BOVEMENTO IN DIVIDING LACE
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Isaac Atkin, of the Town and County of the Town
of Nottingham, Lace Manufacturer, and Marmaduke Miller, of the same
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LETTERS PATENT to Isaac Atkin, of the Town and County of the Town
of Nottingham, Lace Manufacturer, and Marmaduke Miller, of the same
Place, Steam Guage Maker, for the Invention of BOVEMENTO IN
DIVIDING LACE."
Sealed the 3rd September 1857, and dated the 20th March 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Isaac Atkin and Mar-
maduke Miller at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 20th March 1857.
We, ISAAC ATKIN, of the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham,
Lace Manufacturer, and MARMADUKE MILLER, of the same Place, Steam Guage
Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
DIVIDING LACE," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in dividing lace. For this
purpose the breadth of lace to be divided is wound on a roller or reel, and it
is divided into the different breadths whilst being wound from this roller or
reel on to another roller or reel by means of cutters intermediate of the two
rollers or reels. Each cutter is by preference formed of wire, one end of the
wire being turned round over a bar, so as to allow the wire to move freely,
the other end of the wire being bent down and sharpened, so as to form the
cutting or dividing edge; or a single fixed cutter or blade may be employed
across the whole width of the fabric, such cutter or blade passing alternately
over and under the succeeding breadths across the piece.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Isaac Atkin and Marmaduke Miller in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 16th September 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ISAAC
ATKIN, of the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham, Lace Manu-
facturer, and MARMADUKE MILLER, of the same Place, Steam Guage Maker,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Isaac Atkin and Marmaduke Miller, Her special licence, that we, the
said Isaac Atkin and Marmaduke Miller, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said Isaac Atkin and Marmaduke Miller,
our executors, adminstrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and
no others, from time to time and at al 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 DIVIDING LACE," upon the
condition (amongst others) that we, the said Isaac Atkin and Marmaduke
Miller, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
our or their hands and scals, or under the hand and seal of one of us or them,
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 we, the said Isaac Atkin and Marmaduke Miller,
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 statement thereof (that is to say):-
:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in dividing lace. For this
purpose the breadth of lace to be divided is wound on a roller or reel, and it
is divided into the different breadths whilst being wound from this roller or
reel on to another roller or reel by means of cutters intermediate of the two
rollers or reels. Each cutter is by preference formed of wire, one end of the
wire being turned round over a bar, so as to allow the wire to move freely,
the other end of the wire being bent down and sharpened, so as to form the
cutting or dividing edge; or a single fixed cutter or blade may be employed

page_text: across the whole width of the fabric, such cutter or blade passing alternately
over and under the succeeding breadths across the piece.
Having thus stated the nature of our said Invention, we will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same:-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shews an end elevation, and Figure 2 part of a plan of a machine
constructed or combined according to our Invention; Figure 3 shows one of
the cutter rods separately; and Figure 4 shews a plan of part of a blade when
a single cutter is used. A is a table supported by the legs B; C is a cylinder
or drum on which the piece of lace which is to be cut is wound. This drum
or cylinder has a weighted friction cord or strap over the pulley f, as is shewn,
by which the cylinder or drum is prevented turning too freely. D is a
smaller cylinder or roller on to which the breadths of lace are wound side by
side as they are cut or divided from the piece of lace; E is a bar fixed across
the machine. In the bar E are numerous holes to receive the one end of
each of the cutter rods F, the ends of such rods being bent downwards in a
suitable manner to enter the holes in the bar. At the other end of each of
the cutter rods F is attached a cutter d or blade. The course of the piece of
lace is indicated at G, G, in its progress from the drum C to the roller D on
which the breadths of lacc are wound. a, a, are bars fixed on the table by
which the lace is raised from contact with the table. The bar E is carried by
brackets b, b, as shewn, and the axis of the roller D is supported by the
brackets c, c. The piece of lace to be cut is wound on to the drum or cylinder C,
and conducted over the table and fastened to the roller D, the breadths
between the roller D and the cutters d being divided by hand. By giving
motion to the roller D the lace is caused to be drawn past the cutters & and
divided into breadths, and such breadths aro wound side by side on the
roller D. In place of the cutters d or rods F, a cutter x, x, may be used, in
which case at the commencement the several breadths at the end being
divided by hand are to be passed alternately under and over the blade x, x,
which is to be fixed across a machine, such as above described, and the ends
of the breadths are to be fixed to the roller D.
Having thus described the nature of our said Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, we would have it understood that we make no claim to
any of the mechanical parts separately, nor do we confine ourselves to the
details; but what we claim is,―
First, the dividing lace by mechanism described in respect to Figures 1, 2,
and 3.

page_text: And, secondly, we claim the means of dividing lace described in respect to
Figure 4.
In witness whereof, we, the said Isaac Atkin and Marmaduke Miller
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this First day of September,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
Witness,
THOMAS PENTECOST,
Mount St.
ISAAC ATKIN.
(L.S.)
MARMADUKE MILLER. (L.S.)