INVENTED. METHOD OF SPINNING AND LAYING. OF ROPES, TWINE, LINE, THREAD, MOHAIR, WOOL, COTTON, AND SILK BY MACHINERY
Year: 1814

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
SELLARS, of Kemsey Elms, in the. County of. Worcester, Engineer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, in and by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Seventh day of June last past, for Himself, His heirs and s
successors, did give and grant unto me, the said William Sellars, His speciale
licence,, full power, sole privilege and authority, that: I, the said .Williams
Sellars, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by myself.
and themselves, or by my and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or
such. others as I, the said William Sellars, my executors, administrators,. ort
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, should and:
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my "INVENTED. METHOD OF SPINNING AND LAYING.
OF ROPES, TWINE, LINE, THREAD, MOHAIR, WOOL, COTTON, AND SILK BY MACHINERY;"
in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the
said William Sellars, by an instrument in: writing under my hand and. seal,
particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, and cause the same to be inrolled
in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and:
by the same, reference being thereto had, will more fully appear.
.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Sellars, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by the plans
or Drawings in the margin of these Presents, and the following description
thereof (that is to say) :-
Figure 1 is the elevation of the frame and pillars containing the upper part
of the machinery. A represents a pulley or wheel, acted upon by means of a
strap or otherwise, communicating motion to a center perpendicular shaft
marked B, on which is fixed a spur wheel marked C, of an indefinite size,.
according to the work intended; D, D, D, are three wheels or pinions, put in
motion by the spur wheel C; E, E, are two round (or square if necessary)
plates, perforated with holes, and the plates attached to each other by three
equidistant pillars, marked F, F, F. Between the pillars are placed the
machines, as described in Figure 2, of which a front and side elevation are
represented in the margin, and may be more or less in number, according as
the work may require.
Figure 2: A is a wheel or pinion, immoveable, fixed on the lower plate of
Figure. 1, marked E, round which immoveable wheel or pinion revolves the
wheel B, fixed on a spindle or shaft marked C, on which spindle is placed a
worm or wheel marked D, giving motion to the rollers marked E, E, and to
the spole above, marked F; G, G, are two springs bearing upon the axis of
the rollers E, E, and the rollers and spole are fixed in the brass or iron frame
marked H, H, Figure 3. The material intended to be layed marked a, a, a,
passes from the spole in Figure 2 marked F, through the perforated holes in
one or both of the plates in Figure 1, marked E, and is received by the con-
ductor in Figure 3 marked A, from whence it is conveyed to a revolving spole
marked B, which spole performs its evolution on the spindle or shaft marked
C; D is a lever and spring which regulates the spole, and tightens or loosens
the twist of the lay.
.
Figure 4 is the plan of the spur wheel and pinions, as described in the
elevation of Figure 1, marked C, D, D, D.
Figure 5 is a plan of the top of the machine in Figure 1, marked E, E, in
which the pillars F, F, F, are fixed.
Figure 6 is a plan of the same machinery, to be put in motion by means of
straps, in which case it will be necessary to introduce the additional rollers
marked A, A, A, and which may be of any given size, according to the
material used. These rollers are put in motion by means of the upright shaft
marked B, communicating with a bevil wheel or wheels marked C, which
receives its motion from an horizontal shaft. It may be also necessary in parti-

page_text: cular work to substitute for the machinery in Figure 2 three shafts or spindles,
as shewn in Figure 7, in the centre of which is placed a conductor for the
purpose of conveying the spun flax, hemp, thread, &c. to a receiving cylinder
or spole. The manner in which the work is performed is by placing or fixing
spun flax, hemp, thread, mohair, wool, cotton, silk, or other materials intended
to be layed upon the spoles, described in Figure 2, marked F, or on as many
of them as the work may require, and passing the several ends of the flax,
hemp, thread, mohair, wool, cotton, silk, or other material through the per-
forated holes in Figure 1, marked E, E, or as many of them as may be neces-
sary for the lay required. The ends are then carried through the conductor
in Figure 3, marked A, and wound round the receiving and revolving spole in
Figure 3, marked B. The machinery is fixed in any wooden frame of a con-
venient size, according to the bulk of the materials used, and may be worked
by water, steam, or any other power.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Fourth
day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and fourteen.
W. WELLES, of the City of Worcester,
a Master Extra. in Chancery.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Fourth day of August,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid William Sellars came before our
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, 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.