A MACHINE FOR BEATING AND DRESSING COTTON, WOOL OR FLAX
Year: 1802

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
PEARSON, of the Township of Walton-le-Dale, in the County of Lancaster,
Cotton Spinner, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Fifteenth day of April,
in the forty-second year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said James
Pearson, His especial licence, that I, the said James Pearson, during the term
of years
therein mentioned, should and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend,
within England, Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention
of A MACHINE FOR BEATING AND DRESSING COTTON, WOOL, OR FLAX;" in which
said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said James
Pearson, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a
particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within one calendar month 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, 1, the said
James Pearson, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described by the
Drawings and explanation thereof hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Pearson, have hereunto set my
band and seal, the Twenty-ninth day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and two.
JAMES PEARSON.

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A Description of a Machine for the use of Beating and Dressing Cotton,
Wool, or Flax No. 1, a roller for carrying and drawing the cords; 2, a slide
head stock for hardening and slackening the cords; 3, frame of wood; 4, a
pedestal or pedestals for shaft or shafts No. 14 to work in; 5, cast-iron head
stocks for shaft No. 6 to work in; 6, iron shaft for the use of working the
sticks; 7, steel arms for do.; 8, wood head-stock with joints for do.; 9, iron
for turning the sticks back; 10, sticks of wood; 11, stop for sticks when
they go back; 12, small strap to relieve in turning the sticks; 13, a spring for
do. 14, laying shafts for rising the sticks and drawing the springs No. 15;
15, long spire spring of five plates for striking the sticks. N.B.-This may
be done by weights. 16, feeder cloth for carrying cotton to the frame; 17,
cord to drive the feeder; 18, spur wheels for the use of rising the sticks and
drawing spire springs for striking the sticks; 19, a rod connected with the
spur wheel No. 18, and to the spire spring, with a tempering screw for the use
of giving more or less force to the springs; 20, spur wheel for the use of
rising and striking the sticks fixed on the shaft No. 6; 21, a catch for the use
of turning the sticks back when they have drawn out of the cotton; 22, an
upright shaft for driving the rollers which carry the cords; 23, a face wheel
for driving the upright shaft fixed on shaft No. 14; 24, spur wheels fixed
upon the shaft No. 14 for the use of working the same; 25, 2 spur wheels
for the use of working on each side the frame; 26, a half wheel working into
No. 18, and fixed upon No. 14; 27, a shaft spur-wheel and pullies for the use
of driving the machine; 28, head stocks for the use of checking the sticks as
they strike; 29, a strap or belt to put the machine in motion; 30, a drum
fixed upon a shaft and giving motion to the strap. The machine may be
worked by steam, water, wind, horses, men, or any other
power. And sup-
posing the power of a man to be fifty-six pounds, a machine upon this scale
will only require the force of thirty pounds, or little more than half the power
of one man for the purpose of turning it.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twenty-ninth day of
April, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid James Pearson came before
our Lord-the-King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, 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 Third day of May, in the year above written.