A NEW MACHINE FOR MAKING, DRAWING, SIZEING, AND PROPOR- TIONING THREADS OF SILK, WORSTED, HEMP, FLAX, GOLD OR SILVER WIRE, OR OTHER MATERIALS, AND ALSO FOR MANUFACTORING, WEAVING, AND MAKING THE SAME INTO PIECES OF SILK, WORSTED, OR LINNEN CLOTH, EITHER QUITE PLAIN, OR RIBBED, FIGURED, OR FLOWERED, IN IMITATION OF TAMBOUR OR EMBROIDERY WORK
Year: 1777

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
BARBER, late of the Town of Nottingham, in the County of Nottingham, but
now of Derby, in the County of Derby, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Robert Barber, did, by my petition, humbly repre-
sent to His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that
I had, by great labour, study, and expence, in trying experiments, found out
and invented "A NEW MACHINE FOR MAKING, DRAWING, SIZEING, AND PROPOR-
TIONING THREADS OF SILK, WORSTED, HEMP, FLAX, GOLD OR SILVER WIRE, OR OTHER
MATERIALS, AND ALSO FOR MANUFACTORING, WEAVING, AND MAKING THE SAME INTO
PIECES OF SILK, WORSTED, OR LINNEN CLOTH, EITHER QUITE PLAIN, OR RIBBED,
FIGURED, OR FLOWERED, IN IMITATION OF TAMBOUR OR EMBROIDERY WORK;" and
in regard that the said machine was an intire new Invention of me, the said
Robert Barber, and that the same was not known to nor had ever been made
use of by any other person or persons whatsoever, except myself and those
employed by me therein; and in regard that I had been at great labour,
study, and expence in bringing the same to perfection, I did therefore most
humbly pray that His said Majesty would be graciously pleased to grant unto
me, the said Robert Barber, my exors, adîñiors, and assigns, His Royal Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of Groat Britain, for the sole use and exercise
of my said Invention within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of
Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, for the term of fourteen years, according to the Statute in that

page_text: case made and provided; His said Majesty being willing to give encourage-
ment to all arts and inventions which might be for the public good, was
graciously pleased to condescend to my request, and, therefore, by His Royal
Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Eighth day of May, in the
seventeenth year of His reign, of His especial grace, certain knowledge,
and meer motion, for Himself, His heirs and successors, did give and grant
unto me, the said Robert Barber, my exors, adññiors, and assigns, His special
licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said Robert Barber,
my exors, aniors, and assigns, and every of us, by myself and themselves, or
by mine and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as
I, the said Robert Barber, my exors, adñiors, 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, and
exercise and vend my said Invention, within that part of His said 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 Robert Barber,
my exors, adñiors, and assigns, or any of us, should in our discretions seem
meet, and that I, the said Robert Barber, my exors, adññiors, and assigns,
should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, com-
modity, 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 Robert Barber, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, for and
during and unto the full end and term of fourteen years from the date of the
said Letters Patent 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 Robert Barber,
should not particularly 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 inrolled in His said
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar months 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 cease, determine, and become void, any thing therein-before
contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding, as in and by
the said Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, (relation being
thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Robert Barber, in compliance with the

page_text: said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my aforesaid
Invention, and declare that the same is to be performed in manner following
(that is to say) -
The said machine is now wrought and intended to be wrought by water
acting upon a large main shaft and water wheel, with a cogged wheel upon
the shaft which gives motion to the whole machine. But the said machine
may be wrought either by the operation of fire or by water, or with horses
or by hand, or by any other power of sufficient force to put and keep the
saine in motion, and is so contrived that the same may be employed at one
and the same time as well in making, drawing, sizing, and proportioning the
threads of silk, worsted, hemp, flax, gold or silver wire, and other materials
intended to be manufactured, as in weaving and making the same into pieces
of goods for sale, or such parts of the said machine may be put in motion as
will perform either of the said works seperately and distinct from the other.
And as a further and more particular description and explanation of the
nature of my said Invention, and how the same is to be performed, I, the said
Robert Barber, have to these Presents annexed a Plan or Drawing of my
said Invention, and the particular parts of which the same is composed, viz',
the weaving part of the machine under three different and distinct heads, that
is to say, the first marked with a
and the third marked with a
the second marked with an
; and that part of my said Invention
which is used for making, drawing, and sizeing the threads of silk, worsted,
°
and other things to be manufactored, is marked with a
3
; and under
each of which heads are subdivisions, with references and explanations of the
5 different parts of my said Invention described under each particular head; and
which said Invention or machine, with the references and explanations of
each particular thereof, as described and specified in the Plan or Drawings.
thereof hereunto annexed, together with directions for putting the same
together, and the use or application of the whole and every part thereof, are
herein-after particularly mentioned and set forth (that is to say):--
Letter A represents a main shaft and water wheel, with a cogged wheel
upon the shaft, giving motion to the whole machine, for which the above-
mentioned Patent has been obtained.
B, b, b, b, an upright shaft with cogged or other wheels or bands, the right
side giving motion to the weaving, the left side to the spinning and
drawing.

