CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF MACHINERY FOR SUPPLYING ROTATORY MOTION TO CARRIAGES, VESSELS, AND WATER MILLS
Year: 1852

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME OR BE MADE
KNOWN, I, FREDERICK WINTER, of No. 11, Eldon Street, Finsbury, in the
Parish of Saint Leonard, Shoreditch, in the County of Middlesex, Ruche
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Iler most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Twenty-ninth day of July, in the sixteenth year of Her said
Majesty's reign, did give and graut unto me, the said Frederick Winter, my
exors, adiiors, and assigns, Her especial license, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said Frederick Winter, my exors, adiñors, and assigns,
and every of them, by myself and themselves, or by my or their deputy or
deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said Frederick Winter,
my exors, adiiors, or assigns, should at any time or times agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF MACHINERY
FOR SUPPLYING ROTATORY MOTION TO CARRIAGES, VESSELS, AND WATER MILLS,"
within that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called
England, the Dominion of Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed; in
which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, that I, the said Frederick
Winter, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, to be inrolled in Her Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the

page_text: date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as, reference being thereunto
had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW THEREFORE KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso,
I, the said Frederick Winter, do hereby declare that the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are described
and ascertained, with the aid of the Drawings annexed hereto, by the words,
letters, and figures following, that is to say:-
My said Invention consists, first, in supplying rotatory motion to vessels by
means of parallel propellers, with perpendicular floats working on an endless
chain in the manner shewn by the Fig. No. 1, on the Drawings hereunto
annexed. This endless chain marked a, a, a, a, on the Fig. No. 1, with the
upper and lower perpendicular floats marked B, B, and B, B, attached to it,
revolves over a fluted or cogged driving wheel marked C, C, with advance
and back action upon the shaft marked D, D, and in the direction shown by
the arrows on the Figure. This shaft D, D, would be connected with the
shaft of the engine or machinery in the vessel (whether steam or other power
by which the motion is supplied. At the other end of the propeller the chain
revolves over a smooth recipient wheel marked E, E, the axle of which
recipient wheel would work in the frame marked G, G. There is also a slide
rest and screw tug attached to the axle of the recipient wheel for the purpose
of tightening the chain, but this is not shewn on the figure.
Fig. 3 shews the manner in which the links of the chain a, a, are connected,
and the manner in which the float B, B, is attached to the chain.
Fig. 4 shews the supporting link by which the float is attached to the
chain.
Fig. 5 is a front view of the float with the supporting links marked B, B,
and B, B, attached thereto. This propeller may also be worked by attaching
the floats to an endless india rubber or gutter percha band, instead of an
endless chain, as shewn in Fig. 2, where the band is marked H, H, H, H.
Fig. 6 shews the manner in which the float B, B, is attached to the
band H, H.
Fig. 7 shews the supporting link by which the float is attached to the
band.
My said Invention also consists, secondly, in supplying rotatory motions to
carriages by means of parallel propellers with perpendicular clamps or claws,
marked L, L, linked together, and forming an endless chain in the manner
shown by the Figure No. 8, on the Drawings hereunto annexed. This pro-
peller would work over driving and recipient wheels, precisely in the same
manner as the propeller first described and shewn in Figure No. 1, and the

page_text: clamps or claws would at each revolution strike the ground, and thus propel
the carriage. This propeller would be fixed in the frame K, K, which would
be connected with the engine or machinery in the carriage, whether steam or
other power) by which the motion is supplied. Fig. 9 is a front view of the
clamps or claws L, L.
My said Invention also consists, thirdly, in supplying rotatory motion to
watermills, by means of troughs fixed at regular distances, and moving upon
an endless chain perpendicularly down a hollow spout or shaft. These troughs
would receive the water as it falls from the sluice at the top of the shaft, and
retain it until they reach the bottom of the shaft, when the troughs would
turn over and reascend the shaft on the other side. The principle of this
Invention is, that the water, being retained in all the troughs that are
descending the shaft at the same time, its weight continues to operate until
the troughs reach the bottom of the shaft. The chain to which the troughs
are attached works over a clogged or fluted driving wheel at the top of the
shaft and a recipient wheel at the bottom; the shaft of the driving wheel
would be connected with the mill gear.
There is no figure shewing this last improvement on the Drawings annexed
hercto.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Winter, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of January, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-three.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-sixth day of January,
in the year of our Lord 1853, the aforesaid Frederick Winter came before our
said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to
the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Twenty-sixth day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.