CURIOUS MACHINE, FOR THE GREATER SAFETY AND MORE EXPEDITIOUS MANNER OF ESCAPING FROM FIRE
Year: 1782

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GEORGE
BEAUCHAMP, of Saint Paul's Churchyard, in the City of London, Cabinet
Maker, sends greeting.
WHEREAS the King's most Excellent Majesty, by Letters Patent under
the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the Fifteenth day of April last,
gave and granted unto the said George Beauchamp, his exors, admors, and
assigns, His Majesty's special licence, full power, sole privilege and authority.
for the said George Beauchamp, his exors, admors, and assigns, and every
of them, by himself or themselves, or by his or their deputy or deputies,
servants or agents, or such others as he, the said George Beauchamp, his
exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, not exceeding the
number of five, and no others, from time to time and at all times hereafter,
to make, use, exercise, and vend his new invented "CURIOUS MACHINE, FOR
THE GREATER SAFETY AND MORE EXPEDITIOUS MANNER OF ESCAPING FROM FIRE,"
to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the. said licence, power, privilege, and
advantages to the said George Beauchamp, his exors, admors, and assigns, for
the 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
Statute in that case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent is
contained a proviso that if I, the said George Beauchamp, should not par-
ticularly 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
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page_text: hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within four calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and
all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease,
determine, and become void, as by the said Letters Patent may more fully
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Beauchamp, in pursuance of
the said proviso in the said Letters Patent contained, do hereby declare that
the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be
performed, appears and is described and ascertained in the Schedule or
Drawings hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Beauchamp, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, the Sixth day of August, in the twenty-second
year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the
grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender
of the Faith, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred
and eighty-two.
GEORGE (L.S.) BEAUCHAMP.
Sealed and delivered, being first
duly stamped, in the presence of
THOMAS M. NEWSON.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Sixth day of August, in the
year of our Lord 1782, the aforesaid George Beauchamp came before our
said 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 in the Sixth year of the reign of the late
King and Queen W and Mary of England, and so forth, and in the seven-
teenth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the Sixth day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and eighty-two.

page_text: Fiġ: 2, shows the thickness of the walls which you are in this view supposed to front bimy the Profile of Fig 1.
Fig: 3. is a perspective view seen from the outside of the House of the Machine in use . _ The Fig. 1 and 2 refer to one Alphabet
A. Bottom rail of Sash thrown up. -
B. A Frame the whole width or less than the opening of the window and to rise from the floor to the top of the Window Sill -
C. Is a piece of wood or Metal hing'd to the frame B which contains tur pullup to direct the Cords which are brought from the
inside axis to let down the Bugys or Case in which the people are to decond. - D. The knuckle of the joint or hinge
E. A large wheel that contains the cord for the hand which is directed from the wheel by pulleys to the Cane pulley (a Friġ : 3)
and falls to the Ground when the Machine is turned over runing up thro' the Bug or Case ._
F. These are two Iron plates which confine the cords that turn above and below the axis that they regularly increase in their
cricumvolutions as also diminish they being the ropes fix'd wh a fork to the frame of the Bay as [b Fig 3] G are two pulleys
that direct the above cords to the pulleys in the frame C which sustaim the Bug - Fig 2
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H. are the pulleys that perform the houzontal motion of the Cord jim l. which I have shewn here in section being part hid
in this view as at [c, fig: 3]. I. is a frame that contains the Buy when it is folded within side the Room ..
I. the Radius of 3/4th of a circle in turning it out from I to K.-
| Fig: 3.- (a) Crane pulley for hand Rope ____
(b) Splied fork fixid to the angles of the frame . _