A CERTAIN MACHINE, INSTRUMENT, OR ENGINE FOR RAISING, REMOVING, AND CARRYING OF EARTH, STONES, RUBBISH, OR ANY THING OF THE LIKE NATURE, SO AS GREATLY TO FACILITATE AND RENDER LESS LABORIOUS AND EXPENSIVE THE CARRYING ON AND EXECUTING THE WORKS OF CANALS, NAVIGABLE CUTS, OR ANY OTHER GREAT AND IMPORTANT WORK WHERE THE SAME MAY BE REQUIRED TO BE REMOVED AND CARRIED AWAY
Year: 1798

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
GOOLDING, of the Parish of Willesden, in the County of Middlesex, Yeoman,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing
date at Westminster, the Tenth day of March, in the thirty-eighth year of His
reign, give and grant unto me, the said Henry Goolding, His especial
licence, that I, the said Henry Goolding, during the term of years therein
mentioned, should and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of
"A CERTAIN MACHINE, INSTRUMENT, OR ENGINE FOR RAISING, REMOVING, AND
CARRYING OF EARTH, STONES, RUBBISH, OR ANY THING OF THE LIKE NATURE, SO AS
GREATLY TO FACILITATE AND RENDER LESS LABORIOUS AND EXPENSIVE THE CARRYING
ON AND EXECUTING THE WORKS OF CANALS, NAVIGABLE CUTS, OR ANY OTHER GREAT
AND IMPORTANT WORK WHERE THE SAME MAY BE REQUIRED TO BE REMOVED AND
CARRIED AWAY;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso
obliging me, the said Henry Goolding, by an instrument in writing 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 after
the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation
being thereunto had) may more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Henry Goolding, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described in the
plan and descriptions thereof, hereunto annexed:-
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Goolding, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight.
Inrolled the Tenth day of April, in the year above written.

page_text: contrived
or
on
great
deal
Time Labour and Expense may
of
be saved.
Machine Fig 1.
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A.B.C. represent
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The
Embankments and filling up and raising Valleys and low places by which a
This Machine
Engine is adapted for the purpose of raising removing and carryping Earth Stone Rubbish and every other commodity of the like nature from one place to another by
which a Hill at, a, may with great ease and facility be removed into a Valley at, 6, or from any sort of Carriage Barge Float, c, at, a, to any other appointed for its reception at, 6,
three pames of Fix or other wood framed to three different hights. A. nine feet B. ten feet, C. mine feet six inches high. They are made of different heights for the purpose of giving the
Sliders D a proper slope: The first length of the Sliders to be fixed so as to admit of being lowered down at the upper end as at, d... To receive a loaded Box Basket for and to be
hoisted up again by means of the common pulley and block with the Capstone e or the common Tooth and pinion f.. L. Rollers placed under the Frames to facilitate their removal and so
as to be taken off or put on as circumstances may require - E frames with Sills Kingposts and Braces and a top rail to receive the hanging irons that support and carry the sliders
ballast to keep them steady
frames are represented with a floor which is for the purpose of laying
F, a double frame with a wheel of in the centre for the more easy drawing the Boxes
Baskets and other Vehicles up and down the Machine with Sills Kingposts and Braces and Top rail as the other Frames - Those lengths of the two sliders I which are represented to extend
or project 10 or 12 feet forward beyond the double frame F. shew the space or length of the Valley that may be filled with the Earth Stones Rubbish Vc brought from the Hill, Carriage Barge
Sliders)
which when compleated it will be
(putting another length
umove the Machine a sufficient distance forward to fill up another such length and so on
necessary.
till the whole of the Work is accomplished G hanging Iron's to support the Sliders, may be made of Cast or any other Metal and are afficed to the crose pieces - I Houjontal Wheels fixed
in iron or other frames which hang perpendicularly so as to clear the side of the Sliders, At the bottom of which are hook's, to take up the boxes baskets c and to convey them from
one end of the Machine to the other by back ropes and fore-cones which are -fixed to the frame the Horizontal Wheel runs in, the Sliders to be of four mich plank eleven inches wide,
rabetted one inch on the top edge of the outside, the remaining three inches is the thickness of the Wheels, the Inch Rabbet of the top edge of the vritide of the sliders is meant that the Horizontal Wheels
clear the hanging ions as they pass by them. I. Boxes Baskets or other Vehicles for carryping the Earth are hung to a shaft from which irons ropes or other convenient apparatus, hang down on Swivels
and communicate to each end of the boxes baskets c! a little below the centre the Boxes Baskets & are emplied by means of a pin that goes through the said Irons fr from the shaft of the Box Basket of
a little above the top which when taken out the Box, Basket of turns upside down and having emptied itself, inmediately resumes its upright and proper position.
