STOPS FOR WORKING BOLT WHEELS AFFIXED TO THE MACHINE ATTACHED TO THE COMMON WARP LACE FRAME TO GIVE MOTION TO THE SAID MACHINE, AND ALSO A ROTARY SPINDLE, PROJECTIONS, AND LEVERS TO BE AFFIXED TO THE SAID FRAME ITSELF TO GIVE MOTION TO THE SAID FRAME FOR THE PURPOSE OF MANUFACTURING, BY A MORE SIMPLE, CERTAIN, AND EXPEDITIOUS METHOD, LACE OR NETWORK, OF VARIOUS FIGURES AND QUALITIES, WITH SILK, COTTON, WORSTED, OR OTHER MATERIALS PRODUCED FROM ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, OR MINERAL SUBSTANCES
Year: 1806

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SIMON: 1
ORGILL, of the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham, Frame Smith,
do 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 Third day of February, in the forty-seventh year of His reign,
did give and grant unto me, the said Simon Orgill, my exccutors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, His special licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said Simon Orgill, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my "STOPS FOR WORKING BOLT WHEELS AFFIXED TO THE
MACHINE ATTACHED TO THE COMMON WARP LACE FRAME TO GIVE MOTION TO THE
SAID MACHINE, AND ALSO A ROTARY SPINDLE, PROJECTIONS, AND LEVERS TO BE
AFFIXED TO THE SAID FRAME ITSELF TO GIVE MOTION TO THE SAID FRAME FOR THE
PURPOSE OF MANUFACTURING, BY A MORE SIMPLE, CERTAIN, AND EXPEDITIOUS
METHOD, LACE OR NETWORK, OF VARIOUS FIGURES AND QUALITIES, WITH SILK,
COTTON, WORSTED, OR OTHER MATERIALS PRODUCED FROM ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, OR
MINERAL SUBSTANCES;" in which Letters Patent there is contained a proviso
obliging me, the said Simon Orgill, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular

page_text: description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be enrolled 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 (relation being
thereunto had) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, tho said
Simon Orgill, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and do declare that the same is contained in the Drawings hereunto
annexed and represented by the Figs. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14,
15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21.
Fig. 3 is a stop in two parts, one of which has an adjusting slot in the back
of it, affixed, for a purpose herein-after specified, to a frame of wheels called the
bolt wheel frame, the construction of which wheel is described in the Specification
of the Invention for which His Majesty's Letters Patent, now expired, were
granted to William Dawson; and the same is represented by a, a, b, d, Fig. 2.
The catch wheels b & d, in the upward and downward motion of the machine,
are alternately caught by the catches & d,, Tig. 1, affixed so as to fall on
opposite sides of the circumference of the said wheels, by which means (being
fast on the revolving-axis A) they are turned round, and the bolt wheels a, a,
revolve along with them, and protrude by their projection or admit back two
bolts, the ends of which pass thro' a frame contiguous, affixed to the lower
machine, bar, and move the two bars in lateral directions to or from.
Fig. 1
is screwed to the machine arm in an upright position, by the hole at its base.
Figs. 1 & 2 are placed at the end of the frame in the situation A, see Fig. 20.
Fig. 4a is a roller slipped on the rotary spindle, and fastened in its proper
situation by a screw. It has a projection perpendicular to the tangent of the
collar screwed into it, and secured by a nut; at its end is a truck a, which acts
supon the lovers to which it applies; see 4, 4, 4, Fig. 20. Fig. 5 is another
collar fastened in like manner, with a part of its cylinder. surface extended
beyond the rest. This is turned down, with the collar itself, to the breadth of
an additional collar screwed upon it, which has a projection c, as represented
.in Fig.6; these act alternately upon the upright lever, Fig. 17 (see also
No. 17, Fig. 20). The part b, Fig. 5, propelling the regulator of the lever
at e, Fig. 17, and forcing the frame forward to the position where the work
should be when the presser meets the needles, after which the projection c,
Fig. 6, acts upon the lever itself at c, Fig. 17, the first pushing the work on
the needle beards to the presser, the second carrying it over the heads of the
-needles, and the third retaining the sinkers in their proper position while the

