A NEW INVENTED MACHINE OR ENGINE FOR THE SPINNING OF WOOLL AND COTTON
Year: 1738

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, LEWIS PAUL,
of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Gentleman, sendeth greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty, by His Royall Letters Patents under the
Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of June, in
the twelfth year of His reign, hath given and granted unto me, the said
Lewis Paul, my executors, administrators, and assignes, sole privilidge and
authority to make, use, exercise, and vend "A NEW INVENTED MACHINE OR
ENGINE FOR THE SPINNING OF WOOLL AND COTTON," in a manner entirely new,
to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said lycence unto me, my executors,
administrators, and assignes, for the term of fourteen years from the date of the
said Letters Patents, according to the Statute in such case made and provided;
in which said Letters Patents is contained a provisoe that if I, the said Lewis
Paul, shall not particularly describe and ascertain the nature and form of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instru-
ment in writeing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in
the High Court of Chancery within two calendar months after the date of the
said Patent, the same was to be void, as by the said Letters Patents, relation
being thereunto had, may appear.
NOW KNOW ALL MEN by these Presents, that I, the said Lewis Paul,
do, by this present Writeing under my hand and seal, declare the nature and
form of the said Invention to be, and the manner the same is to be performed
by, is as follows, to wit:-
The said machine, engine, or invention will spin wooll or cotton into thread,
yarn, or worsted, which, before it is placed therein, must be first prepared in
manner following (to wit):-All those sorts of wooll or cotton which it is
necessary to card must have each cardfull, batt, or roll joyued together, so as

page_text: to make the mass become a kind of a rope or thread of raw wooll. In that
sort of wooll which it is necessary to combe, commonly called jarsey, a strict
regard must be had to make the slivers of an equal thickness from end to end.
The wooll or cotton being thus prepared, one end of the mass, rope, thread, or
silver is put betwixt a pair of rowlers, cillinders, or cones, or some such move-
ments, which being turned round by their motion draws in the raw mass of
wooll or cotton to be spun, in proportion to the velocity given to such rowlers,
cillinders, or cones. As the prepared mass passes regularly through or betwixt
these rowlers, cillinders, or cones, a succession of other rowlers, cillinders, or
cones, moveing proportionably faster than the first, draw the rope, thread, or
silver into any degree of fineness which may be required. Sometimes these
successive rollers, cillenders, or cones (but not the first), have another rotation
besides that which diminishes the thread, yarn, or worsted, (viz'): that they
give it a small degree of twist betwixt each pair, by means of the thread itself
passing through the axis and center of that rotation. In some other cases only
the first pair of rowlers, cillenders, or cones are used, and then the bobbyn,
spole, or quill upon which the thread, yarn, or worsted is spun is so contrived as
to draw faster than the first rowlers, cillenders, or cones give, and in such pro-
portion as the first mass, rope, or silver is proposed to be diminished.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto sett my hand and seal, this Twentieth
day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and