IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF HAT BODIES, SACKS, BAGS, HOSE PIPE, AND VARIOUS OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Constantine de Negri and George Herrmann,
Engineers, both of the Hornsey Iron Works, Hornsey Road, in
the County of Middlesex, and William Guest, Machinist, of 83,
Great Saffron Hill, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF HAT BODIES,
SACKS, BAGS, HOSE PIPE, AND VARIOUS OTHER ARTICLES."
Sealed the 10th September 1872, and dated the 11th March 1872.
missioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 11th March
1872.
We, CONSTANTINE DE NEGRI and GEORGE HERRMANN, Engineers,
both of the Hornsey Iron Works, Hornsey Road, in the County of
Middlesex, and WILLIAM GUEST, Machinist, of 83, Great Saffron Hill,
in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said

page_text: OF
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE
HAT BODIES, SACKS, BAGS, HOSE PIPE, AND VARIOUS OTHER ARTICLES," to be
as follows:-
Our Invention consists of certain additions to be made to the ordinary
circular looped fabric machinery, so as to introduce one or more running
or spiral thread or threads through every or certain loops according to
the description of article to be manufactured, and the following is an
example of the manner of constructing such additions, that is to say:―
Within or without the circle of needles of the circular looped fabric
machine we place one or more wheels free on a fixed vertical or nearly
vertical axis constructed with notches and projections, the notchies being
on the projections as well as on the plane part of the wheel, and being
as far apart as the pitch of the needles, whilst the projections are placed
at such distances as to press inwardly or outwardly on every other
third or occasional needle as desired, the needles giving the wheel or
each wheel a rotary motion; whilst on a fixed horizontal axis imme-
diately above the needles that are being pressed we place one or more
toothed wheels of the same pitch as the needles with a slight groove
in the middle of its or their circumference or circumferences, which
groove takes a thread, and the wheel or wheels being made to revolve
by the needles, lays or lay one or more running or spiral thread or
threads between the needles not pressed and those pressed inwardly or
outwardly. We also fix in advance of the running or spiral thread an
additional wheel to take back the running or spiral thread whilst the
next loop is being made.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Constantine de Negri, George Herrmann, and
William Guest in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 11th
September 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, 3
CONSTANTINE DE NEGRI, and GEORGE HERRMANN, Engineers, both of
the Hornsey Iron Works, Hornsey Road, in the County of Middlesex,
and WILLIAM GUEST, Machinist, of 83, Great Saffron Hill, in the County
of Middlesex, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Constantine de Negri, George
Herrmann, and William Guest, Her special licence that we, the said
Constantine de Negri, George Herrmann, and William Guest, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
we, the
said Constantine de Negri, George Herrmann, and William Guest,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF HAT BODIES, SACKS,
BAGS, HOSE PIPE, AND VARIOUS OTHER ARTICLES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said Constantine de Negri, George
Herrmann, and William Guest, our executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Constantine de Negri, George
Herrmann, and William Guest, do hereby declare the nature of our
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is to say):
Our Invention consists of certain additions to be made to the ordinary
circular looped fabric machinery, so as to introduce one or more running
or spiral thread or threads through every or certain loops, according to
the description of article to be manufactured, and the following is
an example of the manner of constructing such additions:-Within or
without the circle of needles of the circular looped fabric machine we
place one or more wheels, free on a fixed vertical or nearly vertical axis
constructed with notches and projections, the notches being on the
projections as well as on the plane part of the wheel, and being as far

page_text: arrangements as herein described for the introduction of one or more
unning or spiral thread or threads through every or certain loops, for
the purpose of manufacturing hat bodies, sacks, bags, hose pipe, or any
other article for which the material may be applicable.
In witness whereof, I, the said Constantine de Negri, for myself
and on behalf of the said George Herrmann and William Guest,
have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of
September, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and seventy-two.
C. DE NEGRI. (L.S.)