WORKING AND KNITTING OF FRAMEWORK, MILLED AND NAPPed, IN IMITATION OF RATTEEN, CONSISTING OF ENGLISH OR SPANISH WOOL, OR ENGLISH AND SPANISH WOOL MIXED, IN. ANY COLOUR, FIGURE, SHAPE, OR PATTERN
Year: 1777

page_text: TO ALL PEOPLE TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
JOHN HUMMEL, of Little Earl Street, in the Parish of Saint Giles in the
Fields, in the County of Middlesex, Stocking, Maker, 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 West-
minster, the Fifteenth day of August, in the seventeenth year of His reign,
did grant unto me, the said John Hummel, my executors, adiñors, and.
assigns, His said: Majesty's especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and
authority, that I, the said John Hummel, my executors, adiñors, 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 John Hummel, my
executors, admors, or assigns, should at any, timė 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 method of "WORKING AND KNITTING OF FRAMEWORK, MILLED AND NAPPed,
IN IMITATION OF RATTEEN, CONSISTING OF ENGLISH OR SPANISH WOOL, OR ENGLISH
AND SPANISH WOOL MIXED, IN. ANY COLOUR, FIGURE, SHAPE, OR PATTERN," within
that part of His Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His
Dominion of Wales, British Isles, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such
manner as to me; the said John Hummel, my executors; admors, and assigns,
or any of them, should in their discretions. seem meet, and that I, the said
John Hummel, my executors, admors, and assigns, should and lawfully might.
have and enjoy.the whole profit, benefit, icommodity, and advantage, from time

page_text: 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, privileges, and advantages therein-before
granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said John Hummel, my
executors, adñiors, 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 Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if I, the
said John Hummel, 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 callender 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 in part
recited Letters Patent, relation being thereto had, will more fully and at
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Hummel, do hereby declare my
said Invention, and declare that the same is of the description and to be per-
formed in manner following, that is to say:-
It must be made in a stocking frame, but the frame must be wider than a
common stocking frame, as the common stocking frame is from fifteen to
twenty inches wide only. The stocking frame for the framework knit ratteen
must be from twenty-nine to thirty inches wide, or more, for to have the width
for cloaths, as the piece for the framework ratteen must be worked quite loose
and slack in the frame, as it will mill better, and must be milled so much as
to loose the fourth part in width and length in the milling, to be of sufficient
thickness as to be napped. It must be milled in a common stock, as the cloth
is milled in; but there must be more particular care taken that the stock be
smooth, as the stocking is of a more tender and softer nature than cloth, and
must be taken care of, when first put into the stock, to have hot water and
soft sope ready to put in with it; but it must not be left in the stock as
above twenty or twenty-five minutes, but while in the stock to put in now
and then some hot water. If left longer than the above time, may intirely be
spoiled, as it is of a different nature, and will grow sooner together than any
other woollen cloth. After the first time taking out, as well as every other
time, it must be well opened and smoothed where it grows together, and then
put the goods into the stock again, and repeat the same for five, ten, or fifteen

page_text: minutes, one time taking out after the other, and repeat the same till one
fourth part of the length and width is lost, then it will be sufficient, and thick
enough to dress it the same as cloth; but there must be particular care taken
to dress it well, as the stocking is more subject to cockles than cloth, and,
when well dressed, may be died what colour may be chosen, or may be dressed
after it is dyed, (that is to say) either in the wool or out. When so done, dye
and dress it smooth. It must go through a napping mill, the same that nap
the cloth, or what is called ratteen; but there must be particular care taken
that the napping boards are not so close one on the other as in common upon
the cloth or ratteen, as the stocking is more plyable, and if be fine, thinner
than the cloth or ratteen. Therefore if the napping boards are too close it cannot
be drawn so smooth thro' it, and will let it run in some places to cockles, and
may spoil the peice.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Hummel, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Thirteenth day of December, 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, and so forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven
hundred and seventy-seven.
JOHN (L.S.) HUMMEL.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Fifteenth day of December, in
the year above mentioned, the aforesaid John Hummel came before the
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification