A MACHINE TO BE FIXED TO A STOCKING FRAME FOR MAKING VARIOUS SORTS OF KNOTTED AND DOUBLE LOOPED WORK, A THING NEVER BEFORE PUT IN PRACTICE, AND WILL BE OF GREAT UTILITY TO THE PUBLICK, BOTH IN THE IMPROVEMENT AND REDUCTION OF THE PRICES OF ALL KINDS OF KNOTTED AND DOUBLE-LOOPED WORK DONE IN GOLD, SILVER, SILK, COTTON, WORSTED, OR ANY OTHER MATERIALS
Year: 1776

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
HORTON, of the Parish of Saint Mathew, Bethnell Green, in the County of
Middlesex, Frame Smith, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said William Horton, did, by my Petition, humbly
represent to His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
that by great study and application I had invented "A MACHINE TO BE FIXED
TO A STOCKING FRAME FOR MAKING VARIOUS SORTS OF KNOTTED AND DOUBLE
LOOPED WORK, A THING NEVER BEFORE PUT IN PRACTICE, AND WILL BE OF GREAT
UTILITY TO THE PUBLICK, BOTH IN THE IMPROVEMENT AND REDUCTION OF THE
PRICES OF ALL KINDS OF KNOTTED AND DOUBLE-LOOPED WORK DONE IN GOLD,
SILVER, SILK, COTTON, WORSTED, OR ANY OTHER MATERIALS;" I therefore most
humbly prayed His said Majesty that He would be graciously pleased
to grant unto me, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His Royal
Letters Patent for the sole use and benefit 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 case made and
provided; His said Majesty, being willing to give encouragement to all arts
and inventions which might be for the publick good, was graciously pleased to

page_text: condescend to my request, and therefore, by His Royal Letters Patent under
His Great Seal of Great Britain,, bearing date at Westminster, the Sixteenth
day of March, in the sixteenth 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 William Horton, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole priviledge, and
authority, that I, the said William Horton, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, and every of them, by. myself and themselves, or by mine or their
deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said William
Horton, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend my said Invention, within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of
Great Britain called England, His Domini n of Wales, and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me, the said William Horton, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or any of us, should in our discretions seem meet,
and that I, the said William Horton, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, 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 William
Horton, my executors, administrators, 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 William Horton, 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 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, anything therein before' contained to the contrary thereof in
anywise notwithstanding, as in and by the said Letters Patent, (relation being
thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear..
NOW KNOW, YE; that. I, the said Williain Horton, in compliance with
the said proviso, do hereby, describe and ascertain the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and declare that the same is composed of the several particulars in the

page_text: Plan thereof hereunto annexed, and to be performed in manner following (that
is to say):-
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Fig. 1 a knotting hook. Fig. 2 knotting hooks, cast in metal, ready to fix in
a bar for knotting. Fig. 3, a needle with the new-invented eye, to receive the
points of the knotting hooks. Fig. 4, a plate, to be fixed in the moulds, which
forms the lower part of the metal in which the hooks are cast. Fig. 5,
another plate, to be fixed in the moulds, which forms the upper part of the
metal in which the the knotting hooks are cast. Fig. 6, a stop fixed in the
moulds, against which the shoulders of the knotting hooks are placed while
they are cast in metal. Fig. 7, a plate which strikes against the guide plate.
Fig. 8, a guide plate fixed to the supporters. Fig. 9, a.stop.guide fixed.to.the.
supporters. Fig. 10, an oval axis, wh ch supports the barr and knotting hooks.
To perform work with this machinery.-A course. of work must be made in
the stocking frame with loops long enough to permit them to be knotted; this
course of loops being made, must be cast back on the stem part of the needles,
and left behind the eye, Fig. 3. The knotting hooks, as cast in metal, Fig. 2,
being placed in a bar supported by the oval axis Fig. 10, are moved forward
(in the supporters placed on each side the frame for that purpose), up to the
stop guides Fig. 9. With this motion the plates Fig. 7 strike against the guide
plates Fig. 8, at which time the points of the knotting hooks enter the new-
invented eyes in the needles, the loops are then brought on the knotting
hooks, but not taken off the needles. The hooks are moved sideway, and
raised up between the needles, which place the loops against the shoulders in the
knotting hooks. In this position the hooks are again moved sideway, which
convey that part of the loops to the heads of the next needles. The hooks must
be put forward, which places two loops on each needle. The hooks must be
taken back, which leave the work knotted and double looped.
In witness whercof, I, the said William Horton, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixteenth day. of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, and in the sixteenth
year of the reign of our said Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the
grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender
of the Faith, and so forth.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that the Sixteenth day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, the aforesaid
William Horton came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and
acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein con-
tained and specified, in form above written. And also the Instrument afore-
said was stampt, according to the tenor of the Statute made in the sixth year
of the reign of the late King and Queen William and Mary of England, and
so forth.
Inrolled the Sixteenth day of July, in the year last above written.