A NEW MACHINE FOR SPINNING OF COTTON WEFT
Year: 1776

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
DEWHURST, of Lower Darwen, in the Parish of Blackburn, in the County of
Lancaster, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under His Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Sixteenth day of July, in the sixteenth year of His reign, give and grant
unto me, the said Thomas Dewhurst, His especial license that I, the said
Thomas Dewhurst, during the term of years therein expressed, should and
lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A NEW MACHINE FOR
SPINNING OF COTTON WEFT;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained
a proviso obliging me, the said Thomas Dewhurst, under my hand and seal,
to cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and how
the same is to be worked, to be inrolled in His Majestie's High Court of
Chancery within four kalendar months after the date of the said recited Letters
Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, may more fully
and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Dewhurst, do hereby declare, that my said Invention of A New

page_text: Machine for the Spinning of Cotton Weft, is described in the manner following,
that is to say-
The wheel A, on its axis B, by a wheel C, turns the nutt D, and, on the same
axis, contrate wheels to any number, which wheels turn their spindles by
their nutts E, E, E, on which spindles are placed the rovins or rough parts
of the cotton. By the above description the turning part of the machine is
explained. The nut F on the axis B, or the first movement (which turns the
wheel G on its axis H) turns the spiral or snail wheel I, which spiral wheel
turns the worm K, and on its axis is placed the contrate wheel L, which turns
the wheel M, occasionally. And on the axis of the wheel M is fixed a toothed
cylinder, which turns toothed bobbins to any number. By the above descrip-
tion the receiving part of the machine is explained. The axis H, in every
revolution by its wheel G, turned by the nut F, on the first movement A,
raises the lever N by a lever O, which last-mentioned lever lifts up the rod P,
and supplies with necessary rovins the receiving bobbins. By the last-
mentioned description the delivering part of the machine is explained. Which
said new machine may be more particularly seen and distinguished by the
model or pattern drawn and exhibited at the foot of these Presents.
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mu hand
Sworn at Salford, in the said County
of Lancaster, this Twelfth day of
November, in the year 1776, before
THOMAS DEWHURST.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that the Twelfth day of November, in
the
year One thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, the aforesaid Thomas
Dewhurst came before the Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknow-
ledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained
and specified, in form above written. And also the Instrument aforesaid
was stampt 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.
Inrolled the Fifteenth day of November, in the year One thousand seven
hundred and seventy-six.

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
DEWHURST, of Lower Darwen, in the Parish of Blackburn, in the County of
Lancaster, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under His Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing, date the
Sixteenth day of July, in the sixteenth year of His reign, give and grant
unto me, the said Thomas Dewhurst, His especial license that. I, the said
Thomas Dewhurst, during the term of years therein expressed, should and
lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A NEW MACHINE POR
SPINNING OF COTTON WEPT;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained
a proviso obliging me, the said Thomas Dewhurst, under my hand and seal,
to cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and how
the same is to be worked, to be inrolled in His Majestie's High Court of
Chancery within four kalendar months after the date of the said recited Letters
Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, may more fully
and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Dewhurst, do hereby declare, that my said Invention of A New

page_text: Machine for the Spinning of Cotton Weft, is described in the manner following,
that is to say-
The wheel A, on its axis B, by a wheel C, turns the nutt D, and, on the same
axis, contrate wheels to any number, which wheels turn their spindles by
their nutts E, E, E, on which spindles are placed the rovins or rough parts
of the cotton. By the above description the turning part of the machine is
explained. The nut F on the axis B, or the first movement (which turns the
wheel G on its axis H) turns the spiral or snail wheel I, which spiral wheel
turns the worm K, and on its axis is placed the contrate wheel L, which turns
the wheel M, occasionally. And on the axis of the wheel M is fixed a toothed
cylinder, which turns toothed bobbins to any number. By the above descrip-
tion the receiving part of the machine is explained. The axis H, in every
revolution by its wheel G, turned by the nut F, on the first movement A,
raises the lever N by a lever O, which last-mentioned lever lifts up the rod P,.
and supplies with necessary rovins the receiving bobbins. By the last-
mentioned description the delivering part of the machine is explained. Which
said new machine may be more particularly seen and distinguished by the
model or pattern drawn and exhibited at the foot of these Presents.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and seal, the Twelfth
day of November, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven
hundred and seventy-six.
In Chancery.
Thomas Dewhurst, of Lower Darwen, in the Parish of Blackburn, in the
County of Lancaster, Gentleman, upon his oath, deposeth and saith, that the
description given in words of this Deponent's Invention of his New Machine
for the Spinning of Cotton Weft in the Specification instrument hereunto
annexed, as well as the model of such new machine drawn on the same In-
strument, are. accurate, just, and, true in every respect, to this Deponent's
own knowledge.
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Sworn at Salford, in the said County
of Lancaster, this Twelfth day of
November, in the year 1776, before..
THOMAS DEWHURST.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that the Twelfth day of November, in
the year One thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, the aforesaid Thomas
Dewhurst came before the Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknow-
ledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained
and specified, in form above written. And also the Instrument aforesaid
was stampt according to the tenor of the Statute made in the Sixth
the reign of the late King and Queen William and Mary of England, and so
forth
year
of
Inrolled the Fifteenth day of November, in the year One thousand seven
hundred and seventy-six..