THE SOLE MAKING AND USING A MACHINE, AND VENDING, MANUFACTORING, AND SELLING OF LACE WORK, FISHING NETTS, GARDENS NETTS, HORSE NETTS, RABBIT NETTS, GAME NETTS, OR ANY OTHER KIND OF NETTS MADE BY SUCH MACHINE
Year: 1792

page_text: BARBER'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, ROBERT
BARBER, of Bilborough, in the County of Nottingham, Gentleman, sends
greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty, by His Royal Letters Patent, bearing date
on on about the Fifteenth day of May now last past, in the thirty-second year
of His reign, was graciously pleased to grant unto me, the said Robert Barber,
my executors, adññiors, and assigns, "THE SOLE MAKING AND USING A MACHINE,
AND VENDING, MANUFACTORING, AND SELLING OF LACE WORK, FISHING NETTS,
GARDENS NETTS, HORSE NETTS, RABBIT NETTS, GAME NETTS, OR ANY OTHER KIND OF
NETTS MADE BY SUCH MACHINE," within that part of His Majesty's Kingdom of
Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, for the term of fourteen years, in which said Letters Patent is
contained a proviso, for me, the said Robert Barber, to 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 one
calendar month next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent,
as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with and performance of the said
proviso, I, the said Robert Barber, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, in
manner following, that is to say:-
Letter Fig.
1
Ronrosents shuttle containing a portion of material.

page_text: A barr (moveable) with spikes, to open the passage for the
sliders to pass through, and to use in pulling up the knott, also
for various uses.
A barr (moveable) with dividers to regulate the size of the
mash.
A barr with servers, each having an eye, through which the
seperate threads pass from the roller to the cranks, and applied
(at pleasure) by the servers to the cranks.
Two barrs (which occasionally divide in the middle) that
either move the cranks, or move with the cranks, as described.
The case (which seperates occasionally) in which all the
crauks move to twist round the threads; on the upper part of
the case are two toothed wheels, which are discretionally fixed
upon the neck of two strong cranks.
A sliding bar toothed to move the two wheels on case B 2.
A sley with two leaves (jointed), which leaves are brought
forward, and shape (discretionally) a sheath or passage for the
shuttle to pass through.
A standard; two of these (one at each end) support the
crank case.
Termed a great A, one of these at each end of the machine;
upon the upper and lower side of these the rollers of the slides
traverse, and shape the sheath for the shuttle to pass through.
The carcase presents a barr pointing backwards gaged.
Two leaves, upon which the sliders are fixed; one is supposed
under the other; these two leaves have springs to press them
upon the great A in moving.
A flat iron frame, being the basis to carry the machine, and
upon which two plates, with their edges upwards, are fixed to s
direct the carcase.
A roller; the traddle moving this, gives this motion to the
machine as to approach and retreat, &c.
A roller fixed to take up the nett, lace, or other manufacture.
A roller containing some of the materials to be wrought.
Presents a side view of the machine, fixed upon a woodwork
resembling a common stocking-frame woodwork, having four
traddles for the different operations, although only two traddles
appear upon the side view.

page_text: N.B. This representation as a side view of the machine is
not taken as it is in the exact appearance, but for the pur-
pose of giving a more minute appearance of the whole; conse-
quently the whole appears both too much elevated, and also too
backwards from the standards and crank case; but as the points
of the sliders, when brought forward to receive the threads, and
the bottoms of the cranks, form nearly a right angle or two
sides of a square, the real construction cannot be mistaken.
The method of working the described machine. The serving bar A 9 with
the threads in the eyes of the servers applies the threads round the hooked
part of the cranks. The cranks are then either turned round by the handles
appearing upon the barrs B 1, or by pulling (by a traddle) the slide barr B 3,
which appears toothed into two wheels on the top part of the crank case
and which wheels are upon the necks of two strong cranks, similar in
shape to the others.
The bar A 7 is then moved to press the spikes into the cavities made
under the hooks of the cranks, and presses the loops open to let the slider
points pass through; then press a traddle, which pulls round the roller, and
brings forwards the carcase, the leaves, and the sliders, the points of which,
when brought forwards, appear in pairs, with small hoofs bent uniformly one
way; the serving barr A 9 then applies the threads behind the catch of the
hooks, return back the roller by another traddle, and the carcase, leaves, and
sliders return back, taking the threads through a sley marked B 4.
Upon the leaves appear two small rollers, which in passing press upon the
upper and lower parts of the two great A's, B 6, and shapes the sheath for
the shuttle to pass through; pass the shuttle through with a portion of thread,
then the sley by a side pluck releases all the threads from the points of the
sliders; by a small turn of the cranks, and with the spike barr A 7, the
work is released, and the knotts drawn up to the spikes with or without the
aid of the dividing barr A 8, according to the nature of the manufacture.
The shuttle, if the work be narrow, is passed through the sheath of threads
(and the case which supports them) by hand; but for wide work by a stroke
upon its points caused by springs, or by the usual mode of the fly shuttle.
There may be a variety of method adapted for tying a fast knot upon
machinery, as, for instance, if hooks be fixed to the sley of this machine, and
by passing through the opened loop (proposed at the bottom of the cranks)
the ends of the servers, the threads may be left upon those hooks, then draw
back the servers, pass the shuttle through, release the threads, and give a side
slip of the sley; then release the whole, and tie up the knott.

page_text: There also may be a knott made by taking upon the crank ends the threads
which pass from knott to knott of the last ninsh, twist them round, then sink
the cranks under another part of the said threads, turn them sideways, and
bring up the books as tambour neeilles pressing over the loop (the spikes
assist in this operation), pass through the thread, and tie up the knott. This
'knott is obtained without warp thronds; there are various modes of forming a
loop preparatory to tying a knott for netts or lace work, by hooks of different
kinds and operations, or by needles fixed in the leaves here described, and
serving the threads round them instead of the cranks, and making a loop like
the stocking framework loop, and then expending the loops to admit the
shuttle to pass through; but they are all founded upon one principle, viz³:
expending the loop to pass a thread through by a shuttle or other instrument;
and which said machine, and the manner in which the same is to be used, are
particularly described in and by the Drawings and Figures on the Plan hereunto
annexed, as explained above.
And the said Robert Barber doth hereby declare and affirm that the the
particulars above set forth do contain a full, true, and perfect description of the
nature of the said Invention,
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Barber, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Thirteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord One thou-
sand seven hundred and ninety-two.
Sealed and delivered (being first duly
stamped) in the presence of
Tuo BOLTON, Temple.
N. W. BROMLEY, Gray's Inn.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fourteenth day of June, in the
year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, the aforesaid
Robert Barber came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and
acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein con-
tained and specified, in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid
was stampt according to the tenor of the Statutes made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Fourteenth day of Junc,' in the year of our Lord One
thousand seveni, hundred and ninety-two.