AN INSTRUMENT OR MACHINE UPON PRINCIPLES ENTIRELY NEW, AND DIFFERENT FROM ANY HERETOFORE USED, FOR MAKING OF A CERTAIN WORK CALLED KNITTED, KNOTTED, OR DOUBLE-LOOPED WORK FOR THE MAKING OF STOCKING BREECHES PIECES, AND GLOVES OF SILK, THREAD, COTTON, OR WORSTED,EITHER TOGETHER OR SEPERATE
Year: 1771

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, RICHARD
MARCH, of the Parish of Saint Clement Danes, in the County of Middlesex,
Hosier, and WILLIAM HORTON, of the Parish of Saint Mathew, Bethnall
Green, in the same County, Frame Smith, send greeting.
WHEREAS the said Richard March and William Horton did, by their Peti-
tion, humbly represent unto His present most Excellent Majesty King George
the Third, that after much study, expence, and trouble they had invented and
brought to perfection "AN INSTRUMENT OR MACHINE UPON PRINCIPLES ENTIRELY
NEW, AND DIFFERENT FROM ANY HERETOFORE USED, FOR MAKING OF A CERTAIN WORK
CALLED KNITTED, KNOTTED, OR DOUBLE-LOOPED WORK FOR THE MAKING OF
STOCKING BREECHES PIECES, AND GLOVES OF SILK, THREAD, COTTON, OR WORSTED,
EITHER TOGETHER OR SEPERATE;" that in regard the said instrument or machine
would be of great advantage in making of the aforesaid looped work, and was
of their own Invention, they, the said Richard March and William Horton,
humbly prayed His said Majesty to grant unto them, their executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent, for the sole making and
using of their said Invention, in that part of His Majesty's Kingdom of Great
Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-

page_text: Tweed, and also in His Colonics and Plantations abroad, for the term of four-
teen years, pursuant to the Statute in such case made and provided; His said
Majesty, being willing to give encouragement to all arts and inventions which
might be for the publick good, was graciously pleased to condescend to their
request; and therefore, by His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal
of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-fifth day of
June, in the eleventh year of His reign, of His especial grace, certain
knowledge, and meer motion, for Himself, His heirs and successors, did
give and grant unto the said Richard March and William Horton, their
executors, administrators,. and assigns,. His especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that they, the said Richard March and William
Horton, their executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by
themselves, or by their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others
as they, the said Richard March and William Horton, their executors,
administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend
their said Invention within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great
Britain called Eugland, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, and in His Colonies and Plantations abroad, in such manner as to
them, the said Richard March and William Horton, their executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, or any of them, should in their discretions scem incet,
and that they, the said Richard March and William Horton, their executors,
administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the
whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time to time coming,
growing, accruing, and arising by reason of the said Invention for and during
the term of years therein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said
licence, powers, privileges, and advantages therein-before granted or mentioned
to be granted unto the said Richard March and William Horton, their exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and
term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent next and
immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended according to the
Statute in such case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent is
contained a proviso that if the said Richard March and William Horton
should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed; by an instrument in writing
under their hands and seals, and cause the same to be inrolled in His said
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said

