NEW-INVENTED ENGINE OR MACHINE FOR MAKING OF TURNED RIBB'D STOCKINGS, PIECES, AND OTHER GOODS USUALLY, MANUFACTURED UPON STOCKING FRAMES
Year: 1759

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we JEDEDIAH
STRUT, of the Parish of Blackwall, in the County of Derby, Wheelwright,
and WILLIAM WOLLATT, of the same place, Hosier, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Second, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the Tenth
day of January last, did give and grant to us, the said Jedediah Strut and
William Wollatt, our executors, administrators, and assigns, His special
lycence that we, the said Jedediah Strutt and William Wollatt, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, during the term of years therein expressed, should
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, our "NEW-INVENTED ENGINE OR
MACHINE FOR MAKING OF TURNED RIBB'D STOCKINGS, PIECES, AND OTHER GOODS
USUALLY, MANUFACTURED UPON STOCKING FRAMES;" in which said recited Letters
Patent there is a proviso
proviso contained, that if we, the said Jedediah Strutt
and the said William Wollatt, should not particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is performed, by
an instrument in writing under our hand and seals, and cause the same to
be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent,
that then the said Letters Patent should be void, as in and by the same, relation
bearing thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
Jedediah Strut and William Wollatt, do hereby declare, that the said new-
invented engine or machine is described in the Plan thereunder set forth,
intituled an Orthographical Draught of a Machine for the Making of Turn'd
Rib'd Stockings, Peices, and other Goods usually Manufactured upon Stocking
Frames.
In witness whereof, we, the said Jedediah Strut and William Wollatt, have
hereunto sett our hands and seals, the Twenty-eighth day of February,
in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and fifty-nine.
JEDEDIAH STRUTT. (L.S.)
WILLIAM WOOLLATT. (L.S.)
THE DESCRIPTION OF THE MACHINE.
A, A, is the rafter of the common frame, upon which are screwed
two small plates, and upon them are also screwed the two moveable plates
B, B, through the ends of which goe the two gauge screws b, b, which
also serve as centers for the bottom barr C, C, to turn upon; to this bottoni
barr are fixed two upright standards, D, D, which also move upon
joints at d, d, and are kept together by the cross barr E; through the top of
these standards are put the ends of the needle barr F, F. G, G, G, &c., are the
needles cast in metal, and screwed on with small screws as at H. I, I, are
two thumb plates or guides, by which motion is given to the needles as
occasion requires, before which and behind the needles is a slider K, K,
which serves to put over the stiches when the needles are pressed. L is a steel
spring to carry the machine. M is a peice of iron fastened to the under side
of the rafter, to which is screwed the small steel spring N, in which, behind
the bottom bar, are three small notches that catch upon the steel pin O.
P, P, is a leaver or trigger moving upon the pin p, to throw off the spring N
from the pin O. Q is a false presser screwed to the common presser to press
the machine needles. R is a false sinker put upon the lead sinker barr to
keep the the machine needles back, oy coming over the top of one of the
guides I, I, while the jack fall. S, S, is a small wire to prevent the threads
from hanging upon the heads of the screws, H, &c. T, T, &c., are the needles
that turn the rib.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
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page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Twenty-eighth day of February, in
the thirty-second year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Second,
the said Jedediah Strutt and William Woollatt 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 Thirteenth day of March, in the thirty-second year of the
reign of His Majesty King George the Second, 1759.