A MACHINE FOR THE PURPOSE, OF IMPROVING THE MANUFACTURE AND EXPEDITING THE MANUFACTURING OF FLEECY HOSIERY AND VARIOUS OTHER KINDS OF HOSIERY
Year: 1802

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, J., GEORGE
HOLLAND, of the Parish of Saint Andrew Holborn,above the Bars, in the
County of Middlesex, Hosier, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of His United Kingdom, bearing
date at Westminster, the Twenty third day of February, in the forty-second
year .of His reign, give and grant unto me, the, said George Holland, His
especial licence that I, the said George Holland, during the term of years
therein mentioned, should, and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within England, Wales, and the Town, of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention
.of "A MACHINE FOR THE PURPOSE, OF IMPROVING THE MANUFACTURE AND EXPEDITING
THE MANUFACTURING OF FLEECY HOSIERY AND VARIOUS OTHER KINDS OF HOSIERY;"
in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the
said George Holland, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
to cause a particular, description of the nature of my said Invention, and in
what, manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within six calendar months, after the date of the
said recited 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 the said proviso, I, the said
George Holland, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Inyention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as follows; that is
to say:

page_text: The machine to be added to the stocking frame for the purpose of expediting
the manufacturing of fleecy hosiery is a moveable guard, somewhat similar in
shape to the presser of a common stocking frame, and which is made to rest
upon the stems of the needles between the beards of the needles and the nibs
of the sinkers, and as close to the nibs of the sinkers as possible, without
touching them or being touched by them during the time the jacks are
drawing. The guard is so fixed as to be raised high enough by locking the frame
to be out of the way of the presser of the needles during the operation of
drawing the frame over the arch. In the Specification of my first Patent for
a new kind of hosiery, now known by the name of fleecy hosiery, I directed
the whool to be laid upon the needles previous to laying the thread, and in the
Specification of my second Patent for a like kind of hosiery, I directed the
thread to be laid upon the needles and the jacks-drawn and the frame sunk
by means of a sinking traddle, and then the wool to be laid upon the needles;
but by means of this moveable, guard, which keeps the wool from interfering
with the sinkers, the workman can employ the time during which the jacks
are drawing in laying the wool upon the needles. The motions of the frame are
by this means fewer than those that are necessary in the making of fleecy
hosiery, according to either of the Specifications of my two Patents above
mentioned; and fleecy hosiery may thus be made in nearly the same time as
common hosiery, and the fleecy hosiery as elastic as that which is made
according to my second Patent. By means of this guard the manufacturing
of plain hosiery made of worsted or any other spun material is expedited in
consequence of its preventing the loose fibres of the spun material from
catching upon the beards of the needles, and in some degree from catching upon
the nibs of the sinkers. These guards or machines are fixed to stocking frames
in many different ways, but the following I have found to answer very well;
that is to say, the guard which is marked with the letter A in the Drawing in
the margin hereof, is similar in shape to the presser of a common stocking
frame, and may be fixed with either a streight or crooked arm to the lockers of
the stocking frame by means of screws, as is represented at B and C; conse-
quently when the frame is locked by pressing the thumb plates, the guard in
some frames is raised out of the way of the presser; but this mode of fixing the
guard will not do for all frames, as the guard will not in all frames be raised
sufficiently high to be out of the way of the presser; this, however, may be
effected by other modes of raising the presser. For this purpose long side
arms are added to the guard, which reach nearly to the locking bar, and move
upon pivots either a little behind or a little before the jack bar according as
the guard may be required to be raised more or less. The mode of fixing the

page_text: guard with two long side arms moving upon pivots behind the jack bar is
represented in the Drawing No. 2 in the margin. Figure 1 represents the
guard; 2, 2, the side arms; 3, 3, the two pivots; 4, 4, two levers fixed upon the
locking bar, which, when the frame is locked, press down two ends of the side
arms behind the pivots, and by that means raise their opposite ends upon which
the guard is fixed. The guard may be raised by the foot by means of the
traddle connected to the lever No. 5 by means of cord, and then both the
hands of the workman will be at liberty to lay the thread, and perform any
operation that may be required.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Holland, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Tenth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and two.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Tenth day of August,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid George Holland came before
our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specifica-
tion aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the Sixteenth day of August in the year above written.