CERTAIN INSTRUMENTS OR MACHINES WHICH WOULD BE OF PUBLICK UTILITY IN PREPARING SILK, COTTON, FLAX, AND WOOL. FOR SPINNING, AND CONSTRUCTED ON EASY AND SIMPLE PRINCIPLES VERY DIFFERENT FROM ANY THAT HAD EVER BEEN CONTRIVED
Year: 1775

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARKWRIGHT, of Cromford, in the County of Derby, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Richard Arkwright, did, by my petition, humbly
represent to His present, most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
that I had, by much study, application, and expence, contrived, invented, and
brought to perfection " CERTAIN INSTRUMENTS OR MACHINES WHICH WOULD BE OF
PUBLICK UTILITY IN PREPARING SILK, COTTON, FLAX, AND WOOL. FOR SPINNING, AND
CONSTRUCTED ON EASY AND SIMPLE PRINCIPLES VERY DIFFERENT FROM ANY THAT HAD
EVER BEEN CONTRIVED;" that in regard I was the first and sole Inventor
thereof, and that the same had never been practised by any other person or
persons whomsoever, to the best of my knowledge and belief, I humbly prayed
His said Majesty to grant unto me, my executors, administrators, and assigns
His Royal Letters Patent for the sole use, benefit, and advantage of my 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,
and also in His Colonies and Plantations abroad, 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 that might be for the
publick good, was graciously pleased to condescend to my request; and
therefore by His Royal Letters Patent, hearing date at Westminster, he
Sixteenth day of December, in the sixteenth year of His reign, of His especial
grace, certain knowledge and meer motion, did give and grant unto me, the
said Richard Arkwright, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial
licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said Richard
Arkwright, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of us, by myself
or themselves, or by mine and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or

page_text: such others as I, the said Richard Arkwright, my executors, administrators,
or assigns, should at any time agree with and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term of years therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend my 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, and also in His
Colonies and Plantations abroad, in such manner as to me, the said Richard
Arkwright, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of us should in
our discretions seem meet, and that I, the said Richard Arkwright, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and
enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage, from time to time
coming, growing, accrewing, 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,priviledges,and advantages therein beforegranted
or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said Richard Arkwright, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end
and term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent next and
immediately ensuing and fully to be compleat and ended according to the
Statute in such case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent is con-
tained a proviso that if I, the said Richard Arkwright, should not particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His said 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 advantages 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 thereunto had) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YF, that I, the said Richard Arkwright, in compliance with
the said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and declare that the Plan thereof drawn in the margin of these
Presents is composed of the following particulars, (that is to say):-
No. 1 a beater or breaker of seeds, husks, &c., and a finer of the flax,
hemp, and other articles which are to be prepared for dressing, in which a is a
wheel with teeth, which, by acting upon a lever, raises the hammer c, the lever
beingmovable upon the centre d. No. 2: an iron frame with teeth at a working
against a lower frame with like teeth at b; this lower frame is firmly connected
to a wooden frame by means of the skrews c, c. The upper teeth are made
to act against the lower by means of the joints d, d, d, d. No. 3 is a piece of

page_text: cloth, with wool, flax, hemp, or any other such materials spread thereon, as ata.
No. 4 is a crank and a frame of iron with teeth at a, being movable at
the joints b, b, b, b, by means of cranks and by a cord turning the pulley or
wheel c. This motion of the teeth a works them backwards and forwards
upon the cylinder No. 5, and dischargeth the cotton, wool, &c. from it at d.
No-5 is the last-mentioned cylinder,whichhath fillet cards; behind this cylinder.
No. 3 delivereth its contents upon another cylinder. No. 6 consists of rollers
fixed to a wooden frame, the contents of No. 5 being brought to it at a, and
going through at b, produceth it a proper size f. c; c, are brushes for clearing
the machine. No. 7, a cylindrical box for twisting the contents of No. 6 at
b; a, a, are two rollers, one moving the other, between which the contents of
No. 6 passeth into the cylinder b; c is a dead pulley fixed to the frame; da
cord, which, passing from the pulley c, moves the rollers a, a; F, a wheel, the
movement of which is brought from F, No. 10, and is fixed to No. 6. No. 8.
a machine for twisting the contents of No. 6, in which d, d, is a frame of iron;
b a roller on which a bobbin c is fixed; this is turned the same as No. 7, that
is by a dead pulley or wheel fixed to a wooden frame at g. No. 9, a spindle
and flyer, being fixed to No. 6, for twisting the contents from b in No. 6; dis
pulley under the bobbin, which hath a communication by a band to No. 10 at
d, d, it being a conical or regulating wheel, which moves the bobbin quickeror
slower as required. No.10, a spindle, which being fixed to No. 6 ata, worketh
No. 7, No. 8, or No. 9, at F, F, F,-by the pulley F c; d, a regulator for
No. 9; b, a socket, having a bolt going through d, d, and Fc to G, stops or
sets the whole going by means of a catch a; for, the pulley G, G, being loose
upon the spindle, o, a lever movable about k, raiseth or falleth the bolt h.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Arkwright, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, the Tenth day of April, in the sixteenth year of the
reign of His said most Excellent Majesty 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-six.
Sealed and delivered, by the above-
named Richard Arkwright (being
first duly stampt), in the presence
of
JOHN HARKER,
RICH ARKWRIGHT. (LS.)
J. F. D. CROFTS,

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that the Tenth day of April, in the year above
written, the aforesaid Richard Arkwright came before our said Lord the King
in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and every thing
therein contained and specified, in form above written. And also the Instru-
ment 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.