AN ENTIRELY NEW AND PARTICULAR KIND OF MACHINE OR ENGINE FOR MANUFACTURING COMES
Year: 1769

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
ASCOUGH, of Nutwith Court, in the County of York, Esquire, 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-second day of March, in the ninth year
of His reign, reciting that I, the said John Ascough, by my Petition humbly
represented unto His said Majesty, that with great trouble, and much study,
labour, and application, had invented and brought to an extraordinary degree
of perfection "AN ENTIRELY NEW AND PARTICULAR KIND OF MACHINE OR ENGINE
FOR MANUFACTURING COMES," which would be much more useful and advan-
tageous to the publick than any other engine hitherto used; that the
Invention was founded upon a plan entirely new, and constructed upon
different principles from any Invention hitherto used for the like purpose, and
would, as I humbly conceived, be extremely beneficial to the publick; and
praying that His Majesty's Letters Patent for the sole making and vending
my said New-Invented Machine or Engine for Manufacturing of Combs, as
aforesaid; His said Majesty did by His said Letters Patent give and grant
unto me, the said John Ascough, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
His especial licence, full power, sole priviledge, and authority, that I should
and might use, exercise, and vend my said Invention within England, Wales,
Berwick-upon-Tweed, and His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad,
for and during the 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
John Ascough, shall not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my

page_text: said Invention, and in what manner the same is 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 whatever thereby
granted, shall utterly cease and determine and become void, as 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 John Ascough, 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 Plan or
particular thereof hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Ascough, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighth day of July, in the ninth year of the
reign of His said Majesty King George the Third, and in the year of
our Lord One thousand seven hundred and sixty-nine.
Inrolled the Fifteenth day of July, in the year last above written.

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mar regulates the motion of the Engine.
B. A large Fully round which a
or as con-
shing goes, that goes round another wheel carry'd by Winter Horse
venience suits to give motion to the Engine and is on the same axis, (which is a Crank), as the balance wheel
and hans upon a socket that has a Wheel & catch that no accident may happen from the Wheels
n'd the
wrong away
or the Horse or Water being taken off or stopt suddenly .-
O . A.
Cogg
Whil of Brass that is carried by the Nut D.
about,
a
bring
huri
E. A snale on the Axis with the Wheel G. which when turned round raises a piece of Iron mark'd F
that slides on to the end of the Beam G to which the Frame II is connected by the Rod I the Frame
II is fixed to the Frame II. the fully I runs in the Frame K on the axis of which are the cutters fixed at
distances suitable to the combs that are to be cutt. The Pilly M is carried by
ance Wheel A and on its axis is another philly P that carry's the Pullys I and the Cutters N a rope with a
String round the bal -
weight hanging to it that counteracts the snale E: in every turn it makes and throws up the Frames H
may be took out that is cutt which is cutt by being set on its back on the
support 0 and under the Cutter. The Frumes H.K. in which the cutters are fix'd gradually descend the Cutters
at the same time turning round cutt the Comb which as soon as done rise immediately up that the
be took out and another put in to be cutt . _
& that the comb
Comb
may
Q. A loose frame in which the axis of the pullies M.P. run it is pulled back by the Spring B. and
keeps the What String S. light which otherwise would be stack from the motion of the pames H.X. moving
up and down the frame Q turns on a hollow Collet fix'd on the Bush of the axis of the Wheel A. and
may
be seen in the Draft - Shewing the movements used in the wview for saws. I. A porpet in which
the axis of the beam G turns and slides in the frame I to alter the center of the Beam & to make it
throw more or less according to the depth of the Combs to be cutt...