A CERTAIN NEW INVENTED MACHINE FOR WORKING CRANES MADE USE OF IN LANDING GOODS AND MERCHANDIZES OUT OF VESSELS AND OTHER CRAFT, WHICH WILL MAKE SUCH CRANES OF A PREFERRABLE CONSTRUCTION TO THOSE NOW MADE USE OF FOR THAT PURPOSE, AND THEREBY A MUCH GREATER QUANTITY OF GOODS CAN BE LANDED IN THE SAME SPACE OF TIME AND WITH THE SAME NUMBER OF HANDS AS ARE AT PRESENT EMPLOYED ABOUT THAT BUSINESS
Year: 1767

page_text: TO ALL
WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALEXANDER
CLUNIE, of Thames Street, London, Wharfinger, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, by His Royal
Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-sixth day of March,
in the seventh year of His reign, for the reasons therein mentioned, was gra-
ciously pleased to grant unto me, the said Alexander Clunie, together with
Peter Thouvois, of Moorfields, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, our
heirs, executors, adiñors, and assigns, full power, sole privilege, and authority
to make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of His said Majesty's
Kingdom called England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, A CERTAIN NEW INVENTED MACHINE FOR WORKING CRANES MADE USE
OF IN LANDING GOODS AND MERCHANDIZES OUT OF VESSELS AND OTHER CRAFT,
WHICH WILL MAKE SUCH CRANES OF A PREFERRABLE CONSTRUCTION TO THOSE NOW
MADE USE OF FOR THAT PURPOSE, AND THEREBY A MUCH GREATER QUANTITY OF
GOODS CAN BE LANDED IN THE SAME SPACE OF TIME AND WITH THE SAME
NUMBER OF HANDS AS ARE AT PRESENT EMPLOYED ABOUT THAT BUSINESS," for
the term of years therein expressed; by which said Letters Patent it is
provided, that if I, the said Alexander Clunie, and the said Peter Thouvois, or
one of us, should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instru-
ment in writing under our hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one
of us, and cause the same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within four callender months next and immediately after the date

page_text: of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all libertys
and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine,
and become void.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alexander Clunie, do, by this present
instrument under my hand and seal, describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, in manner
following (that is to say):-
:-
It is done by a given weight fixed to a chain or rope, which is to be fixed
on or is to work upon the upper part of the barrell spindle or axletree of the
crane, on the opposite side. First, enlarge the spindle barrell or axletree of
the crane one third; then fix a chain or rope to the same spindle barrell or
axletree, to go through the sheeve of the jibb, to reach as far as the draught
or load of goods is to be raised from; then wind up the chain or rope upon the
spindle barrell or axletree as high as to land it upon the wharf; then fix a
block with a pully as high from the ground as the draught or load is taken up
to the place where it is landed; then fix a rope or chain to the same spindle
barrell or axletree, which must go through that pully as far as the ground; at
the end of which rope or chain fix a weight with shifters, to make it heavier,
as it may be wanted. When used, make the weight half as heavy as the
draught that is to he landed. The men that work the crane must then lower
the chain that is to take up the draught, which must be fixed to the hook, and
then the men must begin to raise the draught in the usual way, at which time
the weight at the end of the rope, which was raised at the time they lowered
the chain, will descend at the time the men raise the draught or load, and be
nearly equal to half the purchase of those men employed in working the crane.
When the draught is raised high enough and landed, the weight will be at the
ground, and which will be effected in two-thirds of the time it formerly used
to be.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my
seal, this Twenty-third day of July, in the seventh year of the reign of
our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of God, of Great
Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, &c., and in
the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven.
Signed and sealed (being first duly stampt),
in the presence of,
ROB WANT.
WILLIAM ELLIOT.
ALEX
UNIE. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Twenty-fourth day of July, in
the year above mentioned, the afores Alexander Clunie came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
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 Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King
and Queen William and Mary of England, and so forth.
Inrolled the aforesaid Twenty-fourth day of July, in the year abovesaid.