A MACHINE FOR RAISING WEIGHTS OR WATER WITH GREATER FACILITY AND AT LESS EXPENCE THAT ANY AT PRESENT USED
Year: 1809

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
BARTON, of the Town of Tunbridge, in the County of Kent, Gentleman, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-fifth day of April, in
the forty-ninth year of His reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said John Barton, His especial licence, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said John Barton, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Barton, my
executors, administrators, 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 make, use, exercise, and vend, within
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of
"A MACHINE FOR RAISING WEIGHTS OR WATER WITH GREATER FACILITY AND
AT LESS EXPENCE THAT ANY AT PRESENT USED;" in which said Letters Patent
is contained a proviso obliging.me, the said John Barton, by an Instrument in
writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe 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 enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within two calendar months next and immediately after the date of

page_text: the said 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, I, the said
John Barton, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, is described and ascertained in
the Plan hereunto annexed and marked with the letter A, and the following
explanation thereof, that is to say :-
Figure 1 is a perspective view of the machine for raising water with the
lever and segment; Figure 2 is a perspective view of the machine with the
lever without the segment; and Figure 3 shews the machine adapted for
raising weights. A, Figure 1, is an upright post firmly fixed on cross bars
or otherwise according to the situation in which it is intended to place the
machine, which in the Drawing is supposed to be across a brook. To these is
affixed the framing B, through which and the post passes a spindle for giving
motion to the machine, which it does by means of the small wheel C, which
has twelve teeth, working into another wheel D, of six teeth, which is above,
and into which wheel is inserted (as shewn separately at b, Figure 4) another
spindle, and on the other end of this spindle, (which moves up and down in the
plate, also shewn separately), is fixed a wheel E which works into the seventy-
three cogs on the segment. By turning the crank F the machine is put in
motion, and the segment G, which is cast in one piece, works into the wheel
E, from H to I, as the lever descends, and vice versa as it ascends. At H
and I the segment is grooved nearly in the form of a horse shoe to confine the
pin (or the extremity of the upper spindle, as shewn separately at Figure 4),
as it passes round to the upper or under side of the cogs, which it does on the
alternation of its motion. K are the buckets, and L chains to tilt them into
the trough M, into which the water is emptied, from whence it may be con-
veyed where desired by means of a spout. N is a fly wheel for regulating the
motion. The part O shews a mode of making the machine to raiso water
from an increased depth. The rollers in Figure 2.must.not-be-made-cylin-
drical, but of that form called fusee, of about five and half inches diameter at
the ends, and of about two and a half inches at the middle. In Figure 3 is
added an inclined plane to shew a method of conveying away a box supposed
to be loaded with mud, after it had been raised from a pond by the machine.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Barton, have hereunto subscribed
and set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and nine

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twenty-fourth day of June,
in the year above written, the aforesaid John Barton came before our Lord
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and
all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And also the
Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute in
that case made and provided.
Inrolled the same Twenty-fourth day of June, in the year above written.