AN IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR WEIGHING WAGGONS AND ALL OTHER CARRIAGES, AS WELL AS GOODS OR WARES OF ANY KIND WHATEVER
Year: 1796

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, W³
WHITMORE, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Engineer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Fourth day of January instant, did give and grant unto me, the
said William Whitmore, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His special
licence, that I, the said William Whitmore, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my new Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINES
OR ENGINES FOR WEIGHING WAGGONS AND ALL OTHER CARRIAGES, AS WELL AS GOODS
OR WARES OF ANY KIND WHATEVER;" in which said Letters Patent there is con-
tained a proviso obliging me, the said William Whitmore, 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 next and immediately
after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, (relation being thereunto had)
may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Whitmore, do hereby declare that the following is a particular
description of my said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to
be performed (that is to say) :-

page_text: My method and principal improvements in making machines or engines for
weighing waggons and all other carriages, as well as goods or wares of any
kind whatever (they being mostly placed in very damp situations), consists in
securing the working parts from rust, and reducing the friction, and of making
the fulcrums and bearings of such materials as are not liable to be injured by
rust, for which purpose they are so contrived that the said fulcrums, with their
bearings, are surrounded or enclosed within a box or trough that has oil (or any
other liquid or substance capable of producing the same effect) put into the same,
and therewith filled till the edges of the fulcrums are compleatly immerged in the
said oil or liquid. The whole should be then covered with leather, brass, wood,
or any other material, so as to prevent dust or dirt getting into the boxes,
whereby the edges are preserved to a great length of time, and the machine
more accurate and less liable to bo out of order.. Tho levers in which the
fulcrums are placed, so as to sustain the bridge, are mado of various forms and
materials, such as wood, cast iron, wrought iron, &c., &c., and the boxes are
fastened on as the engineer may think best, so that they are capable of con-
taining oil or any other liquid, and in many instances applicable to old engines
already erected:
In witness whereof, I, the said William Whitmore, have hereunto, set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of January, in. the year of our
WILL WHITMORE: (1.8.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-seventh day, of'
January, in the year above written, the aforesaid William. Whitmore. came
before our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged: the. Specification
aforesaid; and all and every thing therein contained, in form above. written..
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor. of:
the Statute in that case made and provided.
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