page_text: Division marked -
-C, C, a shaft with a wheel, which shaft at
different places, where required, carries on cillinders or rollers to work
the different wefts.
rst Division under
--D, a woodwork like a common stocking frame,
with uncommon wide caps or tops.
cond Division.-E, E, two pads or sole bars to be fixed upon the caps
of D..
F, F, ffff, bars with springs behind them, and pullies to carry them,
on which are fixed the needles.
G, G, g, g, two curved leavers, with a joint in the middle turning upon a
pin, and also a joint at one end of each leaver to which the wires join
to draw back by g, g.
H, H, two bars fixed upon the pads, with divisions through which the
needles pass and repass, distinguished by red stripes. N.B.-The
divisions, as also the jack barr and sleys, are made by plates cast in
metal.
I, I, two pressers coloured blue, to pass and repass betwixt the dividing
barrs before mentioned, to be distinguished by red stripes.
K, K, k, k, two leaver bars similar to G, G, g, g, with wires marked k, k.
ird Division.-L, L, a more distinguishing view of the pressers I, I,
with large barrs over them marked 1, 1, and springs to resist them.
urth Division.-M, M, M, M, M, four blue leavers and an axle bar, with
bolsters fixed upon the axle barr, and which axle bar turns occasionally
as required.
.
m, m, two standards, upon the top of which the axle turns.
th Division.-N, N, N, a barr, termed a locking barr, with small
rollers in the top points, by which the roller bolsters press up the
jacks.
, n, two standards, which carry the jack bar and locking bar.
th Division.-0, 0, one blue curved sinker and jack, and one red curved
sinker and jack, as specimens of all the other sinkers and jacks in the
machine.
,o, two springs, as commonly used is stocking frames, which are likewise
specimens of all the other springs of that kind in the machine.

page_text: The whole apparatus of the Second Division is fixed upon the capps or tops
of the woodwork marked letter D.
The standards of the Fourth Division are fixed to the out points of the capps
marked. The standards of the Fifth Division are fixed to the out part of
the caps marked o, o.
The jacks and sinkers of the Sixth Division are fixed as usual in a jack barr,
only the red sinkers in falling curve over to one barr and the blue ones to
the other.
The standards of the Seventh Division, with the sley, are fixed to the capps
where marked x, x. The roller is put on the main shaft marked C, C, and
over the top of the frame.
THE APPLICATION.-The roller or cillinder always makes the same rotary
motion; the blue part being higher than any other part of the roller, puts
down the jacks and sinkers; the blue sinkers pressing against the wire upon
the sley, through which they pass, curve over to one bar with the thread, and
the red sinkers to the other barr with the same thread. Two of the bluc
bolsters upon the roller press back two blue leavers of the Fourth Division;
which bring back the two needle barrs and wires marked F, F, f, ƒ, ƒ, ƒ, in
the Second Division, which have springs to return them. Two other blue
bolsters have a similar motion to draw together the pressers and wires in the
Second Division, marked G, G, g, g.
the lockers in the Fifth Division.
The remaining, two bolsters press up
One revolution of the roll makes two

