A MACHINE FOR THE MAKING OF THREAD USED IN THE MANFACTURING OF BONE LACE, COMMONLY CALLED MECHLIN, LONG DOZEN, AND BELL
Year: 1789

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
SMITH, of Northampton, Lace Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty, by His Letters Patent under
the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Ninth day
of May, in the twenty-ninth year of His Majestie's reign, did give unto me,
the said Charles Smith, His special licence that I, the said Charles Smith,
during the term of fourteen years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of His Majestie's
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, an Invention of which I am become. possessed,
and which is new in this Kingdom, being "A MACHINE FOR THE MAKING OF
THREAD USED IN THE MANFACTURING OF BONE LACE, COMMONLY CALLED MECHLIN,
LONG DOZEN, AND BELL;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a
proviso, obliging me, within one month next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent, to cause a particular description of the said
machine, by writing under my hand and seal, to be inrolled in His Majestie's
High Court of Chancery, otherwise the said Letters Patent to be void.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Charles Smith, do hereby declare that the Drawing in the margin, with the

page_text: references hereafter mentioned describing the same, contains a full and
particular description of the said machine, and of the method of working
the same, viz* :—
A, the frame of the machine. B, the wheel that gives the first motion to
the machine, being turned by hand on the opposite side of the perspective.
C, the drum wheel, being put in motion by the wheel B, moves the whole
machinery. D, a face wheel communicating motion from the drum to the
reel. E, a crown wheel conveying the received motion. F, a face wheel
receiving the last motion to the reel. G, three different sized trundle heads;
others are added as occasion may require to increase or diminish the motion
of the reel. H, the timepiece that numbers the turns on the reel. I, a cog
that turns the timepiece as the reel comes round. K, an iron that confines
the trundle heads to a steady position. L, the spindles, forty-eight in number,
on which the bobbins are placed. M, brass steps on which the spindles run.
N, brackets to stay the spindles upright. O, the bobbins on which the thread
is wound. P, the leads that guide the thread from the bobbins to the pullies.
Q, the thread as it proceeds from the bobbins to the reel. R, the pullies that
guide the thread in its passage from the bobbins to the reel. S, the frames
that the pullies are fixed on. T, a screw that moves the uppermost frame that
the pullies are fixed on for the better guiding of the thread to the reel. U, the
reel that receives the thread as it comes twisted. W, a leather strap or band
that goes round the drum wheel, then crossed over and goes round the spindles.
The drum, by this communication, gives motion to the spindles and bobbins by
turning them round. This motion twists the threads whilst the other com-
munications from the drum, as by D, E, F, G, puts the reel in motion to
receive the thread as it comes from the bobbins. X, a binder that tightens or
slackens the leather strap or band by a screw. Y, rolling carriages that support
the strap or band.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto affixed my hand and seal, this
Twenty-first day of May, One thousand seven hundred and eighty-
nine
Sealed and delivered, being first duly
stamnt in the presence. of
CHAS SMITH. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-first day of May, in
the year of our Lord 1789, the aforesaid Charles Smith came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according
to the tenor of the Statutes made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-seventh day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine.