Certain Machinery for Combing of Wool, Cotton, Silk, Flax, Hemp, and Mohair
Year: 1797

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN,
HAWKSLEY, of Arnold, in the County of Nottingham, Worsted Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, on the Eighth
day of June, One thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, was pleased to
grant unto Henry Wright and me the said John Hawksley, His Royal
Letters Patent for Certain Machinery for Combing of Wool, Cotton, Silk,
Flax, Hemp, and Mohair: And whereas His present Majesty King George
the Third, by His Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Fourth
day of July, in the thirty-seventh year of His reign, hath given and granted
unto me, the said John Hawksley, my executors, administrators, and assigns,.
special licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, during the term of years
therein expressed, to make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of His
Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, his Dominion of Wales,
and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
AND ADDITIONS TO THE SAID MACHINERY FOR COMBING WOOL, COTTON, SILK, FLAX,
HEMP, AND MOHAIR, BEING A CIRCULAR REVOLVING COMB-POT TO HEAT THE COMBS, TO
AID IN THE COMBING OF WOOL, AND A LASHER OR LAYER-ON OF WOOL OR OTHER MATE-
RIALS ON THE SAID COMBING MACHINES, AND A SOCKET OR HOLSTER IN WHICH TO PLACE
THE COMBS IN THEIR RESPECTIVE COMPARTMENTS (IN A READIER MANNER THAN HERETO-
FORE USED BY THE SAID HENRY WRIGHT AND ME THE SAID JOHN HAWKSLEY) FOR DRAW-
ING OF THE WOOL OR OTHER MATERIALS FROM THE SAID MACHINES;" in which said
Letters Patent is contained a proviso obliging me, the said John Hawkesley,
particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, under my hand and seal, and cause
the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one
calendar month next after the date of the said Letters Patent, as in and

page_text: by the same, reference being thereunto had, may more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the the said proviso, I, the said
John Hawksley, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said In-
vention of improvements..and additions to the said, machinery for combing
wool, cotton, silk, flax, hemp, and mohair, and the manner. in. which the same
is to be performed, as well by the figures or delineations of machinery as the
description or explanation set forth, that is to say:
Figure 1. A is the fire door. B are the spaces in which the comb teeth
are admitted to receive the heat. C, C, handles by which the stove may be
impelled to revolve. D, pipe to convey the smoke away. E, a brass step on
which the stove stands.
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Figure 2 is the drawing or combing machine for which a Patent (as above
stated) was granted, but now drawn horizontally, in order more clearly to
shew what I describe as an holster or holsters, letter'd, which, are made of
cast iron, but which may be made of any other substance, and down, the
inside of which the comb handles are put ready for the wool or other mate-
rials to be drawn off in a perpetual sliver (opposite, which, marked G, are the
combs fixed in their, several compartments for the wool, &c. to be drawn off)
more readily, than in the former. Patent in Figure 6, A; B, C, by the long
cog wheels fully described (in the former Patent) in Figure 1.
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QQ, Figure.8is a lasher or layer-on of wool or other materials that may
be used and applied to the said machines, as in-former Patent, instead of the
comb wheel Irini Figure 1, and Kin Figure 6. His a shaft which runs
through a stationaryi wheel I K is a wheel that revolves round the wheel I.
LL, are two coupling links.. Mis a wheel fixed on its axis. N is another
wheel also fixed on its axis. O, the centre wheel revolving with its axis.
V.is a pinionidriving the wheel W, which gives motion to the rollers or-long
cogged wheels RP,,P, is wool or other materials. Q is a tube through which
the wool passes, or is drawn along by the long cogged wheels R. S, S, are
two other views of the sides or armis, of Figure 3, T, T. In case it should be
prefer'd to.lay.or: lash: the, wool or other materials on the-combs, and clear or
work it by..handi labor; as has been done for ages, instead. of the comb
wheels. I. in Figure 1,rand K in Figure 6. of former Patent, or Figure 3
above described, I recommend that the, combs should be so small that children.
may be able to do the office, as well as men.......
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In witness, whereof, I, the said John Hawksley, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Eleventh-day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven.
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JOHN (L.S.) HAWKSLEY.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Eleventh day of July,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid John Hawksley came before our
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And
also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the Fourteenth day of Iule in the voor chove mitton
Inrolled the Fourteenth day of July, in the year above written.