page_text: No. 1, a needle barr, with trucks at the ends to move upon the pads.
No. 2, 2, a dividing barr through which the needles pass and repass.
No. 3, 3, 3, a barr lying over the dividing barr, but forwarder, under which
the needles pass to press the needles for the loop.
2d Division. No. 4, 4, 4, a roller with two bolsters, two pullies, the one 5
with a double division for bands, and the band.
No. 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, a slur box and spindle, with a joint in the spindle, and
standards and slur barr.
No. 6, 6, 6, 6, an end view of the slur box, the guiding wire for the
thread, the bobbing end carrying the thread, with the thread and 1
spindle.
3d Division. No. 7, 7, 7, a specimen of the jacks, which are made whole,
and are hung as in a common frame; also one wire of a sley, as a
specimen, through which they are guided, almost as in the sley of the
Seventh
Division.
Two standards and two leaver barrs, to draw back the needles,
markt S, B.
Here terminates the frame for making plain work.
DIRECTIONS for putting the plain framework together.
1
The standard and apparatus of the Second Division
are fixt on the 2
capps of the woodwork markt D.
The jacks in the Third Division are fixed in the usual way, viz', jack barrs
& standards.
The standards and two leaver barrs, marked S, B, are fixed in the same
manner as M, M, in the
the
Application for the
machine.
machine. The roller revolving as mentioned in
machine, puts down the jacks by its ridge or high part, and by two
bolsters puts back the needles under the presser to the dividing barr, the same
as done by the two blue barrs of the
machine.
2
A band round one end of the roller, and round the right-hand pulley 8
marked 4, makes a circular motion of band 4, in which the top of the jack-
boy spindle is fixed, by which means the thread is laid.

page_text: DIVISIO
dards, an CROSS prate to
needles round, in which plate are holes which serve as sockets for
the crankt part of the needles. The standards have holes near the
feet.
No. 9, a crankt needle, as a specimen of all the other needles used in
this frame.
ifth Division. No. 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, two standards and a cross barr,
also two main cranks revolving in the cross barr, and their other ends
to fix and revolve in the feet of No. 8.
No. 11, a needle bar open in the middle part, with some needles, as they
lie on the barr edges.
11, 11, are two plates to hold the needles down by their two necks when
fixed upon the needle barr marked No. 11.
The apparatus No. 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, are screwed to the under side of
the needle bar No. 11, markt
O.
ixth Division. No. 12, 12, two toothed wheels, with axles on which they
revolve. In these wheels are two holes; through each of them is
introduced a round pinn, whose opposite ends are put through the holes
of the feet No. 8, in the 4th division.
No. 13, 13, a toothed sliding barr and pully, with cord to draw the
bar.
No. 14, 14, two upright sliding barrs, which carries 13, but also admits
it to slide backward or forward in its ends.
No. 15, 15, is to show the upright slides 14, 14, slip up and down in gages
fixed on the inside of the main upright standards of the frame wood-
work of the
Division.
No. 16, a spring and a rise on the bar 13, which spring is to bring back
the said bar.
eventh Division.-No. 17, 17, 17, three leavers, with sockets and wires
or bands, to put upon the spindle or axle bar of the Third Division,
markt S, B.
.
No. 19, 19, 19, a plainer view of the standards & axle.
No. 20, 20, a view of the ends of the roller, which have bolsters on
them to raise the three leavers, which the Eighth Division presents
plainer.

page_text: the three leavers lie upon it.
DIRECTIONS for putting together the Turn-needle Machinery.
The needle bar 11, in the Fifth Division, and the apparatus No. 10, 10, 10,
10, 10, are fixed, instead of and where the needle bar No. 1 of the First
Division is represented, viz', upon the padds and capps of the woodwork.
The wheels and apparatus of the Sixth Division are placed and connected
with the Fourth Division occasionally, by means of the round pinns with
heads passing thro' the pinioned wheels at the holes markt in wheels 12, 12,
and the holes markt in the feet of the standards of the Fourth Division,
No. 8.
The three leavers marked No. 17, 17, 17, in the Seventh Division, are put
upon the axle or barr of No. 19, 19, 19, in the same division, but more
clearly made to appear in 8th Division.
The three leavers No. 21, 21, 21, in the Eighth Division, present a view
of the part where the leavers lic over the mooying cillinder or roller, two of
which, viz, to the right and left, move or raise up No. 13, & 14, 14, in Sixth
Division, and the other draws endways the bar No. 13, by means of a cord
round the pulley 13.
APPLICATION of the Turned-needle Apparatus.
The roller placed over the
turned-needle apparatus, is larger than usual, consequently there is more
time, after the ridge or high parts have passed, to perform the other motions
in; and it has three additional bolsters upon the extreme verge, two of which
in their proper time (found by practice) raise up two of the leavers No. 17, 17,
of the Seventh Division, which causes the slide bar and side upright slides
of No. 13 & 14, 14, of the Sixth Division to rise up and act with its teeth
upon the wheels No. 12, 12, of the Sixth Division, which when the needles
by this means are turned round, the slide No, 13 sinks out of geer, and is
returned by the spring 16 resisting the extended part of the said bar No. 13, 3
wch performs one coarse in half a round of the roller.
machine, in order to work it with the

