A. NEW METHOD OF MAKING AND WORKING PRESSES OF ALL KINDS AND DIMENSIONS, AND PARTICULARLY PACKING PRESSES AND HOT PRESSES, BY WHICH GOODS ARE PACKED AND PRESSED WITH MUCH LESS LABOUR AND EXPENCE THAN BY THE COMMON PRESSES NOW IN USE, AND CONSIDERABLY CLOSER AND MORE EVEN, AND THE VARIOUS SORTS OF GOODS ARE BY THIS INVENTION VERY MUCH IMPROVED
Year: 1796

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, We, ISAAC
WHEILDON, of Copthall Court, Throgmorton Street, London, Packer; and
JOHN BOWLER, of Bear Lane, near Blackfriars Bridge, in the County of Surry,
Machine Maker and Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing dato at
Westminster, the Twenty-sixth day of April, in the thirty-sixth year of His
reign, give and grant unto us, the said Isaac Wheildon and John Bowler, His
especial licence that we, the said Isaac Wheildon and John Bowler, during
the term of fourteen years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might use,
exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, our Invention of "A. NEW METHOD OF MAKING AND WORKING PRESSES OF
ALL KINDS AND DIMENSIONS, AND PARTICULARLY PACKING PRESSES AND HOT PRESSES,
BY WHICH GOODS ARE PACKED AND PRESSED WITH MUCH LESS LABOUR AND EXPENCE
THAN BY THE COMMON PRESSES NOW IN USE, AND CONSIDERABLY CLOSER AND MORE
EVEN, AND THE VARIOUS SORTS OF GOODS ARE BY THIS INVENTION VERY MUCH
IMPROVED;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso,
obliging us, the said Isaac Wheildon and John Bowler, by an instrument in
writing under our hands and seals, to cause a particular description of the
nature of our 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, we the said
Isaac Wheildon and John Bowler, do hereby declare that our said Invention,
and the means of performing and putting the same in use, is described in
manner following (that is to say):-
T'ho principle on which our Invention is founded is the applying of chain, cog,
or any other kind of wheel or wheels of various forms and sizes, and placed in
various situations (to be worked by a handle or handles), which may be aflixed
or annexed to any kind of press or presses for the purpose of power in pressure,
which has the advantage of compressing any substance capable of pressure into
less compass with less labour than the presses now in use. In pursuance of
tho said Letters Patent to us granted we do hereby ascertain and describe our
said Invention for which such Letters Patent to us were granted, premising
and particularly meaning that the size, dimensions, and powers of our said
presses may be so varied and applied to the various purposes to which they are
applicable, as to prevent the specifying any particular sort or size. Their
component parts may be made of wood. iron, brass, or any other substance or
substances capable of being brought to the shape and uses hereafter described;
and in order that such description of our said Invention may be the more
easily explained and comprehended, we have drawn in the margin of these
Presents a press according to our said Invention, which may be used for packing
and pressing bale or any sort of goods of great bulk capable of pressure; and
by varying the dimensions of the component parts of the press here described.
the Invention may be applied with equal advantage to a press or presses of
any other size than that here described.
Figure 1st represents a perspective view of a packing press according to our
said Invention. A is a handle that by turning gives motion to the machinery by
its turning the pinion B; C is another handle for a quicker motion, which is
annexed to the axis of the larger pinion D; and E is another handle which is
occasionally fixed to the axis of the spur wheel F (to be worked by a man
standing in a hole beneath it); and on the same axis is a pinion G. which acts
in a tooth and cog wheel II, and which is fixed to the bottom of the screw I.
K is a chain which is connected with the cogs of the wheel II to the.cogs of
the wheel L, which turns the other screw M (which screws rest on pivots).
and which causes the nut N to come down exactly level upon the substance to be
pressed or packed with an astonishing power of pressure); and by turning the
handle or handles the contrary way, it causes the nut N to raise to its proper
station; 0. O, is a frame with the multiplying wheels fixed therein, which is
annexed to an end of the press. or it may be varied to its side, if necessary;
and it may be inclosed with a covering or case to keep it from dirt or injury;

page_text: P, P, is a frame for a platform or case, to be fitted to or upon it, which covers
the whole of the bottom machinery.
Figure 2nd represents a front view of the machinery (with the screws broken
off), and a cog-wheel applied in the center to work in the stead of the chain, as
before specified. A is a handle that by turning gives motion to the pinion B;
C is another handle which is used for a quicker motion, and is connected with
the axis of the pinion D, and is made to shove in or out of the teeth of the spur
wheel F.. E is another handle, to be occasionally fixed to the axis of the spur
wheel F, to be worked as before described; and on the same axis is a bevil
pinion G, which acts in a bevil face wheel H, which is likewise cog'd round its
edge, and is affixed to the bottom of the screw I, which gives motion to the
center cog wheel K, and which gives motion to the other cog wheel L, which
is affixed to the bottom of the other screw M, which causes the nut to descend
with the same pressure as above set forth and described.
In witness whereof, we, the said Isaac Wheildon and John Bowler, have
hereunto set our hands and seals, the Twenty-fifth day of May, in the
year of our Lord Oue thousand seven hundred and ninety-six.
(4.8.)
LILIM.
Sealed and delivered, being first duly
stampt, in the presence of
Jos" ENGLAND,
Gray's Inn.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-fifth day of May, in the
year of our Lord 1796, the aforesaid Isaac Wheildon and John Bowler came
before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Speci-
fication aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in
form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt
according to the tenor of the Statutes made for that purpose.
Inro led the Twenty-fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and ninety-six.