AN ENGINE TO BE WORKED EITHER BY MEN, HORSES, WIND, OR WATER, FOR SPINNING OF COTTON WOOL INTO YARN, WHICH WILL SPIN MORE AND BETTER COTTON YARN THAN ANY EVER YET BEFORE MADE USE OF, AND MAKE TRUER, EVENER, AND SOFTER YARN THAN ANY COMON HAND CAN SPIN, AND LAYS THE HARLE OR STAPLE OF THE WOOL MORE STREIGHT AND CLOSE THAN ANY YARN YET PRODUCED
Year: 1754

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
TAYLOR, of Ashton-under-Line, in the County Palatine of Lancaster, Clock-
maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Second, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
the Third day of July instant, did give and grant unto me, the said
James Taylor, His special lycence that I, during the term of years there-
in expressed, should, within that part of Great Britain called England,
Dominion of Wales, & Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, use, exercise, and
vend, my new Invention of "AN ENGINE TO BE WORKED EITHER BY MEN,
HORSES, WIND, OR WATER, FOR SPINNING OF COTTON WOOL INTO YARN, WHICH
WILL SPIN MORE AND BETTER COTTON YARN THAN ANY EVER YET BEFORE MADE
USE OF, AND MAKE TRUER, EVENER, AND SOFTER YARN THAN ANY COMON HAND
CAN SPIN, AND LAYS THE HARLE OR STAPLE OF THE WOOL MORE STREIGHT AND CLOSE
THAN ANY YARN YET PRODUCED;" in which said Letters Patent there is con-
tained a proviso obliging me, the said James Taylor, by a writing under
my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner 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 at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
James Taylor, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention for
spinning of cotton wool into yarn doth consist and is to be performed in
the manner herein-after mentioned (that is to say):-
This engine, to be worked by one or more men, horse, wind, or water, by
turning an upright shaft, on which is fixt a drum or barrel that works a slip
and rope string which turns the spindles, which spindles stand upright horizon-
tally in a paralell line, on which spindles are fixt the bobins, on which bobins
the cotton slubbing or roving is wound on. Then the said slubbing or roving
is spun from the spindle point to the barrel short reel or long reel, as occasion
is required, which is fixed two foot square from the spindle point; which
barrels or reels are moved by tooth and pinion of an equal number, the latter
on a shaft which on the other end has a nut of eight teeth or more, that
wheel of thirty-two. On the center of that wheel is fixed a crank that
moves a rack up and down by a tredle, which rack moves a nutt of twelve,
or more or less as required, which nut is on the same axis of the barrel or
recl. On the same is fixed two ratchet wheels, the one ratchet wheel to keep
the barrel or reel for coming back, and the other to give the crank its regular
movement. The crank causeth a thread to be drawn two foot or more or less
as required. When the thread is drawn to the aforesaid length, it twisteth
it to a proper hardness till the crank is down again. In going up again it
draws another thread, and thus each and every thread is drawn. All the
aforesaid work is to be fixed in a wooden frame.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Taylor, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twelfth day of July, in the twenty-eighth year of
the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second, and in the year
of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and fifty-four.
Sealed and delivered (being first duly
stampt) in the presence of us, the
words [raising water] in the fifteenth
line being first scored through, and
the words [spinning of cotton wool
into yarn] being also first written
JAMES (L.s.) TAYLOR.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Thirty-first day of July, in the
year above said, the before-named James Taylor came before our said Lord
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the aforesaid Writing, and
every thing therein contained in form above said. And the said Writing
was stampt according to the form of the Statute made in the sixth year
of the reign of the late King William and Queen Mary, and so forth.