ENGINE OR MACHINE POR " REGULATING AND SPINNING WOOL, SILK, COTTON, FLAX, HEMP, &c.
Year: 1779

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
MARCH, of Temple Bar, in the Parish of Saint Clement Danes, in the County
of Middlesex, Hosier, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Richard March, did, by my petition, humbly
represent to His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that
I had, by great study and application, invented an "ENGINE OR MACHINE POR
" REGULATING AND SPINNING WOOL, SILK, COTTON, FLAX, HEMP, &c.," a thing
never before put in practice, and would be of great utility to the publick, both
in the improvement and reduction of the prices of all kinds of spinning; that
the said Invention was entirely new, and of my own invention and contrivance,
and was not known to any other person or persons, save and except those to
whom I had communicated the same for the sake of trying the experiment
therewith, and that the same was not used by any other person or persons, to
the best of my knowledge and belief; I therefore most humbly prayed His
said Majesty that He would be graciously pleased to grant unto me, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent for the solo
use. and benefit 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, 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 my request; and therefore, by
His Royal Letters Patent under His Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing
date at Westminster, the Fifteenth day of November, in the twentieth year of

page_text: His reign, of His especial grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, for
Himself, His heirs and successors, did give and grant unto me, the said
Richard March, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence,
full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said Richard March, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them, myself and them-
selves, or by mine or their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such
others as I, the said Richard March, 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,. in such manner as to me, the
said Richard March, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of us,
should in our discretions seem meet; and that I, the said Richard March, 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, 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, priviledges, and advantages therein-before granted
or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said Richard March, 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 sucli
case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso
that if I, the said Richard March, should not particularly describe and ascer-
'tain 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 notwith
standing, as in and by the said Letters Patent (relation being thereunto had)
'may more fully and at large appear.
:
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard March, in compliance with the
said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and declare that the same is composed of and to be performed by the several
particulars specified in the Plan hereunto annexed, and the description thereof
in these presents (that is to say);

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No. 23
No. 1 a parting hook to regulate the wooll for spinning, several of which
are fixed in a piece of wood at equal distances, and placed at the side of the
cards, so as that the points of the hooks enter the teeth of them. No. 2. a
screw stud and nuts on which the friction wheel No. 3 is placed at A. No. 4
a spring catch fixed at B. No. 5 two rings rivetted together, which are
placed on six friction wheels at C. No. 6 a driving wheel fixed on a shaft at
D, which drives the pinion E, which is placed on the stud screw No. 7, which
is fixed on the screw hole of the ring at F. No. 8 a frame pinion and socket.
No. 9 a spring screwed to the frame at G. No. 10 a screw stud wheel and
pinion, fixed in the frame at H. No. 11 a worm farbour wheel and contact
wheel fixed in the frame at I. No. 12 a cock fixed in the frame at K.
No. 18 a screw stud socket wheel and conducter fixed in the cock at L.
No. 14 a guide, one end of the pivot of which is placed in the cock at M, and
in the frame at N. No. 15 a cock screwed to the outside of the frame at I.
No. 16 an axis placed in the frame at O. No. 17 a bobbin which is placed
on the axis. No. 18 the bottom part of a frame screwed to the ring at P and
Q. No. 19 the side of a frame with two adjusting screws and cocks.
a ditto with a spring and screw. No. 21 a pillar. No. 22 a cock.
a worm and pinion. No. 24 an arbour nutt wheel, worm wheel, and groove
wheel. No. 25 an arbour double wheel and binding wheel. No. 26 an arbour
wheel and groove wheel. No. 27 an arbour nutt wheel and regulator. No. 28
a brush to be fixed upon the worm at U. No. 29 a receiver. No. 30 a
socket pinion. No. 31 a bobbin cock. No. 32 a bobbin. No. 33 a guider.
No. 19 is screwed to No. 18 at P, No. 20 at Q. No. 21 is screwed to each
side of the frame at R, No. 22 at S. No. 23 is placed in the frame at T,
and in the cock at U. No. 24 is placed in the frame at W, and No. 25, at
X; No. 26 at Y, and No. 27 at Z. No. 29 is screwed to No. 20 at D+;
and No: 30 is fixed on the pipe of the frame No. 8 at C+. No. 31 is screwed
to the bottom of the frame at Q. No. 32 is placed on the bobbin cock
No. 31. The guide, No. 33; is screwed to. the bottom of the frame at P.
These different apparatus being placed as thus described, and a shaft .on
which the wheel No. 6 is fixed, having communication to a water wheel,
drives the pinion E, which moves on the stud No. 7, on which is fixed a
pinion. With this motion the wheel No. 10 runs round the fixed pinion
No. 7, at which time the pinion on the wheel No. 10 drives. the contact
wheel, which being fixed on the worm No. 11, drives the wheel No. 13, on
which the conducter is fixed. This conducter, by being placed in the guide
No. 14 at A+, moves the guide backward and forward repeatedly. The two
wheels No. 11 turn the bobbin No. 17 on the axis No. 16; the pipe in the

page_text: frame No. 8 turns in the frame No. 18 at B*.
No. 30 is fixed on the pipe
at C+, which drives the worm pinion No. 23; the worm drives No. 24, which
drives No. 25, which drives No. 26, and No. 27. No. 29, being fixed to tho
frame No. 20 at D*, receives the wool, &c., from the brush after it has cleansed
it from the regulater No. 27 at E+. After the regulated wooll or other con-
tents are stripped from the cards and wound on the bobbin No. 32, it passes
through the guide No. 33, to the groove wheel No. 26 at F+, and is conveyed
by the binding wheel No. 25 at G+ to the groove wheel No. 24 at H+, and
passes through the socket pinion No. 30 at C+, to the bobbin No. 17. Moro
groove wheels and binders are added where fine spinning is required, and
wheels and pinions shifted to vary the twist.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard March, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eleventh day of March, in thet wentieth year of the
reign of our Sovereign Lord 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 eighty.