A MACHINE TO PUMP WATER AND OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES
Year: 1791

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
BATE, of Little Hulton, near Bolton, in the County Palatine of Lancaster,
Fustian Weaver, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Twenty-sixth day of November, in the thirty-second year
of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said Richard Bate, His especial
licence that I, the said Richard Bate, during the term of years therein
expressed, should and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A MACHINE
TO PUMP WATER AND OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES;" in which said Letters Patent
there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said Richard Bate, under my
hand and seal to cause a particular description of the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in
His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month after the
date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the samo (relation being
thereunto had) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Richard Bate, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a machine to
pump water and other useful purposes, is described in the plan and description
thereof hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Bate, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-second day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety-one.
RICHARD BATE. (L.8.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twenty-second day of
December, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Richard Bate came
before our Lord the King in Elis Chancery, and acknowledged the Specifi-
cation aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the 5
tenor of the Statute in that case made and provided.
Don in the wom above mentioned.

page_text: which
ovre purpose of useing exercising and/
vending the game within England Wales and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed for and during the term of Fourteen years His most Excellent
Majesty King George the Third hath been graciously pleased to give and grant unto the said Richard Bate his executors administrators and assigns his
vaid Majesty's Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain bearing date at Westminster the twenty sixth day of November in the thirty second year
of His said Majesty Reign._
make
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Figuer 1. Is an horizontal view of the Engine or Machine the yellow part thereof bring a frame made of wood A.A.A.A.A. being five ribs placed
two inches asunder for the purpose of letting the different wheels of the said machine and the two beam levers D.D. to work and pass in the distances,
C in the said figuer and also in figuer 2 and 3 is a new conshucted lever with a segmental circle of brass or iron at one end thereof containing a
variable number of teeth moving or working upon an iron crank with an iron notch returned catch and stop fixed upon one end of the Crank and
the head stock in which the said Crank is fixed (the notch and catch being to keep the teeth of the said segmental circle firm in the teeth of the lever
wheell N in both figuers 1 and 2 during every stroke or return of the same lever and the stop to lift up the batch at the end of every shoke or return to
or effect a new one for the purpose of setting or putting continuing and keeping the whole of the wheels and other works or movements contained
and fixed in the said machine in motion I the iron crank. Is the returned Catch M. the notch to receive the Catch and 0 the stop to lift the notch
Mat the end of every stroke or return of the lever C. ___ 0 in figuer 1 is an iron axle which bith horizontal to and extends from one side of the said
fraine to the other in five seperate steps of Brass fixed seperately upon five wooden head stocks for such axle to lie in and move and turn round upone
(the two steps in each of the outside most head-stocks covering each end of such axle and keeping the same firm in the said five steps / which said
axle passes through four iron wheels fixed fast upon the squares of the said axle, which wheels are for the following purposes vijt The above mentioned lever
-wheell (whose diameter is five inches and one tenth of an inch in the above described drawing/marked N° in figuer 1 receives and is worked by the Teeth in
the said segmental circle at the end of the aforesaid lever which lever wheel turns the axle and the three other wheels thereupon fixed as aforesaid, the
beam lever wheels E. E in the same figuer (whose respective diameters are nine inches and five tenths of an inch in the model / being toothed half way
round their respective circumferances works the hereinafter mentioned and described beam levers F. F. in same figuer (The toothed parts of these two last
mentioned wheels are reversed that is to say the teeth of the one wheel are upermost when those of the other are underneath or below the center of such other
wheel in order to work the said Beam Levers alternately the me rising whilst the other is falling) and the other toothed wheel & in said figuer 1. (whose
Diameter in the same model is also five inches and one tenth part of an inch) works and turns two other wheels the one marked II in said figuer 1.
whose diameter is also five inches and one tenth part of an inch / but the other being a multiplying wheel of one inch and nine tents of an inch inf
diameter in the aforesaid model bying exactly underneath the wheel & cannot be seen in said figuer 1 which wheel It turns another multiplying wheel
of the same diameter of the last mentioned multiplying wheel fixed upon the axle of the fly wheel B. 6 which fly wheel regulates the motion of all the
said wheels N.E.E.GH. and the multiplying wheel underneath the wheel H. _ D. and D in both figuers 1 and 2 are beam levers of twenty six
inches and one tenth of an inch each in length from the extreme ends to the sweep of the segmental circle thereon hereinafter described and twenty inches from
the respective centers or axis of such beam levers to such sweeps of the said segmental circles and which sweeps are respectively fifteen inches and eight tenths
of an inch in length fixed upon the axle P. the segmental head parts being of wood with a segmental circle of brass screwed to each containing thirty four teeth
in the said model more or less and which same teeth meet and respectively enter the teeth of the said Beam lever wheels E. E above described from each
of which beam heads hang suspended the wrights marked x.x. in order to encrease their power in dropping after their respective teeth have parted from or quitted
those in the respective beam lever wheels whereby the power of the wheels upon the axle P and Vare greatly increased. Upon which axle Pare fixed two detent or
saw toothed wheels Q. Q. which pass through a notch nick or opening in the said exhume ends of each beam lever which being respectively held stoped or detained
by two iron stays or latches causes the motion of the axle I in both the said figuers 1 and 2 placed underneath the axle P and the two wheels thereupon fixed/
marked S in figuer 1. whose diameter is also five inches and one tenth part of an inch in the aforesaid model but the other bring a multiplying wheel also of one
inch and nine-tenths of an inch in diameter in the aforesaid model lying exactly underneath the wheel S cannot be seen which two last mentioned wheels turn the
other fly wheel B which fly wheel regulates the motion of all the said wheels fixed upon the said two axles P and V which axle V bring made square at one end and
extending two inches in the said model from or out of the said frame enters into a square socket in the center of the wheel A figuer 4 whose diameter is two inches and
seven
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surn tenths of an inch in the said model and thereby works the bucket pump figuer 4 hereinafter described. Figuer 4 is a new invented Bucket pump for the
purpose of raising large quantities of water which may be afterwards turned upon a water wheel the wheel A whose diameter in the said model is two inches and seven
tenths of an inch being fast upon the same axle with the Roller D.d the square socket fixed upon or in the center thereof receives the square end of the axle V in figuer"
7 and 2. D.d. D and D are octagonal rollers whose respective diameters are three inches and eight tenths of an inch in the same model turning upon their respective
axis for the purpose of turning the cans or buckets of the same pump. E. E and E being three of the respective cans or buckets fixed to certain links of iron as described
in figuer 6 bring a link and figuer 7 bring a link and can fixed together which go round the aforesaid Rollers D.d. D. and D. and are filled with water along with
the rest of the cans or buckets described in figuer 4 and are filled with water out of a trough or reservoir of water to be placed at the foot or bottom of the same pumpe
and when they respectively arive at F'empty themselves into the trough to which water runs out of the same trough at II in said figuer 4 upon or into the buckets of
a water wheel.
NB. The above machines and parts thereof made be made of different sizes and dimensions at pleasure).