A MACHINE TO BE FIXED TO A STOCKING FRAME FOR MAKING VARIOUS SORTS OF SINGLE AND DOUBLE CROSS LOOPED AND INLAID WORK, A THING NEVER BEFORE PUT IN PRACTICE, AND WHICH WOULD BE OF GREAT UTILITY TO THE PUBLICK, BOTH IN THE IMPROVEMENT AND REDUCTION OF THE PRICES OF ALL KINDS OF STOCKING WORK IN SILK, COTTON, THREAD, WORSTED, SILVER, GOLD, OR ANY OTHER MATERIALS WHATEVER
Year: 1778

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
MARCH, of Temple Barr, in the Parish of Saint Clement Danes, in the County
of Middlesex, Hosier, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Richard March, did, by my Petition, humbly
represent to His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that
I had, by great study and application, invented "A MACHINE TO BE FIXED TO A
STOCKING FRAME FOR MAKING VARIOUS SORTS OF SINGLE AND DOUBLE CROSS LOOPED
AND INLAID WORK, A THING NEVER BEFORE PUT IN PRACTICE, AND WHICH WOULD
BE OF GREAT UTILITY TO THE PUBLICK, BOTH IN THE IMPROVEMENT AND REDUCTION
OF THE PRICES OF ALL KINDS OF STOCKING WORK IN SILK, COTTON, THREAD, WORSTED,
SILVER, GOLD, OR ANY OTHER MATERIALS WHATEVER;" I therefore most humbly
prayed His said Majesty that he would be graciously pleased to grant unto
me, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent 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, by His Royall Letters Patent under His Great Seal of Great

page_text: Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Sixteenth day of March, in the
eighteenth year of His reign, of His especial grace, certain knowledge, and
meer motion, for Himself, His heirs and successors, did give and grant unto
me, the said Richard March, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His
especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said
Richard March, my executors, administrators, 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 Richard March, 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 Richard March,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of us, should in our
discretions seem meet, and that I, the said Richard March, my executors,
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 mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the
said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages therein-before granted or
mentioned to be granted unto me, the said Richard March, my executors,
administrators, 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 imme-
diately ensuing, and fully to be compleat 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 Richard March, 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
seal, 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 liberties
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, more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard March, 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 in

page_text: the Plan thereof hereunto annexed, and to be performed in manner following
(that is to say):
:-
Fig. 1, a roller to warp on. Fig. 2, iron supporters to be fixed to the
wood work of the stocking frame, in which the axis of the roller turns.
Fig. 3, a barr with a pointed pivot at each end, which pivots are placed and
turn in the side arms of the Derby Machine, which is placed to the rafter
of the frame for that purpose. Fig. 4, a guide with an eye, through which
each thread of the warp on the roller passes. Fig. 5, a sliding bar (to be
placed on the pivot bar) in which the guides are placed. Fig. 6, a wire,
two of which are fixed to the sliding bar, one under the guides to guard the
warp from injury, the other above the guides over which the threads of the
warp slide before they enter the eyes in the guides. These two wires and
the guides answer the end of a slay in the loom. Fig. 7, a spring fixed
to the pivot bar. Fig. 8, a notched stop fixed to the sliding bar.
To perform work with this machine one or more courses of work must be
made in the stocking frame. The machine must be moved upwards, and the
guides raised between the needles in the frame. The sliding bar must be moved
sideway in this motion. The notched stop slides under the spring and directs
how many needles to float the warp over; the guides are then moved down
between the needles, which finishes the double work. But when the warp is
intended to be cut to form a pile or shagg on the work, a wire is placed on
the warp between the guides and the needles, before the guides are moved
upwards. This wire is worked in the warp and drawn or cut out. When
the work is made single the warp only is used, with a wire placed on it, which
wire parts the last-made loops on the needles, and those intended to be made
by floating the warp, which loops are pressed over in the same manner as the
double work is.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard March, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, and in the eighteenth
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.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that the Fifteenth day of July, in the
year above written, the aforesaid Richard March came before the said Lord
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and
every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And
also the Instrument aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of the Statute 5
made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen William and
Mary of England, and so forth.
Inrolled the said Fifteenth day of July, in the year above written.