AN IMPROVED PRESS
Year: 1797

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
PATON, of the Parish of Christ Church, in the County of Surrey, Engine
Maker and Smith, 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 Thirty-first day of October, in the thirty-eighth year of His
reign, give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Paton, His especial licence that
I, the said Thomas Paton, 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 PRESS;"
in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the
said Thomas Paton, 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
Thomas Paton, do hereby declare that my said Invention of an improved
press is described in the Plan and description thereof hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Paton, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven.
THOMAS PATON. (L.s.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Thirtieth day of November,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Thomas Paton 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..
SLOWAY &

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are marked with the figures 1, 2 and 3 and that it may be better understood I have referred
to the above three figures and first I begin with that part of the machine which I call the rack
in fig 1 marked A and which moves up and down in the same manner as the screw or nutt
does in common presses and is moved by the pinions B.B in fig 1 and 3rd the bags of which
bring fitted to bags of the same kind in rack A. the wheels C. C. in fig 1t are fixed upon the
ends of the pinions B. B. and are turned by the pinion D. D. represented in fig. 1st which are fixed
the axles of the wheels E. E. in fig 1t and are turned by the pinion, worm wheels or endless
screwes F. F. in figures 1 and 2 into which are fixed the handles or cranks 0.0.0.0.0. in figs 1. 2. and
3 which work in the wheels C. C. when the motion is required to be swift but when the power is
required to be greater the worm wheels are placed in the intersection of the wheels E. E and G. G in
fig 1. 2 and 3 and work in either of them as the power or motion may be required, the wheels G. G.
having the pinion HH. fixed upon their own axles but if more power be required other wheels may
be applied to the wheels G. G.G.G.G. in fig 11 22. and 3 in the same way as the wheels G. G.
G.G.G. and pinions IIII are applied to the wheel's E. E. the two pinions P.P. in fig. 4th I make use
of for the purpose of keeping the rack A upright. I have also another contrivance for the purposef
which by the balance beam Q which is fixed upon a fulcrum above the press and has the podds
R. R. suspended from its inds by two universal points which are fixed to the crank handles O.D. with
couplings of brass or iron the bottom plank K is suspended from the pinion axles B. B. by the tyes
or barrs of iron III I. in fig 3rd which are fixed to it by keys. or screws the upper plank M is ous-
pended and fixed in the same manner. The upper and lower ends of the rack I and N moving
between them..... The wheels and pinions are fixed upon the frames S.S.S.S.S.S.S. in figs 1. 2 and 3.-
It is.
Cunnecessary to describe the single press as it does not differ from the double press in principle
and only varies from it by taking away the wheels on one side and the upper moving planks according
as it is to work up or down. But if the power required be small a friction wheel is sufficient instead of
one of the pinions B.B.
of