an "ENGINE OR MACHINE FOR HECKLING, TURNING, DRESSING, DIVIDING, SPINNING, AND TWISTING INTO THREADS OR WIRES DIVERS KINDS OF VEGETABLE, ANIMAL, AND FOSIL SUB- STANCES, WHICH, BY BEING CONNECTED WITH A WEAVING LOOM, AND WORKED BY MEN, HORSES, CATTLE, FIRE, AIR, OR WATER, MAY, WITH UNCOMMON EXPEDITION, BE APPLIED TO WORKING, WARPING, AND WEAVING VARIOUS PATTERNS AND SHAPES USEFUL TO SOCIETY
Year: 1774

page_text: K. AND 1.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, We, ROBERT
BARBER and THOMAS BARBER, of the Parish of Billborough, in the County of
Nottingham, Gentlemen, send greeting,
WHEREAS we, the said Robert Barber and Thomas Barber, did, by our
petition, humbly represent to His present most Excellent Majesty King
George the Third, that we had, after much application and many trials,
attended with expence, invented and brought to perfection an "ENGINE OR
MACHINE FOR HECKLING, TURNING, DRESSING, DIVIDING, SPINNING, AND TWISTING
INTO THREADS OR WIRES DIVERS KINDS OF VEGETABLE, ANIMAL, AND FOSIL SUB-
STANCES, WHICH, BY BEING CONNECTED WITH A WEAVING LOOM, AND WORKED BY MEN,
HORSES, CATTLE, FIRE, AIR, OR WATER, MAY, WITH UNCOMMON EXPEDITION, BE
APPLIED TO WORKING, WARPING, AND WEAVING VARIOUS PATTERNS AND SHAPES
USEFUL TO SOCIETY;" wherefore; in regard we were the first and true Inventors
thereof, and that the same had never been made by any other person or
persons, we therefore most humbly prayed His said Majesty to grant unto us,
the said Robert Barber and Thomas Barber, our exors, administrators, and
assigns, His Royal Letters Patent, for the sole use and benefit of the said
Invention, within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain
called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
for the term of fourteen years, according to the Statute in that case made and
provided; His said Majesty, being willing to give encouragement to all arts and
inventions which might be for the publick good, was graciously pleased to
condescend to our request, and therefore by His Royal Letters Patent, bearing
date at Westminster, the Twentieth day of October, in the fourteenth year of
His reign, of His special grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, for Himself,
His heirs and successors, did give and grant unto us, the said Robert Barber
and Thomas Barber, our executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that they the said Robert

page_text: Barber and Thomas Barber, their executors, administrators, and assigns, and
every of them, by themselves or by their deputy or deputies, servants or
agents, or such other as they, the said Robert Barber and Thomas Barber,
their executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with and
no others, from time to time and at all times then after during the term of
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, our said Invention within that part of our Kingdom of Great Britain,
His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner
as to us, the said Robert Barber and Thomas Barber, our executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or any of us, should in our discretion seem meet, and that
we, the said Robert Barber and Thomas Barber, our executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit,
benefit, commodity and advantage from time to time coming, growing, accruing,
and arising, by reason of the said Invention, for and during the term of years
therein mentioned; to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers,
privileges, and advantages therein-before granted or mentioned to be granted
unto us, the said Robert Barber and Thomas Barber, our executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term of four-
teen years from the date of the said Letters Patent, and immediately ensuing,
and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the Statute in that case made
and provided; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that if we,
the said Robert Barber and Thomas Barber, should not particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under our hands and seals,
and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within four calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advan-
tages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become
void, anything therein-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise
notwithstanding, as in and by the said Letters Patent, relation being there-
unto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Robert Barber and Thomas Barber,
in compliance with the said provisoe, do hereby describe and ascertain the
nature of the aforesaid Invention, and declare that the same is to be performed
in manner following, that is to say :-
A, A, A, A, a, a, presents a spinning frame. 1, a cogd wheel upon a
barrell; 2, a wince or large spole; 3, a pulley for thread to turn over; 4, a
barrell for thread to go round; 5, a brush, axled, &c.; 6,, a double fliar to
untwist on a frame; 7, a barrell for thread to go round; 8, a double crank,
a shaft, and two wheels on it; 9, a cog'd wheel upon c
double-crank shaft;

page_text: 10, a pulley loose upon double crank shaft, &c.; 11, a wheel with only one
cog, and a wharl on the end; 12, 12, a spole and fliar, and wharl to lap up
the thread; 13, 13, traddles from cranks, and a cross bar under the spole,
with a nutt for spindle point to turn it, and to raise and sink the spole; 14, a
weight and strap over 2 to prevent it unlapping too fast; 15, a spindle on
which spole rises and falls, and moves round. B 1, band band from. great
barrell to barrell 4. B 2, band from 4 to 7. B 3, band from 7 to 11.
B. 4, band from 4 to 6. B 5, band from 7 to 12 round a pulley. B 6,
band from barrell 4 to wharl on brush 5.
a
To set this in motion, the cog wheel and barrell No. 1, being turned by a main
power from its cog'd wheel, or a motion to serve the same purpose by its band
B 1, turns round barrel.4; this also, by its band B 2, turns barrel 7; this, by
its band B 3, turns wheel 11; and this wheel, with but one cog, moves the cog'd
wheel 9.upon the shaft with 2 cranks, one notch in one revolution of 11, so that
the traddles which pass from the cranks 8, 8, down to a cross bar below the spole,
raise and fall the spole gradually, and lays the thread even up, &c. The barrel 2
holds the thick slob'd threads upon it, and is prevented unlapping too fast by
weight and strap. The thread from thence passes over pulley 3 to and round
barrell 4; from thence under the brush 5, which by a quick motion smoothens
and cleans thread; &c.; from thence thro' double fliar 6, which untwists the
thread; then round barrell 7, which; turning much swifter than barrell 4,
expands the thread, which then passes over pully that is loose on crank shaft,
&c., mark'd 10, down to the spole 12, which receives the thread, and twists.
it to any degree, &c. Thus, running the threads divers times' over the same
barrells, they may be expanded to any degree of fineness. The main barrell,
continued to a great length, turns bands for any number of threads and
barrells, &c., and for looms also. L, L, L, L, represents the layth or swing of
a common 'loom, with the sley in it, which strikes the threads up, &c. 1, 1,
a square shaft fix'd upon the low rails of a loom, set short of being perpen-
dicular under the layth. 2, a cog wheel, which gives motion to the whole when
it is moved by a water wheel, or a wheel turned by horses, air, or fire. 3, 3,
two wheels, with each a piece cut out to make them catch upon the arms 5, 5,
and hold them forward untill the return of the sluice suffers them to flirt into
them again. 4, 4, two upright shafts, with spindles at top and bottom, each
of them two arms. These shafts stand on the outside of the loom. 5, 5, the
two low arms in the shafts 4, 4, with each a castor for the wheel catches, to
press back, and continue holding till the cut part comes round again. 6, 6,
the upper arms, with straps to the springs. 7, 7, 7, 7, four arms, with wheels
in the points, to press down the traddles. 8, 8, the flat or top part of a frame
(mark'd with red ink, fixt up almost as high as the bottom of the layth 1, and

page_text: goes under it; the other end comes back to two uprights, 9, 9. 9, 9, two
standards, which also supports the weights and the carriage. 10, 10, a
carriage, to run backward and forwards occasionally upon frame 8, 8, having
four small wheels running in groves in 8, 8, where dotted. 11, an iron
catch, axled, held down at tail by a spring. 12, a spring to hold down the iron
catch. 13, an iron stop for catch to lay hold upon, fixed to the layth bottom.
14, a wheel fix'd in the carriage. 15; 15, two lavers fixed upon opposite
squares, of main shaft, which, moving circular, roll the carriage up untill the
catch lays hold of layth. 16, 16, 16, 16, four traddles, with ends coming
forward almost under the main shaft. 17, the bed of the layth, or bottom on
which the shuttle passes. 18, 18, two triggers, which slip on wires to strike
the shuttle. 19, 19, two wires, which carry shuttle triggers. 20, 20, a weight,
which, fix'd to a strap running over a wheel, pulls back the carriage. 21, 21,
two springs fix'd upon the layth. 22, 22, two bandages from the upper arms
to the springs. 23, 23, two bandages from springs to shuttle triggers. 24, 2
button fix'd on frame. 8, traps of spring. 12, the motion. The cog wheel,
being moved by the main power, turns the shaft gently round. Two of 7, 7,
press down the two of 16, 16. One of the lavers, 15, rolls up carriage 10,
whose catch lays hold upon 13. The laver quits the wheel by its circular
motion, and the weight 20 strikes forward the layth to the work, at which
time the spring is trapt of by 24, and, being released, returns one of the 3, 3,
having the cut-out place upwards.. 5 is pluckt back into the adjutage by 21,
and its bandage 22, which is buckled at point of 6. At the same instant the
bandage 23 plucks 18, which drives the shuttle to the opposite side. Thus
one course is wove in half a revolution, &c.
In witness whereof, we, the said Robert Barber and Thomas Barber, have
hereunto set our hands and seals, this Fifteenth day of February, in
the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, and
in the fifteenth year of the reign of His said Majesty King George
the Third, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland
King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that that the Fifteenth day of February, in
the year above written, the said Robert Barber and Thomas Barber came
before the said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Instru-
ment aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in
form above written. And also the Instrument 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.
Insolled the Seventeenth day of Rohman in the wor above written