AN ENTIRE NEW METHOD OF RAISING WATER OUT OF MINES AND SHIPS, AND FOR SUPPLYING CITIES, TOWNS, AND OTHER PLACES WITH WATER, AND IN GENERAL FOR RAISING PONDEROUS WEIGHTS OF ALL KINDS, PARTICU- LARLY COALS CUT OF MINES, BY FIRE, BY WATER, OR BY BOTH JOINTLY
Year: 1766

page_text: BARBER, of Standsby, in the County of Derby, Esquire, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said John Barber, did by my petition humbly represent
unto His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that after
much application and many trials attended with expence, I had at last
invented and brought to perfection "AN ENTIRE NEW METHOD OF RAISING WATER
OUT OF MINES AND SHIPS, AND FOR SUPPLYING CITIES, TOWNS, AND OTHER PLACES WITH
WATER, AND IN GENERAL FOR RAISING PONDEROUS WEIGHTS OF ALL KINDS, PARTICU-
LARLY COALS CUT OF MINES, BY FIRE, BY WATER, OR BY BOTH JOINTLY;" wherefore,
and in regard I was the first and true Inventor thereof, and that the same had
never been made by any other person or persons, I did therefore most humbly
pray 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 that part of His Kingdom of Great Britain called England,
His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick upon Tweed, and also in all His
Colonies and Plantations abroad, for the term of fourteen years, according to
the Statute in that case made and provided; His said Majesty being willing
to give encouragement to all arts and inventions which might be for the
publick good was graciously pleased to condescend to my request; and there-

page_text: fore, by His Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-
sixth day of November, in the seventh year of His reign, of His especial
grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, for Himself, His heirs and
successors, did give and grant unto me, the said John Barber, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said John Barber, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, and every of us, by myself and ourselves, or by mine and our deputy
or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said John Barber, my
executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend
my said Invention within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great
Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick upon
Tweed, and also in all His Colonies and Plantations abroad, in such manner
as to me, the said John Barber, my executors, administaators, and assigns,
should in our discretions seem meet, and that I, the said John Barber, 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, accrewing, 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, privileges, and advantages therein-before granted
or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said John Barber, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term of
fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent next and immediately
ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the Statute in that
case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso,
that if I, the said John Barber, should not particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the
same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
four kalendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages
whatsoever thereby granted, should cease, determine, and become void, as
in and by the said Letters Patent (relation being thereunto had) doth and
may appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso I, the said
John Barber, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, to be as in the plans

page_text: or draughts of the machines, with the particular and general descriptions
thereof, is hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Barber, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Nineteenth day of February, in the seventh year
of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, and in the year of
our Lord One thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven.
Signed and sealed (being first legally stampt),
in the presence of us,
WILL BRADford.
BENJ. TAYLOR.
JON BARBER. (L.S.)
No. 1. A FIRE ENGINE FOR RAISING OF WATER FOR VARIOUS Purposes.
A, the main conduct pipe, divided toward the top into two parts, and each
end goes to a cylinder with clacks; E, E, two cylinders of a diameter
proportioned to the power required; I, the boiler, made in the form repre-
sented; 0, 0, two steam pipes from the boiler to the cylinders; U, U, two
pipes from the branches of A to the cylinders; B, B, pipes from the cylinders,
of a large diameter, with a sinking clack to each, coming into a trunk or hot
well, as per D lines; C, C, C, C, C, C, C, the cocks and a feeding pipe to the
boiler to snift, inject, and give steam, &c.; a fire being put under the boiler,
the proper clacks in their places, also those which discharge from the cylinder
covered to a proper height with water in the hot well, then pulling down a
Y plug, steam issues into one cylinder and shuts it out of the other, at the
same time opening a cock which admits a jet of water into that cylinder where
the steam is just shut out; this causes a vacuum, and the water rises hastily
into the cylinder; thus whilst one cylinder is filling with water, the other is
taking in the steam. The Y plug returned up again, shuts steam out from
one cylinder and admits it into the other, which is before filled with water,
and the water hastens through the sinking clack into the trunk or hot well,
and by issuing through the wide aperture from the cylinder causes a con-
siderable flux or rise of water in the trunk or hott well, which by means of a
box or buoy floating in it, fastened to the opposite end of a beam to which
the Y plug is suspended, causes the motion as the water ebbs and flows in the
trunk. Thus, by means of the usual appurtenances of a common fire engine