page_text: frame is brought over the arch. Fig. 7 is a collar of the same description
with Fig. 4, with a straight and upright projection, in a direction nearly
opposite to the former one, screwed and adjusted to its position thro' a forked
groove in its base at right angles to the projection, the truck f coming in
contact with the curved projection 6 of the lever, Fig. 15, by depressing the
bar d (Fig. 15), impels it down upon a straight flat bar in the front of the
frame (see b, partial view), which is screwed across the end of the lower bar
of the machine, and projects beyond its axis, and by this means raises the
guides (on the opposite side of the axis) up betwixt the needles; and after tho
bolt wheels have thrown the threads over one or more needles, and the guides
have sunk into that position necessary to throw the threads behind the needle
beards, and the machine is again brought out, the projection e, Fig. 7, in like
manner depressing the bar a, Fig. 15, stretches the threads from the frame,.
and brings them to the needle heads. Fig. 8 is a pin to the collar, Fig. 9,.
whereby to fasten in its proper position the additional collar in Fig. 10.
Fig. 10 exhibits the additional collar so fastened, and serves the purpose of
giving horizontal motion to the machine; it acts upon the truck 6 of the
double-cranked lever, Fig. 12, and while pressing with its circular part from b
to c it projects the guides from the needles. The guides beyond the point c
are brought back under the needles by the common elastic spring till the
truck meets the point a, when the lever, Fig. 15, immediately operates and
throws up the guides, which afterwards return from a to b. Fig. 11 is a
catch which strikes upon the end e of the stop, Fig. 3, affixed to Fig. 2, and
serves the purpose of depressing the guides by means of Fig. 2, which is
screwed to the end of the machine; it is fixed to the spindle by a forked base,
the prongs of which parts on each side the spindle. The ends are tapped.
and passed thro' a plate beneath, which is secured by a nut on each screw.
Fig. 12 is a double-cranked lever moving on three axes x, y, & z; it is
affixed and adjusted on one side, by means of the slotted standard m, to a
strong bar screwed to the tap of the woodwork on each side, and running
across the frame and supporting the spindle and its apparatus. On the other
sile n it is affixed to the end of the machine crank bar by two screws, with
slots for their adjustment. Fig. 13 is a regulator fixed upon the sinking
lever exactly over the axis of the spindle; it receives the impulse of a collar'd
projection from the spindle (see Fig. 4, and its situation, No. 4, Fig. 20), by
which it sinks the frame to the bottom of the arch of the sinkers. The
lever being elevated to its highest pitch by the most prominent point of the
regulator, returns smoothly down upon the truck of the projection till it reach
the catch of the rat tail by means of the regulator having the slopes on each

page_text: side that point nearly similar. It is fastened on the side of the lever by two
screws passing thro' the slots s, s, and is raised or lowered to its proper
position by two screws a, b (see also 13, Fig. 20). Fig. 14 is the pressing
lever; it is attached by two screws at the end o to the middle of the presser
(see the partial view of the front of the frame), and at the opposite end p to
the back presser by means of a square with a slot in the downward part (sco
its situation, No. 14, Fig. 20); it has a regulator nearly similar to Fig. 13,
and similarly fixed above the spindle. The truck from the spindle, having
arrived at the part of the regulator m (when the presser meets the needles), is
continued to the extreme in the segment of a circlo of which the distance
from the axis of the spindle to the point of the truck in contact is the radius,
by which means the presser is continued on the needles till the work is
brought on the beards by the operation of Fig. 6 upon Fig. 17. Fig. 15 is a
lever moving on a center a at an appropriate distance betwixt the spindle and
the front part of the frame, supported by an upright standard c, returned at
the top and screwed down to the strong square bar which supports the spindle.
This standard is adjusted to its proper height by means of a screw thro' a slot
in the lower part screwed to the square bar, and an adjusting screw at the
base returned under the bar; it has a curved catch 6 screwed to its under side
perpendicularly over the axis of the spindle, and is retained in its proper
position when at rest by the adjusting screw a falling upon the horizontally
returned top of the standard c, which is slotted to receive the fulcrum a, so
that it may also be adjusted to its proper distance. This catch bis first
elevated by the truck f, Fig. 7, and afterwards by the projection e, Fig. 7,
to move the falling bar d, Fig. 15, for the purposes specified under the
description of Fig. 7 (sco the situation of this Fig. in No. 15, Fig. 20). The
bar d is attached to the returned end of the lever by two screws through a
slot in the top of the bar made for its adjustment. Fig. 16 is a straight lever
supported on a fulcrum a in a similar manner, and adjusted to its proper
height by a similar returned standard, which is slotted likewise to adjust the
distance of the fulcrum. The perpendicular part of this standard n is flat-
slotted for adjustment, and attached to another double returned bar m, which
is screwed at its proper distance on the strong square bar thro' the slot in its
upper surface. The backward end of this lever is impelled downwards by a
revolving projection with a truck (Fig. 4; also No. 4, Fig. 20; see also its
position, Fig. 19); it is retained in its position when at rest by the supporting
screw (a) falling upon the extremity of the returned standard. At its extre-
mity, in the front of the frame, it has a double hook 6 with a screw shank for
the purposes to be mentioned in the description of Fig. 19. Fig. 17 is an

