A METHOD OF MAKING A WHEEL OR ENGINE OF AN ENTIRE NEW CONSTRUCTION (AND NEVER BEFORE MADE USE OF), IN ORDER FOR SPINNING, DRAWING, AND TWISTING OF COTTON, AND TO BE MANAGED BY ONE PERSON ONLY, AND THAT THE WHEEL OR ENGINE WILL SPIN, DRAW, AND TWIST SIXTEEN OR MORE THREADS AT ONE TIME BY A TURN OR MOTION OF ONE HAND AND A DRAW OF THE OTHER
Year: 1770

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
HARGRAVES, of the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham, send
greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said James Hargraves, did, by my petition, humbly
represent to His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third that
I had, after much application and many trials, attended with expence, at last
invented and brought to perfection "A METHOD OF MAKING A WHEEL OR
ENGINE OF AN ENTIRE NEW CONSTRUCTION (AND NEVER BEFORE MADE USE OF), IN
ORDER FOR SPINNING, DRAWING, AND TWISTING OF COTTON, AND TO BE MANAGED BY
ONE PERSON ONLY, AND THAT THE WHEEL OR ENGINE WILL SPIN, DRAW, AND TWIST
SIXTEEN OR MORE THREADS AT ONE TIME BY A TURN OR MOTION OF ONE HAND AND
A DRAW OF THE OTHER;" and that in regard I was the first and true Inventor
thereof, and that the same had not been made by any other person or persons
to my knowledge or belief, I therefore most humbly prayed His said Majesty
that He would be graciously pleased to grant unto me, my executors, admors,
and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of Great Britain,
for the sole use and benefit of my said Invention within that part of His said
Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales,
and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of fourteen years, according
to the Statute in that 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 my request, and therefore,

page_text: by His Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Twelfth day
of June, in the tenth year of His reign, of His especial grace, certain know-
ledge, and meer motion, for Himself, His heirs and successors, did give and
grant unto me, the said James Hargraves, my exccutors, administrators, and
assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I,
the said James Hargraves, my executors, adiñors, and assigns, and every of
them, by myself and themselves, or by mine or their deputy or deputies,
servants or agents, or such others as I, the said James Hargraves, my
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
my said Invention 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 to me, the said James Hargraves, my executors,
admors, or assigns, or any of us, should, in our discretions, seem meet; and
that I, the said James Hargraves, my exors, 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 men-.
tioned; to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, privileges,
and advantages therein-before granted or mentioned to be granted unto me,
the said James Hargraves, my executors, adiñors, 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 com-
plete and ended, according to the Statute in such case made and provided;
in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that if I, the said James
Hargraves, should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and scal, 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 Letters Patent, and all libertys and advantages whatsoever
thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void, anything
therein-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding,
as in and by the said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, may more
fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Hargraves, in compliance with
the said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and declare that the same is composed of the several particulars

page_text: in the plan thereof hereunto annexed, and to be performed in manner
following (that is to say)
One person with his or her right hand turns the wheel in the plan
marked G, and with the left hand takes hold of the clasps, in the plan marked
I, I, and therewith draws out the cotton from the slubbin box, in the plan
marked P, and being twisted by the turn of the wheel in the drawing out,
then the piece of wood marked in the plan with the letter N is lifted up by
the toe, which lets down the presser wire in the plan marked A, so as to press
the threads so drawn out and twisted, in order to wind or put the same
regularly upon bobbins, which are placed on the spindles standing in the box
in the plan marked C.
the
In wituess whereof, I, the said James Hargraves, have hereunto and to
the plan annexed set my hand and scal, this Thirtieth day of July, in
year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy, and
in the tenth year of the reign of our said Sovereign Lord George the
Third, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland
King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the same Thirtieth day of July, in
the year above mentioned, the aforesaid James Hargraves came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification of
his Invention aforesaid, and all and every thing therein, and in the plan
annexed referred to contained, in form above written. And also the Specifi-
cation aforesaid 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.
Inrolled the Eighteenth day of August, in the year abovesaid.

page_text: of the Anneerd Srations.
is Stein of the let hand side of the Machine and
FIG. 2 dr right hand Ston
uty whole in which
runs the pressure Bar dav
two printe mum which regulate the Threads and
directe them to proper position for bring unde
on the Hobbins.
y more falta in which is dispends the cross r
Hinder R.
notches in the framing an which stands the Spindler
Bart Cantaining the Spindles, whichs Spindlen, are
turned rounds by Bands or Lines going round the Wind
nattier hole in which is slyped, the Binder D.
The mortier holes in the Loge of the Machine in which
pub the Bar E.
de maner hole in which is slippets obliquely the Bar
F which supports the line Wheels G.
the time, aber mentioned which is turned mound,
the landle
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Wow fire ture which go ahr Wheels Panda whop
the Best of arch the
the Clasps which clasp the stubber and which are's
duaped gather by the hand in the middles
This deep slide along as Groove in the upper parts
the framing 11. It has also Wire Loops Guide
herp the Slubbing at equal distance so as to direct them
property to the
which are ab qual distance,
the murde in which slip the Dar K.
two murale in which slipe the Bar I which teraher wish
these before tribal support the side of the Stachine
Armly and aba proper distance from an ather
or te piers which upport the Treddle Bar && are
marahle the pine pp: is this Teddle Bar is need
a strong which gave over the pulleys and is faced to the
wheel which las do the pranur bar why the muddle
is lifind up for der twat
anal holes in which is pur the Red to suppore tr
Smibbin bone the Stubbin has and the Clasps.
an halus thee which go strings
Pring the Bobbine with
Stubbin in singin Bobbe
hang the Slubbin Ban
para Otters called
Sups which catch the lower part of the anepe
when they are por which cannot be you ever withouts
nipping than ogrther cheer Supe gauge
Ingth of Stubbs ar dar and a like
wer mowable. Slaterion may require
in to any proper degree of Ann