AN INTIRE NEW METHOD OF MAKING AND MANUFACTURING DOUBLE-COURSE FRAMEWORK STOCKINGS, MITTS, GLOVES, CAPS, AND PIECES FOR COATS, WAISTCOATS, AND BREECHES, UPON A STOCKING FRAME, IN GOLD, SILVER, SILK, MOHAIR, COTTON, THREAD, WORSTEAD, AND YARN, AND OF CARDING, SHEARING, TRIMMING, AND DRESSING SUCH DOUBLE-COURSE FRAME- WORK GOODS
Year: 1775

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, THOMAS
TRENTAM and FRANCIS JONES, of the Town and County of the Town of
Nottingham, Hosiers and co-partners, send 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 Twenty-second day of April, in the fifteenth year of His
said Majesty's reign, reciting that the said Thomas Trentam and Francis
Jones had, by great pains, labour, and long study, and at great expence,
invented, found out, and brought to perfection "AN INTIRE NEW METHOD OF
MAKING AND MANUFACTURING DOUBLE-COURSE FRAMEWORK STOCKINGS, MITTS,
GLOVES, CAPS, AND PIECES FOR COATS, WAISTCOATS, AND BREECHES, UPON A STOCKING
FRAME, IN GOLD, SILVER, SILK, MOHAIR, COTTON, THREAD, WORSTEAD, AND YARN,
AND OF CARDING, SHEARING, TRIMMING, AND DRESSING SUCH DOUBLE-COURSE FRAME-
WORK GOODS," His Majesty did give and grant unto the said Thomas Trentam
and Francis Jones, their executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial
licence and authority that they, the said Thomas Trentam and Francis
Jones, their executors, adiñiors, and assigns, during the term of fourteen
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend their said Invention within England, Wales, and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, and have and enjoy the whole benefit and advantage accruing by
the said Invention; in which said recited Letters Patent is contained a proviso
that if the said Thomas Trentam and Francis Jones should not particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of their said Invention, and in what

page_text: manner the same was to be performed, by an instrument in writing under
their hands and seals, 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 advantages thereby granted, should cease and become void, as in and by
the said in part recited Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, may more
fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that the said Thomas Trentam and Francis Jones, in
pursuance of and in compliance with the said proviso mentioned and contained
in the said Letters Patent, do hereby describe, ascertain, and set forth the
nature of their said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be
performed (that is to say):-
The double-course framework is made with the following alterations and
additions to the stocking frame. A, A, the stop pin fixed to each half jack
piece belonging to the stocking frame B, B, by a staple C, C, riveted thereto,
and two small screws D, D, which are put through a slot hole in each stop
pin at E, E, and skrew'd to each half jack piece B, B, at F, F, to keep the
the stop pins from falling too low or rising too high by pulling the frame over
the arch. The two stop pins A, A, drops before the falling bar at G, G, and
takes it behind the heel of the jacks, and is stopt there by the two stop pins
A, A, which catches a bit of steel riveted upon the falling bar at H, H. A
thread must be laid over the needles, and the jacks drawn, which falls on a
low verge cut in the falling bar I, I, for the long loops or course. The frame
must be sunk, and brought forward to the needle heads, and the loops left
there, by raising the frame a little for the sinker nebs to clear the loops. The
long neb of the sinkers must be kept within the needles, which takes the work
back in going over the arch. Into the top of the sinker bar or sinker plate
K, K, belonging to the stocking frame, is skrew'd a small screw, with a natch
in the head L, into which is fixed a small lever M, M, by a pin N being put
through a round hole at the head of the skrew L for the lever to work on, to
rise or fall as occasion requires. At the end of the lever M is a round hole,
through which is put a bow wire O, O, and into a round hole at the end of the
two stop pins A, A; and by pressing down the lever M with the hand it draws
up the bow wire O, O, which raises the two stop pins A, A, and lets the
falling bar come forward; then another thread must be laid over the needles,
and the jacks drawn for the short loops or course, which falls upon the high
verge of the falling bar P, P. The stocking frame must be sunk, and brought
forward to the needle beads. The long loops are before the face of the sinkers,
and the short loops are under the sinker nebs. The stocking frame must be

page_text: thrown up to the standards, and the stitches press'd over the long and short
loops together, and the double course is compleated.
And the carding, shearing, trimming, and dressing such double-course
framework goods is performed as follows (that is to say):-A, the shears; B,
the weights to keep the shears steady on the work; C, the handle for moving
the shears; D, the piece; E, the cushion on which the piece is stretch'd for
shearing; F, the handle of the card; G, G, G, the tassels; H, H, H, the-
wires on which the tassels are fixed; I, the plate in which the wires are
riveted; K, a plate with three holes fix'd at the top of the wires to keep the
tassells on.
And the said Thomas Trentam and Francis Jones do hereby (in the
Schedule hereunto annexed, and to which these Presents refer) describe,
delineate, set forth, and represent a plan or draught of the additional
machinery and improvements made to the stocking frame for the purpose of
making and manufacturing such double-course framework stockings, mitts,
gloves, caps, and pieces as aforesaid.
In witness whereof, the said Thomas Trentham and Francis Jones have
hereunto sett their hands and seals, the Fourth day of August, in the
fifteenth 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 seventy-five.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the same Fourth day of August,
in the year above written, the aforesaid Francis Jones came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification of the
Invention aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified,
in form above written, and in the draughts or plans of the machinery annexed
delineated. And also the Specification and Delineation aforesaid were 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.
Inrolled the Nineteenth day of August, in the year above said.