A CERTAIN ENGINE OR MACHINE, OR MACHINERY, FOR THE PURPOSE OF RAISING AND REMOVING OF EARTH, SAND, GRAVEL, CLAY, STONES, OR ANY OTHER THING FROM THE BOTTOM OF CANALS OR OTHER PLACES OF ANY DEPTH, TO THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH, OR HIGHER IF REQUIRED
Year: 1796

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, EDWARD HASKEW,
of the City of Gloucester, Timber Merchant, sendeth greeting.
WHEREAS His Sovereign Majesty King George the Third, by His Royal
Letters Patent under His Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Thirty-first day of May, in the thirty-sixth year of His reign,
reciting (amongst other things) that the said Edward Haskew had, by his
Petition, represented unto His said Majesty that he, after much study and
expence, had 'invented "A CERTAIN ENGINE OR MACHINE, OR MACHINERY, FOR THE
PURPOSE OF RAISING AND REMOVING OF EARTH, SAND, GRAVEL, CLAY, STONES, OR ANY
OTHER THING FROM THE BOTTOM OF CANALS OR OTHER PLACES OF ANY DEPTH, TO THE
SURFACE OF THE EARTH, OR HIGHER IF REQUIRED," which he believed would be of
great public utility, and that he was the first and true Inventor thereof, His
said Majesty did give and grant unto the said Edward Haskew, his executors,
administrators, and assigns, His said Majesty's especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that he, the said Edward Haskew, his exccutors,
administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by himself and themselves, or
by his and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as he,
the said Edward Haskew, his executors, adñiors, 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 the said Invention within that part of His said Majesty's
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to him, the said Edward Haskew,
his executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of them, should in his or

page_text: their discretion seem meet; and that he, the said Edward Haskews, his
executors, admors, and assigns, shou'd and lawfully might have and enjoy
the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time to time
coming, growing, accruing, and arising by reason of the said Inventión, for
and during the term of years therein mentioned; to have, hold, exercise, and
enjoy the said licence, powers, privileges, and advantages therein-before granted
or mentioned to bo granted unto the said Edward Haskew, his executors,
adñiors, 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 such case made
and provided; in which said Letters Patent is (amonst other things) contained
a proviso that if the said Edward Haskew should not particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of his said Invention, and in what manner the samo
is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under his hand and seal, and
cause the same to be inrolled in Ilis said Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within one calendar month 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 utterly cease, determine, and become
void, anything herein-before contained to the contrary thereof in any wiso
notwithstanding, as in and by the said Letters Patent, re'ation being thereunto
had, may and dot more fully and at large appear.
NOW THESE PRESENTS WITNESS, that in pursuance of the said
Letters Patent, and in conformity to the proviso therein contained, the said
Edward Haskew hatli described and ascertained, and by these Presents doth
fully and particularly describo and ascertain, the nature of his said Invention,
or invented engine or machine or machinery, and in what manner the saine
is to be performed (that is to say):-
The engine or machine or inachinery is designed to raiso earth, gravel,
stone, or any other weighty substance from the bottom of canals, wells, or
other deep places, to a moderate elevation, the degree of which will depend
upon the position and size of the machine.
The machine consists of a large wheel, with.-bevel iron cogs .or teeth
round the extremity of the circumference, put in motion by an endless
screw, which coincides with the cogs and operates upon them. This screw
is attached to and is turned on an horizontal spindle, which spindle is
turned by two handles, one at each end, with two fly-wheels to accelerate
its motion. Supposing the machine to stand on level ground, the wheel moves
horizontally round a perpendicular axis, which shall be presently described,
and rests on several friction wheels, running in a frame of woodwork under