page_text: plug, only using them double, the regulators and injections are alternately
opened and shut, and the engine kept constantly working so long as fire is
kept under the boiler. The sinking clacks are made of tin, and soldered up
to keep out the water; thus by being rendered specifically lighter than water,
they rise to shut up the pipes B, B.
Where water is wanted to be raised to a greater height, repetitions of
the material parts by carrying steam up from the same boiler will thereby
raise water to any height, and may be very differently modified as circum-
stances may require. Where this engine is applied to water motions there
must be reservoirs and pipes to convey the water alternately from one to
the other.
The above-described fire engine may be worked with one, two, or more
cylinder or cylinders. The cylinders may in general be made of wood, so that
they be air-tight, and the water drawn up a tunnell made of brick or stone, or
otherwise, or wood pipes and of various other materials, which greatly reduces
the expence. The heat from any lime-killn, furnace, or fire of any kind,
may be made applicable or assisting in and to various uses and purposes
relative.
No. 2. FOR RAISING PONDEROUS BODIES BY WATER, PARTICULARLY COALS
AND ORE FROM MINES AND DEEP WININGS.
A is a wheel, of a diameter proportioned to the weight to be raised, with a
double set of buckets, and by letting water upon the different divisions gives
motion to the wheel to move round either way. B1&B 2, two gages or
shuttles are fixed at the end of a water trough over the wheel, in the places so
marked. C, C, & D, D, the ropes or chains to raise or lower their weights,
&c. E, E, two small carriages with pulley wheels in the middle, over which
the ropes move, and occasionally move upon the rails F, F, F, F. F, F, F, F,
four beams or rails lying upon the frame marked 4, 4, 4, 4, not less than twelve
feet long. G, a wheel for ropes, &c. to wind upon or from, of about one-third
or one-fourth the diameter of the wheel A, and upon the same axis. II, a
windlass with stops to wind the carriages E, E, upon the beams from end to
end, or as required. 4, 4, 4, 4, is the frame to support the weights raised.
The uprights should be fixed at proper distances asunder, to admit the weights
raised to come betwixt; upon the opposite side of the wheel to that in view
there is a carriage, with a crank fixed to it, having cramps as treble or other-
wise requisite, and the said carriage moveing upon wheels, &c. occasionally is
wound or otherwise with the end of the crank to the gudgeon or axis of the

page_text: great wheel, and a wedge or box fastens them together. This carriage and
crank may be either made so as to serve various purposes, or omitted, as occa-
sion may require.
The setting this machine to work is performed as follows, viz:-Open as
much as is necessary B 2, and the water flowing into that set of buckets only
moves the great wheel A round, so as to wind up D, D, and when the weight
is at a proper height, stop the current from B 2, and let a little water from B 1,
which falls into the other sett of buckets, and by the moving the one on the
other, you may regulate the motion any way; then set the carriage E belong-
ing to that rope at liberty, and the weight may be settled down on a wood
frame, which being fixed upon wheels will turn in a circle, and deliver the
weight towards any point required. If occasion require, I would fix also a
break, as in common mills, &c. Though I prefer and have only given a
minute representation of this method of raising coals and other bodies by
water, yet there are numerous other methods of applying the water upon
wheels, as with buckets, chains, and lavers, working of cranes, and tackle
pullies, and falls of water, &c. &c., yet they are only so many different mecha-
nical modifications, by applying one and the same power, to effect the whole,
viz', water, which in various situations may be best used; and my true intent
and meaning is to make use of any other modification before intimated as
circumstances require.
No. 3. AN ENGINE TO RAISE PONDEROUS BODIES BY FIRE, &C.
A, the boiler, of a given diameter proportioned to the weights to be raised.
B, B, two cylinders of a proper size, made in common form, with pipes for
injecting steam, and snifts, &c. &c. C, C, a wheel moving upon an axis alter-
nately, according to the strokes made from the cylinders, and has two chains or
bands, &c. fixed to it going round the wheel cases D, D, the one cross-banded,
and the other not so, consequently the one has always the reverse motion to the
other. By a motion from this wheel also is raised the water for waste, and
the other necessary movements, as injection and the like. D, D, two wheel
cases loose upon the main axis, containing within them the wheels F, F,
banded, &c. as mentioned to C, C, and have also each of them two springs or
lockers turning upon a pin on an external circum, which lockers are alternately,
or both at once if required, prevented sprunning upon the bars or stops of the
wheels F, F, by pulling down or raising slide bolts moveable upon the upright
rods E, E, having cords to the lockers to pinch down, &c. &c. E, E, two rods
working like a Y plug; upon cach is fixed a sliding bolt, which bolts are cross-

