AN IMPROVED COMBINATION OF MACHINERY CALCULATED TO ENCREASE POWER, TO BE WORKED BY MANUAL LABOUR OR OTHER SUITABLE MEANS
Year: 1819

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
NEALE, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Whitesmith, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Thirteenth day of March,
in the fifty-ninth year of the reign, give and grant unto me, the said William
Neale, my exors, admors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that I, the said William Neale, my exors, adiñiors, and
assigns, during the term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN IMPROVED COMBINATION OF
MACHINERY CALCULATED TO ENCREASE POWER, TO BE WORKED BY MANUAL LABOUR OR
OTHER SUITABLE MEANS;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a
proviso that if I, the said William Neale, shall not particularly 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
cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chaucery
within two calendar 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; shall utterly cease, determine, and
become void, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, will more
fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Neale, do hereby declare that my said, Invention is described in
manner following, and by the Drawings hereunto annexed (that is to say):-
In Drawing Fig. 1, A represents a lever or beam moving on a fulcrum
or axis at B; to the longer end of this lever, at C, is connected a set of -
jointed levers, bars, cramps; or rods D, the other ends of which are united
to studs or pivots E, E, fixed upon the sides of the two equal pinions F, F,
so as to act as cranks; the teeth of both these pinions work into each other,
and they are put into action by the toothed arch G; working into one of them;
this arch is fixed upon the shorter end of the lever H, moving upon a fulcrum
or axis at I, and the power being applied to: the longer end of it at K, by
working it up and down, the pinions F, F, are made to revolve in opposite and
contrary directions, and by means of the studs E, E, cause the jointed levers
or rods D to expand and contract" älternately, and thereby to give motion to
the great lever A, to the shorter, end of which- at L the crank rod M is
connected by a joint, and which rod is united at the other end of it with a
stud, or pivot N, affixed to .one of the arms of the wheel O, which wheel
works into the pinion P, which is fixed upon the same shaft or axis with the
fly wheel Q, and which shaft or axis will communicate the motion thus
produced to any machinery connected with it.. Instead of the arch and
lever G, H, I can also employ a toothed wheel to work into either of the
pinions F, F, by which the same effect will be produced, although the pinions
F, F, will then revolve in the same directions continually, and I can also
occasionally reverse the situation of the rods D, and the parts connected with
them, by placing them above the lever A, when convenient or desirable so to do,
I can also do the crank Fod M, and the movements connected therewith.
In Drawing Fig. 2, A is the great lever moving on its axis at B. To the
longer end of this lever, at C, is connected à toothed 'rack D, which works
into the teeth of the wheel E, and is kept engaged therein by the guide roller
F. The wheel E has an alternating motion communicated to it, by means
of teeth G, projecting from one side of it, and continued nearly round it, into
which a pinion H is made to work first on the inside of them and then out-
sides, the axis of the pinión II, moving in a horizontal groove made in the
frame or support of the machine for that purpose (though not here shewn, for
the sake of avoiding confusion in the Drawing), and which axis is caused to
move backwards and forwards in the said groove by the semi-circular guides
I, I, on that part of the side of the wheel G, where the teeth are omitted;
it is, however, the less necessary to describe this part of the machinery more
accurately, as it is already well known and in use as applied to work manglés,
as

page_text: pumps, &c., and I only claim this application thereof as my Invention. The
traversing axis of the pinion H is connected by a coupling to the end of
another axis turning upon pivots, and upon which axis the, pinion J is fixed,
which works into the teeth of the wheel K on the same axis with which the
fly wheel L is fixed. On one of the arms of the wheel K is a stud M, upon
which one end of the crank rod N works, and is connected at its other end
with the lever O, moving upon its axis at P, and to the other or longer end
of which at Q the power to put the machine into motion is to be applied;
to the other or shorter end of the great lever A, a crank rod may be con-
nected as in Fig. 1, by which its power may be conveyed to any machinery to
be driven thereby.
The different parts of the machinery may be made of wood, cast iron, or
any other fit and proper material, and may be made of any requisite size or
proportion, according to the work to be done thereby, and the whole must be
fixed upon proper framing or supports, either of wood, iron, masonry, or other
proper material or materials as the nature of the case may require.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Neale, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and nineteen.