page_text: upright standard screwed on the square bar near to the middle, and supporting
a pendent lever from an horizontal projecting axle b, fastened by a nut to a
screw which passes thro' a slot at the top of the standard, by which it may be
raised or lowered in conformity to the parts with which it is to act. This axle
is adjusted by the regulating screw a. The pendent lever is returned towards
the frame a little above the strong bar to which the standard is fastened, and
then descending perpendicularly below the bar, it is again bent towards the
frame, as at d, level with the spindle at c. The upper part of the pendent
lever is swelled to meet the action of the projection c. (Fig. 6), and contiguous
to this a regulator e is affixed by, two screws on the inward edge,. passing
thro' two slotts for their admission, the distance of which from the spindle is
determined by two, adjusting screws at the back. This regulator is acted
upon by the extended part of the collar mentioned in Fig. 5. The use of this
lever is sufficiently detailed in the description of Figs. 5 & 6, with the excep
tion of Fig. 18, which is a projection screwed on the under side of the hand
bar by one screw passing thro' a slot b; its distance from the pendent lever,
on which it acts at d, Fig. 17, is determined by a returned regulator screwed
on its upper surface thro' a slot likewise, and still further by the screw a.
This projection being affixed to the frame, the pendent lever (at d, Fig. 17)
impels it forward by the truck d, and performs the operations described in
Figs. 5 & 6. Fig. 19 exhibits the side piece of the frame with a part of the
square bar with Fig. 16 attached to it, and a part of the spindle with the
truck that impels the back part of the lever downward; by doing which it
raises the double hook at its front end and the two lifters p, p. These are
solid cylindrical pieces of wood hooped with hollow cylinders at the top; they
have shanks screwed into their tops and bottoms, the upper ones attached by
wires to the double-hook shank, and the lower ones, passing through a regu-
Inting arm from the side piece, are connected with elastic springs below,
which bring them back when the upper tension is taken off. When they are
drawn up by the lever above, the edges of the hollow cylinders catch the teeth
of the toothed wheel a of the pulley, Fig. 21, one of which is affixed to the
end of each beam, nl by suspending the operation of the weight attached to
them upon the beams they relax the tension of the threads from them while
they are thrown across the needles. Fig. 21 is a description of a wooden
pulley of the same diameter as the teams affixed to the left end of the axis of
each beam; it has a toothed wheel a of thin plate, of larger diameter towards
the beam, which receives the action of the lifter, and another of similar
diameter at the opposite end to keep the cord upon the pulley, which is lapped

page_text: round the part b, and carried over a pulley behind the frame, and has a
weight suspended to the end of it to keep the threads tight and regulate tho
texture of the net.. On the toothed wheel is a small spring s, projecting a
small distance from the wheel, and acting against the stop c, which is screwed
on the axle of the. beam next to the toothed wheel, and when the lifters are
returned prevents the pulley from running down.
After this minute detail of the use and purpose of each respective part, I
further describe their combined operation. The work being at the needle'
heads, and the guides being out of the needles by the operation of Fig. 10
from 6 towards c upon the truck b, Fig. 12, the truck on the spindle begins
to act upon Fig. 13, to sink the frame, and carry the work back again.
After the point c, Fig. 10, passes the truck on which it acts, the guides return
under the needles, and-halfway betwixt cand a, Fig. 15, throw the guides
up thro' the needles, as described in Fig. 7. At the same instant Fig. 16
raises the lifters, and relaxes the threads. While the guides are so thrown
up the wheel b, Fig. 2, is caught by b, Fig. 1, and throws the threads, by
means of the bolt wheels mentioned in Fig. 7, over the needles immediately.
Fig. 11, operating on e, Fig. 2, sinks the guides again below the needles, in
doing which the catch d, Fig. 1, lays hold of the wheel'd, Fig. 2, and again
shifts the threads. below. At this time Fig. 10, approaching the point b,
throws out the guides, and precisely at the same time the cylindric part 6 of
Fig. 5 begins to operate as described in that Fig. After this the projection' c,
Fig. 7, draws the threads tight to the head of the needles. The needles are
then pressed as described in Fig. 14, and tho frame raised by the common
operation of the rat tail. The frame is then brought forward by the projection
C; Fig. 6, and finishes the work as described under that Figure. The rotary
spindle is turned by means of bevil-toothed wheels at the spindle (see Fig. 20). "
These are connected with two mitre wheels in the front of the frame; that
which is turned immediately by the winch is of half the diameter of the other
(for their position, see the partial view of the front of the frame). For a more
correct idea of the situation of the several parts heretofore mentioned, I refer
to the corresponding Nos. in Fig. 20.
·
In witness whereof, I, the said Simon Orgill, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of February, in the year of our
Lor: One thousand eight hundred and seven.
SIMON ORGILL. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that the said Simon Orgill came before His
Majesty King George the Third, and acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the Instrument aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute made in the forty-fourth year of His said Majesty's reign.
Inrolled the Twenty-eighth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seven.