A METHOD OF WORKING PUMPS OF VARIOUS DESCRIPTIONS BY MACHINERY, WHEREBY MUCH MANUAL LABOUR WILL BE SPARED
Year: 1805

page_text: WYKE'S
SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
WYKE, of Winsley, in the County of Wilts, Esquire, send greeting..
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
in and by His Letters Patent under His Great Seal of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Nineteenth
day of November, in the forty-sixth year of His reign, for Himself, His heirs,
and successors, did give and grant unto me, the said George Wyke, my exors,
aduiors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and autho-
rity, that I, the said George Wyke, my exors, aduiors, 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 George Wyke, my exors,
admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times thereafter, during the term of years therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of
His said Majesty's United Kingdom called England, His Dominion of Wales,
and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A METHOD OF WORKING
PUMPS OF VARIOUS DESCRIPTIONS BY MACHINERY, WHEREBY MUCH MANUAL LABOUR
WILL BE SPARED;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a provise,
obliging me, the said George Wyke, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the
same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one
calendar month next and immediately after the date of the said recited Letters
Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, will more fully
and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
George Wyke, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Inven-

page_text: tion, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, as the same is
delineated by the Drawings in the margin of these Presents, and as follows;
that is to say:-
In Figure 1, to the letter K represents the whole of the machinery for the
working of pumps. A, A, A, part of a chain pump as now used in ships,
which is herein delineated to shew how the machinery acts upon it, one of
which is only here inserted, but two or more may be worked or put in motion
by the same machinery; B and C, a vertical and horizontal wheel, which may
be reversed or transposed as occasion requires, C where B is now placed, and
B where C is, in order to accelerate the motion of the pump or pumps which
may be found necessary on board of large ships, or in other situations, where a
larger power is desired. The ratio of the diameters of the wheels herein
described.is, B four feet, and C two feet, but which wheels may be of equal
or varied dimensions, as circumstances require; D, a shaft or spindle, whose
length and dimensions must be according to situation with the wheel C, fixed
to it to work wheel B at the top of the shaft; I, a small head to admit the bars
or levers F, F, or more if necessary; E, a stay collar to keep the shaft of
spindle at a right angle with the wheel C. The shape and size of E will
depend upon the requisite strength and situation of the other part of the
machinery; F, F, levers or hand-spikes about six feet long, but the length and
size of which will depend upon the size of the pump, and the situation on which
the machinery may be affixed; G, deck or platform, upon which the force of
men is employed at the levers or hand-spikes F, F, to work the machinery.
In Figure 2 represents a part of other kind of pump work, to which the
machinery in Figure 1 is applicable in raising water either on board of ships or
. vossols at sea, or upon land from wells, pits, ponds, rivers, or in any other situa-
tion where the raising and throwing up of water may be required. The levers
or hand-spikes F, F, may be worked or put in motion by cattle, or any other
adequate power. Pumps or hydraulic machines of different descriptions to
those herein mentioned may be worked by attaching to them, or working
them by the macbinery or apparatus, as herein described, where the situation
may be convenient for that purpose.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Wyke hath hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Eighteenth day of December, in the forty-sixth year of
the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of
God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King,
Defender of the Faith, and in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and five
GEO. WYKE. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eighteenth day of December, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and five, the aforesaid
George Wyke, came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and
acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein con-
tained and specified, in form above written. And also the Specification afore-
said was stampt according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Eighteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and five.