SOME NEW MACHINERY AND APPARATUS TO BE ATTACHED OR ANNEXED TO CERTAIN PLAIN FRAMES OR MACHINES CALLED STOCKING FRAMES, PLAIN PIECE FRAMES, OR ANY OTHER PLAIN FRAMES, FOR THE PURPOSE OF WORKING, MAKING, OR MANUFACTURING SILK, COTTON, MOHAIR, WORSTED, OR ANY OTHER SORT OF STUFF WHATSOEVER, INTO PLAIN HOSE, OR ANY PLAIN SORT OF PIECE WORK WHATSOEVER, WHEREBY THESE FRAMES WILL WORK, MAKE, OR MANUFACTURE ALL KINDS OF PLAIN STOCKINGS AND PLAIN PIECE WORK BY MECHANICAL MACHINRY AND MOTION
Year: 1805

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
CALDWELL, of Hathern, in the County of Leicester, Frame Smith, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King the Third did, by His
Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-first day of Sep-
tember, in the forty-fifth year of His reign, give and grant unto me,
the said Samuel Caldwell, His special licence that I, the said Samuel
Caldwell, should and lawfully might, during the term of years therein
mentioned, make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "SOME NEW MACHINERY AND
APPARATUS TO BE ATTACHED OR ANNEXED TO CERTAIN PLAIN FRAMES OR MACHINES
CALLED STOCKING FRAMES, PLAIN PIECE FRAMES, OR ANY OTHER PLAIN FRAMES, FOR
THE PURPOSE OF WORKING, MAKING, OR MANUFACTURING SILK, COTTON, MOHAIR,
WORSTED, OR ANY OTHER SORT OF STUFF WHATSOEVER, INTO PLAIN HOSE, OR ANY
PLAIN SORT OF PIECE WORK WHATSOEVER, WHEREBY THESE FRAMES WILL WORK,
MAKE, OR MANUFACTURE ALL KINDS OF PLAIN STOCKINGS AND PLAIN PIECE WORK
BY MECHANICAL MACHINRY AND MOTION;" in which said Letters Patent there is
contained a proviso obliging me, the said Samuel Caldwell, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description,

page_text: of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be inroled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
one calender month from the date of the said Letters Patent, otherwise the
said Letters Patent to be void, as by the said Letters Patent, relation being
thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the
said Samuel Caldwell, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described
by the Plans or Drawing hereunto annexed, and in manner following, that is
to say :-
No. 1 is a wire spring, connected by the tail on the locking bar and hook
that goes to the locking leaver, so that by its strength and elasticity the roller
on the revolution wheel pressing on the locking leaver bears down the locking
bar to the jacks while the frame is sinking, and dividing the loops, the locking
bar locks up the jacks, and the frame has liberty to sink at the same time by
the elasticity of the spring. The same effect may be caused by the leaver
aforesaid being made weak enough to spring.
No. 2 is a double-thread layer, to lay two threads at once for feet or heels,
which is made the same way the single one is, except its having two finger
supporters and two fingers, which, being fixed at a proper distance from each
other, only require the wires to lie aslant, and both fingers are worked at the
same time.
No. 3 are the cogs fixed on the revolution wheel. The thread-layer slur
wheels being the same size as those that draw the jacks, require the cogs to be
but half in number to those that draw the jacks, the thread-layer slur box
moving only half the space or thereabouts of that which draws the jacks, and
they must be fixed on the revolution wheel more backward or more forward
than those that draw the jacks, on account of missing the cog wheel that
draws the jacks; and the cog wheel on the axle of the thread-layer slur wheel
must be fixed accordingly according to the number of cogs on the revolution
wheel. The thread layer may be moved any distance required.
No. 4 is one of the slur wheels that draws the thread layer, one of the
groves being made only one half the common size, and the other about six
inches and a half diameter, which is about the common size, worked by the
same cogs on the revolution wheel that the jacks are. The strings working in
the smaller grove will only work the thread layer half the way they will when
any width
in the largest. By this means the thread layers may be worked
required, according to the size of the smaller grove, because if it be only half
the size, it moves the thread layer only half the way; by the same rule, if it
be only one fourth the size, it will move the thread layer only one fourth the

page_text: way; which will make salvages on both sides the heels if required, but will
work slower than the above.
No. 5 is a small wheel, which may be used for the above purposes, being
only half the size of No. 4; with both groves alike, will do for footing or
heeling; or if the thread-layer slur box be made long enough, the slide in
proportion will give room for the cogs to get out of the cog wheels....
No. 6 is a treble thread layer, the box slide and slide presser C being
similar to the single or double ones; but the slide, &c. that lifts the fingers
as follows: a, a, are two bits screwed on the inside of the slur box at each end,
leaving a space for the slide B that works up and down between a, a, and the
slur box, the slide B having as many bits projecting the same way the
leaver a does in No. 7, to which are hooked the wires that works the fingers,
the slide presser C pressing down the slide B between a, a, and the slur box
works the fingers similar to the other thread layers. b, b, are two springs,
which move the slide B upwards when the fingers are lifted up to go the other
way. By this means may be layed any number of threads required by encreasing
the number of works.
My method of footing and heeling, when long enough to begin the heels,
to secure the stiches from running down:-Take a needle, thread it, and
draw the thread into five or six of the stiches on the sides of the heels and
instep; leave some of the stuff in the stiches; then take the hose of; and as a
frame that is wide enough to make one hose is wide enough to make two pair
of heels two insteps or two bottoms, one pair of heels must be pricked on
that side of the heel next the instep, close to each other; then by longer stops
in the slur-bar ends, the slur box that carries the thread layers may be stoped
in a proper place; and by carrying two fingers, as in No. 2, the threads may
be laid. in what width is required; by varying the size of the wheels that
works the thread layers, or the length and number of teeth in the part circle
No. 8, on the revolution wheel, or the grove that works, the thread layer may
be turned small enough to lay the threads in the heels or feet; and by
changing the places of the chains or strings, or what the thread layer and
wheels are connected by from the small groves to the largest, the thread may
be laid in the leg of the hose, and in the smaller groves for heels or feet.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Caldwell, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Seventeenth day of October, One thousand eight
hundred and five
SAM CALDWELL. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Seventeenth day of
October, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Samuel Caldwell came
before our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specifica-
tion aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of
the Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the Eighteenth day of October, in the year above written