NEW METHOD OF SPINNING OF JERSEY BY A NEW AND USEFUL ENGINE, MACHINE, OR INSTRUMENT, THEN NOT BEFORE KNOWN OR USED IN THE DOMINION OF HIS SAID MAJESTY
Year: 1781

page_text: TO ALL PEOPLE TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
GEORGE DUNDAS, of Banbury, in the County of Oxford, Whip Maker, 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
Twenty-eighth day of March, in the twenty-first year of His said Majestie's
reign, did give and grant unto me, the said George Dundas, my exors,
admors, and assigns, His special licence, full power, sole privilege and autho-
rity, that I, the said George Dundas, my exors, admors, and assigns, and
every of them, by myself and themselves, or by mine or their deputy or
deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said George Dundas,
my exors, adiňors, and assigns, should at any time agree with and no others,
from time to time and at all times thenafter during the term of fourteen
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, an Invention or "NEW METHOD OF SPINNING OF JERSEY BY A NEW AND
USEFUL ENGINE, MACHINE, OR INSTRUMENT, THEN NOT BEFORE KNOWN OR USED IN
THE DOMINION OF HIS SAID MAJESTY," within that part of His said Majestie's
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me, the said George Dundas, my
exors, admors, and assigns, or any of them, should seem meet; and that I, the
said George Dundas, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole
profit, benefit, commodities, and advantage from time to time coming, grow-
ing, accruing, and arising by reason of the said Invention, for and during the

page_text: term of years therein mentioned; in which said Letters Patent is contained a
proviso to the effect following; that is to say, that if I, the said George Dundas,
should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Inven-
tion, 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 the
High Court of Chancery within four calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent, then the said Letters Patent, and all
liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease,
determine, and become void, anything in the said Letters Patent before
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 in pursuance of the said recited proviso or condition,
and in full performance of the same, I, the said George Dundas, do by these
Presents declare and make known that my engine, machine, or new invented
instrument for the spinning of Jersey, as in the said recited Letters Patent is
mentioned, is composed and made in manner following, that is to say :-
In an horizontal position, and in parrallel lines, are two shafts or harbors,
which are put in motion by means of wheels of different degrees of velocity.
Upon the back or hindmost shaft is a roller, whereupon is a strap of leather
which goes round another roller. Approaching the first or foremost shaft,
upon the first mentioned roller, is a bandage which goes round and gives
motion to another roller whith pinns upon it. This roller is placed behind the
shaft. Upon the strap of leather are three or four rollers, pressing by means
of springs, and put in motion by the action of the strap. The roller upon the
shaft is put in motion by means of a pinn upon that shaft, pressing against a
pinn in the roller; but it may be set at rest by pushing the roller off the pinn
by a bolt; therefore this roller is put in action or set at rest at discretion.
Upon the first or foremost shaft is likewise a roller, with several slides and
bolts, which slides, by means of another roller bearing against the ends of them
as the first-mentioned roller turns round, alternately open and shut, and by
pressing against the fore part of the same roller act as pinchers. This roller
is made to move or stand still in the same manner as the roller upon the other
shaft. Beneath the roller, upon the first or foremost shaft, is a brass or iron
sockett, whereupon is a nutt moved by a bandage from an upright shaft, which
gives motion to the whole machine. Upon this sockett is a bobbin, moved by
a pinn fixed in the nutt, which presses against a pinn in the bobbin. This
bobbin may, by means of a bolt, be pushed off the pinn, and consequently is
capable of being put in motion or left at rest, as shall be judged most proper.

page_text: In the sockett is a wire which moves upwards and downwards by means of a
leaver rising and falling. Upon this wire is a roller, and upon this roller is a
piece of brass or iron with a hole in it, and likewise a piece of wire with an
eye at the end, which last-mentioned wire extends to the bottom of the bobbin
when the wire that moves in the sockett is at its lowest extremity, and to the
top of the bobbin when at the highest. The new or unspun Jersey is first put
upon the back or hindmost roller which has pinns upon it; from thence it
passes under the rollers upon the leather strap, and is then received by the
roller that has slides in it; from which roller it passes through the hole of the
brass or iron that is upon the other roller, which moves upon the wire in
the sockett, afterwards through the eye of the wire, and from thence upon the
bobbin finishing the thread. The rollers which are upon the said shafts, and
the apparatus belonging thereto, as herein described, may be multiplied to any
number as shall be thought convenient, and put in motion by the same two
shafts.
And for the further illustration of the said engine, machine, or new
invented instrument, and to the end that the same may be the better known
and understood, I, the said George Dundas, do hereby further declare that
the Drawing hereunto annexed is the true shape and figure of the said machine,
with all its constituent parts, as herein-before described and set forth.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Nine-
teenth day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven
hundred and eighty-one.
Sealed and delivered, being first duly
stampt, in the presence f
RICH WYATT,
Jo' WYATT.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Nineteenth day of June, in
the year
of our Lord 1781, the aforesaid George Dundas came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according
to the tenor of the Statutes made in the sixth year of the reign of the late
King and Queen W" and Mary of England, and so forth, and in the seven-
teenth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the Seventh day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and eighty-one.

