IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PRO- DUCTION OF CURVED AND OTHER FORMS IN ARTICLES OF LACE
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Hall, of Calais, in the Empire of France,
Lace Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PRO-
DUCTION OF CURVED AND OTHER FORMS IN ARTICLES OF LACE."
Sealed the 2nd May 1862, and dated the 5th November 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Hall at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
5th November 1861.
I, WILLIAM HALL, of Calais, in the Empire of France, Lace Manufac-
turer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE PRODUCTION OF CURVED AND OTHER FORMS IN ARTICLES OF LACE," to be as
follows:-
In carrying out my improvements, the figures of lace desired to produce
the required forms may be woven in a straight line as the most convenient
for the purpose, with angular or other spaces in the figures or ornamentation
thereof, such that when the parts within such spaces are cut therefrom, and
the remaining edges are sewn together, the required form will be obtained.
Figure 1 shows one illustration of the improvements.
The parts within 1, 2, 3, being those of the weaving which have to be cut

page_text: away, and the edges of the figure remaining by being sewn together, will
produce Figure 2, and in like manner may many various effects be pro-
duced.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Hall in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
5th May 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
HALL, of Calais, in the Empire of France, Lace Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said William Hall, Her special licence that I, the said William
Hall, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said William Hall, 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 PRODUCTION OF CURVED AND OTHER FORMS IN ARTICLES OF LACE," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Hall, 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 William Hall, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following state-
ment thereof, that is to say:-
In carrying out my improvements the lace fabric desired to produce the
required forms is woven in a straight line as the most convenient for the
purpose, though I do not confine myself thereto, and there are angular, or other
spaces in the figures or ornamentation thereof, such that when the parts within
such spaces are cut away from the other parts, and the remaining edges are
sewn together, the required form will be obtained.

page_text: Figure 1 shews by an outline one illustration of a piece of lace produced
according to my improvements. The parts a, a, being those of the general
lace to be retained, and the parts within the Numbers 1, 2, 3, being those of
the weaving which have to be cut away, when the edges of the figure remaining
by being sewn together will produce Figure 2, and in like manner may many
analagous effects be produced.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Hall, have hereunto set my hand
and seal. this Third day of May. in the year of our Lord One thousand