A METHOD OF GIVING EFFECT TO VARIOUS OPERATIVE PROCESSES
Year: 1814

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
JULIUS WINTER, of Dover, in the County of Kent, Confectioner, 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 Twelfth day of Decem-
ber, in the fifty-fifth year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said
Henry Julius Winter, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, His especial licence,
full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Henry Julius Winter,
my exors, admors, 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 "A METHOD
OF GIVING EFFECT TO VARIOUS OPERATIVE PROCESSES;" in which said Letters
Patent there is contained a proviso that if I, the said Henry Julius Winter,
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 Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said recited 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) may more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Henry Julius Winter, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully and parti
cularly described and ascertained in manner following, that is to say:-
I do form, construct, or make a sett or series of water wheels, whether
overshot or breast wheels, or other wheels respectively, of such construction
as that the whole or nearly the whole of the charge of water suitable for giving
motion or duly working the said wheels shall bo employed and expended in
so doing. And. I do place the wheels of the said sett or series in such positions
with respect to each other as that one of the said wheels shall receive and be
worked by water, which I do for that purpose convey or direct thereon; and
that another, or the second wheel of the said sett or series, shall receive and
be worked by the very same water, which I do for that purpose immediately
convey or direct from the tail of the first wheel unto the head or upper
working part of the said second wheel; and moreover, that another, or the
third wheel of the said sett or series (if consisting of more than two wheels,
shall receive and be worked by the very same water, which I do for that
purpose immediately convey or direct from the tail of the second wheel unto
the head or upper-working part of the said third wheel; and that I do in this
manner proceed by conveying or directing the very same water from wheel to
wheel, however numerous the sett or series of wheels may be. And I do
cause the said water to be received into a cistern or tank, or other fit vessel or
place. And I do infer, deduce, and declare, that the force of rotation by the
said means produced in all the said wheels, or that the sum total of the
rotatory force in all the said wheels, will be more than sufficient to raise to the
first level the whole or as much as the whole of the water so employed in
working the said wheels; and that I do accordingly, by the connexion and
adaptation of a pump or pumps, or other fit hydraulis engine or instrument,
engines or instruments, with or unto the said wheels, raise again the said
water, or an equal quantity, and do employ the water so raised in com
municating and maintaining the rolatory force of the said sett or series of
wheels, as before shown; and that I do, by other communications from the said
wheels, give effect to such various operativo processes as require machinery
to be moved by employing the excess of the rotatory forco for this last purpose,
which shall be over and above what would be adequate to raise and return the
water as aforesaid. And lastly I do declare, that the power or force so to be
generated will not cease to be augmented unless employed, count poised, or
stopped, by some force extrinsic, and proceeding from some other source or
cause (except the wear and decay of materials) than any which would exist

page_text: in the sett or series of water wheels combined together and worked as
aforesaid.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Julius Winter, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, Fifteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fourteen.