page_text: Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted,
should utterly cease, determine, and become void, anything therein-before con-
tained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding, as in and by the
said recited Letters Patent (relation being thereunto had) may more fully and
at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Richard March and William Horton,
in compliance with the said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the
nature of our aforesaid Invention, and declare that the same is to be performed
in manner following (that is to say) :-
On a frame of woodwork are fixed two groundwork bars of iron, on the
back part of which is fixed a cross-back bar. A stay is fixed on the ground-
work bar near the center, directing downwards, each stay having an axis on
which move the following apparatus:-One joint bar moves on each axis.
On the top of each joint bar is fixed a short side bar. On the two short side
bars are fixed two stays, a guide bar, with wires in it cast in metal, a slide
bar case, and two wheels, a jack bar containing a set of jacks, which move
on a wire, with a neb fixed in the head of each, in form resembling the upper
part of a sinker. To the jack bar are fixed two springs which convey forward
that part of the apparatus which moves on the axes in the stays fixed to the
groundwork bars, and conducts then on a guide screw fixed in two other
stays, which are fixed to the groundwork bars. At each end of the jack bar
is a socket, on each move two side bars. On the back parts of the two inner-
most is a cross stay bar, and a catch which enters under the cross bar, and
keepeth back the aforesaid moving apparatus until set at liberty. On the
front parts of the two innermost side bars is fixed a cross stay bar, on which is
fixed a jack stay bar and a roller which moves on a bearing spring, which
spring is fixed to the back cross bar and supports the moving apparatus afore-
said; and also is fixed, on the front of the innermost side bars aforesaid, a cross
bar containing a set of nebs cast in metal, with two handles to work with. To
this bar is screwed a cross guide bar to guide the nebs. On the back parts of
the two outermost side bars is fixed a cross bar, and on the front of the two
outermost side bars, which move on the sockets, are two handles to work with.
On the fore parts of the two groundwork bars is fixed a stay directing down-
wards, each stay having an axis on which moves a cross bar, with a pressure
iron fixed to it, which, by the pressure of the foot, moves downwards, and
conveys back another cross bar containing a set of needles, and rises again by:
the assistance of a weight conveyed by a string and pulley fixed to the cross back
bar, and on the said cross bar, which moves on the axes, are fixed two catches.

page_text: which confine the moving apparatus aforesaid, and let them at liberty occa-
sionally. On the needle bar is fixed two cases, with guide screws to raise a
cross bar occasionally, and on each groundwork bar is fixed a joint, from which
a needle guide bar moves, which bar rises and falls occasionally; also is fixed
on the groundwork bar two drop joints, with a slet in each, which permits the
needle bar to drop when moved back, and to rise when moved forward; also
are fixed to the foreparts of the groundwork bars two stays with a guide screw
in each, which screws prevent the needle bar from coming too forward. On
the stays is fixed a cross bar which the needles press against when the needle
bar moves back, where the loops require to be twisted. Instead of casting
the needles in mettal each needle or hook is put into a nick cut in the needle
or hook bar for that purpose, cach needle or hook having a bend similar to
that of a winch. These needles or hooks are turned half round, quite round,
or many times round, as occasion requireth, by the assistance of a bar with
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holes in it, for the stem parts of the needles or hooks to turn in.
hole bar moves on the needle or hook bar on two bended swivel axes,
assisted by the hands, and also is fixed on the cross back bar two joints, in
which move two top side bars, on the fore parts of which is fixed a cross stay
bar. In the front joints of the two side bars move two hanging bars on which
is fixed a cross stay bar. In the bottom joints of the hanging bars moves
a cross bar, with a set of hooks cast in metal or put in nicks, as before
described, which hooks take part of the loops from off the needles, shifts them
or twists them occasionally, and puts them on the same needles they were
taken from, or on others occasionally. This part of the apparatus is supported
by two springs fixed on the cross back bar; also are fixed on the cross back bar
two stays which prevent this part of the apparatus from rising too high.
To perform work in this machine the thread is put round the needles with
the hand, then the thread is laid across the needles, then the jacks are thrown
down by the assistance of the foot, which forms the loops, which loops are
divided with the set of nebs cast in metal, assisted by the hands, then with the
foot the needle bar is pressed back, which occasions the old loops, by the
assistance of the needle guide bar and the cross bar (which the needles press
against) to come over the new-worked loops; but when two loops are required
on each needle, after the new loops are made, as before mentioned, the old
Toops or part of them occasionally are taken off the needles, with the hooks in
the cross bar, a wire is conveyed between the loops on the hooks and those on
the needles, then the loops on the hooks are shifted sideway, twisted when
required, and put on the needles again, then a third row of loops are made, as

page_text: aforesaid, then the needle bar moves back as before, which occasions the middle
loops to come over the needle heads, and forms a course of work.
In witness whereof, we, the said Richard March and William Horton,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-fourth day of
October, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and
seventy-one.
stampt) in the presence of
JOSEPH HORTON.
BIGOE HENZELL.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that the Twenty-fourth day of October,
in the year aforesaid, the said Richard March and William Horton came
before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the
Instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and spe-
cified, in form above written. And also the said Instrument was stampt
according to the tenor of the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign
of the late King and Queen William and Mary of England, and so forth.