A NEW PIECE OF MACHINERY NEVER BEFORE FOUND OUT. PRACTISED, OR USED, FOR THE MAKING OF WEFT OR YARN FROM COTTON, FLAX, AND WOOL, WHICH WOULD BE OF GREAT UTILITY TO A GREAT MANY MANUFACTURERS IN THIS HIS KINGDOM OF ENGLAND, AS WELL AS TO HIS SUBJECTS IN GENERAL, BY EMPLOYING A GREAT NUMBER OF POOR PEOPLE IN WORKING THE SAID MACHINERY, AND BY MAKING THE SAID WEPT OR YARN MUCH SUPERIOR IN QUALITY TO ANY EVER HERETOFORE MANUFACTURED OR MADE
Year: 1769

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARKWRIGHT, of the Town of Nottingham, in the County of Nottingham, send
greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Richard Arkwright, did by my petition humbly
represent to His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that
Thad by great study and long application invented "A NEW PIECE OF MACHINERY
NEVER BEFORE FOUND OUT. PRACTISED, OR USED, FOR THE MAKING OF WEFT OR YARN
FROM COTTON, FLAX, AND WOOL, WHICH WOULD BE OF GREAT UTILITY TO A GREAT
MANY MANUFACTURERS IN THIS HIS KINGDOM OF ENGLAND, AS WELL AS TO HIS
SUBJECTS IN GENERAL, BY EMPLOYING A GREAT NUMBER OF POOR PEOPLE IN WORKING
THE SAID MACHINERY, AND BY MAKING THE SAID WEPT OR YARN MUCH SUPERIOR IN
QUALITY TO ANY EVER HERETOFORE MANUFACTURED OR MADE;" I therefore
humbly prayed His said Majesty to grant unto me, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent for the sole making and
vending the said machine or Invention within that part of His said Majesty's
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of fourteon'years, agreeable to the
Statute in that behalf. His said Majesty, being willing to give encouragement
to all arts and inventions which might be for the publick good, was graciously
pleased to condescend to my request; and therefore, by His Royal Letters
Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Third day of July, in the ninth year
of His reign, of his especial grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, for
Himself, His heirs and successors, did give and grant unto me, the said Richard
Arkwright, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full
power, sole priviledgeand authority, that I, the said Richard Arkwright, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of us, by myself and them-

page_text: selves, or by mine and their deputy or deputys, servants or agents, or such
others as I, the said Richard Arkwright, my executors, administrators, or
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to timeand at
all times thenafter during the term of years therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend my said Invention within that
part of His Majesty's said Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner asto
me, the said Richard Arkwright, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
any of us, should in our discretions seem meet; and that I, the said Richard.
Arkwright, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully
might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, coñiodity, and advantage from
time to time coming, growing, accrewing, and arising by reason of the said
Invention for and during the term of years therein mentioned, to have, hold,
exercise,and enjoy the said licence, power, priviledges, and advantages therein-
before granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said Richard
Arkwright, my executors, administrators, and assigns, for and during and unto
the full end and term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters
Patent next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended,
according to the Statute in such case made and provided; in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso that if I, the said Richard Arkwright, should not
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, 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 rate of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all
liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease,
determine, and become void, anything therein contained to the contrary
thereof in anywise notwithstanding, as in and by the said Letters Patent
(relation being thereunto had) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Arkwright, in compliance
with the said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my
said Invention, and declare that the Plan thereof drawn in the margin of
these Presents is composed of the following particulars (that is to say) :-
A, the cogg wheel and shaft, which receive their motion from a horse
B, the drum or wheel which turns C, a belt of leather, and gives motion t
the whole machine; D, a lead weight which keeps F, the small drum, stead
to E, the forcing wheel; G, the shaft of wood which gives motion to th
wheel H, and continues it to I, four pair of rollers (the form of which ar
drawn in the margin), which act by tooth and pinion, made of brass and stee
mutts, fixt in two iron plates K. That part of the roller which the cotto

page_text: runs through is covered with wood, the top roller with leather, and the
bottom one fluted, which lets the cotton, &c. through it, and by one pair of
rollers moving quicker than the other, draws it finer for twisting, which is
performed by the spindles T. K, the two iron plates described above; L, four
large bobbins with cotton rovings on, conducted between rollers at the back;
M, the four threads carried to the bobbins and spindles, by four small wires
fixt across the frame in the slip of wood V; N, iron leavers with small lead
weights, hanging to the rollers by pulleys, which keep the rollers close to each
other; O, a cross piece of wood to which the leavers are fixed; P, the
bobbins and spindles; Q, flyes made of wood, with small wires on the side
which lead the thread to the bobbins; R, small worsted bands, put about the
whirl of the bobbins, the screwing of which tight or easy causes the bobbins
to wind up the thread faster or slower; S, the four whirls of the spindles ;
T, the four spindles which run in iron plates V, explained in letter M ; W, a
wooden frame of the whole machine.
In witness whereof, 1,the said Richard Arkwright, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and sixty-nine, and in the ninth year of the
reign of our said Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of
God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the
Faith, and so forth.
Inrolled the Fifteenth day of July, in the year last above written.