MACHINE, ENGINE, OR INSTRUMENT POR WINDING, DOUBLING, AND RUNNING OF SILK, THREAD, COTTON, AND WORSTED, AND ALSO LINEN, WOOLEN, AND ALL OTHER KINDS OF YARNS, WHICH WOULD BE MUCH MORE USEFUL AND ADVANTAGIOUS TO THE PUBLICK THAN ANY MACHINE, ENGINE, OR INSTRUMENT HITHERTO INVENTED
Year: 1772

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
UNWIN, of Sutton-in-Asfield, in the County of Nottingham, Bleacher, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Twenty-third day of March, in the twelfth year of His
reign, reciting that I, the said Samuel Unwin, had, by my petition, humbly
represented unto His said Majesty that I had found out and invented an
intirely new and particular kind of "MACHINE, ENGINE, OR INSTRUMENT POR
WINDING, DOUBLING, AND RUNNING OF SILK, THREAD, COTTON, AND WORSTED, AND
ALSO LINEN, WOOLEN, AND ALL OTHER KINDS OF YARNS, WHICH WOULD BE MUCH
MORE USEFUL AND ADVANTAGIOUS TO THE PUBLICK THAN ANY MACHINE, ENGINE,
OR INSTRUMENT HITHERTO INVENTED;" that the said Invention was intirely
new, and constructed upon different principles from any Invention hitherto
used for the like purpose; and as I was the sole inventor of the said
machine, engine, or instrument which, as I humbly conceived, would be a
publick benefit to mankind, and praying His Majesty's Letters Patent for
the sole making, using, and vending the said machine, engine, or instru
ment, within that part of Great Britain called England, the Dominion of
Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in the Colonies
and Plantations abroad, for the term of fourteen years, according to the
Statute in that case made and provided, His said Majesty did, by the
said Letters Patent, give and grant unto me, the said Samuel Unwin, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole

page_text: priviledge and authority, that I, the said Samuel Unwin, my executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves, or by
my and their deputy or deputys, servants, or agents, or such others as I, my
executors, administrators, or assigns, should agree with and no others, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend my said Invention, within the
said part of Great Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in the Colonies and Plantations abroad, for
and during and unto the full end and term of fourteen years from the date of
the said Letters Patent; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso
that if I, the said Samuel Unwin, should not particularly describe and ascer-
tain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same was 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 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, as in and by the said Letters Patent, reference being thereunto
had, may and will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Samuel Unwin, in compliance with
the said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by the under-
written Plan or Particular.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Unwin, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of April, in the twelfth year of
the reign of His said Majesty King George the Third, and in the year
of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy-two.
The Plan or Particular referred to by the above Deed:-A, the roller and
plain wheels, each acting upon the same principal in turning the bobbins or
runners which are placed upon them. B, the runners upon which the yarn or
silk is wound single. C, the bobbins upon which the yarn or silk is wound
or doubled. D, the guider. E, the swifts upon which the skeins are wound
off from. F, the cog wheel, which moves the whole, communicating with a
water or horse mill or wheel. When the roller or plain wheels are turned
round, the runners or bobbins being placed upon them (as described in the
annexed Plan), are turned round thereby very rapidly, and stop immediately
without breaking the yarn or silk whenever it sticks in the skein, which very.
frequently happens. Cog wheels which have been hitherto made use of cannot
have this advantage, for they will not stop in like manner, but keep going

page_text: forward, and break the yarn or silk, when such or the like impediments
happen.
VILLIAM MARRIETT.
ROB. REVELL.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that the Thirtieth day of April, in the
year above written, the said Samuel Unwin came before the said Lord the
King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and
all 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 made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen
William and Mary of England, and so forth.

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The Roller and plain wheels, each acting upon:
same principal in turning the Bobbins or Runners,
which are placed upon them.
The Runners upon which the yarn or silk is wound
single.
The Bobbins upon which the yarn or silk is wound or
doubled.
The Guider.
The Swifts upon which the skeins are wound off from.
The Cog-wheel which moves the whole, communicating
with a water or horse-mill or wheel.
When the Koller, or plain wheels are turned round,
the Runners or Bobbins being placed upon them,
(as described in the annexed plan) are turned
round thereby very rapidly, and stop immediately
without breaking the yarn or silk, whenever it
sticks on the skein which very frequently happens.
Cog wheels which have been hitherto made use
of cannot have this advantage; for they will not
stop in like manner; but keep going forward, and
break the yarn or silk, when such or the like
impediments happen.