page_text: TO ALL PEOPLE TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
GEORGE DUNDAS, of Banbury, in the County of Oxford, Whip Maker, 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 Twenty-
eighth day of March, in the Twenty-first year of His said Majesty's reign, did
give and grant unto me, the said George Dundas, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, His special licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I,
the said George Dundas, my exécutors, administrators, and assigns, and every
of them, by myself and themselves, or by mine or their deputy or deputies,
servants or agents, or such others as I, the said George Dundas, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with and no others, from
time to time and at all times thereafter during the term of fourteen years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend an
Invention or "NEW METHOD OF SPINNING OF JERSEY BY A NEW AND USEFUL ENGINE,
MACHINE, OR INSTRUMENT THEN NOT BEFORE KNOWN OR USED IN THE DOMINION OF
HIS SAID MAJESTY;" within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of
Great Britain called England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me, the said George Dundas, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or any of them, should seem meet, and that I, the
said George Dundas, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole
profit, benefit, commodities and advantage, from time to time coming, growing,
accruing and arising, reason of the said Invention, for and during the term
of years therein mentioned; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso
to the effect following (that is to say), that if I, the said George Dundas,
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 the High Court
of Chancery within four calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent, then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and
advantages whatsoever thereby granted should utterly cease, determine, and
become void, anything in the said Letters Patent before contained to the

page_text: 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 in pursuance of the said recited proviso or condition,
and in full performance of the same, I, the said George Dundas, do by these
Presents declare and make known, that my engine, machine, or new invented
instrument for the spinning of Jersey, as in the said recited Letters Patent
is mentioned, is composed and made in manner following (that is to say):-
In an horizontal position, and in parellell lines, are two shafts or harbors, .
which are put in motion by means of wheels in different degrees of velocity...
Upon the back or hindmost shaft is a wood roller, whereupon is a strap of
leather, which goes round a brass roller approaching the first or foremost
shaft. Upon the first-mentioned roller is a bandage, which goes round
and gives motion to a wood roller with pinus upon it. This roller is placed
behind the shaft. Upon the strap of leather are three box rollers, pressing
by means of springs, and put in motion by the action of the strap. The rollers
upon the shaft are put in motion by means of a pin upon that shaft pressing..
against a pinn in the roller, but it may be set at rest by pushing the roller
off the pinn by a bolt, therefore this roller is put in action or set at rest
at discretion. Upon the first or foremost shaft is likewise a box roller,
with six brass slides or bolts in it, which slides, by means of another brass
roller bearing against the ends of them, as the first-mentioned roller turns
round alternately open and shut, and by pressing against the fore part of the
same roller act as pinchers. This roller is made to move or stand still, in
the same manner as the roller upon the other shaft. Beneath the roller
upon the first or foremost shaft is a brass or iron sockett, whereupon is a
brass or box nutt, moved by a bandage from an upright shaft, upon which
upright shaft there is a nutt that moves the wheels of the first shaft. Upon
the sockett before observed is a bobbin, moved by a pin fixed in the nutt
that moves upon this sockett, which presses against a pin in the bobbin.
This bobbin may, by means of a bolt, be pushed off the pinn, and consequently
is capable of being put in motion or left at rest as shall be judged most
proper. In the sockett is a wire, which moves upwards and downwards
by means of a leaver rising and falling. Upon this wire is a brass roller,
and upon this roller is a piece of brass or iron with a hole in it, and likewise
a piece of wire with an eye at the end, which last-mentioned wire extends
to the bottom of the bobbin when the wire that moves in the sockett is
at its lowest extremity, and to the top of the bobbin when at the highest..
The raw or unspun Jersey is first put upon the back or hindmost roller, which
has pinns upon it. From thence it passes under the rollers upon the leather

page_text: strap, and is then received by the roller that has slides in it, from which
roller it passes through the hole of the brass or iron that is upon the other
roller which moves upon the wire in the socket, afterwards through the eye.
of the wire, and from thence upon the bobbin, finishing the thread. The
rollers which are upon the said shafts, and the apparatus belonging thereto,
as herein described, may be multiplied to any number, as shall be thought
convenient, and put in motion by the same two shafts. Behind the whole
machinery above described is an horizontal shaft, going by a water wheel,
upon which shaft there is a bandage that goes round the upright shaft of
the before-mentioned machinery, and puts that upright shaft in motion.
These upright shafts, with all the machinery thereunto belonging, may be
multiplied to what number as shall be judged convenient, and put in action
by bandages upon the last-mentioned horizontal shaft.
And, for the further illustration of the said engine, machine, or new
invented instrument, and to the end that the same may be the better known
and understood, I, the said George Dundas, do hereby further declare that
the Drawings hereunto annexed are the true shape and figure of the said
machine, with all its constituent parts and herein-before described and set forth.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Twenty-
seventh day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven
hundred and eighty-one.
GEORGE (L.S.) DUNDAS.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the same Twenty-seventh day of
Section 1st. (A), the upright shaft; (B), the wheel upon the first harbour,
moved by (A); (C), a wheel turned by B; (D), the wheel upon the hind-
most harbour, turned by C; (E), a plate of brass upon the back harbour,

