MACHINE FOR UNWATERING OR RAISING AND DISCHARGING WATER OUT OF THE HOLDS OF SHIPS, MINES, AND OTHER PLACES IN GREAT QUANTITIES, EITHER SPONTANEOUSLY OR BY THE ASSISTANCE OF A SMALL FORCE, AND FOR WORKING OF MILLS UPON THE SAME PRINCIPLES, OR FOR AHY OTHER PURPOSE REQUIRING THE LIKE POWERS
Year: 1782

page_text: TO ALL
WHOM THESE PRESEN
SHALL
1, HILLDEBRAND
MORLEY, of Clement's Inn, in the Parish of St. Clement Danes, in the County
of Middlesex, Gentleman, send grecting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third hath been
graciously pleased, by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great
Britain, bearing date the Fourteenth day of January last, & in the year of
our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty-two, and in the twenty-
second year of His said Majesty's reign, to give and grant unto me, the said
Hildebrand Morley, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial
licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said Hildebrand
Morley, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by myself
and themselves, or by my or their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or
such others as I, the said Hilldebrand Morley, should at any time agree, and
no others, should and lawfully might, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term of years therein expressed and herein-after men-
tioned, make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of Great Britain called
England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
new-invented "MACHINE FOR UNWATERING OR RAISING AND DISCHARGING WATER
OUT OF THE HOLDS OF SHIPS, MINES, AND OTHER PLACES IN GREAT QUANTITIES, EITHER
SPONTANEOUSLY OR BY THE ASSISTANCE OF A SMALL FORCE, AND FOR WORKING OF
MILLS UPON THE SAME PRINCIPLES, OR FOR AHY OTHER PURPOSE REQUIRING THE
LIKE POWERS," in such manner as to me, the said Hilldebrand Morley, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of us, should, in my or thei

page_text: discretions, seem meet, and that I, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, com-
modity, and advantage from time to time coming, growing, accruing, and
arising by reason of the said Invention, for and during the term of years
therein and herein-after mentioned, to hold, exercise, and enjoy the said
licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages thereby granted and mentioned to
be granted unto me, the said Hilldebrand Morley, my executors, admini-
strators, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term of fourteen
years from the date of the said Letters Patent next and immediately ensuing,
and fully to be compleat and ended according to the Statute in that case made
and provided; in which said Letters Patent there is inserted and contained a
proviso, that if I, the said Hilldebrand Morley, should 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 said Majesty's High Court of Chancery,
within four calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advan-
tages whatsoever thereby granted, should cease and be void, as in and by the
said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, may appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in pursuance of & compliance with the said
Letters Patent and the said proviso therein contained, and in order effectually
to establish and secure to myself, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
during the said term, the benefit and advantage of the said Letters Patent, and
of the powers and priviledges thereby given and intended, I, the said Hilldebrand
Morley, do, by this instrument in writing under my hand and seal, declare and
make known that my said new Invention is made in the manner & upon or
according to the Drawing or Drawings made or delineated in the margin of
these presents, and which is or are herein-after described, that is to say:-
In Figure I., A, A, A, is a tube; B, B, are two valves or clacks, the one
above and the other below; C, C, are two small tubes fixt on each side of the
great tube with a valve in each; D, D, is a loaded plunger composed of
several weights for the purpose of regulating it to the weight required, and
working through the heads at E, E; F, F, F, F, are four pulleys, with four
standards or supporters; G, G, is any number of links of iron or brass, &c.
reaching from a cord or chain (passing over the pullies) to the receiver or
cistern H, H; I is any number of valves or clacks fixt at the bottom of the
receiver to discharge all the water instantaneously; K is a hollow tube sur-
rounding the great tube and fixt at the bottom of the receiver, so as to permit
it to work freely up and down, on it are fixt two springs, one on each side,

page_text: which catch and hang on the two irons at L, which have joints at their ends;
M is a waterspout with a head containing two valves reaching from the cistern
or reservoir N; O is the rest or discharger whereon falls the receiver which
lifts up the valves, and the water goes quickly off into the water P; Q, Q, are
two cross pieces in the receiver, one of which, when the receiver rises, strike
the bottom of the valves M, by which means the receiver is quickly filled from
the cistern N. To set this at work, first fill the great tube with water up to
the head as high as S, then put in the leaden plunger D, D, the weight of
'which causes it to descend and drive the water out of the tops of the two small
tubes C, C, into the head of the great tube as high as S, which runs out at
the spout R. When the leaden plunger is put into the tube, fasten a cord or
chain at the head of it, pass it over the pullies, and fasten it again to the links
which are fixt on each side the receiver H. In this situation if the plunger
is suffered to descend, it will raise the receiver H, which will strike the two
valves M at Q, and cause it to fill quickly from the reservoir N, and at the
same time the two springs will catch at the irons L, which will hold the
receiver fast till it is quite full, and then it will be discharged by its own
weight, and fall on the rest O, and, unburdening itself instantaneously, will give
leave for the next operation of the plunger; and this action and reaction will
continue so long as it is supplied with water from the reservoir N or any head
of water from the sides of brooks or rivers, for when the receiver H is filled,
it is considerably heavier than the plunger, and when it is discharged, the
plunger will become considerably heavier than the receiver, consequently they
operate upon each other alternately, throwing the water out at R.
Figure 2 is the same machine as has been before described, with this
difference, that as the other can caise the water only from twenty-nine to
thirty-two feet, by reason of the air's pressure, this represents the means of
raising it much higher, by causing the tube B, fixt at the side of the great
tube A, to raise any given height, (that is to say) as high as C, as represented
in this Figure, regard being had to the size of the receiver and the necessary
increased weight of the plunger D. The two springs E, E, in this Figure
serve to confine the receiver till the water is all discharged, which could not
be seen in the first Figure before described, and the long iron F serves as a
guider for the receiver, and is seen more distinctly in Figure I.
Figure 3 is a representation of the means for raising water out of the holds
of ships, wells, &c. by the assistance of the small power of two men, in a very
great quantity. A, A, A, is the great tube or pump; B is the lower box;
D, D, are two smaller tubes joined to the great tube and of the same heighth,
which have each a valve at C, C; E, E, are two pullies with their standards

page_text: fixt fast at top; F, F, are two ropes or chains, each end fastened to the loaded
plunger at K, and, passing over the two pullies, arc again fastened to the axles
of the two wheels G, G, which work in the standards fixt fast on the deck of a
ship represented by H, H. To work this machine the leaden plunger is per-
mitted to descend, and it will drive out all the water contained in the pump
of the heighth of thirty feet and more at one stroke up, and through the two
smaller tubes D, D, on to the deck, and so out of the ship; and to repeat this
operation, let two men be employed, one at each wheel, to raise the plunger
again; and, this continued, will raise a very great quantity in a very short
time, which will be in proportion to the height and diameter of the great tube
A, A, A.
In witness whereof, I, the said Hilldebrand Morley, have hereunto set
and put my hand and seal, the Tenth day of May, in the twenty-
second year of the reign of His said Majesty King George the Third,
and in the year of our Lord Christ One thousand seven hundred and
eighty-two.
CHR. BAILEY.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Tenth day of May, in the
year above mentioned, the aforesaid Hilldebrand Morley came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, 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 their late Majesty's
King William and Queen Mary of England, and so forth.