AN ENGINE OR MACHINE ON WHICH IS FIXT A SET OF SLIDERS, AND WHICH ENGINE IS FIXT TO A STOCKING FRAME, FOR SHADING AND BROCADING, WORKING AND MAKING OF GOLD, SILVER, SILK, WORSTED, COTTON, AND THREAD FLOWERS, AND OTHER FIGURES, UPON SILK, COTTON, THREAD, AND WORSTED PRICES, FOR WAISTCOATES, BREECHES, STOCKINGS, GLOVES, AND MITTS, AND UPON ALL GOODS AND PEICES USUALLY MADE AND MANUFACTURED IN STOCKING FRAMES, BY A METHOD ENTIRELY NEW
Year: 1769

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, JOHN PORTER,
SINCKLER PORTER, and JOSIAH CRANE, of the Town of Nottingham, Hosiers
and Framework Knitters, 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 West-
minster, the Sixteenth day of November, in the tenth year of His said
Majesty's reign, reciting that they, the said John Porter, Sinckler Porter, and
Josiah Crane, had, with great study, labour, and expence, invented and
brought to perfection "AN ENGINE OR MACHINE ON WHICH IS FIXT A SET OF
SLIDERS, AND WHICH ENGINE IS FIXT TO A STOCKING FRAME, FOR SHADING
AND BROCADING, WORKING AND MAKING OF GOLD, SILVER, SILK, WORSTED, COTTON,
AND THREAD FLOWERS, AND OTHER FIGURES, UPON SILK, COTTON, THREAD, AND
WORSTED PRICES, FOR WAISTCOATES, BREECHES, STOCKINGS, GLOVES, AND MITTS,
AND UPON ALL GOODS AND PEICES USUALLY MADE AND MANUFACTURED IN STOCKING
FRAMES, BY A METHOD ENTIRELY NEW," His said Majesty did give and grant
unto the said John Porter, Sinckler Porter, and Josiah Crane, their exors,

page_text: admors, and assigns, His special lincence, full power, sole priviledge and
authority, that they, the said John Porter, Sinckler Porter, and Josiah
Crane, their exors, admors, and assigns, during the term of fourteen years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercisé, and vend
their said Invention, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed; in which said in part recited Letters Patent there is contained a
proviso obliging the said John Porter, Sinckler Porter, and Josiah Crane,
by writing under their hands and seals, or the hand and seal of one of them,
to cause a particular description of the nature of their 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 calender months next after the date of
the said Letters Patent, as in and by the said in part recited Letters Patent,
relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YEE, that in obedience to and compliance with the said
proviso, the said John Porter, Sinckler Porter, and Josiah Crane, do hereby
describe and ascertain the nature of their said Invention, and in the manner
which the work is thereby to be performed, as follows (that is to say):-
Shading and brocading flowers and other figures are made and performed
with the following alterations and additions in and about the stocking frame.
A brass plate (B) is fixt to the needle bar (A), and the said brass plate (B)
is divided into so many divisions as there are needles in onc inch the plate
throughout, which divisions are for the sliders to work in, and the sliders are
for the needles to be cast into, as at (C). When the sliders are put into their
proper divisions, then the plate (D) is screwed down on the plate (B) on the
needle bar (A), to keep the sliders in their proper divisions. The needle bar
thus prepared and fixt in the stocking frame in the usual manner, the flowers
and other figures are wrought by bringing the frame over the arch, and the
sliders are workt and drawn back occasionly as the nature of the work may
require, by and with the assistance of a montieur, such as is usually made use
of and employed in the working and brocading in the silk loom, the cords or
threads of which monteur pass through the stocking frame, and are fixt to the
several sliders. The gold, silver, silk, thread, cotton, or worsted is to be care-
fully placed and laid over such of the needles as are not intended to be drawn
back by the monteur. When the jack is drawn, the work is to be brought to
the head of the needles, the bar (E) being fixt to the jackbar to bring up the
sliders drawn back by the monteur; and the moulds (F) are made use of for
the purpose of casting the needles into the sliders; a representation of which
said machinery and improvements made to the stocking frame for the purposes

page_text: aforesaid, are hereunder delienated and described, and to which these Presents
refer.
In witness whereof, the said John Porter, Sinckler Porter, and Josiah
Crane, have hereunto sett their hands and seals, the Fourteenth day
of February, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and
named John Porter and Josiah
Crane, being first duly stampt, in
the presence of,
JOSEPHI PORTER.
THOMAS CROUGHTON.
Scaled and delivered, by the within-
named Sinckler Porter, in the pre-
sence of,
JOHN MANWELL.
JOHN LAMBERT.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Twenty-second day of February,
in the year of our Lord 1770, the aforesaid Sinckler Porter 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 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 Twenty-second day of February, in the year of our Lord