AN INTIRE NEW METHOD OF PLATING GOODS, MADE OR MANUFACTURED ON THE STOCKING FRAME, BY AN ENGINE OR MACHINE TO BE ANNEXED TO A STOCKING FRAME FOR THAT PURPOSE
Year: 1789

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
WILSON, of the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham, Framework
Knitter, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said John Wilson, did, by my Petition, humbly represent
to His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that I had,
by much study and application, invented "AN INTIRE NEW METHOD OF PLATING
GOODS, MADE OR MANUFACTURED ON THE STOCKING FRAME, BY AN ENGINE OR MACHINE
TO BE ANNEXED TO A STOCKING FRAME FOR THAT PURPOSE;" which said Invention
was intirely new and of my own contrivance, and was not known to any
person or persons, save and except those to whom I did communicate the same
for the sake of trying the experiment therewith, and was not used by any other
persons or persons; that in regard I apprehended the said Invention would be
of great use and benefit to His said Majesty's subjects, and as I was the first
and true Inventor thereof, I therefore most humbly prayed His said Majesty
that He would be pleased to grant unto my executors, administrators, and
assigns, His Royal Letters Patent for the sole use and benefit of my said
Invention within that part of His Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the
term of fourteen years, pursuant to the Statute in that case made and pro-
vided; His said Majesty, being willing to give encouragement to all arts and
inventions which might be for the public good, was graciously pleased to
condescend to my request, and therefore, by His Royal Letters Patent, under
His Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-
ninth day of August, in the twenty-ninth year of Our reign, of His especial

page_text: grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, for Himself, His heirs and suc-
cessors, did give and grant unto me, the said John Wilson, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, and priviledge and
authority, that I, the said John Wilson, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves, or by mine or their
deputy or deputies,, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said John
Wilson, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend my said Invention within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of
Great Britain called England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me, the said John Wilson, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or any of us, should in our discretions seem meet;
and that I, the said John Wilson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and ad-
vantage from time to time coming, growing, accruing, and arising by reason of
the said Invention, for and during the term of years therein mentioned, to have,
hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages
therein-before granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said John
Wilson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, for and during and unto
the full end and term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters
Patent next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended,
according to the Statute in such case made and provided; in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso that if I, the said John Wilson, did not parti-
cularly describe and ascertain the nature of my 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 one calendar month 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, anything therein-before contained to the contrary
thereof in anywise notwithstanding, 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 Wilson, in compliance with the said
proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and
declare that the same is composed of the several particulars in the Plan
thereof hereunto annexed, and to be performed in manner following (that is
to say):―
Figure 1, the rafter piece of the stocking frame, with the two sides.

page_text: Figure 2, a sole bar, turned up at each end, with slot holes, and fixed on
Figure 1 with two screws. Figure 3, a bottom cross bar, to hold Figure. 4 at
a proper distance, with a pin near the centre, to support the machine
at different heights. Figure 4, a side joint at each end of Figure 3, with one
or more centre holes for Figure 5 to run into. Figure 5, a screw at each
end of Figure 2, to carry the machine. Figure 6, a supporting back bar, to
keep steady Figure 4. Figure 7, an arm joint on each end of the machine,
with a hole at the top for Figure 17 to run in, but the upper part of the right
arm left thicker, to guide Figure 8. Figure 8, a curved centre bit, screwed
to the end of Figure 17, to guide the machine into the centre. Figure 9, a
spring screwed to Figure 7, under Figure 8, to keep the machine in its proper
position. Figure 10, a joint fixed on the top of Figure 7, to take away the
machine from Figure 7, with a small bolt to fasten the same. Figure 11, a
small pin at each top end of Figure 7, for Figure 12 to hang upon. Figure 12,
a cord and weight hung on Figure 11, with pullies to the same, fixed to
Figure 36, to balance the machine. Figure 13, a middle cross bar screwed
on Figure 7, to keep the same steady. Figure 14, a cord and weight hung
upon two screws fixed to Figure 7, running upon a pulley fixed by a supporter
to the back rail of the stocking frame, to keep the machine steady to the
stocking frame. Figure 15, a spring supporter, with stops to receive the pin
Figure 3, with a slot screwed to a foot, and the foot screwed to Figure 1.
Figure 16, a knee kick, turning on a flat-headed spindle screwed to Figure 1,
to force back Figure 15 to lower the machine. Figure 17, a tickler bar, with
a handle filed thin at top to make room for the jacks to fall, with a verge
fixed withinside to receive the catch of the tickler leads; also with a spindle at
each end to go into the holes of Figure 7. Figure 18, a tickler lead, with
three needles, each one eye and a long point. Figure 19, a small stool bar,
with a hole and pin at each end, and a small square-headed screw and nut
fastened to the same by a pin at the left end, to tighten this bar in its frame.
Figure 20, a frame for Figure 19, with two catches and thumb bit, turned up
and slotted at each end, with a square hole at top to receive Figure 19.
Figure 21, a small guider, with a hole and pin, fixed at each end of Figure 17
to guide Figure 20. Figure 22, a catch bar, with a spindle, hole, catcli, and
slot, turned up at each end. Figure 23, a regulating stop, fastened with a
screw in the slot at each end of Figure 22. Figure 24, two spindles screwed
upon Figure 17 for Figure 22 to turn upon. Figure 25, a spring fixed to the
handle of Figure 17, to force Figure 22 and Figure 23 upon the catches 20.
Figure 26, a director screwed at each end of the needle bar of the stocking
frame, to prevent the ticklers going too high on the needles, and too far over

