KNITTING MACHINE FOR MAKING AND KNITTING OF STOCKINGS, STOCKING PIECES, AND OTHER GOODS USUALLY MANUFACTURED UPON STOCKING FRAMES
Year: 1765

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
TAYLOR, of the Town and County of Nottingham, Frame Smith, and FRANCIS
JONES, of the same place, Hosier, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
the Fifteenth day of June last, lid give and grant unto us, the said William
Taylor and Francis Jones, our executors. administrators, and assigns, His
special licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that we, the said
William Taylor and Francis Jones, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
during the term of fourteen years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom
of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, in such manner as we, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
or any of them, should think meet, our new invented "KNITTING MACHINE FOR
MAKING AND KNITTING OF STOCKINGS, STOCKING PIECES, AND OTHER GOODS USUALLY
MANUFACTURED UPON STOCKING FRAMES;" in which said recited Letters Patent
there is a proviso contained, that if we, the said William Taylor and Francis
Jones, or either of us, should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an
instrument in writing under our hands and seals, or the hand and seal of either
of us, and cause the same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within four kalendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said recited Letters Patent, that then the sal Letters Patent should be

page_text: void, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and
at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
William Taylor and Francis Jones, do hereby declare that the said new
invented machine is described in the Plan and explanation thereof hereunder
set forth, intitled An Orthographical Draught of a Machine for the Making
and Knitting of Stockings and Stocking Pieces, and other Goods usually
Manufactured upon Stocking Frames.
In witness whereof, we, the said William Taylor and Francis Jones, have
hereunto set our hands and seals, the Fourteenth day of September,
One thousand seven hundred and sixty-five.
Sealed and delivered (being first duly
stampt) in the presence of
JAMES WILLSON.
SAM STEPHENSON.
A DESCRIPTION OF THE KNITTING MACHINE.
A, the spindle bar. B, B, two thimbles in which it moves, screwed to the
presser rail of a common frame woodwork. C, C, are two armes coming
forward to the front of the frame, upon which lie two cross bars D, D. In the
middle of the foremost is fix'd the standard E, with a nut e in the middle,
against which presses a perpendicular spring F, with notches in it that keeps
it steady in its different motions. G, G, two cheeks, jointed into the arms C, C,
which rise to the height of the frame needles. At the top of them are two
round holes, into which are two cocks g, g, with round spindles, to which the
knitting needle barr H, H, is screwed. I, I, I, &c. the knitting needle leads,
against which in the common frame are no needles at all, but plain pins to
divide and knit the work. i, the side of a needle lead. k, the side of a pin
lead. On the back side of the spindle of the cocks g, g, are fixed two tumblers,
with dogs and springs like a gun lock, as at J. When the frame is in motion,
a screw trigger turns the knitting needle bar to its proper place. K, a cross
bar to keep the cheeks steady. L, a catch screwed to the middle and back
part of the hand bar of the frame. When the frame comes down to go over
the arch it catches at the top of the standard E, and (carries or) takes the
machine to its proper place. M, M, standards, with screws at the top and
bottom, screwed to the fore part of the box rail to keep the machine from
rising too high or sinking too low. N, the lever under the cross bar D.

page_text: O, the bar on which it lies. P, the weight which keeps the machine in
equilibrium. P, P, sinking stays screwed to the frame needle bar, with pro-
tuberant parts; and when the frame sinks, the machine is pressed down by
means of the pieces q, q, screwed to the half jack pieces of the frame, and
pressing on the top of the arms G, G. Behind the spindles of the cocks g, g,
are two nibs, which push against the protuberant parts of p, p, and force the
needles forward to receive the loop. r, r, are springs with notches, which,
when the frame comes forward, receive the pins s. s, and hold the machine
steady while pressing. Q, a staple and spring screwed to the gibbet of the
frame, wherein R is jointed. R, a lever moving upon the staple Q as a
fulciment, with two wings coming forward over the sinker bar of the frame, at
the ends of which are jointed two slender steel pieces S, S, hanging perpen-
dicular. At the bottom is a slender rule T. At the back part of the staple Q,
and at the extremity of R, is a small cord, with a leather t, and a slit in it to
shift up and down, which is screwed to the back presser of the frame, that
when the presser goes down the rule T rises up, so presses the work all at
once. Behind the back presser of the frame, a bar U is screwed perpendicular
to the horizon with a screw at the bottom, that when the presser is down, it
acting on the hindmost bar D, the whole machine is put down, and the frame
at the same time brought forward; the rule T also kept up by means of a
treddle W, connected to the extremity of R by means of a wire X going up
the back part of the frame, and the whole course is knit and compleated.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Fourteenth day of September,
in the fifth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, the
aforesaid William Taylor and Francis Jones came before our said Lord the
King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the aforesaid Writings and Plan or
Draught annexed. And the said Writings and Plan or Draught were
stamped according to the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the
late King William and Queen Mary, and so forth.
Inrolled the Twenty-first day of September, in the fifth year of the
reign of His Majesty King Coomera the Thind