A MACHINE FOR DOUBLING, THROWING, AND WINDING ALL SORTS OF YARN MADE OF COTTON, WOOL, OR SILK, FLAX, HEMP, OR MOHAIR, OR ANY OTHER MATERIAL WHATSOEVER
Year: 1776

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
MARSLAND, of Bullock Smithey, near Stockport, in the County of Chester,
Shopkeeper, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty, by His Royal Letters Patent, bearing
date at Westminster, the Sixth day of June, in the sixteenth year of His
reign, was graciously pleased to grant unto me, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, licence for the sole making and vending of "A MACHINE FOR
DOUBLING, THROWING, AND WINDING ALL SORTS OF YARN MADE OF COTTON, WOOL,
OR SILK, FLAX, HEMP, OR MOHAIR, OR ANY OTHER MATERIAL WHATSOEVER
"within
that part of His Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of
fourteen years.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Marsland, in compliance with
and performance of a proviso or condition in such Letters Patent contained,
have, by a Drawing or Plan of the machine for which such Patent was granted,
and which is hereto annexed, fully described the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be executed and performed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Marsland, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of September, in the year of
our Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy-six.
Scaled and delivered (being first duly
stampt) in the presence of
HENRY MARSLAND. (L.8.)
SAMUEL HOPE, Jun.
HENRY HOPE.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-seventh day of September,
in the year of our Lord 1776, the aforesaid Henry Marsland 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 Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and
Queen William and Mary of England, and so forth.
Inrolled the First day of October, in the year of Our Lord One thousand

page_text: The Machine for doubling throwing and winding all sorts of Yarn made of Cotton, Wool. Flax, Mohair & which is varied in size and form acording to the No of Spindles which are wanted to be worked so that the Machine may be either
circular (according to ye Drawing annex'd Eliptical or • Square which may may be all worked upon the same principle 2. The edge of the bottom ruil (upon which the long Spindles works from 6 to 8 Inches broad. Nº 3. the Spindle rail
which rises up and falls down which causes the Yarn to wind regular upon the Bobbins the Spindle rail is 3 inches broad 4. The long perpendicular Spindles about 23 inches long which has a nib or wing fix'd to it about 6 inches below
the top which prevents the Bobbins from turning round upon the Spindles and keeps them all to one height. 5. The Brass socket which works round the spindle about 2 or 3 inches long and 14 inch diameter at each end and bored wider in
the middle than each end so as to run easy upon the Spindle.. Nº6. The Wings which are rivetted to the Brass Sockets 4½ inches long with a hooked end which guides the thread upon the Bobbins 7 The Bobbins which is 4 inches long
within the Ends No 8. The lower rail of the short spindles about 3 inches broad.
No10. The short spindles about eight inches long not perpendicular but the tops tends towards the front of the
Machine the bottom end which is ye smallest works in ye lower rail and the upper end works in the highest rail. N°II. Circular Roller or Nob of wood or mettal about 3/4 of an inch diameter which are fixed two and two together and are fitted
so well to each other that they hold the threads from sliping through. Nº12. The Nib or wing about 1/4 of an Inch long which stops the spindles from turning round when an end breaks.
other
the Center of the Machine and that end is heavier than the other
No 9. The top rail about 4½ inches broad
16. Is a Wire made in the form of this
Nº13. The Wharve about 1½ inch diameter one above the
free
passage
17. Woollen Cloth that covers part of the
19. The Creel which is fixed about 9 inches behind
No 14. The Springs under the top rail which holds the nobs together 15 This I call a stopper it is about 8 Inches long and stands like a weigh beam one end comes between two short spindles at the front the other points towards
this goes through the top rail down to the front end of the Stopper between the short spindles and works upon a pin that goes
through the end of the Stopper and Bow of the Wire and when the thread comes betwen the two Rollers or Nobs it goes over the top of this Wire and holds it down, but when the end breaks it rises up on acct of the other end of the stopper being heavier
and prevents the roller or nobs from turning round by reason of the two nibs in the Spindles but when the end is pieced and the Wire put down it discharges the stopper from the Spindle and gives
top rail and
goes down to the bottom part of the Creel 18 A Square lump of Wood or Mettal about an inch over which I call a Nutt and lays close behind the two rollers or nobs upon the Woollen Cloth
the top rail and the bottom part is 4 inches below and is about 6 inches wide the top from the bottom on this the Pricks or Spindles that the Cops are put on works perpendicular the bottom end of which runs on Glass but when they work Yarn out of the Skean
er Hank we have swifts fixed instead of the Creel to fix the Sheans upon. 20. 2 Cops the threads brot together over the Woollen Cloth under the Nutt between the Rollers over the Wire down to the Bobbins through the hook of the Wing 21 The great Drum.
22. The Strap or string that goes round the great Drum and works the long Spindles 23. The Wheel on top of the Spindle of the great Drum 24 a dead wheel to loose speed. 25 The lesser Drum to work the rollers or Nobs 26. The two strings
goes round the lesser Drum and round the wharves upon the roller spindles one of these Strings is crossed and the other is not which causes the two Rollers or nobs to turn inward and by putting on a different wheel upon N° 23 will give these
that
rollers or nobs a motion quicker, or slower which is the cause of the twist being thrown hard or soft the' the Bobbin goes always at one speed it draws the thread quicker or slower according as these rollers or nobs deliver it N°27 The Trindle upon
the Spindle of the lesser Drum
upright shaft to the Lifter.
28. A Wheel that works into the trindle to work the Lifter
32. The Lifter by one
29. A Cord that goes from the Spindle rail over a
regular motion causes the Spindle rail to rise and fall 33. To harden the String or strap by
Pully to the upright shaft that turns backward and forwards
34 The handle that turns the whole Machine.
31. A Cord that
goes
from the