page_text: this large wheel, and serving to support it without impeding its revolution.
The frame of woodwork is supported by and runs on four small rollers, for the
purpose of moving, so that the machine is easily moved from one place to
another by means of a rope and pulley. The axis of the large wheel consists
of an upright of wood, through the middle of which there passes in a perpen-
dicular direction a large iron spindle, round which the large wheel is moved,
by the operation of the endless screw and fly-wheels, turned by one or two
men, with handles placed at the ends of the horizontal spindle (or, if required,
may be worked by a horse walking round a circle, to move a large wheel with
cogs, which turns a roller with a trundle or pinion at each end, one end of
which works in a small wheel fixed on the horizontal spindle with fly-wheels).
Above the large wheel and parrallel to it are eight horizontal arms or levers
diverging from the axis like the spokes of a wheel, connected with each other
by horizontal braces at a little distance from the end of each, and fastened to
the large wheel by a frame of perpendicular joists and braces, so that these arms
or levers and the large wheel are completely united, and move round together.
When the machine works upon the slope or inclined plane of a canal,
eight barrows or boxes containing earth, gravel, or any other weights may bo
suspended at the ends of those eight arms or levers, and may be thereby con-
veyed from the bottom of the canal to the top by one revolution of the
large wheel round its axis; and when the machine stands upon a level and
the wheel is worked horizontally, it is so contrived as to raise perpendicular
weights in the manner of 'a crane, or to wind carts or barrows up an inclined
plane in or on the side of a cañal; this is done by means of a groove running
round the frame of perpendicular joists and braces between the arms or levers
and the large wheel, and parralel to both, in which groove runs a rope with a
barrow or bucket at each end, drawn up and let down alternately according to
the direction in which the large wheel is turned ;-a more accurate description
whereof will be found in the annexed Drawings and the following explanation
thereof.
Fig. 1 represents the ground plan or platform of the machine; A, A, the
lower wood frame which supports the machine; B, B, B, represents the plank
and bottom rollers that support the machine when on the slope of a canal;
C, C, iron bolts and screws to fasten bottom rollers to the frame; D, D, the
large wheel with iron cogs or teeth; E, the endless screw that works in the
cogs; F, the horizontal spindle; G, G, the fly-wheels; 1, 2, 3, 4, uprights to
support the horizontal spindle and fly wheels; H, H, H, I, the platform for
men to stand on and the handles by which the machine is set in motion;
1, 1, uprights and braces to guide the rope from the groove above the large

page_text: wheel to the carts or barrows, when wound up the slope or inclined plane of a
canal; K, K, K, K, two gibbs or gibbets; with uprights to guide the ropes
when used for a crane, which are turned round by the two small screws and
cogg'd wheels L. L; by the two handles M: M; N; N, rollers to guide the ropes
on the gibbs when used as a craue; 0, 0, the ropes from the groove running
round between the large wheel and the arms or levers to the gibbs, when used
as a crane; P, P, the ropes from the groove to the carts or barrows when
wound up a slope or inclined plane; 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, the arms or levers
to which the barrows or boxes are suspended when worked on the slope or
inclined plane of a canal, and which arms or levers may be increased or dimiu-
ished in number as the force or speed of the machine may require; 13, 14, 15,
16, 17, 18, 19, 20, braces to strengthen thò lovers, and connecting them with
each other; Q, iron cross plates to confino and steady the arms or levers;
R, R, the rope running from the groove through the block or pulley S, and
fastened to the top part of the lower frame of the machine, and by which the
machine is moved from one place to another, the rope being wound on as the
wheel is set in motion by the man at the hand; T, a stake or anchor to which
the block or pulley S is fastened; and when the machine is required to work
by a horse, it is performed in a manner which will be apparent from the
following description, and a reference to the Drawing thereby explained. A, a
piece of timber bolted to the lower framework of the machine to support a
large wheel with cogs; B, a large wheel with cogs on the under side, which
moves a roller with a trundle or pinion at each end, by a horse walking round
a circle; C, an arm or lever above the largo wheel, to which the horse is fixed;
D, the circle or track for the horse to walk round; E, the roller or trundle with
a pinion at each end; F, a small wheel fixed on the end of the horizontal
spindle, with fly-wheels turned by the trundle at one end of the roller, and by
which the machine is set in motion; G, tho trundle at the other end of thic
roller that works under the large wheel; I, II, uprights to support the roller';
J, a brace to carry planks for the horse to walk over the roller.
Fig. 2 represents an elevation or side view of the machine standing on a
level, when used to wind carts or barrows up the slope or inclined plane for
canal. A, A, planks on which the machine is fixed; B, B, B, B, rollers to
support the machine, and on which it is moved from one place to another; C,
the lower frame of woodwork; D, D, D, D, friction wheels which sustain the
large wheel, and on which it turns; E, the bevel iron cogs of the large wheel;
F, the groove round which the rope is coiled, to wind the carts or barrows up
the slope or inclined plane of a canal; G, the endless screw that works
in the cogs of the large wheel; 1, the horizontal spindle; I, 1, the fly

