"A NEW PIECE OF MACHINERY FOR MAKING A MORE EASY AND EXPEDITIOUS AND PERFECT DIVISION IN STOCKING FRAMEWORK MANUFACTURES THAN HERETOFORE KNOWN
Year: 1784

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
WEBB, of Vauxhall, in the County of Surry, Yeoman, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George did, by His Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the Fifth day
of February, in the twenty-fourth year of His reign, give and grant unto
me, the said John Webb, His especial licence that I, the said John Webb,
during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might use,
exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A NEW PIECE OF MACHINERY FOR MAKING A
MORE EASY AND EXPEDITIOUS AND PERFECT DIVISION IN STOCKING FRAMEWORK
MANUFACTURES THAN HERETOFORE KNOWN;" in which said Letters Patent there
is contained a proviso obliging me, the said John Webb, by writing under
my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my said
Invention, and how the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within four calendar months after the date of the
said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation being thereunto
had) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Webb, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described in the
Plan or Drawing hereunto annexed; and that the nature of my said Inventions,
and how the same is to be performed, is as follows, that is to say :-

page_text: A, A, woodwork the frame machine or engine is fixed upon; B, B, frame
plate that the other work is screwed to, a view of which is shewed at Figure 4,
the holes are marked to the reference of the other Figures; a, a, the sley that
the frame needles move through under the presser; a view of it at Figure 5.
Figure 6, an end view. b, b, presser; a view of it at Figure 7. The bottom
edge is rounded off to prevent the needle beards from damaging. c, c, two
cocks for the presser to move in on its axes a, a, Figure 7, and support the
brass bar d, d. Figure 18, a view of the presser cocks. d, d, brass bar with
teeth to conduct the fallers and dividers; C, C, spring standards; D, D,
spring bar with hooks to hold the helical springs; a view of it at D, Figure 12.
E, E, slur bar; e, the slur with a roller to push off the fallers and dividers from
the catch bar; a view of the slur at Figure 8. F, F, two standards with two
groves in each, that the falling bar and dividing bar work in. Figure 9 and 10,
views of falling bar. 1, 1, two stars, that by turning regulates the course; 2, 2,
the star spring; 3, the pinion to drive 4. 4, the racks that carrys 5, 5, the
stoppers under the fallers or dividers to regulate the selvige stitch; G, G,
falling bar; H, H, dividing bar, a view of it at Figure 11. I, I, brass bar,
with teeth to conduct the fallers and dividers, which is screwed on the top of
the two standards F, F. J, J, two screws for P, P, P, to rest upon. K, K,
catch bar, that the fallers and dividers is supported on, when lock'd ready for
a corse; end view at K, in Figure 12. L, L, the fallers and dividers, with
helical springs made of hard-drawn brass wire; a view of a faller at L.
Figure 12. The helical spring 8 is to force the faller down when discharged
by e from the bar K, K; it is stopped at the shoulder 6, Figure 12, on G, G ;
this motion gets the loop. When a set of dividers like Figure 13 is used, they
are to be supported by the bar K, K, and discharged by e. The helical spring 9,
Figure 12, is to force the divider down to the bar H, H, and is detained by
the shoulder 7, Figure 13. M, M, two standards that the locking frame,
dividing frame, and paralel joint, that carrys the needle bar, moves in on their
axes a, a, a, a, Figure 16 and 17. The dots seen through the end view
sheweth the form of N, N, N, P, P, P, Q, Q, Q; N, N, N, paralel joint;
O, O, needle bar with plates, and serves to fasten the needle leads. Figure 15,
end view of the needle bar, with its axes, leads, plates, and screws. P, P, P,
locking frame; a view of it at Figure 16. Q, Q, Q, dividing frame; a view
of it at Figure 17. R, cross bar, screwed to the two standards M, M. S,
locking joint lever; fo, fo, two cocks screwed to R, to carry S. T, T, axes
and leavers, to draw back O, O, and to discharge S. U, U, two cocks for
the axes T, T, to work in. Figure 20, a view of the lever h, fixed in the
axes T, T, with a joint at f, to carry the trigger f, f. V, V, two cocks for

page_text: the spring barrell. W, spring barrell ratchett and click; g, a rod hooked
to O, O, and h; i, a leather strap hooked to W; and g, k, a square frame
for the centers 12 of the rib machine to move in; X, X, rib machine; 1, leads
with rib needles, cast, or hooks. To make plain work come over, the ribb
needles go between the frame needles at the back of b, and the front of
a; m, m, pushing plate; n, n, two pieces screwed in needle bar of X, X, to
guide m, m, and stop b, b, when the frame course is performed; o, lever to.
bring down X, X, to a proper place to press; p, p, two standards to stop
X, X, and brought up a proper height by the helical spring q. Figure 19,
back view of rib machine. Y, slur wheel; r, r, r, r, pulleys to guide the slurr
strings; Y, Y, slur tradles; P, blocking tradle; Z, traddle. that divides and
draws in the needles, 10, 10, 10; 10, a cord fixed to the back rail goes over the
pulley S, under the pulley Y in the double frame, and fastened to the lever Z;
11, 11, a cord fastened to the lower rail, and pass over the pulley u', and
fastened to the traddle Z; 12, 12, a cord fastened to the back rail, passes
over the pully t, and fastened to the traddle P. When the thread is laid
across the needles and the slur drawn, the workman, pressing his foot on
the traddle Z, brings down the lever Z, which pusheth f, f, against S, at the
same time adds a power to P, P, P, which causes the fallers to rise, and the
dividers to descend, by means of the helical springs 9; until the shoulder 6,
Figure 13, meeteth g, g; this motion divides the loops, draws in the needles,
and locks up the fallers and dividers; or the traddle P may be used to lock up
the fallers and dividers. When a set of dividers are used like at Figure 14,
the motions are the same, but the dividers are supported by the shoulder 7
on the bar H, H, or the dividers may be made fast to the bar H, H, and
brought down by a spring or weight, if the two standards F, F, are made
high enough to conduct the bar II, H, when locked up.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Webb, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and eighty-four.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Fifth day of June, in the year.
of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, the said John.
Webb came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknow-
ledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained
and specifyed, in form above written. And also the Instrument aforesaid was
stamped according to the tenor of the several Statutes made in the sixth
year of the reign of the late King and Queen William and Mary of England,
and in the seventeenth and twenty-third years of the reign of His Majesty
King George the Third, and so forth.
Inrolled the said Fifth day of June, One thousand seven hundred and