page_text: which moves the leaver, the pin at each extreme of which in their turn
causing the leaver to rise and fall; (F), the leaver; (G, G, G), a line fixed
to the leaver at one end, and at the other fastned to a plate of brass or iron,
which plate the wires that move in the sockets rest upon, consequently move
upwards and downwards as the leaver rises and falls; (H), a roller or round
piece of wood, extending to the opposite end of the machine, to which is
fastned the line, which line is also fixed to the other end of the plate observed
in G, G, G, by which means the whole of the wires in the sockets are raised
up and let down together; (I), the roller or block of wood upon which the
bandage goes round, that moves the nutts which are upon the sockets; (K),
the block of wood or roller which receives the bandage from the horizontal
shaft of the water wheel.
Section 2d. (A), the wood roller that goes upon the back shaft; (B), a
piece of brass with pins upon it, and fastned to the back shaft; (C), the pin
upon the wood roller. This pin is pressed upon by a pin in the shaft, by
which means the roller is put in action. (D), the bolt, which pushes the
roller off the pin in the shaft and sets it at rest; (E, E, E), the leather strap;
(F), the brass roller; (G, H, I), the three box rollers. The springs which
press those rollers upon the leather strap are made of brass wire, G and I being
exposed to view out of the wood frame in which they move to shew the length
and manner they are made.
Section 3d. (A), the back view of the roller that has pins upon it; (B, B),
the screws which regulate the bandage upon the roller; (C), a wire staple,
through which the raw Jersey passes; (D), the roller under which the Jersey
passes; (E, E), the wood frame.
Section 4. (A), the roller, with slides in it. This roller is made of box;
the two ends and middle are the rising parts of it. Notches are cut in the
middle part for the slides to move in. The slides are of brass; are deeper
at each end than the middle to receive a pin, which pin is first put through
the back part of the box roller, then passes through the back end of the slide
and middle part of the box, then through the fore part of the slide, and then
fixes in the fore part of the box roller. A wire spring plays upon this pin,
one end of it pressing against the back end of the slide, the other end against
the middle part of the box. This spring forces the slide to the back part of
the roller, after its received its pressure against the fore part of the roller.
The back part of the slides are broader than the fore part, almost meeting
each other, to acquire a smooth motion of the roller that works against them.
(B, B), the shaft; (C), a spring upon the shaft that presses the roller to the
other roller that bears against the end of the slides, by which means each

page_text: REFERENCES TO THE MACHINE WITH ITS PARTS UNITED.
(A), the first shaft; (B), the hindmost shaft; (C), the roller with pins
upon it; (D), the roller upon the back shaft; (E), brass roller; (F, F),
the leather strap; (G), the roller with slides; (H), the roller that presses
against the slides of roller G. This roller is fixed to a piece of brass,
which piece of brass is screwed to the wood frame. (I), the wheel of the
fore shaft; (K), a wheel moved by I; (L), the wheel of the back shaft,
moved by K; (M), the leaver; (N), the roller for the line from the
leaver to move upon; (0, 0, 0, 0), line from the leaver to the brass or
iron plate described in the first section; (P), the upright shaft; (Q), roller
or block of wood. Round this roller the bandage goes that moves the nutts
upon the sockets; (R), the block of wood or roller which receives the
bandage from the shaft of the water wheel; (S), the bobbin; (T, T), the wire
that moves in the socket; (U), the roller and piece of brass or iron upon the
wire (V), the wire in the roller; (W), the plate that the socket is fixed in;
(X), the plate that the wires in the sockets rest upon; (Y), the nut; (Z), the
bolt which sets the bobbin at rest; (a), the roller to press upon the Jersey
before it goes upon the roller which has pins upon it; (b), bolt to set at
rest the roller with slides in it; (c), the bolt to set the roller upon the back
shaft at rest; (d), the spring that forces the pin in the wood roller against the
pin in the shaft; (e), the raw or unspun Jersey; (ff), bandage from the
shaft of the water wheel; (g), the wood frame. This frame is repeated with
each set of apparatus, and serves for the following purposes, viz: to fasten
the brass plate to that roller H is fixed upon, for the wires and springs to play
in that belonging to the rollers in the second section, and to receive the
screws B, B, staple C, and wire and spring belonging to roller D in the
third section.