page_text: wheels; K, K, the handles by which the machine is put. in motion; 1, 2,
3, 4, 5, 6, 7, uprights or joists of wood from large wheel to support the
arms or levers, and to connect them with the large wheel; 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,
13, 14, 15, braces to support the uprights or joists; 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, braces
from the uprights or joists to support the arms or levers; L, the arms or levers;
M, the wood upright, in which a perpendicular iron axis or spindle is inserted;
on which the large wheel turns, and by which it is supported at its centre; N,
a wood upright above the large wheel, in which is an aperture to feed the
perpendicular iron spindle with oil, the top of which upright supports the ends
of the arms or levers by mortice and tenons; 0, 0, 0, uprights and braces to
support the horizontal spindle and fly-wheels; P, P, uprights, with braces and
pullies to guide the rope to the carts or barrows; Q, Q, 'the ropes to which
the carts or barrows are fastened; R, the slope or inclined plane of a canal ;
S, S, the railways for the carts or barrows; T, a loaded cart brought up to
the top of the slope or inclined plane of the canal; U, an empty; cart let
down to the bottom of a canal.
Fig 3 represents the machine as working upon the slope or inclined plane
of a canal, to which barrows or boxes are suspended at the ends of the arms or
levers, by iron handles with joints, that leaves the loaded barrow when taken
to the top of a canal, and the empty one taken from the top to the bottom.
A, the slope or inclined plane of a canal; B, B, B, planks on which the
machine is fixed; 1, 2, 3, 4, rollers that support the machine on the slope of
the canal, and on which it is moved; 5, one of the wheels or rollers that
supports the lower end of the machine; C, the platform which the man stands
upon to work the machine; D, the lower frame of woodwork; E, E, E, E,
friction wheels to assist the motion of the large wheel; F, the cogs of the
large wheel; G, the groove round which the rope is coiled to move the machine;
H, H, I, the uprights and braces to support the arms or levers; I, the lower
arms or levers; K, K, K, K, the upper arms or levers, which are to be
lengthened out occasionally, agreeable to the depth of the cutting of the canal ;
5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, iron straps with screws and nuts to fasten the upper and
lower levers together; L, the wood above the large wheel, into which the
lower arms or levers are fastened by mortice and tenon; M, the endless screw
and horizontal spindle; N, N, the fly-wheels; 0, 0, uprights and braces to
support the spindle and fly-wheels; P, P, the handles to set the machine
in motion; Q, Q, platforms to receive the barrows; R, part of the canal
to be taken out; S, loaded barrow taking up; T, loaded barrow being left
at top 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, handles or slings with joints, to take up and
leave the barrows.

page_text: Fig. 4 is upon the same construction as Fig. 2, with the addition of gibbs to
act as a cranc. A, A, gibbs with pullies at the end of the arms; B, a frame
of woodwork to support the gibbs; C, C, wheels fixed to the upright shafts of
the gibbs, and by which the gibbs are turned round by the small endless. screws
D), D, as described in the ground plan L, L, Fig. 1; E, E, perpendicular
rollers to guide the ropes on the gibbs; F, F, ropes to suspend the weights;
G, a bale of goods taken from a vessel; II, the end of the rope loading at
the same time in the hold of a vessel; I, a vessel at a quay or wharf being
discharged; which description above contained is a full and true description
of the said Invention.
In witness whereof, the said Edward Taskew hath hereunto set his hand
and seal, the Twenty-fifth day of June, in the thirty-sixth year of the
reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of God of
Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and
so forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and
ninety-six.
EDWARD (L.) HASKEW.
Scaled and delivered (being first duly
stamped), in the presence of
JAMES LEES,
Of Newnham, in the County of Gloucester,