"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: 1782

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 out, 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, adiñors, and assigns, His
special licence and authority that he, the said John Hayne, his exors, adñiors,
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 par-
ticularly 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 advan-
tages thereby granted, should cease and become void, as in and by the said in

page_text: part recited Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and
at large appear.
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 in 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 fack (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 barrel (No. 4). 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 or supporters (No. 3), in which the spindles (No. 10) move.
No. 12, 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. 3)
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 fastened to needles in the stocking frame. or a piece of

page_text: work previously made upon the frame, and remaining upon the needles. The
hollow barrel (No. 4) is to be then turned upwards, which raises 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
the case if the
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
listance, before the frame, which thereby prevents the work from coming
against the ends of the carriers (No. 15), which would be
machine did not move forward with the motion of the frame.
prevents the carriers (No. 15) from falling down too low, and also acts as a
stop to regulate the motion sideways 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 top (No. 5) is
to be moved one nick sideways backwards 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 separated after they are dressed,
by letting down every stitch so made upon the centre needles.
The pin (No.-9)
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 1783, 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.