A MACHINE FOR THE DRESSING, GETTING UP, OR FINISHING FRAMEWORK- KNITTED GOODS MANUFACTURED FROM THE STOCKING FRANE, WHETHER CONSISTING OF HOSE, SOCES, CAPS, MITS, GLOVES, OR OF ANY OTHER KIND OR DESCRIPTION WHATEVER, AND WHETHER MADE OF COITON,LAMBS' WOOL, BIGONIA WOOL, SILE, MOHAIR, OR ANY OTHER VEGETABLE OR ANIMAL SUBSTANCE WHATSOEVER, OR ANY INTERMIXTURE OF THESE SUBSTANCES ONE WITH ANOTHER
Year: 1813

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ROBERT
HALL and SAMUEL HALL, of Basford, in the County of Nottingham, Bleachers
and Cotton Spinners, send greeting.
"WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Thirtieth day of March, in the fifty-third year of His reign, did give
and grant unto us, the said Robert Hall and Samuel Hall, our exors, aduiors,
and assigns, His special licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that
we, the said Robert Hall and Samuel Hall, our exors, adñiors, or assigns, from
time to time and at all times hereafter during the term of fourteen years therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England,
the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, our Invention
of A MACHINE FOR THE DRESSING, GETTING UP, OR FINISHING FRAMEWORK-
KNITTED GOODS MANUFACTURED FROM THE STOCKING FRANE, WHETHER CONSISTING
OF HOSE, SOCES, CAPS, MITS, GLOVES, OR OF ANY OTHER KIND OR DESCRIPTION
WHATEVER, AND WHETHER MADE OF COITON, LAMBS' WOOL, BIGONIA WOOL, SILE,
MOHAIR, OR ANY OTHER VEGETABLE OR ANIMAL SUBSTANCE WHATSOEVER, OR ANY
INTERMIXTURE OF THESE SUBSTANCES ONE WITH ANOTHER;" in which said Letters
Patent there is contained a proviso that if we, the said Robert Hall and
Samuel Hall, or one of us, should not particularly.describe and ascertain the
nature of our said: Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed;

page_text: by an instrument in writing under our hands and seals, or under the hand
and seal of one of us, and cause the same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within two calendar months next and immediately
after the date of those his Letters Patent, then those his 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 notwithstanding, as in and by the same Letters Patent (relation
being had thereunto) will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
Robert Hall and Samuel Hall, do, by this Instrument in writing under our
hands and seals, describe and ascertain the nature of our said Invention as
follows, and do declare that the Plan thereof contained in the Drawing here-
unto annexed is composed of the following particulars (that is to say) :-
A, A, B, C, is a frame made of wood or any other materials. D, E, are
two brushes, and are composed of cylinders of wood or any other substance,
covered with hogs' bristles, whalebone, cane, or any other substance. F, G,
are two feeding rollers made of iron or any other materials; they may be plain
or fluted, or they may be covered with any material, if it be found preferable.
H is an axle of iron or any other substance, with one pulley n attached to one
end thereof, and two pulleys o, p, attached to the other end. I, J, are two
connecting or intermediate tooth wheels fastened together, I being a large one
and J a small one; they connect the bottom brush E and the bottom feeding
roller G together by means of the little tooth wheel i working in the large
connecting tooth wheel I, and the small connecting tooth wheel J working in
the large tooth wheel . These wheels will cause the feeding rollers to turn
when at work much slower than the brushes. The two connecting tooth
wheels are kept in their proper situation by being fixed on a pin or axle
attached to the standard C, which is concealed from observation by the
said two connecting wheels. K, K, are two stockings, showing how they
(or any other framework-knitted goods) pass through the machine when it is
worked. At the top of the standards B, C, are two nicks or slits a, a, into
which are admitted the axles b, c, d, c, of the brushes D, E, and at the bottom
of the said standards are two holes f. f, in which is fixed the axle H. The
brushes D, E, arc furnished with the axle b, c, d, e. At the extremity of axle c
of brush D is fixed a pulley g, with a groove in it, and a similar pulley his
fixed on the extremity of axle d of brush E, and at the extremity of its other
axle e is fixed a small tooth wheel i. The feeding rollers F, G, are kept in
their
proper place by the fork j, which is screwed to the standard B, and by a
similar one screwed to the other standard C; but this latter fork is observed

