A NEW MACHINE FOR THE TWINING AND TWISTING OF YARN TO THREAD FOR THE MAKING OF SUPERFINE LACE AND CAMBRICK, AND PROPER FOR ALL OTHER USES, SUCH AS IS PRACTICED IN FORREIGN PARTS
Year: 1738

page_text: WHEREAS our Sovereign Lord George the Second, by the grace of God
King of Great Britain, &c., hath been graciously pleased by His Letters
Patent under His Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster,
the Twenty-seventh day of June, last past before the date hereof, to give and
grant unto ADRIANUS VANDEN BOMMENAER, of Low Layton, in the County
of Essex, Manufacturer, his executors, administrators, and assigns, His snid
Majestie's especiall licence, full power, sole priviledge & authority, from time to
time and at all times thenafter during the term of fourteen years from the
date thereof, to make, use, exercise, and vend his, the said Adrianus Vanden
Bommenaer's Invention of "A NEW MACHINE FOR THE TWINING AND TWISTING OF
YARN TO THREAD FOR THE MAKING OF SUPERFINE LACE AND CAMBRICK, AND PROPER
FOR ALL OTHER USES, SUCH AS IS PRACTICED IN FORREIGN PARTS;" within that part
of His said Majestie's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion
of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to him, the
said Adrianus Vanden Bommenaer, his executors, administrators, and assigns,
or any of them, should seem meet; in and by which said Letters Patent
(amongst divers other clauses & provisoes therein contained), it is provided
that if the said Adrianus Vanden Bommenaer, should not particularly describe
and ascertain the nature and form of his said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, by an instrument in writing under his hand and
seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in the High Court of Chancery within

page_text: three months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent,
then the said Letters Patent, and all libertys and advantages whatsoever
thereby granted should cease and become void, as in and by the said Letters
Patent (relation being thereunto had), may more fully and at large appear.
NOW THESE PRESENTS WITNESS, that the said Adrianus Vanden
Bommenaer, according to the directions of the said Letters Patent, and in
pursuance of the said provisoc therein contained, doth, by this Instrument
in writing under his hand and seal, declare, describe, and ascertain the nature
and form of his said Invention mentioned in the said Letters Patent, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, to be as herein-after is mentioned
(that is to say):-
The said machine is to be fixed or placed in a building, and may either be
worked or set a-going by a wheel turned by water, or may be worked by hand.
The water wheel (when used in working the said machine) turns a wooden
shaft, to which is fixed a wheel, which, by communicating with another wheel
which is fixed to the said machine, and setts nine other small wheels a-going,
gives motion to the whole machine; but when the said machine is intended
to be worked by hand, then there is an iron winch fixed in the centre of a
large wheel, which, being turned round by the help of the said winch, sets
eight other small wheels (which communicate therewith) a-going, and so gives
motion to the whole machine. The said machine is of an ovall form, and
consists of four oval ledges of wood, one above another, framed to five
standards, and of an haspell or wooden shaft fixed above the uppermost of
the said ledges. On the lowest rank of the said ledges are iron spindles,
on which are fixed or put severall pipes or bobbins ready wound with yarn
or thread, with lead and wire on the top of them, which pipes or bobbins,
being turned round by a leather strop which goes all round the outside
surface of them, twist the thread, which being directed up to the said
haspell by severall pullies fastened to the upper ledges, the same as it is
twisted off of the said pipes or bobbins, is wound upon the said haspell,
round which are four or more thin bars or slips of wood, (according to the
findness or coarseness of the thread intended to be manufactured), which are
grafted on pieces of wood fixed in the shaft, between any two of which is
fixed a small wooden barr, divided with teeth, on which are fastned the ends
of the distinct threads to be manufactured. The said barrs in their motion
turn two stars fixed by the side of one of the standards, and shew the number
of rounds or turns. On the side of the opposite standard is a screw, turned
by haud, which shoves the uppermost ledge and directs the thread into severall

page_text: parcells on the said haspell or wooden shaft. There are forty-eight spindles
and nine small wheels to which the principall shaft gives motion, and the
whole engine may be stopped by one wheel being displaced out of its socket.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twentieth
day of September, in the twelfth year of the raign of our Sovereign
Lord George the Second, by the grace of God, of Great Britain,
France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, &c., and in the
WORK OF QUE Law One thousand conan handaard and shirt