STOCKING FRAME, ON PRINCIPLES ENTIRELY NEW, CONTRIVED IN A MORE SIMPLE, SAFE, AND EXPEDITIOUS MANNER, BOTH FOR PLAIN AND RIBBED WORK, THAN ANY HITHERTO KNOWN
Year: 1792

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, ALEXANDER
BUCHAN, of Aberdeen, in North Britain, Frame Smith, sends greeting.
WHEREAS the King's most Excellent Majesty, by Letters Patent under
the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the Thirteenth day of February,
in the thirty-second year of His reign, gave and granted unto the said
Alexander Buchan, his executors, administrators, and assigns, His Majesty's
special licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, for the said Alex-
ander Buchan, his executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them,
by himself or themselves, or by his or their deputy or deputies, servants or
agents, or such others as he, the said Alexander Buchan, his executors, ad-
ministrators, 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, to make, use, exercise, and vend his new-invented "STOCKING
FRAME, ON PRINCIPLES ENTIRELY NEW, CONTRIVED IN A MORE SIMPLE, SAFE, AND
EXPEDITIOUS MANNER, BOTH FOR PLAIN AND RIBBED WORK, THAN ANY HITHERTO
KNOWN," within that part of Great Britain called England, the Dominion of
Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to him, his
executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of them, in his or their discretion,
should seem meet, to have and to hold, excrcise, and enjoy the said licence,
powers, privileges, and advantages to the said Alexander Buchan, his execu-
tors, administrators, and assigns, for the term of fourteen years from the date
of the said Letters Patent next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be com-
plete and ended, according to the Statute in that case made and provided; in

page_text: which said Letters Patent is contained a provisoc that if the said Alexander
Buchan should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of his
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an
Instrument in writing under his hand and scal, and cause the same to be
inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery, within one calendar month
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the
suid Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby
granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void, as by the said
Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, will 'more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that the said Alexander Buchan, in pursuance of and
in compliance with the said proviso in the said Letters Patent contained,
and the purport and true intent and meaning thereof, and of His Majesty's
said most gracious intentions, doth by this Instrument in writing under his
hand and seal, duly executed, particularly describe and ascertain the nature of
his said new-invented stocking frame, and the manner in which the same is to bo
performed (according to the Plan or Drawing thereof hereunto annexed), in
manner and form following (that is to sny):-
:
Figure 1 represents a front view of the frame, where A, A, are the foro
standards, in which there are three slotes, seen in Fig. 11. a, the slote in which
the end of the lead sinker bar moves; b, that in which the end of the falling
bar moves; and c, a pivot, on which the side of the presser motion moves (sco
the presser motion at Fig. XI.) B, the main spring. C, C, the lead sinker
bar. D, a screw for strengthening the main spring. E, E, the two stars placod
on the star bar, seen in Fig. III., at 18., F, the sinkers, a view of which is
given at Fig. IV. & V. d, the jack sinker, rivetted in the jackhead. f, the lead
şinker, rivetted in its lead. G, tho facing bar, for keeping the sinkers from
starting out of the sinker slea, a bar, paralell with and at the back, of the
facing bar, seen at Fig. VI. H, HI, the stay plate, on which is fustued the
facing bar and sinker slea by the screws h, h. I, I, the half jack plates, to
which is fastened the half jacks that connect the lead sinker bar with the jack
bar. K, a brass bar, toothed, for discharging the work upon, after being pressed
by the presser bar L, L, represented behind the sinkers by two dotted lines,
The needles of the frame are represented by dotts between the teeth of tho
brass bar K, which is fastened to the solo bar M, by scrows. A view of the
sole bar at F. VII. 1, 1, 1, 1, four screw holes for fastening the solo bar to the
wood work. 2, 2, 2, 2, holes, for fastening on the fore standards A, A. 3, 3, 3,
for fastening on the brass bar K, on which the work is discharged. 4, 4, holes for
fastening on the cockings, see Fig. VIII. O, a cylinder moving on two centers,

