A NEW OR IMPROVED PORTABLE MACHINE FOR MANUFACTURING ROPES AND CORDAGE OF ANY LENGTH IN A SHORT SPACE OF GROUND, PECULIARLY ADAPTED FOR SHIPPING
Year: 1801

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
HOARD, of Deptford, in the County of Kent, Ship Chandler, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twentieth day of July,
in the forty-first year of His reign, did give and grant unto me, the said
William Hoard, His especial licence, that I, the said William Hoard, during
the term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might use, exercise,
and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
my Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED PORTABLE MACHINE FOR MANUFACTURING
ROPES AND CORDAGE OF ANY LENGTH IN A SHORT SPACE OF GROUND, PECULIARLY
ADAPTED FOR SHIPPING;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a
proviso, obliging me, the said William Hoard, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Hoard, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described by the
Drawings and explanation thereof hereto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Hoard, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twentieth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and one.
W. HOARD. (L.S.)
Reference. Fig. 1: A, A, frame of timber or iron; B, B, cross rail with
three hooks; C, three reels containing the yarn; D, jack for turning reels;
E, projecting eyes; part of the spindles to secure the yarn fastened to the
jack by hook & socket, or any other method. F, togles or pins to secure
yarn to the spindles; G, laying top with iron pin; H, trucks for frame to move
on with wheels or otherwise. Fig. 2: A, A, frame of timber or iron; B, reel
with rope; C, the after jack; D, projecting eye, with togle securing the rope
while laying. Fig. 3: A, A, frame of timber or iron; B, jack with three pinions.
Fig. 4: A, A, frame of timber or iron; B, ends of reels, shewing the passage of
yarn; C, metal bearing, and yarn container, forming a box, fixed on the spindle;
R, cross rail, with 3 hooks for delivering yarn may be used with or without.
N.B. Fig. 1, for manufacturing large rope is broke of, as the other two
hooks & spindles are the same dimensions; Fig. 1. A, A: frame of timber or
iron for manufacturing large rope of any length in a short space; B, hook for
twisting or hardening the strands; c, reel containing yarn or strands; D, metal
bearing forming a box, containing and securing, the yarn or strands; E, covers
for containers, fixing on the spindles with projecting eyes to fasten the strands
with toggles or nippers. Fig. 2: A, frame of timber or iron; B, laying hook,
with reel; C, metal bearing and rope container; D, cover for ditto.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twentieth day of August,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid William Hoard 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 same Twentieth day of August, in the year above written.