"A CERTAIN ENGINE OR MACHINE TO BE FIXED TO A COMMON STOCKING FRAME FOR THE LAYING AND DISPOSING OF A NUMBER OF THREADS IN SUCH MANNER AS TO MAKE SEVERAL PIECES OR BREADTHS OF WORK ON THE SAME STOCKING FRAME, AND AT THE SAME TIME, BY A METHOD ENTIRELY NEW
Year: 1783

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, JOHN
HAYNE, of the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham, Hosier,
sendeth 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 Nineteenth day of December, in the twenty-third year of
His said Majesty's reign, reciting that the said John Hayne had, by great
labour, pains, and long study, and at a great expence, invented, found, and
brought to perfection, "A CERTAIN ENGINE OR MACHINE TO BE FIXED TO A
COMMON STOCKING FRAME FOR THE LAYING AND DISPOSING OF A NUMBER OF THREADS
IN SUCH MANNER AS TO MAKE SEVERAL PIECES OR BREADTHS OF WORK ON THE SAME
STOCKING FRAME, AND AT THE SAME TIME, BY A METHOD ENTIRELY NEW," His
Majesty did give and grant unto the said John Hayne, his exors, admors, and
assigns, His special licence and authority that he, the said John Hayne, his
exors, adññiors, and assigns, during the term of fourteen years therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, his said Invention
within England and Wales and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and have
and enjoy the whole benefit and advantage accruing by the said Invention; in
which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if the said John Hayne
should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of his said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, by an instrument in
writing under his hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar months next after the
date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all
liberties and advantages thereby granted, should cease and become void, as in
and by the said in part recited Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had,
may more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that the said John Hayne, in compliance with the said
proviso, and performance of the condition therein contained, doth hereby
ascertain, delineate and set forth the nature of his said Invention, and by the
Plan thereof drawn in the margin of these Presents, and doth hereby declare
that the same consists and is composed of the several particulars, and is to be
performed as herein-after is particularly mentioned, that is to say,-
The description of Figure A contains the delineation of the said machine or
Invention, which is composed of the following particulars:-No. 1, the sinker
bar and half jack (belonging to the stocking frame). No. 2, the needle bar
(belonging to the stocking frame. No. 3, arms or supporters of the machine.
No. 4, a hollow barrel that supports the carriers. No. 5, a sliding stop (fixed
on the hollow barrel No. 4), with nicks to act upon the spring (No. 7).
No. 6, slotts in the sliding stop, through which screws pass to fix it to the
hollow barrel (No. 4), and also to permit it to slide on the horrow barrel.
No. 7, a spring fixed to the hollow barrel (No. 4), with a catch to enter the
nicks in the sliding stop (No. 5). No. 8, a nick or slott in the hollow barrel
(No. 4). No. 9, a pin fixed in the spindles (No. 10), and passing through the
nick or slott (No. 8). No. 10, spindles passing through the slotts (No. 11),
upon which the hollow barrel (No. 4) slides. No. 11, slotts in the arms
No. 12,
or supporters (No. 3), in which the spindles (No. 10) move.
shoulder plates fixed on the spindles (No. 10), which slide on the inside
of the arms or supporters (No. 3). No 13, pushing bars fixed to the sinker
bar or half jack (No. 1), which act upon the round end of the shoulder
plates (No. 12). No. 14, cranked drawing bars fixed to the sinker bar
or half jack (No. 1), which act upon the end of the spindles (No. 10)
on the outside of the arms or supporters (No. 3). No. 15, carriers fixed to
the hollow barrel (No. 4). No. 16, slotts in the carriers (No. 15), through
which screws pass into the hollow barrel (No. 4). No. 17, guides fixed upon
the carriers (No. 15), through which the threads pass. No. 18, holes at the
end of the carriers (No. 15), through which the threads pass. No. 19, pins
fixed in the shoulder plates (No. 12), and passing through the slotts in the
arms or supporters (No. 8), which keeps the spindles (No. 10) from turning
in the slotts (No. 11).
And the said machine or Invention is to be worked in manner following:-
Threads are wound upon bobbins, which are placed on the floor on
each side of the stocking frame; the ends of the threads are then
passed through the guides (No. 17), and are also passed through the holes
(No. 18) at the end of the carriers (No. 15), and being then each
fastned to needles in the stocking frame, or a piece of work previously made
on the frame, and remaining upon the needles, the hollow barrel (No. 4) is

page_text: to be then turned upwards, which raised the ends of the carriers (No. 15)
above the needles in the frame, which conducts the threads through the needles.
The hollow barrel (No. 4) is to be then slided sideways on the spindles
(No. 10), and is to be then turned downwards, by which motion the end of
the carriers (No. 15) will pass downwards between the needles of the frame.
Each thread will then be laid over a seperate space of needles in the frame;
the course is then worked in the frame in the common way. When the
frame brings the work forwards to the needle heads, the pushing bars (No. 13)
strike against the round ends of the shoulder plates (No. 12), and push the
machine forward by the motion of the frame, and when the frame goes over
the arch and takes the work back again, the crank'd drawing bars catch the
ends of the spindles (No. 10), and draw the machine back again. The ends
of the spindles (No. 10) move backwards and forwards in the slotts (No. 11),
so that the machine is always at a proper distance before the frame, which
thereby prevents the work from coming against the ends of the carrriers
(No. 15), which would be the case if the machine did not move forward with
the motion of the frame. The pin (No. 9) prevents the carriers (No. 15)
from falling down too low, and also acts as a stop to regulate the motion side-
ways of the hollow barrel (No. 4), which cannot move further sideways than
the length of the slotts (No. 8). When the several breadths or pieces of work
are intended to be joined together, for the greater convenience of stiffening or
dressing them, the sliding stop (No. 5) is to be moved one nick sideways, back-
wards and forwards between the working of each course, which causes two
selvage stitches to be worked on one and the same needle, called the centre
needle, and thereby unites all the breadths or pieces of work together, but
which are easily seperated after they are dressed by letting down every stitch
so made upon the centre needles.
In witness whereof, the said John Hayne hath hereunto set his hand
and seal, the Seventh day of April, in the twenty-third year of the
reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of God
of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith,
and so forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred
and eighty-three.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Seventh day of April, in the
year of our Lord 1788, the aforesaid John Hayne 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 stampt according to the tenor of
the Statutes made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen
W and Mary of England, and so forth, and in the seventeenth year of the
reign of His Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the Fifteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and eighty-three.