page_text: from the eye of the observer by its being behind the standard. One of the axles
of feeding roller G is sufliciently long to have the tooth wheel & fixed on it on
the outside of standard C on the same axle. On the inside of the standard is
fixed a small tooth wheel to work in a similar one m fixed on the axle of
feeding roller F.
When the machine is to be set to work the brush D must be lowered, so
that its lower surface nearly touches the upper surface of brush E, and there
must be introduced into the nicks a, a, two sticks or wedges of brass or any
other material, which rest on axles d, e, of brush E, and support the axles b, c,
of brush D, so as to prevent the two brushes from coming too near together;
the sticks or wedges may be shorter or longer at pleasure, so as to place the
two brushes at such a distance from each other as may be found proper.
The brush D is raised up in the Drawing merely to exhibit the situation of
the feeding rollers which, when the machine is at work, are concealed behind
the brushes. The brush D being lowered to its proper situation, the band q. 17,
must be put into the groove of pulley p, so as to connect it with pulley g.
This band is to be open, and the band s, s, which connects pulley n with
pulley h, must be crossed. The weights r, r, must then be suspended from
the axles of the top feeding roller F, so as to cause the two feeding rollers to
hold firmly the stockings K, K (or other framework-knitted goods), as they
pass between them; the weights t, t, must be suspended in like manner from
the axles b, c, of the top brush D, to prevent it from rising up when the goods
are passed between it and the bottom brush E. The machine being thus
fixed is ready for work. The pulley o, which is the primum mobile or first
motion, must be turned by any mechanical power, whether steam engine, water-
wheel, or of any other kind; it must be turned with the sun, or from left to
right. The open band 7, 9, 9, will turn the brush the same way, and the cross
band s, s, will turn the brush E in a contrary direction. The last-mentioned
brush being put in motion will, by means of the small toothed wheel i fixed at
the end of axle c, turn the large connecting tooth wheel I, and the small tooth
wheel J, being fastened or rivetted to the large connecting tooth wheel I, will
put in motion also the small tooth wheel J, by acting upon the large tooth
wheel fixed on the end of the bottom feeding roller G, turns that roller in
the same direction with the bottom brush E; and the top feeding roller F is
turned in the same direction with the top brush D, by means of the small tooth
wheel on the bottom feeding roller G acting on a similar wheel m fixed on
the said top feeding roller F.
The view of the machine exhibited in the annexed Drawing we consider
the front. When the machine is at work a person stands at the back and

page_text: presents the stockings or other framework knitted goods to the feeding rollers
through which they are passed, as shewn in the Drawing (see K, K). As the
train of wheels i, I, J, k, l, m, causes the feeding rollers to turn much more
slowly than the brushes, the goods are firmly held and slowly forwarded while
the brushes act upon them; another person is stationed in the front of the
machine to take away the goods as they are delivered from the machine... The
goods may be passed and repassed through the machine as, often as their
texture shall require; they may also be passed through dry, or moistened
with a saponaceous fluid, or impregnated with any other fluid or substance
whatever.
We do not specify any particular speeds with which either of the feeding
rollers or the brushes may be turned, they may both be varied at pleasure;
the brushes may turn a thousand times per minute if thought needful, but
whatever speed is adopted we prefer so great a velocity as to produce a con-
.siderable degree of heat by the friction on the goods, as we are of opinion that
it contributes greatly to softening and improving them. This machine is
intended to raise a fine downy nap or woolley softness on the stockings or other
framework-knitted goods; it is plain that this operation cannot injure the
fabric of the goods like the operations by manual application of teazles or
other things, which lay hold of the thread and tear and otherwise injure .it.
To use this machine with the greatest advantage, the stockings or other
framework-knitted goods should be excellently milled and felted, which
in our business of milling and felting, do in the best possible style; but as that
branch of business does not form any part of our present Invention, a
description of it would in this Specification be altogether irrelevant.
we,
In witness whereof, we, the said Robert Hall and Samuel Hall have
hereunto set our hands and seals, this Eighteenth day of May, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirteen.
Signed, sealed, and delivered, by the
within-named Robert Hall and Samuel
Hall (being first duly stampt), in the
presence of
Toux Fox
ROBERT (L.S.) HALL.
SAMUEL (L.S.) HALL.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-second day of May, in
the year of our Lord 1813, the aforesaid Robert Hall and Samuel Hall
came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the
Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified,
in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt
according to the tenor of the Statute made for that
purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord 1813.

page_text: Brushes D, E, are each 6 Inches diam?
Feeding Rollers F. G. are each 1½ In. diam
Tooth-wheel i, has 10 Teeth
Tooth-wheel I, has 30 Teeth
Tooth-wheel J, has 10 Teeth
Tooth-wheel k, has 30 Teeth.
Tooth-wheels 1, s, m, have each 15 Teeth.