Improvements in Lace Window and like Curtains.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 9th May, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Mar., 1892-Accepted, 9th Apr., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Lace Window and like Curtains.
We EDWARD ELSEY of Russell Street Works, Nottingham in the Town and
County of the Town of the same, Lace and Lace Curtain Manufacturer, and
JOHN SULLEY of the same place, Manager for the said Edward Elsey do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to lace window curtains and like curtains which are
drawn together at parts, by ribbons or other means, for ornamental effect.
As at present employed such curtains are usually separate curtains or several
separate curtains in a row distended and supported top and bottom by strings, tapes,
bands or equivalent means and tied in at the middle but skill is required in the
manipulation to secure good and uniform effects.
According to our invention we manufacture the lace or like fabric with a pattern,
indication or guide for subsequent cutting or division of certain threads and these
guiding patterns or indications are preferably made up of thickened or strengthened
bordering along the sides and ends of an openwork line and these lines are
distributed along the piece so that the user has only need to cut or sever the
threads along the lines and to gather up the central portions, or the central
portions in the case of a line broken up into sections, and tie each with appropriate
ribbons or ties.
By these means unskilled labor is enabled to produce a uniform and ornamental
result or the finished article can be sold in the piece ready for cutting to width or
dimension of window or place with greatly increased convenience, economy and
improved manufacture.
Dated the 9th day of Mov 1801
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Lace Window and like Curtains.
We EDWARD ELSEY of Russell Street Works, Nottingham in the Town and
County of the Town of the same, Lace and Lace Curtain Manufacturer and
JOHN SULLEY of the same place Manager for the said Edward Elsey 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 lace window curtains and like curtains which are
drawn together at parts by ribbons or other means, for ornamental effect.
As at present employed such curtains are usually separate curtains or several
separate curtains in a row distended and supported top and bottom by strings,
tapes, bands or equivalent means and tied in at the middle but skill is required in
the manipulation to secure good and uniform effects.
According to our invention we manufacture the lace or like fabric with a pattern,
indication or guide for subsequent cutting or division of certain threads and these
guiding patterns or indications are preferably made up of thickened or strengthened
bordering along the sides and ends of an openwork line and these lines are
distributed along the piece so that the user has only need to cut or sever the
threads along the lines and to gather up the central portions, or the central
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page_text: portions in the case of a line broken up into sections, and tie each with appropriate
ribbons or ties.
The indications or guides bordering the material on the lines of cutting may be
constituted by "clothing" "tapeing" or other suitable variation of the work
adapted to strengthen the edges of the cuts for which they form the guides.
By these means unskilled labor is enabled to produce a uniform and ornamental
result or the finished article can be sold in the piece ready for cutting to width or
dimension of window or place with greatly increased convenience, economy and
improved manufacture.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
The accompanying diagram Fig. 1 indicates a piece of lace fabric composed of a
plain ground a with the patterns or guides b, b, worked therein and within the
vertical spaces of the guides between the points 1, 1, cuts severing the ground
threads may be made and the fabric between the cuts be drawn together or
gathered and tied by ribbons or otherwise.
Fig.
shews to a smaller scale such a piece of fabric cut as described and
drawn together or gathered into a series of small curtains with diamond openings
of equal sizes, c and d respectively being the top and bottom strings or supports
and ee ee the ties.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:
1. The manufacture and use of lace window and like curtain fabric in the piece
or lengths, with a series of patterns, indications or guides formed by variations in
the work produced-as by thickening or strengthening the borderings of the fabric
on lines intended for cutting-so as to facilitate subsequent making up, substantially
as and for the purpose set forth.
2. In a lace window or like curtain a continuous series of guiding indications
produced in the weaving for the purpose of facilitating the cutting of the fabric
at intervals in order to the draping thereof, as set forth.
3. The manufacture, arrangement and use of window curtains in continuous
lengths of cut and gathered parts, as set forth.
Dated the 3rd day of March 1892.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicants.