New PIECE OF MACHINERY TO BE ADDED AND AFFIXED TO A STOCKING FRAME FOR MANU- FACTURING, BY A MORE SIMPLE, SPEEDY, AND NEAT METHOD, ELASTIC CROSS-STITCH PLATED HOSE-PIECES, GLOVES, MITTS, AND ALL OTHER ARTICLES MANUFACTURED OR CAPABLE OF BEING MANUFACTURED UPON STOCKING FRAMES, WITH SILK, OR SILK PLATED UPON COTTON, WORSTED, OR THREAD, OR COTTON PLATED UPON WORSTED, COTTON, THREAD, DIFFERENT PROM ANY OTHER MANNER OR METHOD OF MANU- FACTURING SUCH GOODS HITHERTO KNOWN OR FOUND OUT
Year: 1799

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
EATON, of the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham, Framework
Knitter, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, in and by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Fourth day of July, in the thirty-ninth year of His reign, for
Himself, His heirs and successors, did give and grant unto me, the John
Eaton, His especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I;
the said John Eaton, my executors, administrators, or assigns, and every of
them, by myself and themselves, or by my and their deputy or deputies,
servants or agents, or such others as I, the said John Eaton, my executors,
administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed,
should and might lawfully make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A New
PIECE OF MACHINERY TO BE ADDED AND AFFIXED TO A STOCKING FRAME FOR MANU-
FACTURING, BY A MORE SIMPLE, SPEEDY, AND NEAT METHOD, ELASTIC CROSS-STITCH
PLATED HOSE-PIECES, GLOVES, MITTS, AND ALL OTHER ARTICLES MANUFACTURED OR
CAPABLE OF BEING MANUFACTURED UPON STOCKING FRAMES, WITH SILK, OR SILK
PLATED UPON COTTON, WORSTED, OR THREAD, OR COTTON PLATED UPON WORSTED,
COTTON, THREAD, DIFFERENT PROM ANY OTHER MANNER OR METHOD OF MANU-
FACTURING SUCH GOODS HITHERTO KNOWN OR FOUND OUT;" in which said Letters
Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said John Eaton, by an

page_text: instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and
ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within one calendar month next and immediately after
the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference
being thereto had, will more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Eaton, do hereby describe and
ascertain the nature of my Invention, and the manner in which the same is
performed, as well by the Figure of the machinery above delineated, as by the
description or explanation herein-after set forth (that is to say):-
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The said Invention consists in a sliding machine composed of and described
by the Figure above delineated and herein after described and explained, to
be added and affixed to a common stocking frame for the purpose of manufac-
turing, by a more speedy, simple, and neat method, elastick cross-stitch plated
hose-pieces, gloves, mitts, and all other articles manufactured or capable of
being manufactured upon stocking frames, with silk, or silk plated upon
cotton, worsted, or thread, or cotton plated upon cotton, worsted, or thread.
Figure A 1 is a tickler bent in the middle, in the manner as described in the
Drawing, and called a crank tickler, and so bent for the purpose of making
room by the bend for a thread to be placed on the needles when the machine
is drawn into the arch of the sinkers. Figure B 2 is the same kind of
tickler cast into a lead, such as is used in the machines usually attached to a
common stocking frame. Figure E 5 and K 9 are catches fixed on each
end of the machine bar, marked S 14, which bar S is similar to the bars
attached to a common machine, except in having added to it the several
articles described by the Figures above delineated, and such catches marked
E 5 and K 9 are called the drawing catches. Figure F 6, and II and
G 7, are catches fixed on the sinker bar of any common stocking frame, and
called the regulating catches. Figure 18 is a stop fixed on the arm of a
machine to a common stocking frame, and called a moving stop. Figure L 10
is the machine arm, to which the Figure I 8 is intended to be attached.
Figure M 11 is the Figure L 10 with the Figure I 8 attached to it.
Figures N and O, 12 and 13, are two axles affixed at each end of a common
machine bar, and called moveable axles. R is a stop fixed on the moveable
axles N and O, to keep the machine steady upon its arms. Figure S 14 is
the common machine bar, with the different additions and improvements
thereto herein-before specified. Figure P is a common-needle-to-a-stocking
frame fixed in a lead as usual. Figure Qis a common sinker of a stocking
frame. The manner in which such new-invented machine acts is as follows

page_text: that is to say (A course of cotton, thread, silk, or any other material
intended to be worked being set on the frame in the usual way, and another
course being worked and brought to the needle heads), the machine bar,
Figure S 14, is put to the work, as in Figure C 3, and the ticklers passing
through the stitch upon the needles, the work is shifted by means of the
handles upon the bar over the second needle from that from which it was
taken, which forms a cross stitch, and then the frame in coming over the
arch takes the machine back by means of the catches F 6, H and G 7, called
the regulating catches, the sinker bar at the same time lifting up the moving
stop I 8, which then suffers the machine bar to pass into the position
described by the Figure D 4, in which state the material intended to form the
outside, or plating course is confined till another course intended. for the
inside or backing course is worked; and in consequence of the ticklers B 2
being crank, a vacancy is left upon the needle to lay the material for working
the said inside or backing course, which course being worked the frame
and machine are brought forward together to the needle heads, by which
means one course, fastens the other and produces an elastick cross stitch plated
fabrick.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Eaton, have hereunto set my hand
and scal, the Sixteenth day of July, One thousand seven hundred
Inrolled the Twenty-third day of July, in the year above written..