WEAVING FIGURED AND FLOWERED SILK RIBBONS AND SORTS OF FIGURED AND FLOWERED GOODS, MADE IN NARROW BREADTHS AND OF DIFFERENT MATERIALS, SO AS TO WORK A GREAT NUMBER OF PEICES AT ONE TIME
Year: 1760

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSЕР
STELL, of Keighley, in the County of York, Merchant, send greeting,
WHEREAS His late most Excellent Majesty King George the Second did,
in and by His Royall Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the
Twenty-second day of October, in the thirty-fourth year of His reign, for His
said Majesty, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Joseph Stell, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence,
full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said Joseph Stell, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term of years therein and herein-after
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my new Invention
and method of "WEAVING FIGURED AND FLOWERED SILK RIBBONS AND
SORTS OF FIGURED AND FLOWERED GOODS, MADE IN NARROW BREADTHS AND OF
DIFFERENT MATERIALS, SO AS TO WORK A GREAT NUMBER OF PEICES AT ONE
TIME," to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, power, priviledge, and
authority, to me, the said Joseph Stell, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term of fourteen years from

page_text: the date of the Letters Patent; in which said Letters Patent there is con-
tained a proviso that if I, the said Joseph Stell, should not particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in
which 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 kalendar months from and immediately after date
thereof, that then the said Letters Patent, and all libertys and advantages
thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void, as in and
by the said recited Letters Patent (relation being thereunto had) may more
fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Joseph Stell, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, as follows (that is
to say)-
:-
The new Invention and method of Weaving Figured and Flowered Ribbons
and other Figured and Flowered Goods, made in Narrow Breadths, and of
Different Materials, so as to Work a Great Number of Peices at One Time, and
is to be applied to the old Dutch loom or engine loom, the new Dutch loom or
swivel loom, or any other loom or looms now in use for weaving of ribbons
or any other sort of goods made of different materials.
The alterations or additions to be made in or to the old Dutch loom (or
engine loom), or the new Dutch loom, commonly called the swivel loom, are as
follows (to wit)-By substituting rowlers or cylenders, upon which the warps
are to be wound, instead of pulleys and weights now in use, which rowlers or
cylenders turn round, and are supported upon spindles, and are ballanced by
weights and springs, in order to stretch the warps thereupon to a proper degree,
and are placed in the back part of the loom or looms. Also sundry jacks,
tumblers, or levers, are to be placed on the top of the loom, which said jacks,
tumblers, or levers, move upon (and are supported by) a spindle passing
through them near the center, and one end of which is fixed to and communi-
cates with the lashes, harness, or healds which contain the warps, and the other
end operates with the toppets in the new-invented rowler or cylender hereafter
described, by which the figure or flower is made.
The new-invented drawing engine rowler or cylender is of a proper and
proportionable dimension in circumference and diameter, and is supported and
turns round upon its axis, and is placed near the top of the loom. Upon one
end of such rower or cylender is fixed a wheel, divided into necessary and
proportionable parts, and communicates and operates with another wheel upon
a different axis. Also upon the body and extremity of this rowler and

page_text: cylender, and at proper distances from each other, are fixed sundry toppets,
which projects to a proper length and distance from the same. In the motion
or revolution of the said rowler or cylender, the said toppets move the jacks,
tumblers, or levers before described, and press down the same, by which a
proportionable part of the warp is raised before the passing of the shuttles,
whereby the figures or flowers are made. This rowler or cylender is wrought
or moved round by another wheel fixed upon an iron axis or spindle, which
axis or spindle doth contain sundry bendings or cranks, at proper distance from
each other, and of a due proportion in length. This axis or spindle is fixed at
a proper distance from the above-described cylender or rowler, communicates
therewith, and moves round and is supported upon its own axis. To such
bends or cranks are fixed small iron rods, which communicates with tridles
below. These tridles, being pressed down, turn round the said iron axis or
spindle, which gives motion to the rowlers or cylenders described.
This new-invented drawing engine may be applyed to the swivel loom by
the addition and alteration as before described in the old Dutch loom, and also
the addition of one upright or perpendicular axis, upon which is fixed sundry
wheels, which said wheels communicate and work with a wheel either on the
iron axis (or spindle) or on the rowler or cylinder before described, and also at
the lower end, and with another wheel fixed thereon, which communicates and
works with the movements of the swivel loom below, and makes the figures or
flowers.
The alteration or addition made in the old drawing engine is done by
the addition of another boy or jack, making in the whole two boys or jacks,
which said two boys or jacks have communication with the tridles, and as the
tridles are pressed down alternately pulls down the sundry drawing cords and
highlashes, by which is raised a due proportion of the warps, and makes the
figures or flowers. These boys are supported by and moves upon a frame.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Stell, do hereunto set my hand and
seal, the First day of December, in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and sixty, and in the first year of the reign of His
Majesty King George the Third.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the First day of December, in the
first year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, the said Joseph
Stell came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged
the Writing aforesaid, and every matter and thing therein contained, in form
above said. And the said Writing was stamped according to the Statute
made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King William and Queen
Mary, and so forth.
Inrolled the Second day of December, in the first year of the reign of
His Majesty King George the Third, 1760.