INVENTION FOR A PIPE WITHOUT A SEAM, MADE OF FLAXEN YARN, FOR CONVEYING WATER FROM ENGINES, AND FOR ALL OTHER PURPOSES WHEREIN LEATHER AND OTHER PIPES HAVE BEEN HITHERTO USED
Year: 1792

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JEAN
RUDOLF HEGNER, late of New Round Court, in the Strand, but now of Artillery
Street, Spitalfields, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS the King's most Excellent Majesty, by His Letters Patent
under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the
Twenty-seventh day of February, in the thirty-second year of His reign,
did give and grant unto the said Jean Rudolf Hegner, His special licence
that I, the said Jean Rudolf Hegner, during the term of years therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend my
"INVENTION FOR A PIPE WITHOUT A SEAM, MADE OF FLAXEN YARN, FOR CONVEYING
WATER FROM ENGINES, AND FOR ALL OTHER PURPOSES WHEREIN LEATHER AND
OTHER PIPES HAVE BEEN HITHERTO USED," within that part His Majesty's
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, for and during the term of years therein mentioned,
in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if the said Jean
Rudolf Hegner did 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 Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar

page_text: month next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, and
all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease,
determine, and become void, anything herein-before contained to the con-
trary thereof in anywise notwithstanding, as in and by the said Letters Patent,
relation being thereunto had, may more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Jean Rudolf Hegner, in compliance
with the said provisoe, do hereby declare and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and declare that the same is composed of tho several particulars in
the Plan thereof hereunto annexed, to be performed in manner following,
that is to saj:-
No. 1, 2, 3 and 4, piece bobbins, which contain the warp made of flaxen
yarn. No. 1, 2, 3 and 4, the hind weights, and No. 5, the front weights, to
keep in balance No. 3, the warps. No. 4, the leash sticks, marked A, B, C, D,
A, B, C, D, which perform the figure of the pipe. No. 6, steel sley to
keep it in width. No. 7, the patten to strike the pipe close together.
No. 8, the breast beam. No. 9, the leading roll, which leads the work to the
containing beam. No. 10, the containing beam, with the iron wheel and cling.
No. 11, the cross treadles, which havo connection with the foot treadles, and
the leash sticks No. 4, which perform the figures of the pipe. No. 12, tho
bullets where the strings run over, and likewise connect with the leash sticks
(No. 4). No. 13, the seat. No. 14, the foot treadles marked 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6, 7 & 8. No. 15, tho drawing roll. No. 16, the drawing jack. No. 17,
the pull strings. No. 18, the warp leader. No. 19, the treadle board.
To perform work with this machinery, the first foot treadle (marked 5) on
the right side rises the leash sticks (marked A, B) in the front. The second
right foot treadle (marked 6) rises the leash sticks (marked B, C). The
third right foot treadlo (marked 7) rises the leash sticks (marked C, D).
The fourth right foot treadle (marked 8) rises the leash sticks marked (A, D),
and the four right foot treadles make the upper part of the pipe when folded
together, and the four left foot treadles (marked 4, 3, 2, 1) the under part,
and work in the same direction as the right foot treadles, and so repeated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jean Rudolf Hegner, have herounto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of February, in the thirty-
second 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 ninety-two.
JAHAN RUDOLF HEGNER. (L.s.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twenty-ninth day of
February, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Jean Rudolf Hegner
came before our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the
Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute in that case made and provided.