US Patent No. 92,995, granted July 27, 1869 to George Osborne of Brooklyn, assignor to Abraham G. Jennings, for an improvement to lace-making (net-making) machines. It adds a sliding bar or strap under the barbed needles that carries the fabric back over the needle barbs when the sinker-web moves back, so fine silk net can be worked without straining the threads. The patent has one sheet of drawings (Figs. 1-3) and a two-part specification with a single claim.