PIECE OF MACHINERY WHICH IS TO BE ADDED TO A STOCKING FRAME FOR MAKING OF LACE CALLED BRUSSELLS, OR DOUBLE GROUND LACE FOR SHADES, APRONS, HANDKERCHIEFS, CAP CAULS, MITTS, GLOVES, PURSES, WAIST- COATS, AND SHAULS, AND VARIOUS SORTS OF OPEN WORK
Year: 1779

page_text: TO ALL PEOPLE TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
JOSEPH HARVEY, of Bunhill Row, in the Parish of Saint Luke, in the
County of Middlesex, Stocking Framework Knitter, send greeting.
WHEREAS his most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by
His Letters Patent under His Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Twenty-fourth day of November, in the twentieth year of
His reign, did grant unto me, the said Joseph Harvey, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, His said Majesty's especial licence, full power,
sole priviledge and authority that I, the said Joseph Harvey, my executors,
admors, and assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves, or by mine
and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said
Joseph Harvey, my executors, admors, or assigns, should at any time agree
with and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, my new-invented "PIECE OF MACHINERY WHICH IS TO BE ADDED TO A
STOCKING FRAME FOR MAKING OF LACE CALLED BRUSSELLS, OR DOUBLE GROUND LACE
FOR SHADES, APRONS, HANDKERCHIEFS, CAP CAULS, MITTS, GLOVES, PURSES, WAIST-
COATS, AND SHAULS, AND VARIOUS SORTS OF OPEN WORK," within that part of His
Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales,
and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me, the said Joseph
Harvey, my executors, admors, and assigns, or any of them, should in their
discretions seem meet, and that I, the said Joseph Harvey, my exors, adiñiors,
and assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit,

page_text: commodity, and advantage, from time to time coming, growing, accruing, and
arising by reason of the said Invention, for and during the term of years
therein mentioned; to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers,
priviledges, and advantages therein-before granted or mentioned to be granted
unto me, the said Joseph Harvey, my executors, adññors,. and assigns, for and
during and unto the full end and term of fourteen years from the date thereof
next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according
to the Statute in such case made and provided; in which said recited Letters
Patent is contained a proviso that if I, the said Joseph Harvey, should not
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same was to be performed, by an instrument in writing
under my
hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within four calender months next and immediately
after the date thereof, that then the said recited Letters Patent, and all
liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease,
determine, and become void, anything therein-before contained to the contrary
in anywise notwithstanding, as in and by the said recited Letters Patent,
relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Harvey, do hereby declare my
said Invention, and declare that the same is of the description, and to .be
performed as in the Plan drawn thereof, hereunto annexed and herein-after
particularly mentioned (that is to say) :-
Letter A represents a machine for making of Brussels or double ground
lace. B represents the barr, in which are fixed a compleat set of needle
points, for the working of Brussels or double ground lace for making of
shades, aprons, handkerchiefs, cap cauls, huds, mitts, gloves, purses, waist-
coats, shauls, and various sorts of open works, with gold and silver plate,
aurice, silk, thread, cotton, mohair, worsted, yarn, hemp, &c. C represents a
wing screwed at each end of the barr, in which the needle points are fixed,
unto which a stay is added to guide the machine when entering the work and
regulate the same when entered; also a conductor fixed to the said wings
wherein a draw screw is fixed raise or fall the barr when at work. D represents
a spring screwed to the lower barr, on which the above barr is fastned to make
it move regular. E represents a leaver screwed to the lower barr to shift or
move the top barr, in order to form the Brussels or double ground lace work.
F represents a screw fixed at each end of the machine to keep the barr steady.
G represents the handle screwed to the bottom barr by which the machine is
worked. H represents two springs, in which the machine rides at the time of
working. I represents two standards by which the machine is kept from

page_text: rising too high in the time of working, and also lowered by two screws fixed
in the standards as occasion may require. K represents the needle points
fixed in pewter ready for impression. L represents needle points fixed in
pewter ready for the barr. M represents two points to vary the figure as
occasion may require. N represents the wing, seperate from the barr with
the stay upon it. O represents the conductor seperate from the wing with the
draw screws fixed.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fourteenth
day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred