A NEW MACHINE OR ENGINE FOR STAMPING AND PRINTING OF PAPER, SILK, WOOLLEN, COTTON, AND LINNEN CLOTHS, AND OTHER ARTICLES MADE OF SILK, WOOL, COTTON, OR LINNEN, AND BY THE SAID PETITIONERS SAID NEW INVENTION THE STAMPING. &TING OF,,,, .HS, AND. OTHER ARTICLES MADE OF SILK, WOOLL, COTTON, OR LINNEN WOULD BE GREATLY FACILITATED AND RENDRED MUCH LESS EXPENSIVE, AND MORE PERFECT AND EXACT
Year: 1772

page_text: TO ALL TO. WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, CHARLES
TAYLOR, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Merchant, sends
greeting.
WHEREAS Joseph Adkin the elder, of the same place, Shuttlemaker,
Joseph Adkin the younger, of the same place, Turner, the said Charles Taylor,
and Thomas Walker the younger, of the same place, Merchant, did, by their
Petition, humbly represent unto His most Excellent Majesty King George
the Third, that they had, by great application and, study, found out, invented,
and brought to great perfection "A NEW MACHINE OR ENGINE FOR STAMPING AND
PRINTING OF PAPER, SILK, WOOLLEN, COTTON, AND LINNEN CLOTHS, AND OTHER
ARTICLES MADE OF SILK, WOOL, COTTON, OR LINNEN, AND BY THE SAID PETITIONERS
SAID NEW INVENTION THE STAMPING. & PRINTING OF PAPER, SILK, WOOLLEN,
COTTON, AND LINNEN. CLOTHS, AND. OTHER ARTICLES MADE OF SILK, WOOLL, COTTON,
OR LINNEN WOULD BE GREATLY FACILITATED AND RENDRED MUCH LESS EXPENSIVE,
AND MORE PERFECT AND EXACT;" and in regard the said new Invention would be
of great publick utility and service, and that the said Petitioners were the sole
Inventors of such machine or engine, they therefore most humbly prayed that
His said Majesty would be most graciously pleased to grant unto them His
Majesty's Royal Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of Great Britain, for
the making of the said machine or engine, and the sole use and benefit of their
said Invention in that part of Great Britain called England, His Dominion
of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of fourteen years,
under such restrictions as to His said Majesty should seem meet; His said
Majesty, being willing to give encouragement to all arts which might be for
the publick good, was graciously pleased to condescend to their request, and

page_text: therefore by His Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the
Fourteenth day of March, in the twelfth year of His reign, of His especial
grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, for Himself, His heirs and succes-
sors, did give and grant unto them, the said Joseph Adkin the elder, Joseph
Adkin the younger, Charles Taylor, and Thomas Walker, their executors,
administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole priviledge
and authority, that they, the said Joseph Adkin the elder, Joseph Adkin the
younger, Charles Taylor, and Thomas Walker, their executors, administrators,
and assigns, and every of them, by themselves, or by their deputy or deputies,
servants or agents, or such others as they, the said Joseph Adkin the
elder, Joseph Adkin the younger, Charles Taylor, and Thomas Walker,
their executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no other, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term of years therein expressed; should and lawfully might make, use, exercisc,
and vend their said Invention within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom
of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town. of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to them, the said Joseph Adkin the
elder, Joseph Adkin the younger, Charles Taylor, and Thomas Walker, their
executors, administrators, or assigns, or any of them, should in their discretions
seem meet, and that they, the said Joseph Adkin the elder, Joseph Adkin the
younger, Charles Taylor, and Thomas Walker, 'their executors, administrators,
and assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit,
commodity, and advantage froin time to time coming, growing, accruing,
and arising by reason of the said Invention, for and during the term of years
therein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers,
priviledges, and advantages therein-before granted or mentioned to be granted
unto them, the said Joseph Adkin the elder, Joseph Adkin the younger,
Charles Taylor, and Thomas Walker, their executors, administrators, and
assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term of fourteen years from
the date of the said Letters Patent next and immediately ensuing, and fully
to be compleat and ended, according to the 'Statute in such case made and
provided; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if they,
the said Joseph Adkin the elder, Joseph Adkin the younger, Charles Taylor,
and Thomas Walker, or one of them, should not particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of their said Invention, and in what manner the same was
to be performed, by an instrument in writing under their hands and seals, or the
hand and seal of one of them, and cause the same to be inrolled in His said
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar months from the date
of the said Letters Patent, then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and

