A NEW SORT OF MACHINES OR VESSELS FOR THE REMOVAL OF OR CARRYING AWAY EARTH, BALLAST, SAND, RUBBISH, ROCK, STONES, OR ANY OTHER KIND OF MATTER THAT NOW ARE OR MAY HEREAFTER BECOME A NUSANCE TO ANY PORT, RIVER, HARBOUR, CREEK, OR INLET IN ANY OF HIS SAID MAJESTIE'S DOMINIONS
Year: 1753

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
LIDDELL, late of the Town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, but now of the City of
London, Master and Mariner, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Richard Liddell, did, by my Petition, humbly
represent unto His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Second,
that I had, by long study, great labour, application, and expence, invented "A
NEW SORT OF MACHINES OR VESSELS FOR THE REMOVAL OF OR CARRYING AWAY
EARTH, BALLAST, SAND, RUBBISH, ROCK, STONES, OR ANY OTHER KIND OF MATTER
THAT NOW ARE OR MAY HEREAFTER BECOME A NUSANCE TO ANY PORT, RIVER,
HARBOUR, CREEK, OR INLET IN ANY OF HIS SAID MAJESTIE'S DOMINIONS," and that
I humbly apprehended the same would be of great benefit and advantage to the
Kingdom in general, by rendring such ports, harbours, or places more com-
modious and secure for the navigation in general of His said Majesty's
Kingdom, and would answer the ends thereby designed more effectually than
any machine heretofore made use of or put in practice for the purposes
aforesaid; that the said Invention was new & of my own contrivance, & not
known or used by any person or persons in His said Majestie's Kingdom, save
by me, the said Richard Liddell; I therefore most humbly prayed His said
Majesty to grant unto me, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His
Royal Letters Patent for the sole use and benefit of my said Invention within

page_text: England, Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of fourteen
years, pursuant to the Statute in that case made and provided; His said
Majesty being therefore willing to give encouragement to all arts and inventions
which may be for the publick good, did, by His Letters Patent under the
Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Twelfth day
of April, in the twenty-sixth year of His reign, of His especial grace, certain
knowledge, and meer motion, give and grant unto me, the said Richard
Liddell, my executors, administrators, and assigns, especial lycence, full power,
sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said Richard Liddell, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, and every of us, by myself and themselves, or
by our deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I or they
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend my
said Invention, within that part of Great Britain called England, His Domi-
nion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me,
the said Richard Liddell, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should seem
meet, and that I, the said Richard Liddell, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit,
commodity, and advantage from time to time coming, growing, and arising
by reason of the said Invention, for and during the term of years therein
mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers,
priviledges, and advantages, unto me, the said Richard Liddell, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term of
fourteen years from the date of the said recited Letters Patent next and
iniediately ensucing, and fully to be compleat and ended; in which said
Letters Patent is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Richard Liddell,
particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, and to cause the same to be inrolled in the High
Court of Chancery within three kalendar months next and iñiediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent, otherwise the said Letters Patent, and
all liberties and advantages thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine,
and become void, anything therein contained to the contrary thereof notwith-
standing, as in and by the said Letters Patent (amongst many other proviso's
therein contained) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Liddell, in compliance with
the said proviso, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, is particularly described and

page_text: ascertained in the Plan or section thereof, with the several references for the
clearer explanation thereof hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Liddell, have hereunto, as also
to the Plan hereunto annexed, set my hand and seal, the Sixth day of
July, in the twenty-seventh year of the reign of His said Majesty
King George the Second, and in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and fifty-three.
Inrolled the said Sixth day of July, in the twenty-seventh year of the reign
of His said Majesty King George the Second.

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her Lading through, Port holes made in the bottom and to return exclusive of manual labour in
heaving it over the sides of the Vessell....
Principalls
The midle of the inside of the vessell that is to contain the Ballast must be
form'd somewhat like a Hopper that conveys the Corn to the guinders of a Hill - This Hopper must
contain as many Cubick feet of space as is equal to the quantity of Ballast design'd for a
proper Loading That there be a Port hole or more
through the bottom for the Ballast to
it - self into the Sea and a Port lidd or shutter to fasten up or
That the inside of the Hopper and passage through the bottom be equally stanch and light
as the outsides of the Vessell.
discharge
lett
до
at pleasure
That the contents of the Cavity contain'd in the ends and sides of the vessell that encompasses
the Hopper, be in quantity so much as is sufficient to bear up the vessell, utensills and
loading to a convenient height to ansiver the purpose of Navigation
be so disposed as the vessell may be govern'd with her Sails light
other small vessells in common._
Upon the foregoing principalls is founded this Section of
Freight - the dimentions are
as follows:
The extream length to the outside of Stem & Stain Post
The
extream breadth from outside to outside Plank
Deep in Hold from Ceiling to the Deck
Length of the Hopper in the Clear at the Deck
Broad
and that the whole
or loaded equal with
a Vessell to carry Twenty tons each
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Quantity of space contained inside the Hopper Cubick feet 4.50. allow'd one Cubick foot of loose
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amounts to 21 tons 1 Hundred._
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On the same principalls Vessells
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huming it over the sides of the Vassell..
Principalls. The midle of the inside of the vessell that is.
to contain the Ballast must be
formil somewhat like a Hopper that conveys the can to the gundes of.
antam as
Many
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Cubick
fest of space as is equal to the quantity of Ballast design'd for a
proper Loading
That there be a Port hole ve more. through the bottom for the Ballast to
discharge itself into the Sea and Port lidd or shutter to faston up or lett at planne
That the side of the Hopper and passage through the bottom be equally stanch and tight
as the outsides of the Vessell.--
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That the contents of the Civity contained in the unds und sides of the vessell that encompasses
the Hopper, be m
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quantity so much as is sufficient to bear up the vessell, utensills
convement height. answer the purpose of tangation und that the whole
or loaded equal with
be govern'd with her Souls light
the vessell
may
be so disposed us
other small vessells in common. _
"Upon the foregoing principalls is founded this section of
Frught the dimentions
ure
as follows
The exteram length to the outside of Stem. & Hern Fast
The stream breadth from outside
Dup
in Hold from Colony
Lingth of the Hopper.
Broud.
to
to
outside Plank
the Dick
in the Clear at the Duk
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1/2 the same promijalls
a t'well to
carry Ieverry tons
cach
the Hopper librek feet £50 allow'd
announced to 21 to 1 Hundred
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