page_text: capps are joined to the ends of the frame woodwork, viz, end to end,
marked X X.
B, b, b, a carriage, with axles and four rollers, to travel upon the capps.
C, C, C, C, four cross gage barrs, to confine the carriage from rising
up.
D, D, two standards and feet, with each a hole through, and carrying a
roll at the top the standards are fixed upon, and where the cross barr
marked B joins b, b.
E, a roller spiked, turning round in the standards marked D, D.
F, a toothed or notched wheel upon the roller axle end:
G, a spring, flirting into the notches or divisions of the wheel marked F.
H, a barr with two small cross barrs, and as many springs in it as there
are needles in the needle bar, which bar is screwed into the two holes
in the standards marked D, D.
I, I, two springs, presented with the under side upwards, to shew the
channells of the springs in the bar marked H, which press yo needles.
CTIONS for putting the fore-mentioned Apparatus to the
Woodwork

page_text: G
rked
REFERENCES AND EXPLANATIONS OF THE DRAWINGS OF THE
SPINING OR EXPANDING PART OF THE MACHINE, PLACED TO THE LEFT
SIDE OF THE PLAN.
Number 1, 1, two upright spining cases represented at work, made with
two flat sides and two open parts.
No. 2, 2, two toothed wheels, receiving motion from the main upright B.
No. 3, 3, 3, 3, the places where four drawing and twisting machines are
placed.
A, one drawing and twisting apparatus.
No. 4, 4, two circular pieces of leather upon axles, revolving different ways.
No. 5, 5, two springs, to press the passing sides of one leather against
the other.
No. 6, 6, two teethed wheels geered to each other.
No. 7, 7, two axles, with round necks to run round, one on each sido the
cases No. 1, 1, on which are put the two leathers and three wheels.
No. 8, a round wheel, with teeth rounded and a proportionate size to fit
the snake or worm at A.
No. 9, a snake or worm placed circular round the spinning case and the
leathers and three wheels, with its head end gradually rising in its
circle the pitch of one tooth of wheel 8 in one revolution.
APPLICATION. The apparatus A put to the spinning case at any of the
ces marked No. 3, at every rotation raises one tooth of the wheel No. 8;
leathers upon the axles revolve inwards, consequently the thread betwixt
leathers is twisted and drawn uniformly proportionate.
B, Z, B, Z, represents four snakes upon a frame, each fixed so as to
raise one tooth of a wheel, used at discretion.
C, C, c, c, two wheels made of any springy materials such as plates, with
two springs or wires to compress them, and knip the passing thread
to prevent it sliding back; these are occasionally introduced instead
and for the same purpose, and in the place of leathers.
D, two iron rollers to draw and twist wire or any stubborn material intro-
duced occasionally in the apparatus A.
E, a main upright, occasionally to fix to the side of B, with two cogged
'wheels.
F‚ ƒ‚ ƒ‚ ƒ ƒ‚ ƒ‚ ƒ‚ ƒ‚ ƒ‚ f,f,f,f,f, a frame holding a bobbing of materials,
four leathers held tight in their rotation by four springs and four
forcing screws. This frame and apparatus is for the purpose of draw-
a thread strait down without any twist, also the spring wheels or rollers
or knipping wires are occasionally used instead of the leathers.

page_text: G, a franie to be fixed to the side of upright B.
Number 1, materials to be expanded.
No 2, 2, two heads or wharles, with a passage through them, and worms
fixed to them.
No. 3, 3, two wheels on wharle heads to admit bands or wheels toothed
to work by geer.
No. 4, another wharle and double flyer, which moves in the same manner
as that marked 3, 3.
No. 5, 5, two spoles for the thread to lap upon.
No. 6, 6, two fliers to carry the thread.
N.B. All the different apparatus last above described may be varied,
as to positions, at pleasure.
In wituess whereof, I, the said Robert Barber, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifth day of September, in the seventeenth 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.