An Improved Hand Frame for Use in Making Maltese and other Lace
Year: 1899

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Hand Frame for Use in Making Maltese and other Lace.
We, ELIZABETH FRANCES RALLI, Rookfield, Higher Broughton, Manchester, and
GEORGE LEWIS, Managing Director, of the Firm of Abel Morrall Limited, Clive
Works, Redditch, in the County of Worcester, Manufacturers, do hereby declare
the nature of our said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
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Our invention has for its object an improved hand frame for use in making
Maltese and other lace which enables the operator to easily and quickly move a
certain quantity of the lace as it is finished off the frame by withdrawing the lower
bar, a sufficient quantity only being left on the pins for the operator to continue
the work and also to keep the upper ends of the frame perfectly rigid and upright
or at right angles to the bottom bar.
In order that our invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried
into practical effect we have appended hereunto a double sized sheet of drawings,
upon which we have illustrated an example of our frame for making Maltese or
other hand made lace.
Figure 1 is a perspective front elevation of our hand frame.
Figure 2 is an end elevation of Figure 1.
Figures 3 & 4 show portions of our frame in a modified form.
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In carrying our invention into practice we construct the uprights or bars A
and A preferably from round wire and these bars are provided with the bosses or
slide pieces a and a³ which fit onto the slide bar B. This slide bar is preferably
made from oval shaped wire so as not to twist or turn in the sockets or holes in
the slide pieces a² and a³. A tapped hole is formed preferably on the underside
of each of the slide pieces or bosses to receive the thumb screws a¹ and
their equivalents by means of which the uprights or bars A and A are held
rigidly in position on the slide bar B. The upper ends a6 and a7 of the bars or
uprights A and A¹ are preferably reduced thus forming a shoulder for the bar D
to rest upon which bar is formed with a number of holes d¹ through which the
reduced ends a and a of the uprights A and A¹ pass as clearly shewn at Figure 1
for the purpose of keeping these uprights perfectly parallel or at right angles
with the slide bar B when once adjusted into position. In order to ascertain that
the slide bar B after it has been withdrawn for the purpose of sliding or drawing
a portion of the finished lace off the uprights or pins A and A¹ is replaced in
exactly the same position as previously so as to ensure that the unrights are per-
fectly parallel or at right angles with the slide bar we form a scale or a number
of marks or lines or divisions 61 on this bar which enables the operator to replace
the bar in its proper position. It will easily be understood that the bars A and A¹
may be moved either nearer together or further apart to suit the different widths
of lace required by removing the top bar D and then loosening or unscrewing
either one or both of the thumb screws a' and a5. In some cases we may fit the
bar ) onto the ends of the uprights A and A¹ without forming a shoulder on the
ends of these bars or we may dispense with the top bar in which case the bar B
may be formed without the scale or division marks upon it.

page_text: At Figures 3 and 4 we have shewn a-modification of our lace frame. In the
method as shewn at Figure 3 we reduce the end as of the bar B upon which the
bar Afits so as to form a shoulder for the slide piece or boss a to" butt against.
The bar A is held in position on this end of the bar 'B by the thumb screw a
or its equivalent or a shoulder may be formed near the end of the bar B
without reducing the end a8. In the method as shewn at Figure 4. we form a
screw thread on the end as to receive the wing nut a² or its equivalent.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:-
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. CLAIMS.
First: The improved hand frame for use in making Maltese and other lace
consisting essentially of uprights or bars such as A and -A! both capable of being
adjusted upon the slide or connecting bar B which bar is removable-for the pur
pose of working various widths of lace in the manner substantially' as herein set
forth and as shewn upon the accompanying sheet of drawings.
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Second: In hand frames for use in making Maltese and other lace a slide bar
such as B capable of being withdrawn or detached from the bars or uprights A
and A for the purpose substantially as herein set forth and as shewn upon the
drawings by Figures 1 and 2 and by the modifications Figures 3 and 4.
Third: In hand frames for use in making Maltese and other lace a top bar
--such-as-D_in_combination-with-the-bar Bifor_keeping the bars_A_and_A_per-
fectly parallel and at right angles to the bar B in the manner substantially as
herein set forth and as shewn upon the accompanying sheet of drawings.
Fourth-In hand frame 'for use in making Maltese and other lace forming a
scale or a number_of_markstor_divisions_on_the_slide bar B to be used with or
without the bar]) and its 'holes in the manner and for the purpose substantially
as herein set forth and as shewn upon the accompanying sheet of drawings
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Dated this 22nd day of February 1899.
ELIZABETH FRANCES RALLI
GEORGE LEWIS
74 717
By George Barker,
Fellow of The Chartered Institute of Patent Agents,
Agent for Applicants, 77, Colmore Row, Birmingham.