A NEW MACHINE FOR RAISING AND REMOVING EARTH, SAND, GRAVEL, AND OTHER MATERIALS, WHICH WOULD BE OF PUBLIC UTILITY
Year: 1784

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, JOHN CARNE;..
of Saint Austell, in the County of Cornwall, sends greeting.
WHEREAS the said John Carne did, by his Petition, most humbly represent
unto His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third that he had,
by great application, invented "A NEW MACHINE FOR RAISING AND REMOVING
EARTH, SAND, GRAVEL, AND OTHER MATERIALS, WHICH WOULD BE OF PUBLIC
UTILITY," and therefore humbly prayed His said Majesty that He would grant
unto him, his executors, administrators, and assigns, His Majesty's Royal
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain for the sole working
and vending the said machine, and exercising his said Invention within Eng-
land, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of fourteen
years; and His said Majesty, being willing to give encouragement to all arts
and inventions which might be for the public good, was graciously pleased
to condescend to his request, and therefore by His Royal Letters Patent,
bearing date at Westminster, the Third day of July, in the twenty-fourth year of
His reign of His special grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, for Himself

page_text: Ilis heirs and successors, did give and grant unto the said John Carne,
his executors, administrators, and assigns, His special licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that he, the said John Carne, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, and every of them, by himself and themselves, or by his
and their deputy or deputics, servants or agents, or such others as he, the said
John Carne, his executors, administrators, and 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 his said Invention within that part of His Majesty's
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to him, the said John
Carne, his executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of them, should in his
or their discretions seem meet; and that the said John Carne, his executors,
administrators, and assigns, should 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 Invention, 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 be
granted unto him, the said John Carne, his exccutors, administrators, 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 form of the Statute in such case
made and provided; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that
if the said John Carne should not particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of his said. Invention, and in what manner the same was to be
performed, by an instrument in writing under his hand and seal, and cause
the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four
calendar month's next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent, then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages what-
soever thereby granted, should cease, determine, and become void, anything
therein-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding, as
in and by the said Letters Patent, reference being thereunto had, may more
fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, he, the said
John Carne, doth hereby 'describe and ascertain 'the nature of his said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as follows (that is
to say) :-
This new machine is constructed of four beams or carriers, supported
horizontal or inclined on posts to any height or length the work requires. On

page_text: these four beams or carriers two pair of wheels move with an alternate motion;
one pair of the wheels works on two of the carriers, and the other pair works
on the other two, and when one pair of the wheels carries off the weight the
other pair returns empty. The wheels are cased on each side to keep them
at their proper bearing on the carriers; the axles are fastened in each wheel,
and each axle has several different diameters, on either of which a large rope
is fastened, which takes hold of the weight to be removed in an inverted
position or under the wheels, and carries it off in an oblique direction when
the wheels move horizontal; and as the circumference of the axle is to that
of the wheel, the weight may be elevated more or less. On the middle of the
axle a rope is fastened with several turns round, and when the power is
applied to that rope it brings the wheels and weight forward, and raises the
weight at the same time. A new constructed horse whim is found to answer
exceedingly well in giving proper motions to the wheels. In removing earth,
sand, &c., a large box is hung by the great rope on the axle, which being
hung by its centre of gravity, as soon as it reaches its proper place of discharge,
a pin which goes through the hanging and top edge of the box is taken out,
and the contents discharged immediately, and as the box which carries the
weight is suspended by the rope on the side of the axle, its weight falls
perpendicularly out of the centre of gravity of the wheels, and consequently
has a very great tendency to return the wheels of itself; but to return the
wheels with certainty, a line is fastened near the middle of each axle, and
connected and conveyed round two trucks, so that the loaded wheels going
forward by that line help the empty box to return the unloaded wheels on
horizontal planes.
In witness whereof, the said John Carne hath hereunto set his hand and
seal, the Twenty-sixth day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and eighty-four.
o Sworne and subscribed by John Carn, at
Carhayes, in the County of Cornwall,
this 26th day of October, 1784, before
JOHN CARNE. (L.S.)

page_text: BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Twenty-sixth day of October,
in the twenty-fifth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third,
the said John Carne came before the said Lord the King in His Chancery,
and acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein
contained and specified, in form above written. And also the Instrument
aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the several Statutes made
in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen William and Mary
of England, and in the seventeenth and twenty-third years of the reign of His
said Majesty King George the Third, and so forth.
Inrolled the First day of November, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and eighty-four.