A NEW PIECE OF MACHINERY WHICH IS TO BE ADDED AND AFFIXED TO A STOCKING FRAME, FOR MAKING IN ▲ MORE SPEEDY AND COMPLETE MANNER ELASTIC DOUBLE-KNIT FRAMEWORK PIECES FOR HOSE OR STOCKINGS, WAISCOATS, BREECHES, GLOVES, PURSES, AND VARIOUS SORTS OF WORK, EITHER WITH SILK, COTTON, COTTON AND SILK, WORSTED, WORSTED AND SILK, THREAD, YARN, AND SO FORTH
Year: 1790

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL.
HAGUE, of the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham, Stocking Frame-
work Knitter, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Twenty-ninth day of October, in the thirty-first year of His reign,
did give and grant unto me, the said Samuel Hague, His especial licence
that I, the said Samuel Hague, during the term of years therein expressed,
should and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and
the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A NEW PIECE OF
MACHINERY WHICH IS TO BE ADDED AND AFFIXED TO A STOCKING FRAME, FOR
MAKING IN ▲ MORE SPEEDY AND COMPLETE MANNER ELASTIC DOUBLE-KNIT
FRAMEWORK PIECES FOR HOSE OR STOCKINGS, WAISCOATS, BREECHES, GLOVES,
PURSES, AND VARIOUS SORTS OF WORK, EITHER WITH SILK, COTTON, COTTON AND
SILK, WORSTED, WORSTED AND SILK, THREAD, YARN, AND SO FORTH;" in which
said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said Samuel
Hague, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature
of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month
after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same
Letters Patent, reference being thereunto had, may more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Samuel Hague, do hereby declare that my said Invention is contained in the

page_text: plan thereof hereunto annexed, which said plan is described in the words and
figures following (that is to say):-
It will be necessary first to observe that the stocking frame aforesaid needeth
no presser.
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Figure 1 of the annexed representation or Drawing explained as follows:-
A, a stump; B, a lead, with the stumps cast in the same tricks, and laying on
the needles; C, a sinking guide, with its axle (-), to move or turn in the
caster back; D, the profile or side view of the sinking guide; E, a caster
back, with the hole (y), to receive the sinking guide axle; F, a caster
back, with the sinking guide put on, with a small spring behind to keep the
guide in a proper position; G, hanging bits, shaped for the purpose of passing
through the gap (6) of the sinking guide; H, position of the sinkers when the
hanging bits stop at the sinking guide catches, marked (a); I. position of the
sinkers when the frame is forced backwards, to carry the unwrought course or
shute under the needle beards, in order to bring the same to the needle heads.
Figure 2; K. a needle directer; L, a stump director; M, the axle whereon
the said directors move, screwed into the dog by the opposite end, and marked
(a); N, a rest, to keep the directors in a proper posture; O, a nut. Each end
of the machine are to have a nut screwed on the under side with two screws,
for the purpose of striking and working the directors (as shewn hereafter).
P, an axle guide, with its grove (a), for the machine axle to rise in and force
the machine forwards. Figure 3d; Q, a dog, not mounted; R, a dog, mounted,
with directors, rest axle, guide, and stop; S, T, U, tickler leads, in their
several positions or attitudes, for the purposes hereafter mentioned.
Now, to shew how this machinery is used and worked with, let the workman
observe (first) that he may set on with the machine (as in twills) or by hand;
ho may then proceed to draw the jacks; and when he has sunk and divided;
bring the frame forward, until the hanging bits stop at the sinking guide
catches, (see marks a, a, at C and D, Fig. 1", [then all the setting on course or
shute will slip over and fall from the end of the stumps upon the needle beards,
which said catches are to prevent the work from being brought too forward
(see H, Fig. 1, as aforesaid). Now, by pushing the frame backwards the
….-k she sinkine cuide cous (marked (b)..as afore-
which said catches are to prevent the work from being brought too forward
(see H, Fig. 1, as aforesaid). Now, by pushing the frame backwards the
hanging bits will pass through the sinking guide gaps (markod (b) as afore-
said), and the unwrought course or shute will be conveyed and carried under
the stumps and beyond the needle beards (see 1, Fig. 1, the position of the
sinkers at that time); then bring forward, and the unwrought course or
shute returns under the hears to the needle heads, when the hangings bits stop
at the caster backs (hurling or flinging up), and, knocking or bringing the
setting on from off the stumps and needles, the course is finished. To work a

page_text: machine course, observe to bring the unwrought course or shute to the needle
heads by the aforesaid directions; then putting the machine to or forward, the
nuts will strike or stop against the needle directors, the ticklers will lay hold
of the needle heads, but not reach the stumps (see X, Fig. 3, the position of the
ticklers upon the needles at that time,) then, pressing the machine forward, the
axles thereof will slide up the groves of the axle guides, and the ticklers will
enter the needle eyes (see S, Fig. 34, the position of the ticklers); knock tho
work upon the ticklers and let the machine down (the nuts being below the
needle directors), then, raising the machine and gently pushing forward, the
nuts will slide up, the stump directors at the same time lifting up the needlo
directors, will slip between the directors, at which time the machine will project
or move forward until its axles are stayed by their stops (marked o, in R, in
Fig. 8); the ticklers now cover the stumps and needles (see, Fig. 3); shift
or move the machine sideway, (commonly called twilling), and deliver the work
upon the stumps and needles, by pulling the frame over the arch. To work
the backing course (see the aforesaid rule for bringing the unwrought courso
or shute to the needle beads); then by bringing forward, all the stiches or
work (delivered on the stumps and needles by the machine the course before)
will be delivered by the stumps safely over the needle beards without tho
common presser, as mentioned before. Therefore the workman (as in twilled
work) must use the machine every other course, and will thereby see that this
work is double knitted, in contradistinction to twilled or double twilled work,
and so forth.
Observation 1, the sinking guide must be made so as to work and pass
freely under the caster back.
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2dly, the caster backs with their sinking guides must be set in such position
that when the frame comes over the arch, the hanging bits will bear back, and
slide up the fore or front side of the sinking guide, and slip or escape through
the gap (marked (6) Fig. 1", as aforesaid) of the sinking guide before the
frame catches arrive at the cokens.
(Remark.) Those words wrote between the black lines are redundant.
N.B. The properties and qualifications of this work aro elasticity, beauty,
and strength.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Hague, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, the Thirteenth day of November, in the thirty-first 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 in
the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety.
SAM HAGUE. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE. IT REMEMBERED, that on the Thirteenth day of November,
in the year above written, the aforesaid Samuel Hague 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 stampt according to the tenor of the Statute in that!
case made and provided.
Inrolled the Fifteenth day of November. in the year above mentioned.