Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Sept., 1887
Specification Accepted, 28th Oct., 1887
We ALFRED LEES and FRANCIS HENRY LEES of Clyde Works Radford Nottingham
Lace Manufacturers 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 :-
Our improvements consist in employing combinations of different materials, such
as silk and cotton, or silk, cotton, wool or linen threads, or threads or cords of any
other material which can be used in warp lace machines.
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The combination of threads, or of threads and cords after being passed through
a sley or sleys "when a sley or sleys are required then through guides carried
by a bar or bars or through perforations in one or more steel bars to the needles,
each bar being traversed either by wheels, or a jacquard above or at the end of the
warp machine in the usual way, the warp lace produced will be striped vertically
during the process of manufacture.
We are thus enabled to produce a variety of stripes and mixtures of different
materials and by operating the threads by either of the methods employed in warp
lace machines, we can produce striped fabrics, each alternate stripe being a satin or
cloth one, and the next adjacent stripes being either plain warp net or a spotted or
figured net, or we can make striped fabrics each alternate stripe being formed with
a ground work of cotton thread and the next adjacent stripes of wool or linen threads
or of threads of other material with a pattern of silk extending over the whole of the
stripes or only over a portion of them.
And by employing threads of either material of one colour to form the cloth work
or net of one set of stripes, and threads of another material of another colour to form
the next adjacent stripes, we can figure upon either or both sets of stripes with threads
of the same material or a different material of the same colour or any other colour
according to the pattern or design we may wish to produce.
We can also produce novel effects by varying the widths of the stripes, one series
of stripes may be of the same width as the next adjacent stripes or of a greater or less
width.

page_text: Each series of threads of one material for forming one series of stripes of cloth
work or net, aro supplied from one warp beam, and the series of threads of another
material for forming another series of stripes of cloth work or net are supplied from
another warp beam. But the threads forming the pattern upon the cloth work or
net stripes whether of the same or of divers colours are supplied from separate beams
or portions of them are each supplied from a separate spool or bobbin.
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,
The employment in warp lace machines of threads of two or more different materials
and of divers colours placed side by side to form two or more adjacent stripes of cloth
work or net either plain or patterned, the said stripes running from end to end of the
fabric or fabrics made in the warp lace machine, substantially as described in the
foregoing specification.
Dated this Saventeenth day of September 1887.