AN IMPROVED PUMP, WHICH I CALL THE QUADRANT PUMP, WHICH WILL RAISE AND DISCHARGE MORE WATER OR OTHER LIQUID WITH LESS POWER THAN ANY HAND PUMP NOW IN USE
Year: 1796

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
CRESWELL, of the Parish of Saint George, Hanover Square, in the County of
Middlesex, Gentleman, 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 Fourth day of February, in thirty-sixth year of His reign,
give and grant unto me, the said Joseph Creswell, His especial licence
that I, the said Joseph Creswell, 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 " AN IMPROVED PUMP, WHICH
I CALL THE QUADRANT PUMP, WHICH WILL RAISE AND DISCHARGE MORE WATER OR
OTHER LIQUID WITH LESS POWER THAN ANY HAND PUMP NOW IN USE;" in which
said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Joseph
Creswell, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Joseph Creswell, do hereby declare, that my said Invention of an improved

page_text: pump, which I call the Quadrant Pump, is described in the Plan and descrip-
tion thereof hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Creswell, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Third day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and ninety-six.
SMITE.
ITATAT
JOB CRESWELL. (L.S.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Third day of March, in
the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Joseph Creswell 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.

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The water
or
AVD. Nepresent two pumps compleat in every respect alike only with this difference, that the work in B. is reversed to that in 1 and that the uprights which support the wor
in B. are both of an equal length, whereas in the upright at the back is much shorter than the one in the front and the Spindle or late to which the pinion or small wheel
is fixt works in the upright in pont, and in a Coller in the back part of the Body of the Pump Whereas in B it works in the two uprights It may be thought necessa
to give
a reason for reversing the work in the pump B. (which will easily be seen by the two drawings/
board of Ship the lower a pump stands the more convinent consequently the
as it occasions the pump B to stand much lower, for instance
discharged by overflowing at the Top or by a sport, the body of this pump, Chambers, Suction pipes Buckets & boxes are the same as in common, and may be mude in wood
its utility
greater
On land more highth is wanted and is of no consequence
Copper Brass or
any
other Metal, or part wood, part in Brass, or part in Copper or any other tictal
E. a Wheel with Cogs which is fixt on a
C. Represents the long uprights that supports the work D. the short one
Spindle or Axle in the middle F. the Quarter (or more if requ ed) of a large wheel with Cogs, which from its shape is denominated a Quadrant
and is fixt on the end of the same spindle that I is on G the Axle or Spindle to which I and F. is fist on, II a small wheel or pinion with Cogs which is fixt on a
Axle and works in the Quadrant. I the Spindle or axle that I is fixt
Spindle
Cogs and which is workt by the whil F. to the ends of those Racks the Buckets is fiat and by the motion of the Wheel I are alterneately Rising - L.
K.K. two Racks (such as may have been used in the working of some pumps with
Guide that is frict over the mouth of the Chambers to keep the Racks in their right position.
keep them steady N. c Bow the ends of which is fixt to the pumps the middle to the Bar M with an intention to give solidity to the whole O.
M a Bar which is fixt from one upright to the other to
which may put to the end of the Spindle & with an intention of easing the labor or may be lift off as
is fixt
on the Spindle, I,
be found most agreeable P the handle which
be fixt
on each end of the said Spindle
which two Men
goes from one side of the pump to the other of a double Handle with
work
opposite to each other the work is fuit in action by working the Handle or Handles backwards & forwards The whole work
is put together & fixet with screw Screws & Nuts & Keeps - and the whole work or appuratus that works the pump may be made in Iron Brass or Copper
or part Iron part Brass or part Copper - R. the Collex the Spindle I works in .-
be
may
a
handle
may
or
on
-
as it
may
a
a
Fly