A METHOD, ENTIRELY NEW, OF MAKING AND MANUFACTURING VELVET, SHAG, AND BROCADED SILKS, PLAIN, CUT, FIGURED, AND IN GOLD AND SILVER, UPON STOCKING FRAME
Year: 1767

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, HENRY
HARDY, of the Parish of Saint Luke, in the County of Middlesex, Frame-
work Knitter, THOMAS DAVIES, of New Bond Street, in the said County of
Middlesex, Hosier, and ANDREW DORILA, late of the Parish of Saint Andrew
Holborn, but now of the Parish of Saint Luke, in the County of Middlesex
aforesaid, Framework Knitter, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Second day of June, in the seventh year of His said
Majesty's reign, reciting that the said Henry Hardy, Thomas Davies, and
Andrew Dorila had, by great study, application, and expence, invented "A
METHOD, ENTIRELY NEW, OF MAKING AND MANUFACTURING VELVET, SHAG, AND
BROCADED SILKS, PLAIN, CUT, FIGURED, AND IN GOLD AND SILVER, UPON
STOCKING FRAME," His said Majesty did give and grant unto the said Henry
Hardy, Thomas Davies, and Andrew Dorila, their exors, adññors, and assigns,
His especial licence that they, the said Henry Hardy, Thomas Davies, and
Andrew Dorila, their exors, admors, and assigns, during the term of fourteen
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend their said Invention within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed; in which said recited Letters Patent there is contained a
proviso obliging the said Henry Hardy, Thomas Davies, and Andrew Dorila, by.
writing under their hands and seals, or the hand and seal of one of them,
to cause a particular description of the nature of their said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His

page_text: Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar months next after
the date of the said Letters Patent, as in and by the said in part recited
Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said provisoe, the said
Henry Hardy, Thomas Davies, and Andrew Dorila do hereby describe and
ascertain the nature of their said Invention, and the manner in which the
same is to be performed, as follows (to wit):-
Plain cut velvet and shag is made with the following alterations and
additions in the stocking frame. The falling bar is brought down to the
slack course by the cross arms that pushes the end of the spring (A), which
supports the stars; when the frame is brought over the arch, then the jacks
are drawn at the slack course. The work must be brought to the head of the
needles, and the frame is to be moved to its former position by the assistance
of the support (B) fixed to the gibbet of the frame. The presser, to which
is fixed one or more dividing plate or plates (C), falls upon the needles and
divides them into two rows. The wire (D) (in which there is a groove) runs
between the said two rows, and moving the frame forwards, the said wire
comes to the head of the needles between the slack course, and then the
frame is moved back over the arch. The hook (E), being pushed up either
by the hand or knee, in order to make the stiff course as usual, is fixed under
the box rail and fastened to the bow wire (F); each end of the said bow wire
joins a bit (G) riveted to the stars,
said stars and rises up the falling bar.
work which lies upon the wire first put
trevat (I), the point of the hook bearing upon the groove of the wires, and
the trevat upon the head of the needles. Two stays (L), fixed to the loin
joints of the frame, which keeps the frame leaning forward steady while the
hook cuts the pile of the velvet. The dividing plate (M) is the whole altera-
tion from the above description for making the figured velvet. The figure,
letter (N), is the support of the wires.
which bit catches the spindle of the
This being repeated three times, the
in is cut by a hook (H) fixed to a
The brocaded silks, and in gold and silver, are made with the following
variation from the above description (viz'): The course being made as usual
either slack or stiff, the presser, in which is fixed one or more dividing plates
cut in different forms for different figures, falls upon the needles and divides
them into two rows, between which runs the wire (0) with an eye (P), the gold,
silver, or silk being put into the eye of the said needle, and pulling the wire
out of the needles, leave such gold, silver, or silk in the division of the course.
A representation of the said additional machinery and improvements made

page_text: to the stocking frame, for the purposes aforesaid, are hereunder delineated and
described, and to which these Presents referr.
In witness whereof, the said Henry Hardy, Thomas Davies, and Andrew
Dorila, have hereunto set their hands and seals, the Eighteenth day
of September, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred
and sixty-seven.
DAV MEREDITH.
PHILIP HALL.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Nineteenth day of September,
in the year of our Lord 1767, the aforesaid Andrew Dorila came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped 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 Nineteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven.