A NEW-INVENTED ENGINE OR LOOM FOR WORKING AND WEAVING OF TAPES, AND ALL OTHER GOODS IN NARROW BREADTHS MADE OF WOOLLEN, LINNEN, SILE, COTTON, AND MOHAIR; AND ALSO A NEW-INVENTED KILN FOR THE DRYING OF MALT, AND LIKEWISE & NEW-INVENTED PANE OR KETTLE FOR SAVING OF FEWELL IN THE MAKING OF COMON SALT
Year: 1745

page_text: KAY & TELL'S
TON.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, KNOW YE,
that His present Majesty King George the Second, by His Letters Patent
under the Great Seal, bearing date at Westminster, the Eighteenth day of
April, in the eighteenth year of His reign, hath, for Himself, His heirs and
successors, given and granted unto JOHN KAY, of Bury, in the County Palatine
of Lancaster, Gent., and JOSEPH STELL, of Kighley, in the County of York,
Gent., and to their exors, adñiors, and assigns, especial licence, full power,
sole priviledge and authority, to make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part
of Great Brittain called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, "A NEW-INVENTED ENGINE OR LOOM FOR WORKING AND
WEAVING OF TAPES, AND ALL OTHER GOODS IN NARROW BREADTHS MADE OF WOOLLEN,
LINNEN, SILE, COTTON, AND MOHAIR; AND ALSO A NEW-INVENTED KILN FOR THE
DRYING OF MALT, AND LIKEWISE & NEW-INVENTED PANE OR KETTLE FOR SAVING OF
FEWELL IN THE MAKING OF COMON SALT," together with the whole profit, benefit,
and advantage from time to time accrewing and ariseing by reason of the said
Inventions, for and during the term of fourteen years, according to the form
of the Statute in that case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent,
amongst other things, it is provided, that if the said John Kay and Joseph
Stell, or one of them, shall not particularly describe and ascertain the nature
and form of their said Inventions, in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, by an instrument in writing under their hands and seales, or the
hand and seale of one of them, and cause the same to be inrolled in the High
Court of Chancery in four calendar months next after the said day of the
date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said. Letters Patent, and all

page_text: libertys and advantages thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and
be void, anything before in the said Letters Patent contained to the contrary
in anyways notwithstanding.
THEREFORE FURTHER KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Stell, in
pursuance of the intention of the said Letters Patent, and of the said provisoe
therein contained, do hereby fully and particularly describe the nature, form,
and manner of the said three several Inventions, which are severally as follows
(that is to say):-
The new Invention to be added to the Dutch engine or loom now used for
working the before-mentioned goods in narrow breadths is, by fixing in the
lower part of the said engine or loome a rowler, beam, or round peice of timber,
that passes through the length of the said engine or loom, and turns round
upon its axis at cach end; and at a certain distance from one end of the said
rowler or beam, is fixed a pin made of wood or iron, the said rowler or beam
being in part inclosed in a second or other hollow rowler, which moves or
slides in a loose position upon the first-mentioned rowler or beam, and is at
pleasure fixed to the first by means of a knotch that receives the aforesaid pin,
and is, by a tender or handle, capable of being moved to and again, or to the
right hand and left; which motion, the first rowler or beam being supposed to
turn round, sets the said engine or loom to work, or stoppeth it at pleasure.
There are likewise fixt in the sliding beam or hollow rowler at proper distances
sundry tapits, which, when the said two rowlers or beams turn round, performs
the office of trending the necessary treadles, and moves the batting or lath, and
by the help of one other peice of timber or part of the machine fixed upon
the aforesaid batting or lath in the form of the letter T, or angle, which plays
upon an axis at the center of the top or head, and by two treadles annexed
to the extremity of each uppermost angle, the aforesaid tapits laying hold and
treading down the treadles aforesaid, and throws over the shuttles to the right
hand and left, by means of the lowermost or third angle being annexed to a
certain part of the said engine or loom called a driver, and is further assisted
by a ballance or weight, and the batting being struck to the peice or webb by
a weight and spring, closeth the shoot and compleats the work, and the said
engine may go or be worked by hands, water, or any other force.
And the said Juvention for the better drying and curing of malt is by a kiln
about eight foot square, in the bottom whereof is a furnace or entrance of a
flue or pipe wherein the fire is made, the heat of which is carryed forwards and
backwards in sundry turnings within the said pipe or flue, which is of sheet
iron, and, untill the heat has penetrated through, the malt is laid on sundry
skeps about four foot square and three inches deep, the bottom of which is
made of wire like a sive, and is placed in proper heights one above another,

page_text: and any one may be drawn out occasionally, and the malt in the lowest will
be always dry first; there is also placed on the top of the kiln a sort of a roofe
made of sheet iron, which assists in keeping the heat, and prevents the damp
part of the malt from affecting that which is dryer.
And the other of the said Inventions, which is for saving of fuel in the
drying of comon salt, is by fixing to one end of the pan now used for evapo-
ration another new-invented pann or kettle made of iron about four foot broad
and three foot deep, with a head or cover closely fixed on to keep in the
steam when it boyles, out of which there goeth a tube or hollow pipe, which
extendeth through the old pan in the length way in an angular position; the
water boyling in the small pan, the hot steam is carryed through the afore-
said pipe or tube, which largely contributes towards the evaporating the fluid
in the large pan, and the fire being made under the bottom of the small pan
is carryed in a fleu round the same, and so forward under the large pan in
angular flues, untill the heat be spent. All which is a full and true description
and descriptions of the said several Inventions.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Stell, have hereunto sett my hand
and seal, the Fourteenth day of May, in the eighteenth year of our
said Sovereign Lord George the Second, by the grace of God of
Great Brittain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith,
&c., and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and
forty-five.
JUDETH MORLEY.
JOSHUA LAYCOCK.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that the Fourteenth day of May, in the
year above written, the aforesaid Joseph Stell came before our said Lord
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Invenčon aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained and specifyed, in form above
written. And also the Invenčon 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-seventh day of May, in the year above written