NEW INVENTED ENGINE OR MACHINE FOR THE MORE SPEEDY UNLADING OF COAL SHIPS THAT ARRIVE IN THE POOLE OF THE RIVER THAMES, WHEREBY SUCH SHIPS WILL BE UNLADED WITH INFINITELY MORE DISPATCH AND AT HALF THE CHARGE THE SAME HATH BEEN USUALLY DONE BY THE COMMON METHOD
Year: 1757

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I EDWARD
Cox, of the Parish of Saint Mary, Lambeth, in the County of Surry, Barge
Builder, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty George the Second, by the grace
of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith,
& so forth, by His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great
Britain, bearing late the Twenty-third day of February, in the thirtieth year
of His said Majesty's reign, did give and grant unto me, the said Edward
Cox, Iis special licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, tho
said Edward Cox, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should and
lawfully might, during the term of years therein expressed, use and exercise
throughout that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my "NEW
INVENTED ENGINE OR MACHINE FOR THE MORE SPEEDY UNLADING OF COAL SHIPS
THAT ARRIVE IN THE POOLE OF THE RIVER THAMES, WHEREBY SUCH SHIPS WILL
BE UNLADED WITH INFINITELY MORE DISPATCH AND AT HALF THE CHARGE THE SAME
HATH BEEN USUALLY DONE BY THE COMMON METHOD;" in which said Letters
Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said Edward Cox, by
writing under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature
of my said Invention to be inrolled in Ilis 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 at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Edward Cox, do hereby declare that my said new invented engine or machine
for unlading coals out of ships, consists of and is performed according to the
plan hereunto annexed, with this further description; that, in the said plan,
marked with the letter (A), is a swinging boom, which lets down a hopper
into the hole of the ship by tackle and blocks from the top of the boom, and
the same being filled is drawn up again by a winch (in the said plan hereunto
annexed, marked with the letter (B); and the said hopper being so drawn up,
is, by means of the boom, brought over the vat and then emptys itself out of
two doors with latches at the bottom of the said hopper (in the said plan
hereunto annexed, marked C), into the vat, in order to be turned over into
the lighters; and there may be used more or less hoppers, in proportion to the
largeness of the ship, there being one hopper always filling in the hole of the
ship whilst the other is bringing up and discharging into the vat. And also in
the said plan hereunto annexed, marked with the letter (D), is a truck with
wheels, which runs on a frame to convey the coals from the fore and aft of
the ship to the main hatchway. And also in the said plan hereunto annexed,
marked with the letter (E), is a round hopper, to be used where the hatchway
is small.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto sett my hand and seal, this Second
day of April, in the year of Our Lord God One thousand seven hundred
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