AN INGINE OR MACHINE FOR MAKING KNETWORK WITH KNOTTED MASHES, IN SILK, THREAD, COTTON, WORSTED, OR ANY OTHER MATERIALS OF THE LIKE NATURE
Year: 1778

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
HORTON, of Christchurch, Newgate Street, in the City of London, Frame
Smith, WILLIAM Ross, of the Parish of Saint. Lukes, in the said City of
London, Framework Knitter, THOMAS DAVIES, of New Bond Street, in the
County of Middlesex, Hosier, and JOHN GOLBY, of the said Parish of Saint
Lukes, in the said City of London, Framework Knitter, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Twenty-fourth day of June, in the eighteenth year of His reign, did
give and grant unto the said William Horton, William Ross, Thomas Davies,
and John Golby, our executors, administrators, and assigns, His special
licence that wee, the said William Horton, Willliam Ross, Thomas Davies,
and John Golby, our exors, adñors, and assigns, during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend
within that part of Great Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, our Invention of "AN INGINE OR MACHINE FOR
MAKING KNETWORK WITH KNOTTED MASHES, IN SILK, THREAD, COTTON, WORSTED,
OR ANY OTHER MATERIALS OF THE LIKE NATURE;" in. which said Letters Patent is
contained a proviso obliging us, the said William Horton, William Ross,
Thomas Davies, and John Golby, under our hands and seals, to cause a par-
ticular description of the nature of our said Invention, and how the same is
to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's. High Court of Chancery
within four kalender months next after the date of the said recited Letters

page_text: Patent, as in and by the same Letters atent, relation being thereunto mais
will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
William Horton, William Ross, Thomas Davies, and John Golby, do hereby
declare that our said Invention of an engine or machine for making of netted
work with knotted marshes, is described by the Draft thereof hereunto annexed,
and the explanation following, that is to say:-
No. 12, the
No. 13 is the
No. 1, a standard and two side arms fixed to a sole bar, which supports the
upper part of the machine. No. 2, a set of sliders with hooks fixed in them,
which moves in two stays for guides to them. No. 3, a bearing barr to the
sliders, fixed to the upper stay. No. 4, a bearing bar fixed to the side arms
No. 5. No. 5, a side arm moving on an axis fixed to the standard marked
No. 1. No. 6, a back stay bar fixed to the side arms marked No. 5. No. 7,
a set of springs to guide the slider No. 2. No. 8, a hook case in metal, a set
of which are fixed in a bearing bar similar to the needle bar in a stocking
frame. No. 9, a point bar, which moves on the side arms marked No. 10.
No. 10; a standard in the hook bearing bar, and an arm working in a joint on
the standard; and the other end working in a joint with No. 9. No..11, a
twisted hook, cast in metal, a set of which are fixed in a sliding bar placed in
the front of the machine, co-operating with the hooks No. 8.
twisted hook guide bar fixed to the side arms marked No. 13.
side arms to support the guide No. 12. No. 14, the supporters to the side
arms No. 13. No. 15, a hook, cast in metal, a set of which are fixed in the
bar under the hooks No. 8. No. 16, a set of points, with a wire through
them, fixed in a bar, which works under the hooks No. 8. No. 17, a cross
bow bar that moves on two joints fixed to the point bar No. 16. No. 18, a
pinion with hook. No. 19, a pinion hook bar containing a number of the
pinions No. 18. No. 20, a hook plate to put the above machinery together
for working a row of mashes. The hook bar No. 20 is placed between the
hooks 15, the sliders No. 2 is brought down between the hook plate No. 20,
then a mashing needle is put through over the hook in the slider No. 2, and
under the hook plate No. 20, the silk thread cotton twist, &c. is then placed
in the eye of the mashing needle, and drawn between the hooks No. 2 and
hook plate No. 20; the hook No. 2 being raised by a roller or cylindar, with
short wires placed in it for that purpose, each slider draws with it a sufficient
quantity of silk, thread, cotton, twist, &c. to make a mash; the point bar No. 9
is brought forward in the mashes under the, slider; hook No. 2, the twisted
hook No. 11 is put between the mashes, and, being removed sideway and

page_text: brought forward, takes the mashes of the sliding hook No. 2; the twisted hook
guide barr is put forward to the head of the twisted hooks No. 11, the twisted
books are moved sideway, the guide No. 12 is then brought back, which con-
veys the loops to the shoulder of the twisted hooks No. 11, the twisted hooks
are then placed on the heads of the hooks No. 8, the hooks No. 8 is then
brought through the loop, the twisted hook is moved sideway and brought
forward, the loop being on the twisting hook No. 11 and the hook No. 8,
the hook No. 15 raises up one side of the loop between the hooks 8 and
the twisting hook No. 11, and the twisted hooks No. 11 being put for-
wards under the loops, is moved sideway under the hook 8, and brought
forward, and forms an nouse between the hooks No. 8 and No. 11. The loop
being thus prepared, the hooks No. 15 is brought over the loops between the
hooks No. 8; the slider hooks No. 2 are brought down between the hooks
No. 8; the mashing needle is then conveyed through the loops, and the silk,
thread, cotton, twist, &c., is then placed in the eye of the needle as before,
and drawn through the loops, the roller raises the sliders, and the sliders then
draws up the loops as before, the points No. 16 are brought forward under the
hooks No. 8, and through the mashes; the hook No. 15 is then brought down
to fasten the knot of the mash, the points 16 are moved sideway, and then
moved up between the hooks 8, in order to lift the mashes off the hooks No. 8,
which finishes the mashes. The pinion hook No. 18 being fixed in the
pinion bar No. 19, acts in the same manner as the twisting hooks No. 11, with
an additional power to twist the loops more or less as occasion may require.
In witness whereof, we, the said William Horton, William Ross, Thomas
Davies, and John Golby, have hereunto set their hands and seals, the
Twenty-second day of October, in the eighteenth year of the reign
of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of God of
Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, &c.,
and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and
seventy-eight.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Twenty-third day of October,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid William Horton, William Ross,
Thomas Davies, and John Golby, came before our said Lord the King in His
Chancery, and severally and respectively acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, together with the Plan annexed, in form above written. And also
the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the form 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.