NEW-INVENTED FIRE ENGINE FOR DRAINING OF MINES, COAL PITTS, AND LANDS, AND FOR RAISING OF HEAVY BODIES; AND ALSO MY NEW-INVENTED ENGINE FOR GRINDING OF FLINT AND HARD BODIES DRY
Year: 1761

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, JONATHAN
GREENALL, of Parr, in the County of Lancaster, Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Sixth day of February, in the first of His reign, give
and grant unto me, the said Jonathan Greenall, my executors, admors, and
assigns, and every of them, by himself and themselves, or by my and their
deputys, servants, and agents, or such others as I, the said Jonathan Greenall,
my exors, adiñors, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term of fourteen years
therein mentioned, His special licence, sole privilege and authority, that I, the sd
Jonathan Greenall, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, should and lawfully might
make, use, and exercise, my "NEW-INVENTED FIRE ENGINE FOR DRAINING OF
MINES, COAL PITTS, AND LANDS, AND FOR RAISING OF HEAVY BODIES; AND ALSO
MY NEW-INVENTED ENGINE FOR GRINDING OF FLINT AND HARD BODIES DRY,"
within that part of His Majesties Kingdom of Great Britain called England,
His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in His
Majesties Plantations and Colonies abroad, in such manner as I, the said
Jonathan Greenall, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, or any of them, should
in their discretions seem meet; in which said Letters Patent there is contained
a proviso obliging me, the said Jonathan Greenall, to cause a particular

page_text: description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is performed, under my hand and seal, to be inrolled in the High Court of
Chancery, within four calendar months from the date of the said Letters
Patent, as in and by the said Letters Patent (relation being thereunto had)
will more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Jonathan Greenall, do hereby declare that my said new-invented engines are
made, done, and performed in manner following (that is to say):-
The boiler may be made of different forms and with flews, from one to
sixteen, but four is apprehended to be best. The cylinder may be secured in
the wall either by arches or beams, but arches I think the best. The pump
tree may be made from four to twenty-four squares, but eight is the best. The
double regulator may have from one to six flews, but two is the best.
EXPLANATION OF THE FIRE ENGINE.
A, the body of the boiler; B, the waste steams; C, C, C, C, the flews or
conveyors of the fire through the water in the boiler; D, the grate and fire
door; E, the steam pipe & conveyor of the hot water into the boiler; F, the
steam pipe which conveys the steam from the boiler to the receiver; G, the
receiver; H, the double regulator; I, the cylinder; K, K, the two supporters
of the cylinder in the piers of the wall; L, the plug wch moves the F & Y
to inject and stop the steam; M, the pestion; N, N, the regulating beam;
O, the cold well which supplys the injection; P, the jack pump head; Q, the
lander box which delivers the water from head of the pump; R, the pump
made of squares.
EXPLANATION OF THE MACHINE FOR GRINDING OF FLINT DRY.
A, A, A, the wheel, trundles, & stones; B, B, the two wheels wch moves
the stampers; C, C, C, the stampers; D, D, the two wheels wch move the
machine for cleaning the flint; E, the body of the machine; F, F, the two
upright shafts and cranks wch move the machine.
MIDDLEHURST.
ROBEART CLE.
JONATHAN GREENALL. (L.S.)
Witnesses present,
W

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the aforesaid Thirtieth day of May,
in the year abovesaid, the said Jonathan Greenall came before our said Lord the
King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the above Instrument and Plan,
and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the Instrument aforesaid was stampt 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, & so forth.

page_text: The Body of the Boiler
The Waste Steam.
The Flews or Conveyors of the fire through the Water in the Boiler.
The Grate and flire Door.
The Steam Pipe C Conveyor of the Hot Water into the Boiler.
The Steam Pipe which Conveys the Steam from the Boiler the Recei
The Receiver
!
The Double Regulator.
The Cylinder
1
The Two Supporters of the Cylinder in the Piers of the Wall.
The Plug wch moves the F&Y to Inject and Step the Steam
The Pestion.
The Regulating Beam
The Cold Well which Supplys the Injection
The Jack Pump Head
The Lander Box which delivers the Water from Head of the Pur
The Pump made of Squares.