US Patent No. 550,745, granted December 3, 1895 to Edward Cope of New Basford, Nottingham, England, for a twist-lace fabric. It describes modifying an ordinary twist-lace machine so that the same spool threads cover both faces, giving a double-faced lace with a pattern on each side. The patent has four sheets of drawings showing the machine and thread movements, followed by the specification and three claims.

US Patent No. 539,936, granted May 28, 1895 to Edward Cope of Nottingham, England, for improvements to twist-lace machines. The three sheets of drawings show the machine in section, the central gearing and a modified arrangement. The specification describes how the catch bars and point bars are driven from shafts arranged in a circle around a central shaft through intermittent gearing, and it ends with seven claims.