Machine Fig. 2.
Float at, a,
may
to
or
This Machine is particularly useful for all kinds of Navigation and other Works 8. where burge stills are required to be removed by Beats Barges or other Vessels A. Balks placed across the
Canal or
to
any
Pan
cross
any
not.
Sliders as
or
any
Machine Fig. 3
as
Fig 1st
oher
top of the
to e
Shaft
e has a
and
Srov
with the
he Arm
other work where Earth Stones Rubbish to may be required to be raised removed or carried away and are intended for the assistance and support of the Sliders D. and may be of any
convenient length. B. Shores to support the Balks - C double hanging Irons to receive the Sliders. E small Iron wheeled Carriages which also contain each two or three Brass or
Wheels two of which are placed in the middle and one before to communicate to a 2 or 3 Wheeled Stock # by which the moves Baskets & are affixed and suspended by a stook and lowiced
convenient depth L, a back line which is made fast to the lower end of the Carriage by which the Carriage is drawn backwards when the Machine annot act for want of a pajer Slo
horizontal Shaft Wheel worked by Horses or any other power as occasion requires _ The above Wheel is fixed under the Surface of the Ground so that the Ropes communicate to the Machin in a way
Length
that does, impede the progress of the Storse - The Wheel has four Wheels to assist in removing it - The Machine may be lengthened to any length most convenient by adding another Balki ""
of Sliders and when all the Machine is to be moved forward the hollers, R, are placed at the ends or under the Balks to expedite the removal - G, two upright pieces famed into t
Balk 12 Inch wide with a Cross Rail I fixed on the Top of the uprights fastened by a wedge other means in which is fixed a pully I, at each end for the Guide hopes that go
Wheel, I, the Sliders, D, lay on the first Balk K; close to the uprights G which keep them 12 Inches a part and on which the Carriages are drawn, the lower end of the Maci
: pica M fixed which has pulleys N at each end for the Guide Ropes to work in and draws the Carriages back. O. Boxes Baskets & C
This Machine is more particularly adapted for raiding and removing of Earth from deep Cutting in Navigations and all other Works of the like nature, A, double hanging
Fig: 2 Carriages and Boxes the same, excepting the Carriage, a, having four Brass or other Wheels for the Ropes to run in this Machine to be fixt to work at right Angle
Canal or other Works B. Balks to keep up the lower end of the Machine that hangs over the Works as a balance, at the upper end is a Crane C fixt with a joint in
hooked up by a chain at the end of the Arm of the Crape this Crane being so contrived as to take off the Boxes from the double Sliders, I), and place them on the style Slides
F, Fig 4 and Fig 5 to convey the Stuff as far off as convenient, a. single line affixed to the top of each of the frames of the Houjontal Wheels, &, in Fig
that when the Box Basket oc - C is loaded, the Sliders have a sufficient slope to occasion it to run off towards the end R which draws the empty
a, up to the Crane C to be reloaded, the frames G, Fig: 4 and 5 with a head Sill, King - posts and Braces. The head to project forward to receive the singi hanging
Irons. I, a hiangle floor is placed to each of the said frames G. to lay on ballast to keep them steady when the Boxes Baskets de come down the Sliders
the Sliders, to each of the Machines are made on the same principle and shod on, the top edge with Iron or other plates to keep the Carriages and wheld from/
wearing them, I bross pieces with doubte hanging Irons affixed to them for the support of the double Sliders framed at the end into a
raking shore, to keep sply I the
Cross price at the head of the Machine framed into raking" shores, L, M, two upright pieces at the end of each of the double Sliders framed through the top of the
are framed at a proper distance apart so that the Boxes Baskets of: will pass without touching each other a pulley is fixt in the end of each
height of the Carriage, which assists in conveying the Rope to the shaft Wheel O, N. - Two taking shores fixt against the head of the Machine to keep between
and from coming forward, fixt in the Ground with a block at the lower end of each shore to guide the Rope to the Shaft Wheel O. P, a stop to sh Palentee
Wedge underneath to fasten it where the Carriage is wanted to be stopped for lowering down the Box to the bottom of the Works - It
does not confine himself to size or to compleat his machine with the exact kind of Wood or Metal mentioned in the foregoing Specification but to erect it ith such
materials and on such a scale as may best answer the intended purpose, When the Box Basket or other Vehicle is let down by the Shaft Whell,O, into"
and loaded, and when wound up again by the same means till the Blocks torich the underside of the Carriage, the Carriage then moves to the toy
Machine where the Box Basket or other Vehicle, 6, is unloaded
piece, these pieces
the Sliders with a
a
4
d 5 so
a
asket Fo
Box
loaded
cross
at the
isteady
he Works
if the