A MACHINE, ENGINE, OR FRAME FOR THE PURPOSE OF WIDENING, OR STRETCHING TO THE WIDTH, LEATHER, CLOTH OF LINEN, CLOTH OF COTTON, CLOTH OF WOOLLEN, OR OF A MIXTURE OF EITHER, BROWN, BLEACHED, PRINTED, STAINED, OR DYED, AND ALL DESCRIPTIONS OF PIECE GOODS
Year: 1808

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SANUEL
TuомSON, of Addle Street, in the City of London, Callenderer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty George the Third, of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing dato
at Westminster, on or about the Third day of March, in the forty-eighth
year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said Samuel Thomson, my.
exors, adññiors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, solo privilego
and authority, that I, the said Samuel Thomson, my exors, adiñors, and
assigns, should and lawfully might, during the term of years therein expressed,
make, use, exercise, and vend my Invention of "A MACHINE, ENGINE, OR
FRAME FOR THE PURPOSE OF WIDENING, OR STRETCHING TO THE WIDTH, LEATHER,
CLOTH OF LINEN, CLOTH OF COTTON, CLOTH OF WOOLLEN, OR OF A MIXTURE OF EITHER,
BROWN, BLEACHED, PRINTED, STAINED, OR DYED, AND ALL DESCRIPTIONS OF PIECE
GOODS," within that part of His said Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed; in which said recited Letters Patent there is contained a proviso,
whereby it is declared that if I, the said Samuel Thomson, should not particu-
larly 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 enrolled in the High Court of
Chancery within the space of one calendar month next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and
all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly ceasc,
determine, and become void.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Samuel Thomson, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described
in manner following (that is to say) :-
In the Drawing hereunto annexed, Figure 1, a, a, is the front or end view
of a frame supporting an axis or axle of iron, brass, or other materials,
marked b, which axis is fixed to and stationary in the frame a, a, and made
with a cant or cants, an angle or angles, deviating from a straight line. c, d,
and f, g, are two wheels or sleeves, through the centre of which is placed the
axis b, and on it they turn or revolve. The wheels or sheeves so placed
on an axis with a cant or angle will not be parallel to each other, but, at
the opposite points of their diameters, be at unequal distances from cach
other, as represented in the space from d to g being greater than that from
c to f. On the rims of the wheels or shecves is a groove for a rope or
band to work in, to attach the cloth or article to be stretched to the wheels
or sleeves. The articles to be stretched may be attached to the machine in
various other ways.
Figure 2 is a side view, c, d, being one of the wheels or sheeves, the same
as c, d, in Figure 1. h, h, the band or rope to work in the groove of the
wheels or sheeves. i is a similar wheel or sheeve to c, d, the purpose of
which is for the band or rope to pass over and be returned to wheel or
sheeve c, d, the other wheel f, g, in Figure 1, having in like manner a similar
wheel or sheeve i for the like purpose. is an upright post with two brackets,
the lower to receive the roller with the article to be stretched, the upper for a
similar roller to receive the article when sfretched.
Figure 3 is a perspective view of the machine. The article to be stretched
is to be put on a roller or otherwise, so as to be conveniently put to the
machine, say from m tom; the selvidges of the cloth to be introduced between
the bands and grooves in the rims of the wheels or sheeves at h, k, at that part
where the rims approach near to each other. The bands being tight, the pressure
thereof on the cloth between them and the grooves in the wheels or sleeves
will prevent the cloth from slipping or being disengaged. The wheels or
sheeves being equally moved round, those parts of the rim which were nearest
to each other will recede from and become at a greater distance apart, and the
article to be stretched being attached thereto is consequently widened or
stretched, and is released from the rims and bands at 7, 1, and rolled on a roller
in the upper bracket of the upright posts b, b, above described, or otherwise, as
convenient, the bands continuing to move and perform their revolutionary
motion round the wheels or sheeves i, c, d, and i, f, y.
This machine may be put in motion by tooth and pinion wheels, bands, cranks,

page_text: or otherwise, according to the situation in which the machine is to be worked.
Other modes may be adopted for putting this Invention into operation, viz', the
article to be stretched may be attached to wheels or sheeves, whether round,
oval, or other shape, or to bands, ropes, chains, or piece of wood, metal, leather,
or other materials, which, when put in motion, act divergingly, or not parallel
to each other; or by the article to be stretched being attached or fastened to
wheels, sheeves, bands, ropes, chains, pieces of wood, metal, leather, or other
materials, placed moving or acting parallel to each other, and by any means
pressed or forced further asunder, or by means of pressure applied to the
intervening article so attached or fastened.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Thomson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Second day of April, in the year of our Lord Ono
thousand eight hundred and eight.
Signed, sealed, and delivered, in the
SAMUEL THOMSON. (L.S.)
SAMUEL THOMSON. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered, in the
presence of
W. NETTLESHIPP,
Grocers' Hall,
T. H. NICHOLLS,
London.
Inrolled the Second day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eight.