A NEW & CURIOUS MACHINE OR ENGINE FOR PRICKING THE LEATHERS OF WOOL, SILK, COTTON, OB ANY OTHER CARDS, BY WHICH INVENTION THE MAKING OF WOOL, CARDS &c., THAT VALUABLE AND NECESSARY BRANCH OF TRADE, WOULD BE VERY MUCH FACILI- TATED, THE DEALERS THEREIN MADE CAPABLE OF EXTENDING THEIR TRADE, AND BE A GREAT ADVANTAGE TO THE WOOLLEN MANUFACTURERS AND OTHERS WHO MAKE USE OF CARDS FOR CARDING WOOL,, CN, &C., THROUGHOUT HIS SAID MAJESTY'S KINGDOMS, AS ALLDSED BY THIS ENGINE WOULD BE MADE CHEAPER AND MUCH BETTER, OF MANY ACCOUNTS, THAN ANY HITHERTO MADE OR USED BEFORE MY SAID INVENTION
Year: 1750

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
PENNINGTON, of the Parish of Kirkby in Kendale, in the County of Westmor-
land, Milnwright, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said William Pennington, did by my petition humbly
represent unto His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Second,
His lords justices guardians of the Kingdom, that, at a great expence, labour,
and study, I had invented and brought to perfection "A NEW & CURIOUS
MACHINE OR ENGINE FOR PRICKING THE LEATHERS OF WOOL, SILK, COTTON, OB
ANY OTHER CARDS, BY WHICH INVENTION THE MAKING OF WOOL, CARDS, &c., THAT
VALUABLE AND NECESSARY BRANCH OF TRADE, WOULD BE VERY MUCH FACILI-
TATED, THE DEALERS THEREIN MADE CAPABLE OF EXTENDING THEIR TRADE, AND BE A
GREAT ADVANTAGE TO THE WOOLLEN MANUFACTURERS AND OTHERS WHO MAKE USE OF
CARDS FOR CARDING WOOL, SILK, COTTON, &C., THROUGHOUT HIS SAID MAJESTY'S
KINGDOMS, AS ALL CARDS PRICKED BY THIS ENGINE WOULD BE MADE CHEAPER AND
MUCH BETTER, OF MANY ACCOUNTS, THAN ANY HITHERTO MADE OR USED BEFORE MY SAID
INVENTION;" and in regard I was the first Inventor of the said new and
curious machine or engine, His Majesty, therefore, taking the premisses into
His Royal consideration, by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of
Great Britain, bearing date the Thirteenth day of October, in the Twenty-
ourth year of His reign, of His especial grace, certain knowledge, and meer
notion, did give and grant unto me, the said William Pennington, my

page_text: executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole
priviledge and authority, that I, the said William Pennington, my executors,
administrators, or assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves, or by
our deputy or deputys, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said
William Pennington, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any
time agree with, for and during the term of years therein mentioned, should
and might lawfully make, use, exercise, and vend my said Invention,
within that part of the Kingdom of Great Britain called England, the
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to
me, the said William Pennington, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should seem meet; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso
obliging me, the said William Pennington, by a writing under my hand and
seal, duly to be inrolled in the High Court of Chancery within four kalendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent,
particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, otherwise the said Letters Patent,
and all liberties and advantages thereby granted, should utterly cease, deter-
mine, and become void, us in and by the said Letters Patent (relation being
thereunto had) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Pennington, in compliance
with the said proviso, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, is set forth and
described in a Draft or Plan, with the several explanations thereof hereunto
annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Pennington, have hereunto, and to
the Draft or Plan hereunto affixed, set my hand and seal, this Eighteenth
day of January, in the twenty-fourth year of the reign of His said
Majesty King George the Second, and in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and fifty.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Eighteenth day of January,
One thousand seven hundred and fifty, the aforesaid William Pennington came
before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the
Writing aforesaid, and all and every matter and thing therein contained and
specified, in form above said. And the said Writing was stampt according
to the form of the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King
William and Queen Mary, and so forth.
Inrolled the First day of February, in the twenty-fourth year of the reign
of His Majesty King George the Second.

page_text: The principal frame of wood, supported by four feet.
An Iron frame on which the different sorts of Prickers are fixed
A Lever fixed to the Pricker frame to push the prickers through the Leather
Two Headstocks with centres on which the Pricker frame hangs
An inner frame of wood, sliding in the main frame.
Two vices fix'd in the sliding frame in which the Leather is fix'd by the edges
A Screw fix'd to one of the vices to stretch the Leather
A Rack fix'd to the sliding frame
An endless Screw which works in the Rack
A Brass cylander on the axis of the endless Screw mov'd by the man's left
hand, divided into numbers for the different sorts of cards, and stop'd
regularly at every motion
A Brass plate with holes in to support the Leather and receive the points
of the Prickers.
The Leather half Prick'd
A Pulley suspending a Leaden Plumet by a cord fix'd to the sliding frame
to regulate its motion
A Plumet to counterpoise the Leaver.