A MACHINE OR INSTRUMENT FOR CARDING AND ROVING SILK, COTTON, AND SHEEP'S WOOLL, OF A. NEW CONSTRUCTION
Year: 1776

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
WOOD, of Holcombe, in the Parish of Bury, in the County Palatine of
Lancaster, Manufacturer of Cotton, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty. King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the Fifteenth
day of July, in the sixteenth year of His reign, did give and grant unto me,
the said Thomas Wood, his especial licence that I, the said Thomas Wood,
during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might use,
exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my Invention of "A MACHINE OR INSTRUMENT FOR CARDING AND ROVING
SILK, COTTON, AND SHEEP'S WOOLL, OF A. NEW CONSTRUCTION;" in which said
Letters Patent there is contained a provisoe obliging me, the said Thomas
Wood, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the
nature of my said Invention, and how the same is to be performed, to be
inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar months
after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same,
(relation being thereunto had), may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Wood, do hereby certify and declare that the Plan or Model hereunto
annext, together with the explanation thereof hereafter mentioned, contain
a Specification of my said Invention or machine, and the operation thereof;
(that is to say):
No. 1 is a cloth stretched betwixt two rollers A, B, upon which is laid the
cotton, sheep's wool, &c., and divided into as many different spaces as spindles,

page_text: c, d, No. 6, and when
by means of slips of wood, whereby an exact equal quantity of cotton is
thrown upon the cylinders of the carding engine. No. 2 is a porcupine roller
that receives the cotton from No. 1 at B, and delivers it to the carding engine.
No. 3 is the last cylinder in the carding engine, which is wholly covered with
a ring or continued card. No. 4 is two rollers set with pins in rows, as at
b, b, b, b, and a, a, a, a, and are turned by pullies at c and d, by No. 7, which
take the contents of No. 3 at b, b, b, b, and a, a, a, a. No. 5 is a frame set
with wires, as a, a, &c., through which the cardings pass. No. 6 is two pair
of rollers that draw the cardings through No. 5; the roller c those marked
a, a, a, a, of No. 3, and the roller d those of No. 3, and turned by No. 7.
No. 7 is a roller turned by No. 3, and turns No. 4 and No. 6, fixed in the
frame No. 18 at o, o. No. 8 is a pair of rollers that receive the contents of
an advance of cardings is required, is drawn by the
triddle (a) No. 18. No. 9 is a catch and rowell put upon 6, No. 8, to prevent
it being drawn back by the weight a. No. 10 is a pair of clasps to hold the
contents of No. 8 while the threads are finishing, and are fixed in the frame
No. 18 at b, and opened and closed by the triddle c. No. 11 is a spindle frame
fixed to No. 14 by two screws, a, a, that receives and finishes the contents of
No. 10. The spindles are turned by No. 12. No. 12 is a roller fixed to
No. 14 at o, that turnes the spindles No. 11, and is turned by the band a,
No. 18. No. 13 is a wheel hung in No. 15 at a. No. 14 is a wood frame.
that runs on the wheels b, b, within the frame No. 18.
c, c, are two wheels
hung in the mortices d, d, to cause the frame to run smooth. No. 15 is an
irou frame fixed by screws to No. 14. No. 16 guides the threads upon the
spindles No. 11, and is moved by the thumb-piece a, No. 17, and hung at
e, No. 14. No. 17 is a handle by which No. 14 is drawn and fastened thereto
by a tenor in the mortice f. No. 18 is a frame set fronting No. 3. (a) a triddle
by which advance of carding is given; c, a triddle to open and close the clasp;
e, a weight upon the triddle; d, pully through which string passes to
a, a, No. 10.
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In witness whereof, I, the said. Themas Wood, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twentieth day of July, in the sixteenth year of
the reign of His said most Excellent Majesty 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 seventy-six.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that the Twentieth day of July, One
thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, the aforesaid Thomas Wood came
before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Instru-
ment aforesaid, and every thing therein contained in form abovesaid. And
the said Writing 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.