NEW-INVENTED PUMP OR ENGINE, BY THE USE OF WHICH A GREATER QUANTITY OF WATER MAY BE FURNISHED OR RAISED THAN BY ANY OTHER PUMP OR ENGINE HITHERTO INVENTED, THE PRINCIPAL USE OR APPLICATION OF WHICH IS TO RAISE AND DISCHARGE WATER OUT OF SHIPS OR MINES, TO DRAIN MARSH LANDS,EMPTY PONDS, CANELS, OR RESERVOIRS, TO BE OF VARIOUS USES IN MILLS, AND TO WATER LANDS, GARDENS &C., WHICH PUMP OR ENGINE IS CONTRIVED AS IT MAY BE WORKED BY MEN, HORSES, FIRE, OR WATER; AND ALSOTED ENGINE FOR READILY EXTINGUISHING FIRES OR FLAMES, WHICH IS 50 CONTRIVED AS TO BRING IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE WHERE GREAT FIRES HAPPEN, AND SO AS TO PREVENT THE ENCREASE OR SPREADING OF SUCH FIRES FLAMESs
Year: 1766

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
NICHOLAS MICHEL BABU, of Jermyn Street, in the Parish of Saint James,
Westminster, in the County of Middlesex, Engineer in Hydraulicks, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Twelfth day of July, in the sixth year of His reign,
did give and grant unto me, the said Charles Nicholas Michel Babu, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, His special licence, full power, sole
priviledge and authority, that I, the said Charles Nicholas Michel Babu, my
exccutors, administrators, and assigns, during the term of years therein men-
tioned, make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of His Majesty's King-
dom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my "NEW-INVENTED PUMP OR ENGINE, BY THE USE OF
WHICH A GREATER QUANTITY OF WATER MAY BE FURNISHED OR RAISED THAN BY ANY
OTHER PUMP OR ENGINE HITHERTO INVENTED, THE PRINCIPAL USE OR APPLICATION OF
WHICH IS TO RAISE AND DISCHARGE WATER OUT OF SHIPS OR MINES, TO DRAIN
MARSH LANDS, EMPTY PONDS, CANELS, OR RESERVOIRS, TO BE OF VARIOUS USES IN
MILLS, AND TO WATER LANDS, GARDENS, &C., WHICH PUMP OR ENGINE IS CONTRIVED
AS IT MAY BE WORKED BY MEN, HORSES, FIRE, OR WATER; AND ALSO MY NEW-
INVENTED ENGINE FOR READILY EXTINGUISHING FIRES OR FLAMES, WHICH IS 50
CONTRIVED AS TO BRING IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE WHERE GREAT FIRES HAPPEN, AND
SO AS TO PREVENT THE ENCREASE OR SPREADING OF SUCH FIRES OR FLAMES;" in
which said recited Letters Patent is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said
Charles Nicholas Michel Babu, by an instrument in writing under my hand
nd seal, to cause a description of my said Inventions to be inrolled in His
High Court of Chancery within four calender months from the date of the

page_text: said recited Letters Patent, otherwise the same to be void, as in and by the
said recited Letters Patent may appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that, in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Charles Nicholas Michel Babu, do hereby declare that my said Inventions are
made and performed in manner following (that is to say) :-
The pump or engine for raising water is made and performed in manner
and according to the Draughts hereunder drawn and delineated, marked
Figure J and 2, and herein-after particularly described and explained (that is
to say) :-
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A, A, two axes, furnished with trundleheads, wheels, pinions, and different 1
handles, as occasion requires, upon which trundleheads the chain of the
vessels or barrels B, B, moves or turns.
B, B, vessels or barrels, specifically lighter than water, either solid or
hollow.
C a cistern, through which the vessels B, B, pass.
D, a celindrical hole of a proper length, the bottom of which is wider than
the top.
E, a reservoir.
F, F, the pipe of the nourishing pump.
G, a pipe to enter the cistern C when necessary.
H, H, H, Figure 2, wheels, trundleheads, and pinions, made to act with
any kind of handles.
I, Figure J, a cistern filled with water or other fluid to make the air
vessel L float.
K, a chain or iron fastened to L.
L, an air vessel which swims in the cistern I, by means of which the piston
M rises and falls.
M, a piston, which acts in a tube or barrel opened at bottom.
N, O, two valves.
P, the part where the water emptys itself out of the pipe F, F, into the
cistern C, to fill it and supply the loss of water.
V, the axes, to move one or more nourishing pumps.
The vessels or barrels B, B, when they come into the cistern C, being
specifically lighter than the water, quicksilver, or other fluid with which C is
filled, will continually rise and put in motion A, A, and B, B, by means of
which the axes V will put in motion the piston M of the nourishing pump, or
a range of as many pumps as is thought proper, and at the same time
H, H, H (in Figure 2), being likewise put in motion, may be applied to work
any pump, machine, or engine for raising or discharging water out of ships or
mines, draining marsh lands, emptying ponds, canals, or reservoirs, watering
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page_text: ardens, lands, &c., raising waits, working mills, and various other purposes.
f it should be found that one chain of the vessells or barrels B, B, is not of
ufficient force, the number may be encreased at pleasure.
And further, that my new-invented engine for extinguishing fires and
lames is made and performed in manner and according to the Draughts
ereunder drawn and delineated, marked Figure 3, 4, & 5, and herein-after
particularly described and explained, that is to say :-
A, a plate of thin iron fixt to the frame F.
B, a cross bar, to which is fixed the iron barr D.
C, an handle.
D, an iron barr with teeth.
E, a spring hook to fasten into any part of the teeth of D.
F. an iron frame fixt round A.
H, a wooden bar, to which is fixt the hook E.
This machine is to be fixed to the outside of windows, and fastened within.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Nicholas Michel Babu, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of November, in
the seventh year of the reign of His said Majesty King George the
Third, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and
sixty-six.
CHARLES NICHOLAS (L.S.) MICHEL BABU.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the aforesaid Eleventh day of No-
vember, in the seventh year of the reign of His Majesty King George the
Third, the aforesaid Charles Nicholas Michel Babu came before our said Lord
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Writing aforesaid, and
every thing therein contained, in form above said. And the said Writing was
stamped according to the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of
King William and Queen Mary, and so forth.
Inrolled the aforesaid Eleventh day of November, in the seventh year of
His Majesty King George the Third. 1766.