NEW-INVENTED METHOD OR CONTRIVANCE OF APPLYING POWER FOR THE PURPOSE OF RAISING WATER FROM LOWER TO A HIGHER LEVEL
Year: 1807

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ENOCH
WOOD, of Burslem, in the County of Stafford, Potter, do send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Thirtieth day of July, in the forty-seventh year of His reign, did
give and grant unto me, the said Enoch Wood, my exors, admors, and
assigns, His special licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that
I, the said Enoch Wood, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, during the term of
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
my "NEW-INVENTED METHOD OR CONTRIVANCE OF APPLYING POWER FOR THE
PURPOSE OF RAISING WATER FROM LOWER TO A HIGHER LEVEL;" in which
Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said Enoch
Wood, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature
of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
enrolled in His 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, may more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Enoch Wood, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described as follows
(that is to say):-
I make use of a balance beam or lever, upon which, towards each end from
the centre or balance pin, I make holes or sockets to receive moveable or fixed

page_text: pins or supporters, from which pins or supporters on each side of the balance
pin I suspend pump rods in the usual mode. I place weight on one side, when
the weight of the pump rods alone do not sufliciently counteract the weight of
the opposite pump rods and buckets, and the water which is contained in the
first lift or pipes, or sett of pipes. I ascertain the quantity of weight for the
above-mentioned purpose, by first filling the pipe or pipes in the first lift, both
above and below the pump valves, up to the top or point where the water is
delivered from the pipes; I then move the balance beam upwards and lown-
wards, in order to ascertain which end of the balance beam requires addition
of weight; and I so adjust it by weight, if needful, as to cause the same
quantity of power to move it upwards or downwards with the same velocity.
When the lowest level is very deep, or any other cause makes it desirable to
use more lifts or pipes or sets of pipes than one, I connect the pump rod
which by its weight counteracts the pump rod and water in the opposite or
upper pipe or first lift, with a second balance beam made in the same form as
the first, and place it on bearers at a convenient distance above the bottom of
the first lift or pipe; to which balance beam I again connect pump rods adjusted
by weight, in the same manner as is above described for the first balance beam.
When it is desirable to prevent the water from falling down to a lower level,
and to avoid the use of too many balance beams, I introduce a tongue or guide
rod, and connect one of its ends to one of the perpendicularly-suspended pump
rods, where the rods and the tongue join by a pin and a pair of jaws, and is
connected with the first balance beam, and I fasten the other end by hinges on
pins and thimbles on the opposite side to a steady part of the fraiming or other
convenient place; from this tongue or guide rod I suspend a pump rod which
is applied to lifting or forcing pump in the usual mode.
My apparatus being thus arranged, and the counteracting weight adjusted
as above described, it only remains to be put in motion in any common
accustomed mode, which is usually applied for the purpose of working or
applying power to pump. For this purpose I make use of one of those steam
engines which apply the power of steam alternately and equally on each side
the piston, and from the piston rod to a common connecting rod or spear rod,
and to a crank shaft and fly wheel, which shaft at the other end has a crank
and connecting rod or spear rod, which is in the common mode by a pin
connected to one end of the first balance beam, as will more clearly appear by
reference to the Drawings hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Enoch Wood, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, the Thirteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seven.

page_text: REFERENCE TO DRAWING.
A, the first balance beam made of cast iron; B, the pump rod made of wood
and iron straps; C, the tongue or guide rod made of wood and iron straps;
D, the fly wheel made of cast iron; E, the crank with holes for moveable pin;
F, the connecting rod or spear rod; G, the first lift; H, the forcing or sucking
pump; I, the second balance beam; K, the second lift; L, the weight.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Thirteenth day of August, in the
year of our Lord 1807, the aforesaid Enoch Wood came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowleged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Fifteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seven.