US744610A

US744610A - Holder for lacework.

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Publication number: US744610A
Application number: US13887903A
Authority: US
Inventors: Augusta Proctor
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1903-01-13
Filing date: 1903-01-13
Publication date: 1903-11-17
Anticipated expiration: 1920-11-17

Description

Patented November 17, 1903.

PATENT OF ICE.

AUGUSTA PROCTOR, OF VIROQUA, WISCONSIN.

HOLDER FO'R LACEWORK.

SPEGIFIOATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 744,610, dated November 1:1 La

Application filed January 13, 1903. Serial No. 138,879. (No a i.

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUSTA PROOTOR, a citizen of the United States,'residing at Viroqua, in the county of Vernon and State of Wisconsin,.have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Holders ,for Lacework, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the manufacture of lacework by hand, and has special refer ence to an improved patterning-holder facilitating the preparation and formation of lacework in various pat-terns.

To this end the invention contemplates a simple and practical form of device specially designed for the making of the lace popularly known as Teneriife lacework, which is employed as insertion, medallions, and trimming of various styles for shirt-waists, costumes, &c., also being extensively used in the making of fancy linen scarfs, squares, and

similar work. a v l As a general object the invention is specially designed as a distinct improvement upon the form of device disclosed in the patout to Dixon, No. 689,860, dated December 31, 1901.

With these and many other objects in view, which will more readily appear as the nature of the invention is better understood,the same consists in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of parts which will be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated, and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a plan View of one form of patterning-holder embodying the present invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view 'thereof. is a plan View showing the applied positionof the holder and illustrating a piece of lacework in process of formation.

Like reference-numerals designate correspondin g parts throughout the several figures of the drawings.

In carrying out theinvention the holder is usually in the form of a plate of any desired shape, although in the preferable form it has the configuration of adisk or circular body.

This disk or circular body (designated in the drawings by the numeral 1) may be made of any material suitable for the purpose-such, for instance, as celluloid, metal, wood, ivory,

'dallions to the outside row of pins.

Fig. 3

papier-mach, or equivalent material possessing special rigidity and lightness.

The holder-plate or disk-body l is provided therein with a plurality of concentric series of pin-receiving holes 2, one of which series is preferably arranged near the center of the plate or disk to admit of a different variety of designs 'for the center, such as lacebuttons or medallions fastened in the center by pins and working from the buttons or other me- In this connection it will be observed that the central group or series of pin-receiving holes 2 hear an important relation to those rows arranged closer to the peripheral edge of the body. Also in the carrying out of the present invention the holder body, plate, or disk 1 is preferably provided in the peripheral edge thereof with a continuous series of edge notches 3, which facilitate the positioning of pins at the edges in any desired location, according to the character of the work to be accomplished. Said notches 3 are also employed in the same manner as the pin-receiving holes 2, thereby making a larger-size lace wheel or disk. Furthermore, these notches are used in combination with the receiving-holes in making an irregular edge to the lace.

All of the pin-receiving holes are designed for the reception of common headed pins 4, adapted to be inserted in the holes and pressed into 'asuitable cushion or other equivalent body, which provides for retaining both the holder and the pins in place during the use of. the device for making lacework thereon.

In the use of the device the pins are passed through theholes a sufficient distance to leave the heads projecting above the upper rounding guide-surface for the needle as it is'passed in and out among the threads in the formation'of the lacework. A convexed surface of the character indicated greatly facili- IOC fates the free and easy movement of the point of the needle, and hence permits of an easier and more rapid working than is possible on a perfectly flat surface, such as shown in the patent aforesaid.

The manner of using the device herein described is not essentially diiferent from that set forth in the patent, and the improvements reside particularly in the convexed working surface, the central group of holes, and the peripheral series of edge notches.

From the foregoing it is thought that the construction, use, and many advantages of the herein-described patterning-holder will be readily apparent without further description.

Having thus described the invention, What is claimed,and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is-

1. A patterning-holder for makinglacework consisting of a plate convexed on its upper side and having a plurality of pin-receiving holes therethrough, the plate being notched at its peripheral edge.

2. Apatterning-holder for makinglacework consisting of a plate conVeXed on its upper side, a plurality of concentrically-arranged series of pin-receiving holes, one of said series of holes arranged at or near the center of the body, and the plate provided with a peripheral series of edge notches.

In testimony whereof I a'lfix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

AUGUSTA PROCTOR.

Witnesses:

H. E. PACKARD, G. G. MoWRY.