page_text: banded with the wheel cases D, D, and the moving these bolts gives the rope
wheel, &c. its direction which way to turn round. F, F, two wheels with cross
bars or stops, fastened upon the same axis as the great wheel G, G, moving
within the cases D, D. G, G, a great wheel with or without a fly, on which
the lapping and unlapping bands or chains are fixed coming over the pullies
H, H, &c.; this wheel has also a break fixed so as to pinch upon and let
weights down into a mine without working the engine. H, H, two pullies for
ropes to lie over, but in many cases cranes are preferrable. I, I, the ropes or
bands.
This engine works in the following manner, viz:-After letting steam into
the cylinder from the boiler, &c., as in setting on fire-engines, pull down the
bolts to the proper stop (as experienced), and the whole will operate and raise
up the far rope or chains, &c., and weight, raising the bolts turns up the near-
most, and stopping them at half way, leaves the great wheel quite at liberty,
and you may then let weights down by pinching with the break, as before
mentioned. It must be observed that the same motion which lets the steam
into one cylinder, at the same time nearly lets injection to the other, but
regulated by experience. Or again, instead of the before-mentioned wheels
C, C, D, D, and F, F, three cylinders, more or less, as occasion requires, may
be fixed up to the boiler A with necessary pipes, &c., and work a treble or other
crank, upon which crank is also fixed a set of cogs, and they move a set of
rounds, being upon the same axis as the great rope wheel, or otherwise, a
wheel upon the crank gudgeon, of a proper diameter, and a wheel joined up to
the great wheel on the same axis, these wheels having a band or chain round
them, both give the motion required; but that band must go round two pullies
fixed at a supposed proper distance. Those pullies by a screw or laver may be
extended farther asunder or be brought nearer to keep the band or chain
properly extended, &c. All the movements for conveying steam, injection,
raising wast water, &c., are performed by movements made from the cranks.
I have not given a draft of this modification, it being so readily to be under-
stood, therefore think it unnecessary. This crank engine also works all sorts of
cranes, lavers, tackle, pullies, according to different situations and circumstances,
which are too tedious here to describe.
4TH. JOINT POWERS OF FIRE AND WATER, &C.
This is particularly applicable in some cases, and in the following forms,
viz-A treble or other crank worked by three cylinders, more or less, as
before mentioned, No. 2 and 3, fixed to the spindle or gudgeon of the great

page_text: water wheel, or otherwise modified as circumstances may require. These I
propose to act jointly with the assistance of the water wheel or wheels, having
water admitted requisite to raise any bodies or fluids, &c., as required. The
wheel or wheels aiding and serving as a fly, with a motion either from the
crank or cranks, wheel or wheels, to let a greater quantity of water either
upon the wheel or wheels at the proper interims, to prevent a stop betwixt
the strokes, &c.
The machines No. 1 and No. 2 may be and are intended to be applied to
various and almost all powerfull movements, such as mills, forges, batterers,
&c. &c.; for by raising water to a given height by No. 1, and laying that water
upon No. 2, any kind of movements may be produced; and my intent and
meaning is, the applying of the power or powers, as fire or water, jointly or
seperately, in any mechanical form, to give motion to any ponderous bodies,
fluids, vapour, or to extract foul air out of mines or other places variously
applied.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Nineteenth day of February, in
the seventh year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, the
aforesaid John Barber came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery
and acknowledged the writings aforesaid, and the plans or draughts thereunto
annexed, and every thing therein contained, in form above said. And the said
writings were stamped according to the Statute made in the sixth year of the
reign of the late King William and Queen Mary, and so forth.
Inrolled the Twenty-fifth day of March, in the said seventh year of the
roir of His Majesty King George the Third 1767