AN ENGINE OR MACHINE WHICH WHEN FIXED TO A STOCKING FRAME OR FRAMES WILL MAKE ANY SORT OF WORK USUALLY MANUFACTURED UPON STOCKING FRAMES BY A METHOD ENTIRELY NEW
Year: 1769

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
WISE, of the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham, Musician, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Eleventh day of May, in the ninth year of His reign, did give and grant unto
me, the said Samuel Wise, His especial licence that I, the said Samuel Wise,
during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might use,
exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, and also in all His Matys Colonies and Plantations abroad, my
Invention of "AN ENGINE OR MACHINE WHICH WHEN FIXED TO A STOCKING
FRAME OR FRAMES WILL MAKE ANY SORT OF WORK USUALLY MANUFACTURED
UPON STOCKING FRAMES BY A METHOD ENTIRELY NEW;" in which said Letters
Patent there is contained a provisoe, obliging me, the said Samuel Wise, 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 provisoe, I, the said
Samuel Wise, do hereby declare that my said Invention of an engine or
machine which when fixed to a stocking frame or frames will make any sort

page_text: of work usually manufactured upon stocking frames by a method entirely new,
is described in the plan thereof hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Wise, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Fourth day of August, One thousand seven hundred and

page_text: An Explanation of Mr Tam! Wises, Machine which may be put to a
Hocking Frame or Frames ...
some power, as by
are
The Roller A.A has boggs upon different parts of it and must be moved round by
a man, ; weights or water & The Gugeons are shown at B.B. in the part
of the frame CC, DD are two square irons fixed to the hand barEE which have various
pieces of wood fix'd to them which cannot all be seen in the upper drawing, but are delineated
underneath it as the boggs which are upon the Roller come upon these pieces of wood, those
| pieces perform many of the movements necessary to work the frame. FF. are two irons fix'd
to the hand bar EE. with catches G. G which catches
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into staples on the inside of the Lockers,
ong
HH II and K.K. are two pieces of iron also fix'd in the inside of the Lockers which cannot
be seen in the uper drawing, but are delineated below. Those irons are moved forward by boggs
1 are to be locked. The batches
upon the Roller A.A., and bring the Lockers forward when they.
are thrown in and out of the Staples by boggs upon the Rotter A. A. by which means the lockers
are lock'd or unlock'd L. M. NN. are pieces of wood fixed to the frame C.C. for the axis of the
wheels O.P. to run in Q. Q are two slides which run in the pieces of wood n.n. by a string
fastened to the part of the wheel 0, at R and bring the slur movement to one vide or the other
by boggs upon the Roller A.A, S.S. are two slides fix'd to a string fasten'd to the part of the
wheel P. at T. which move the needle W to one side or the other upon the Presser Bar, which guides
the worsted silk So to the needles for the sinkers to fall upon by Coggs upon the Roller AA. which
Coggs must be made so as to screw more in or more out, according as the workman wants to narrow
or widen his work XX is arod which the needle Wruns upon and goes to the hanging bar Y.Y.
and takes the needle W backward or forward as the Lockers H.H lock or unlock. Z. Z are two bolts
which when unbolted let part of the square pieces of iron D... sink as may be seen delineated
below out of the way of the Roiler A..A... as it moves round by which contrivance when a numbe
on with the
of Frames are going together any of them may be stop'd whilst the others are going
work, a.a. is the presser rod delineated below which is put down by a Cogg upon the Roller AA.
b.b. The slur string c. c - The string which draws the needle W backward and forward. d.d.
The slide in the form it is in when it rises...
The advantage of this machine consists in having a number of Stocking Frames work'd together
and overlook'd by.
1 one person or persons for it is very evident by continuing the Roller it may be
all be work'd together at the same time.
fixed to as many as is convenient and they may
Drawn on Stone by Ma