AN IMPROVED ESCAPEMENT FOR WATCHES BY AN INVENTION CALCULATED TO MAKE THEM BEAT DEAD SECONDS FROM PRINCIPLE AND PARTS OF SECONDS, BY MEANS OF CLOCK PALLETS ATTACHED TO A LEVER OPERATING ON A VERTICAL WHEEL
Year: 1812

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
SMITH, of Coventry, in the County of Warwick, Watchmaker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, in and
by His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing
date the Ninth day of December, in the fifty-third year of His reign, for
Himself, His heirs, and successors, did give and grant unto me, the said
Samuel Smith, His especial licence that I, the said Samuel Smith, my execu-
tors, administrators, and assigns, by myself or themselves, or by my or their
deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said Samuel
Smith, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time 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, within that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
my Invention of "AN IMPROVED ESCAPEMENT FOR WATCHES BY AN INVENTION
CALCULATED TO MAKE THEM BEAT DEAD SECONDS FROM PRINCIPLE AND PARTS OF
SECONDS, BY MEANS OF CLOCK PALLETS ATTACHED TO A LEVER OPERATING ON A
VERTICAL WHEEL;" in which said Letters Patent there is a proviso obliging
me, the said Samuel Smith, in and by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my 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
two calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had will more
fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Samuel Smith, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, is described and ascer-
tained in the following explanation, that is to say:-
The escapement wheel, which is made of brass, steel, or other metal, having
five teeth, more or less, strikes vertically upon pallits made of brass, steel, or
other metal, stones or not with ruby or other stone, in an horizontal position,
on whose arbor is affixed a wheel to drive a pinion in tlie balance, to which
balance is affixed the pendulum spring to render the motion at once steady and
secure; the train of the movement may be made to shew seconds or parts of
seconds at the pleasure of the manufacturer or wearer. The advantage gained
by this escapement are threefold; first, its simplicity; secondly, its durability;
thirdly, its correctness in measuring time. Its simplicity in formation is such
that any mechanical genius may easily understand its functions, durability, and
strength, to be such that nothing but violence can obstruct or derange it, but
should it so happen it is easily rectified. Its motion being so steady, not liable
to agitation by riding or any other exercise, renders the watches to which this
Invention is applied excellent timekeepers, and they are particularly valuable
to gentlemen who ride much, or whose naval and military duties on foreign
station detain thein long from home.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Smith, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hindrod and thirtoon
Inrolled the Twenty-ninth day of January, in the year above written.