett, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of October, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-four.
FRED. BROWETT. (L.S.)
FRED. BROWETT. (L.S.)