page_text: the needles. Figure 27, a sloted stop fixed at each end of the presser bar of
the stocking frame, to keep the machine steady in its shiftings. Figure 28, a
right-hand stop, turned square, screwed to the back of Figure 1, to lay under
Figure 13, to stop the machine going too low. Figure 29, a supporter to
Figure 28, fixed at the front of Figure 1. Figure 30, a left-hand stop, with
a joint, a slot, and a screw hole, fastened with a screw. to Figure 31.
Figure 31, a supporter to Figure 30, serewed on the front and back of
Figure 1, with a spring fixed on the top to go through the slot in Figure 30,
and to act upon Figure 32; Figure 32, a star, with a screw to go through the
screw hole of Figure 30, and rest upon Figure 31, to set the stop high or low.
Figure 33, a bar, with a hook and slot at each end, -the slots to slide under the
stars of the stocking frames,-one part being thick and the other thin, for the
purpose of making the jacks of the stocking frame fall high or low, and in
which is placed a small hole near each end. Figure 34, a spring screwed
upon the gibbet of the stocking frame, to steady Figure 33. Figure 35, two
bars, with holes at each end, screwed on the middle back bar of the stocking
frame, to support Figure 12. Figure 36, a supporting bar placed over the
sinker bar of the stocking frame, turned up at each end, for the pullies,
Figure 37, to rest upon, and fixed by screws to Figure 35. Figure 37, two
pully wheels, resting on Figure 36. Figure 38, a cord fixed to the hooks of
Figure 33, conducted to Figure 40 by a pulley fixed on each side to Figure 35,
and by another pulley fixed by a supporter on the back rail of the stocking
frame, to draw back Figure 33. Figure 39, a cord fixed to the holes in
Figure 33, conducted, Figure 40, by Figure 37, and by a pulley fixed on each
side to the back cross bar of the stocking frame by a supporter, and by another
pulley fixed to the back rail of the stocking frame, to bring forward Figure 33.
Figure 40, a tradle wheel, with two tradles, turning upon a spindle fixed to the
back rail of the stocking frame.
To perform work with this machinery, the machine must rest upon Figure 28.
A tickler (Figure 18) must go between every needle of the stocking frame; the
whole is then brought forward to the needle heads, and then pull over the arch;
then with one of the tradles (Figure 40) draw Figure 33 backward; then lay
the plating thread across the needles and draw the jacks; sink and bring the
plating thread to the needle heads, and throw the frame up to the standards;
bring the frame forward until the ticklers catch the plating thread, the frame
back again; bear the thumb upon Figure 22 to set at liberty Figure 20.
Push up Figure 19 over the point of the ticklers, and let it rest upon the
plating thread. Put in the ticklers between the needles, full over the arch.
Draw forward Figure 33 by the other tradle (Figure 40); then lay the

page_text: thread to be plated upon across the needles; draw the jacks, sink, and bring
forward, then throw up the frame to the standards. Bear the knee upon
Figure 16 to force back Figure 15, to set at liberty the pin of Figure 3,
that the machine may rest upon Figure 30. Press down, and the frame
forward to the needle heads; let the frame go back, and bring Figure 19
to its first position. Bear up the machine to the director (Figure 26),
until the pin of Figure 3 rests upon the top stop of Figure 15; then shift
the machine one or more needles to the right or left, laying the ticklers
horizontally upon the needles; pull over the arch without going into the cokens,
and throw up to the standards. Bear upon Figure 16, to force back
Take down the machine from off
Figure 15 from under the pin of Figure 3.
the needles, and bear Figure 8 close to Figure 7, on the right hand, to guide
the machine into the centre, and the course repeated.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Wilson, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of September, in the twenty-ninth
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
sovon hundred and eighty-nine
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-fourth day of September,
in the year above written, the aforesaid John Wilson came before our Lord
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And
also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of the
Statute in that case made and provided.