AN ENTIRELY NEW AND PARTICULAR KIND OF
Year: 1780

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
BETTS, late of Mansfield, in the County of Nottingham, but now of Peter
Street, in the Parish of Saint John the Evangelist, Westminster, in the County
of Middlesex, Frame Smith, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, upon the
humble petition of me, the said William Betts, was graciously pleased to grant
unto me, the said William Betts, His Royal Letters Patent under the Great
Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-second day of
September, in the twentieth year of His reign, thereby giving and granting
unto" me, the said William Betts, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
His especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said
William Betts, ny executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them,
by myself and themselves, or by my or their deputy or deputies, servants, or
agents, or such others as I, the said William Betts, my executors, adminis-
trators, 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,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within that said part
of His Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales,
and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in His Colonies and Plantations
abroad, in such 'manner as to me, the said William Betts, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or any of them, should, in my or their discretions,
see meet, my Invention of "AN ENTIRELY NEW AND PARTICULAR KIND OF

page_text: MACHINE OR INSTRUMENT FOR WEAVING OR MANUFACTURING OF SILK, THREAD,
COTTON, AND WORSTED, AND ALSO WOOLLEN AND ALL OTHER KINDS OF YARNS, WHICH
WILL BE MUCH MORE USEFUL AND ADVANTAGEOUS TO THE PUBLICK THAN ANY OTHER
MACHINE, ENGINE, OR INSTRUMENT HITHERTO INVENTED;" in which said Letters
Patent there is contained a proviso, that if I, the said William Betts, should
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 Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within four calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said recited 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 any wise 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 William Betts, in compliance with the
said provisoe, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and declare that the same is to be performed in manner following
(that is to say):
The machine or engine represented and described in the Plan or Drawing
hereunto annexed is to be worked by hand, horse, water, or any other power.
A more particular description and explanation of the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and how the same is to be performed, I have given and set forth in the
said annexed Plan or Drawing, and the particular parts of which the same is
comprized is as follows (that is to say) :-
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No. 1, the front view of the engine or machine. A, A, A, the wood-work
on which the machine is screwed; B, B, the barr which carries C, the pressing
barr, screwed on at the outside of the fallers, and also the needles under
the pressing barr; D, D, the two standards, to which the barr E is screwed
which receives the fallers when returned ready for the next course; F, F, a
barr, screwed on the top of the standards D, D, which carries a slider, that lays
the thread, and at the same time discharges the fallers from the barr E; G, G,
the star standards, which carry a barr screwed to the top of each; on which H,
a set of wires, (single, or cast in square pieces of pewter,) are screwed; I, I, a
barr, that receives the fallers when discharged from the barr E, and returns
them again at the workman's pleasure; K, K, a pair of hooks, in which the
barr I lies, to make the work stiffer or slacker by turning the star at the top;
L, L, the two joint standards, to which the needle barr is fixed at the bottom
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page_text: of the moving standard, on which a set of needles are fixed, which are worked
by a drawby, described in the side view, after mentioned; M, a barr screwed
to the top of each joint standard to keep them steady; N, N, a front view of
the fallers; O, a faller or divider, which acts with or without a catch; P, P, P,
a machine used in making ribbed knotting, eyelet holes, basket and all other
sorts of hosiery work; Q, the slide or slur wheel; R, a needle barr, on which
the needles are screwed, single or fixed, in square pieces of metal; S, the
machine presser, which is screwed to the barr E, and hangs in a tumbling.
joint, which his brought to its work by the hand, and returned by a counter-
ballance weight; T, the weight which hangs to the end of the leaver, and takes
it out of the way of the barr I while the slack course is made.
No. 2, the side view of the engine or machine. A, A, A, A, the wood-work
on which the machine is screwed; B, the sole barr; D, D, the standards on
which the bars E and F are screwed; G, G, the star standards; L, L, the
two joint standards; M, M, the upright standards to support the springs which
go to the top of the fallers N, N, in the front view; N, N, the leavers; 0, 0,
the drawby, which catches to a notch upon the back part of the needle barr,
and takes the needles which compleats the work, and is returned by the needle
driver or counterballance P, P; Q, Q, the back part of the ribbed machine, to
which is fixed a cross barr, which reaches from one sole bar to another; R, R,
the spring which carries the ribb machine; S, S, the slider or slur wheel;
T, the slider; U, a plate which screws to the slider and carries the thread
before the fallers; W and X are a particular view of the drawby, and the
needle or counterballance.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Betts, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-second day of January, in the twenty-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 so forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven
hundred and eighty-one.
Signed, sealed, and delivered (by the above-named
William Betts, the parchment being first duly
stamped), in the presence of
W BETTS. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the said Twenty-second day of
January, in the twenty-first year of the reign of His present Majesty King
George the Third, the aforesaid William Betts came before the same Lord
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification of his In-
vention, aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in
form above written, and in the plan annexed referred to. And also the
Specification aforesaid was stamped 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.