A METHOD FOR THE DRESSING, CARDING, SLOBRING, ROVING, AND SPINNING OF COTTON, SILK, WORSTED, AND WOOLLEN
Year: 1779

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, 1, ROBERT
PEELE, of Church, near Blackburn, in the County Palatine of Lancaster,
Callico Printer, 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 Eighteenth day of February, in the nineteenth year of His reign,
did give and grant unto me His special license, that I, the said Robert Peele,
during the term of fourteen years therein mentioned, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of His Majesty's
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A METHOD FOR THE DRESSING,
CARDING, SLOBRING, ROVING, AND SPINNING OF COTTON, SILK, WORSTED, AND
WOOLLEN;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging
me, under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and
to 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
Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, will more
fully appear.
) NOW KNOW YEE, that I, the said Robert Peele, in compliance with the
said proviso, do hereby ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and declare
that the plan thereof hereunto annexed is composed of the following par-
ticulars (that is to say) :-
A, the great cylinder in the carding machine; B, the small cylinder in ditto,
5 with garter cards upon it; C, the two rollers in ditto, which calendars the
carding which falls into a tin kan marked D; E, a small tube which turns the
carding before it is drawn into the calendar; F, the tin kan in the roving

page_text: machine filled with cardings; G, a pulley which turns the kan; H, the carding
arising out of the kan up to the drawers marked I; K, a double steel spring,
which presses the drawers to hold the thread; L, the roving that falls from the
drawers into the fly marked M, and from thence goes on the bobbin marked N;
O, a band which turns the fly by a pulley fix'd upon the shaft P; Q, a crank
which lifts up a bar mark'd R, which moves the bobbin to guide the thread;
S, the shaft of the spinning machine; T, an iron wheel upon the shaft S:
U, a small iron wheel turned by the great wheel T; V, a tumbling shaft
turned by a small wheel upon the shaft W, upon one end of which is a wheel
which turns the drawers; X, the drawers; Y, the thread; Z, the flys with
the bobbins upon them.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Peele, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of March, in the nineteenth 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, &c., and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven
hundred and seventy-nine.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that the Thirteenth day of March, in the
nineteenth year of the reign of King George the Third, the said Robert Peel
came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the
Instrument aforesaid, 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 Nineteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine.