A MACHINE FOR ASCERTAINING IN AN IMPROVED MANNER THE WEIGHT OF ANY ARTICLE
Year: 1816

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JEAN
SAMUEL PAULY, of Queen Street, Brompton, in the County of Middlesex,
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 Westminster, the Fifteenth day of August, in the fifty-sixth year of His
reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Jean Samuel Pauly, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, His especial licence,
full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Jean Samuel Pauly,
my exors, admors, and assigns, and every of them, by himself and themselves,
or by his and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I,
the said Jean Samuel Pauly, my exors, admors, or assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during
the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might use, exer-
cise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, and also within all His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, in
such manner as to me, the said Jean Samuel Pauly, my exors, adñors, and
assigns, should seem meet, my Invention of "A MACHINE FOR ASCERTAINING IN
AN IMPROVED MANNER THE WEIGHT OF ANY ARTICLE;" in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Jean Samuel Pauly,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe

page_text: 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 and immediately after
the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference
being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso contained in
the said Letters Patent, I, the said Jean Samuel Pauly, do hereby specify and
describe my Invention as follows (that is to say) :-
The machine consists of an iron or metallic box or frame, nearly in a square
form, containing the springs and machinery herein-after mentioned, and of a
brass or iron dial and steel hand on the face of the box. The machine is to
be suspended by an iron ring and handle, fastened for that purpose in the
middle of the upper end of the box. The dial is screwed to the front of the
box, and is graduated with figures and marks denoting pounds and fractions of
pounds avoirdupois. The box contains two strong side steel springs fastened
to the bottom and to the inner sides of the box by two screws, but unfixed at
the upper ends, and a flexible steel cross spring, the extremities of which rests
upon and are attached to the upper ends of the side springs. An iron or stecl
lever or bar (from the lower end of which the weight is to be suspended),
passes through the middle of the box and through the centre of the flexible
cross spring. The upper end of this lever or bar, by means of a steel pin
affixed thereto, moves an arm made of brass or other metal, to which is
attached a portion of a toothed wheel or circle, also of brass or other metal, and
which arm and portion of a wheel or circle are supported by a spindle fixed to
the back of the box. The teeth of this portion of a wheel or circle turn a small
steel toothed wheel, fixed at the lower end of a steel spindle, rising from the
centre of the back of the box, at the upper extremity of which last-mentioned
spindle is fastened the hand of the dial. Now, the weight suspended from the
lower end of the lever or bar moving the arm of the first-mentioned spindle,
the motion of which is regulated by the flexible cross spring and the two side
springs, turns the portion of the wheel or circle. This turns the small wheel
at the lower end of the spindle, in the centre of the back of the box, which
moves the hand of the dial and causes it to point to the figures which denote
the weight. The machinery and movements are illustrated and explained by
the Drawing hereto annexed.
Fig. 1, L, M, N, O, is the box or frame. C, K, is the ring and handle
from which the box is to be suspended. a, b, d, c, are the two side springs
fastened to the inner sides of the box by the screws P, Q, and R, S, the upper
extremities of which side springs are bent to prevent injury to the cross

page_text: flexible spring h, e, when pressed down by the weight. is the lever or bar
passing through the middle of the box and through the centre of the cross
flexible spring at f. p, q, is a semicircular piece of iron or steel affixed to the
lever or bar above the flexible spring h, e, by which the flexible spring is
pressed down. m is the arm fixed at the upper end of the first-mentioned
spindle. n is the pin fixed in the upper end of the lever or bar, immediately.
below the flexible cross spring, and projects through the arm m, and which
slides down the arm as the lever or bar is pressed down by the weight sus-.
pended thereto. g, o, is the portion of the toothed wheel or circle fixed to the
lower end of the same spindle. w is the small toothed wheel at the lower end
of the spindle which rises from the centre of the box. r is a piece of brass or
other metal which supports and keeps in its place the last-mentioned spindle.
Fig. 2, a, b, is the side spring. Fig. 3 is the cross flexible spring, with a
space for the top of the lever or bar to project through it. Fig. 4 is the first-
mentioned spindle. Fig. 5 is the case through which that spindle passes, the
upper part of which case is connected with the arm at m in Figure 1, and the
lower part with the toothed portion of a wheel in Figure 1, g, o. Fig. 6 is
the arm at the upper extremity of that spindle. Fig. 7 is the portion of the
toothed wheel or circle at the lower extremity of the same spindle. Fig. 8 is
the spindle rising from the centre of the box, with the small toothed wheel at
the lower end of that spindle affixed thereto. Fig. 9 is the piece of metal
which supports and keeps in its place the last-mentioned spindle viewed
sideways. Fig. 10, S is a hook to be put into the ring at the lower extremity
of the lever, and to which hook the weight is to be fastened. Fig. 11 is the
dial graduated with figures and marks, denoting pounds and fractions of
pounds avoirdupois, and Y, Z, is the hand of the dial.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jean Samuel Pauly, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixteen.
Signed, sealed, and delivered, by the
within-named Jean Samuel Pauly,
in the presence of
J. S. PAULY. (L.S.)
T T
Signed, sealed, and delivered, by the
within-named Jean Samuel Pauly,
in the presence of
J. FRISARD,
J. S. PAULY. (L.S.)
Winchester Street.
G. W. PARRY.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fourteenth day of October,
in the year of our Lord 1816, the aforesaid Jean Samuel Pauly, thro' the
interpretation of James Frisard, of Winchester Street, in the City of London,
Gentleman, came before our said Lord the King in His 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.
Inrolled the Fourteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixteen.