A MACHINE FOR THE PURPOSE OF CUTTING OUT MEN AND WOMEN'S WEARING APPAREL, AND VARIOUS OTHER ARTICLES AND THINGS
Year: 1813

page_text: TO ALL TO. WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
SCOTT, of Alnwick, in the County of Northumberland, Whitesmith, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain, and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Ninth day of August,
in the fifty-third year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said George
Scott, my exors, adññiors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that I, the said George Scott, my exors, adiiors, and
assigns, 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 "A MACHINE FOR THE PURPOSE OF CUTTING OUT
MEN AND WOMEN'S WEARING APPAREL, AND VARIOUS OTHER ARTICLES AND THINGS;"
in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso that if I, the said
George. Scott, shall, 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 seal, and cause the same to be
inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery; within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that
then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever
thereby granted, shall utterly cease, determine, and become void, as in
and by the same (relation being thereunto had) may more fully and at
large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
George Scott, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described in the
following manner, reference being made to the Drawing to which the
description is annexed, and the letters in the description corresponding with
those in the Drawing.
F, F, denote the two sides of the frame on which D the piston slides up and
down. A, a lever, which is fixed to B a screw, with four threads more or less.
C, the box of B, which is mortised through and fastened on the back side of
F with a screw or nutt, or other proper fastening. E, a platten fixed to D
(the piston) with four screws. To the platten is affixed the knives with screws,
as seen in section E, or of such other form as the articles intended to be cut
may require. G, the box, into which is fixed a bar of steel well polished and
oiled. The section H, the table which resists the pressure of the knives, and
is made of cast iron or any other proper metal or mixture of metals, lined
with pewter or any other proper substance of a sufficient thickness to prevent
the knives being injured sliding in and out upon four studds P, P, of steel
on the bar in the boxes G. H, the table which is moved out and in with the
pinion M working in I the rack by the power of Ĺ the handle, the rack I
being fixed to the table H by a screw or other proper fastening at each end.
Section E, as well as representing the form of the knives, also represents a
thin plate cut out so as to admit the knives to pass through, whilst it prevents
in their return the adhesion to them of any substance which they may have
This plate is affixed to H by joints Q, at the corner, so as to fold down
upon the cloth or other substance by which the table is covered when it works
in, and to rise when it works out, and at the time of the tables being worked
out to remove from it the cloth. Section E is supported by a stay from the
floor K. The bottom plate of the machine is formed of cast iron or other suit-
able metal or material of sufficient strength to withstand the pressure of the
screw B. Upon K is fixed the frame F, F, and boxes G; beneath it is the
pinion M, and is itself supported by a pillar at each corner. N, a socket,
with a shaft attached to the top of the screw B, and works against O, the
regulator, which is fixed to the box G by a screw. O is a square with a round
top and flat bottom; in the bottom of it is a slit to allow its sliding backwards
and forwards, thereby regulating the action of the screw B.
cut.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Scott, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Eighth day of February, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fourteen.
G. SCOTT.
(L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eighth day of February, in the
year of our Lord 1814, the aforesaid George Scott came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowleged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of the
Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Eighth day of February, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fourteen.