NEW-INVENTED INSTRUMENT OR MACHINE INTENDED TO BE CALLED A TIME SETTER
Year: 1799

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
WOOD, of Sloane Square, in the Parish of St. Luke, Chelsea, in the County of
Middlesex, 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 Twentieth day of April, in the thirty-ninth year of His reign,
did, give and grant unto me, the said Henry Wood, my exors, admors, and
assigns, His special licence that I, the said Henry Wood, my exors, admors,
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 INSTRUMENT OR MACHINE INTENDED
TO BE CALLED A TIME SETTER;" in which Letters Patent there is, amongst
other things, contained a proviso or condition for making void the same unless
I, the said Henry Wood, do particularly describe and ascertain the nature of
my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by
an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be

page_text: inrolled in the High Court of Chancery within the space of one calendar
month next after the date of the said Letters Patent, as in and by the said
Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, may more fully appear.
NOW THEREFORE KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso
or condition, I, the said Henry Wood, do hereby declare my said Invention
to be as follows, to wit:-.
I form a dial plate or plates, either circular, oval, or square, or any other
shape or make, whereon is ingraved, painted, or otherwise marked, the several
hours, quarters, and minnites constituting the revolution of one day and night,
consisting of twenty-four hours; I add thereto one or many hand or hands,
slider or sliders, whereon are engraved, painted, or otherwise impressed, and
allso on the plates and dials, several various acts which men are usually
accustomed to do in the course of one day, as for example, to breakfast, dine,
sup, return home, ride out, &c., which being moved to the several hour or
hours, minnit or minnites, wherein such such act or acts is intended to be
performed, will publish to the person or persons viewing the same the time
of such performances. These dials, plates, pointing hands, fingers, and slides
are made to be moved by means of a pin, or by a wheel or wheels, or spring
or springs, or otherwise. It is not necessary to give any Plan or representation
of this Invention, as it may be formed, constructed, and applied to a variety
of purposes, and be made to fix in frames, cases, doors, wainscotts, walls,
windows, desks, clocks, watches, or any other article of furniture, building,
office, or place, or be moveable. It may be made of any mettal or compound,
or with marble, stone, slate, glass, enamel, china, earthenware, plaister, wood,
ivory, bone, horn, paper, leather, parchment, cloth, or any japanned, painted,
gilt, laquered, or varnished, or silvered substances, or compounds, in parts or
.seperately.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Wood, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Thirteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twentieth day of May, in the
year of our Lord 1799, the aforesaid Henry Wood came before our Lord the
King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, 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
Statutes made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twentieth day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and ninety-nine.