page_text: advantages thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void,
anything therein-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwith-
standing, as in and by the said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had,
more fully and at large appears.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, he, the said
Charles Taylor, doth hereby describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, machine, or engine, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, as follows (that is to say):-
The bottom or pedestal of the machine is formed of two pieces of oak,
each eight foot long, eight inches wide, and five inches deep, which are laid
along and fixed into the floor of the room, and firmly secured at the distance
of twenty inches from each other, by two strong pieces of oak morticed into
the ends of each; two pieces of oak, each six foot high, eleven inches broad,
three thick, are placed upright in the center of the pedestal directly opposite
to each other, held together by a piece of oak morticed into the top of each.
Each upright piece has a spur of oak six foot long, three inches square, placed
on each side of it, which is fixed betwixt the top part of the upright and the
extreme end of the pedestal, to hold the parts firm to each other; both uprights-
have a groove in them which is cut three foot eight inches deep from the top,
and is one and a half inch wide. In this groove run the axles of three rollers,
which are each two foot in length, and commonly made of sycamore or other
fine grained wood after this proportion: The bottom roller is seven inches
diameter, the surface of it turned as even as possible; the lower part of this
roller from the axle runs within a wood box or trough, which is six inches
deep, fixt betwixt the uprights; this box contains the liquor, for printing with,
and is filled with it to that heighth that the roller may run about half an inch
deep in the liquor. Upon the bottom roller is placed-the middle, roller,
which the pattern for printing is cut one eighth of an inch deep. This roller
is commonly about three inches diameter; upon this is placed another roller
six and a half inches diameter. The axles of these rollers are of iron, one
a half inches diameter, passing quite through the rollers and the uprights
which support them, the axles of the top and bottom rollers extending two
inches at each end through the upright; the axle of the middle roller is three
inches longer than the other axles, to allow a handle which is fixed upon it to
turn the roller round-freely. The rollers are pressed close together within the
groove by two iron levers, each six foot long, two and a half inches deep..one
inch thick; each lever is fixed upon a pivot or pin, at each end of the axle of
the top roller on the outside of each upright, in such a manner as to lie hori-
zontally upon the end of the axle when left at liberty, or to allow of its being
upon

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lifted
up if necessary.
These levers have notches in them at the ends furthest
from the rollers, that a weight of ten pound may hung upon each lever, and
'may be removed nearer to, or a greater distance from, the rollers, as the piece
for printing is of coarser or finer quality. The levers may be raised or let
down by two cords, each fixed about eighteen inches from the extreme end of
each lever, which cords wind round a cylinder three and a half inches diameter
moving betwixt the top of the two uprights; this cylinder is drawn back by
another cord which winds the contrary way on the same cylinder, and is joined
to a lever of oak about three foot in length and four inches deep, which is
fixed to the bottom of the machine. This lever being pressed down winds up
the iron levers and raises the top roller by means of two other córds which
join to the axle of that roller and wind round the cylinder in the same manner
as those which raise the iron levers. When the cloth is ready for printing it is
wound upon a roller about three inches diameter, which is then fixed between the
two spurs a foot and a half above the three printing rollers, from thence the
cloth passes through two rails fixed upon the sides of the uprights upon the
level, with the middle roller to prevent the cloth from crimping. The top
printing roller and iron levers must then be raised up that the cloth may be
laid even betwixt the top and middle roller, and afterwards let down to their
proper place by turning the handle. The cloth passes betwixt the top and
middle roller, and there receives the impression from the middle roller, which
is supplied with liquor from the bottom roller which runs in the wood box of
liquor. After the cloth receives the impression it is laid in propper folds to dry.
The machine of the above dimension and proportion may be used for print-
ing a piece of woollen, cotton, or linen cloth, or of silk or paper, of twenty-two
inches wide, and may be varied in the size in proportion to the breadth of the
piece intended to be printed.
In witness whereof, he, the said Charles Taylor, hath hereunto set his
hand and seal, the Thirteenth day of July, in the twelfth 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 seventy-two.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that the Thirteenth day of July, in the
year above written, the said Charles Taylor came before the said Lord the
King in His Chancery, and acknowledged 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 Thirteenth der of July in the moon chom