page_text: on which is fastened a hook 5, see Fig. II, connected with a hook on the frame
needle bar, see 6, Fig. IX., by a loop. 7, lever on ditto cylinder, connected
with the treddle V by means of a wire, see Fig. II. & I. By putting the foot
on said treddle turns round the cylinder a little, which draws back the frame
needle bar, pressing and discharging the work in said motion. The ribbed
machine most proper to be applied to this frame is seen in Fig. I., fastened to
the frame, and 'ready for work, only sunk down a little below the frame needles
to shew which way the work is pressed, and afterwards discharged upon the
brass bar K. N, the needles of ribbed machine, fastened on the needle bar of
ribbed machine with four plates and screws, see k, k, k, k. o, a handle for
discharging the rib when pressed by the presser bar L, L.. P, a lever, one
end of which is hooked to a square frame, on which the ribbed machine is
fastened by two center screws 1, 1; the other end of the lever, being pushed out-
wards by the knee of the workman, pulls down the machine, and makes the
division. P, P, P, P, the woodwork on which the frame stands. Q, the slur
wheel with its cords, that reaches to the ends of the slur bar m, m, Figs. I., II.,
& III. R, S, T, V, four treddles. S & T, the two used to draw the slur with,
for making the jack fall; R, a double treddle, seen in Fig. II., for sinking and
dividing the work upon the frame, by means of a wire reaching from 7 to said
treddles; by placing the toe of the left foot at r, and pressing down the treddle,
raises the opposite end of the lever w; Fig. III., to which is fastened by a loop y
the back bar of the sinking motion (see the side bar of ditto motion at 8, 8,
Fig. II.), which back bar, being raised by the aforesaid lever, consequently presses
down with its two arms the sinker bar C, in Fig. I., which forms the division.
After the work is divided, by raising the toe and pressing down the heel it
takes the frame out of the cockins and the sinkers out of the work, and allows
t to be discharged upon the brass bar K, see Fig. I., where the frame is repre-
sented in that position; the wire that reaches from 10 (a lever placed upon
the locking bar), and seen in Fig. II. & III., serves for that, and V, a treddle
connected with the framo needle bar, see Fig. X., by means of the cylinder O,
see Fig.. I., II., III., but in Fig. II. the motion is best seen where O is the end
of the cylinder. 7, a lever connected with the treddle V. 5, a hook placed upon
the cylinder, and joined to the needle bar by means of a loop at 6, see Fig. IX.
In Fig. III., a back view of the frame is represented, with the manner the ribbed
machine is fastened to the frame, where 11, 11, are the two screws which screwed
to the back bar; 12, the springs; 13, the slea; 14, the prop of the sinking
motion; 15, the spring that pushes forwards the needle bar after the work has
been discharged; 16, 16, two slotes, through which the guides of the needle
bar slide; see one of the guides on the needle bar at Fig. X.; 17, 17, the two

page_text: ends of the falling bar, which rises or falls by means of tho star screws E, E,
Fig. III.; 18, the star bar on which the stars are supported. Fig. X. represents
one half of the needle bar (the other end being the same) with the needle and
lead placed on the bar; 19, the guide; 20, a box with a small wheel in it, on
which the bar moves backwards and forwards. Fig. 1X. represents the pressing
motion, with part of the cylinder, seen in Fig. I. & II.; 21, part of the needle
bar; 22, the spring; 29, the cock, which in drawing back the needle bar
pushes up the back bar of the presser motion, and consequently forces down
the presser upon the needles; see the back bar of said motion at Fig. XI. where
24 is the joint fastened to the back bar, and raised by the cock 28; 25, 25,
the holes through which the pivots go, on which it moves; 26, the presser.
Fig. VI. shews the sinker slea, which is an iron bar, with two brass bars fustened
to it, one above and the other below, toothed to admit the sinkers to play
between the teeth. Fig. XII. represents the falling bar. F, F, two sliding
bars placed upon the falling bar, and carry backwards and forwards the stops
B, B, used in narrowing the stocking; A, A, the heel steps; C, the pinion that
moves the sliding bars; E, E, the stars seen in the other Figures. The two
sliders are kept close to the bar by the two loops C, C.
In witness whereof the said Alexander Buchan hath hereunto set his
band and seal at Aberdeen, in, North Britain, this Twenty-fifth day of
February, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and
ninety-two.
ALEX BUCHAN. (L.s.)
Sealed and delivered (being first duly
stamped) in the presence of
AL. DAUNEY,
Advocate in Aberdeen.
JA ERSKINE,
Goldsmith there.
Alexander Dauney, of the City of Aberdeen, in North Britain, Advocate,
maketh oath and saith that he did see Alexander Buchan, in the Deed
Poll hereunto annexed, sign, seal, and, as his act and deed, in due form of
law deliver, the said Deed Poll, and at the same time subscribe and indorse his
name on the Drawing of the stocking frame mentioned and referred to in the
said Deed Poll, in the presence of James Erskine, of the City of Aberdeen
aforesaid, Goldsmith, and this Deponent, and that the names, Alex Buchan,
appearing to be set and subscribed at the foot of the said Deed Poll as, the
party executing the same, and indorsed on the said Drawing (referred to in

page_text: the said Deed Poll), and Al. Dauney and Ja' Erskine, set and subscribed to
the said Deed Poll as witnesses attesting the due execution of the same, and
as witnesses to the said Alexander Buchan's subscribing and indorsing his
name on the said Drawing, are of the respective proper hands writing of the
said Alexander Buchan, James Erskine, and this Deponent, Al. Dauney.
Sworn at Aberdeen aforesaid, the Twenty-fifth day of February, One thousand
seven hundred and ninety-two, before