AN ENGINE OR MACHINE WHICH WILL BE OF GREAT USE IN LIFTING OR RAISING WATER
Year: 1777

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, STEPHEN
HOOPER, of Margate, in the Isle of Thanet, in the County of Kent, Merchant,
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 Fourteenth day of March, in the seventeenth year of His
reign, give and grant unto me, the said Stephen Hooper, His special licence,
that I, the said Stephen Hooper, during the term of years therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, and exercise and vend, within England,
the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick upon Tweed, my Invention of
"AN ENGINE OR MACHINE WHICH WILL BE OF GREAT USE IN LIFTING OR RAISING
WATER;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, obliging me, the
said Stephen Hooper, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular descrip-
tion of the nature of my said Invention, and how the same is to be performed,
to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar
months 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 YEE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Stephen Hooper, do hereby declare that my said Invention of an engine or
machine which will be of great use in lifting or raising water is described by
the draft in the margin", and in the explanation following, that is to say:-
A, the well or place to raise the water from; B, a number of bucketts fastned
to an endless chain, which in turning over wheel C empty themselves into a
reservoir D; these bucketts are put in motion by a swimming wheel E, working

page_text: in F; the swimming wheel E is fastned to a shaft or arbour G, which is put in
motion by the wind on a number of flyers fastned in an angle to arms on arbour
G, within the shutters H and I; these shutters open to an angle, by which means
the wind is conveyed to the flyers; the shutters are regulated by the wind to
shut or let open in proportion to the strength of the same; K, L, M, is a crane,
to bring the water over hills to the engine; the water is put in motion as
follows:-Stop the two ends K and M, and fill the crane or tube L on the
upper part with water, then stop the same, open K, being under water, in the
pond or place to take the water from, then open M, being below the level of
K; N, N, N, are wheels, with endless ropes or chains to carry the power of
the wind part of the engine, to work at any distance by a number of the same;
O is a tube, in the center of which is a shaft or arbour with a number of arms,
on which are fixt boards in an angle; the water in drawing out of the reservoir
D is conveyed through the tube, which puts the wheel in motion, and the
power brought to the raising of the water.
In witness whereof, I, the said Stephen Hooper, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven;"
STEPHEN (L.S.) HOOPER.
Sealed and delivered (being first duly stampt),.
in the presence of
THO JEFF. FRENCH,
I. L. BARKE,
Cl. to Mess French & Lee.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that the Twenty-first day of June, in the
year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven, the said
Stephen Hooper came before the said Lord the King in His Chancery, and
acknowledged the Writing aforesaid; and all and every thing therein contained
and specified, in form above written. And also the Writing aforesaid was
stamped 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 Twenty-sixth day of June, in the seventeenth year of the
reign of His Majesty King George the Third.'