IMPROVEMENTS IN OBTAINING POWER
Year: 1839

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
SUTTON, of John Street, Roupel Street, Lambeth, in the County of Surrey,
Machinist, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by.
Her Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-fifth day of November, in the third year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said John Sutton, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority,
that I, the said John Sutton, my cñors, adññors, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said John Sutton, my exors, adñiors, or assigns, should at any
time agree, with, and no others, from time to time and at all times 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,
and also in all Her said Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, my
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN OBTAINING POWER;" in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said John Sutton, shall cause a par-
ticular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of
the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being
thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Sutton, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to
the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon
(that is to soul.

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is a side view of a double-acting power machine. A, A, A, A, A,
is framework to support machinery. B1, B2, are two balance levers, or working
beams, in a line with each other, supported at the centres C', C, having at
one end a wheel D¹, D, over which is a shoe lever E', E, having its fulcrum
at F, F, to which is attached an arm G', G, that is connected by a
joint 01, 0, to a horizontal rod H, H, which rod is also connected by a
joint P1, P2, to a perpendicular rod I, 12, which moves on their axes at K', K².
There is also another horizontal rod at L, which connects the two rods H1, H2,
together, so as to give them a stay and uniformity of motion in their working
to and fro. M is a rod that connects one end of the working beam B² to a
crank T that is fixed to the shaft N; underneath the horizontal rod H and
near the joint O, is a loop or eye, to which is attached a chain that passes
along the rod over a pulley wheel that is seated also underneath the rod, but
near the joint P2, and passing over another pulley wheel that moves in an
opening in the perpendicular rod 12, a little below the joint P2, and passing
out at the back of the rod, and s
1 so down to another pulley wheel or crank
at R, and then up to the end of the balance lever B'...Then underneath the
horizontal rod H', and near the joint O', is a loop or eye, to which is attached
a chain that passes over a pulley wheel that is situated also underneath. the
rod, but near the joint P₁, and then passing over another pulley wheel that
moves in an opening in the perpendicular rod I, but a little below the
joint P, and so passing out at the back of the rod down to the crank S.
Now a perfect machine will have two sides exactly similar to Figure 1, as here
described. Now if a prime mover, say a small steam engine, or man power,
or water power, or any other motive power, be connected to the crank S, and
cause the crank to revolve, the chain that is attached to the horizontal rod H¹
(on one side of the machine) will descend, and with it the rods H' and I',
which will drag down the shoe lever E', and that having no sure footing, to
turn round upon, it resting on the wheel beneath, which will recede and turn
round the moment it is trod upon, causing thereby that end of the working
beam B' to descend and the other end to rise; now the other end rising
will operate on the chain that is attached to it, belonging to the horizontal
rod H, which will also descend in like manner, and drag down the shoe lever E³,
and that treading upon the surface of the wheel (of the working beam B³),
which will recede and turn round, causing the wheel end of the working beam
to descend, while the other end will rise, thereby giving an up motion to the
crank T; now, as one side descends, the other side levers will be restored to
their upright position by the levers of each side of the machine being con-

page_text: nected together by a counter pulley wheel at L, which will act contrarily, the
strap on the pulley wheel rising and descending on contrary sides of it. Now
in order to multiply motion, and lessen the loss of power thereby, I purpose
putting on the shaft T a cog-like wheel, bent. Instead of the cogs being solid,
there will be a wide slit or slot down the middle of each cog, so leaving an
upright side on each side of the cogs to admit of a roller or wheel therein,
which rollers or wheels will be made to work on rollers or wheels, or else on
plain cogs of another wheel, or contrary, as the wish may be; and so the like
if I should wish to generate power or lessen motion, I should use the same
kind, or else wheels with common or plain cogs to them. Also power may be
gained by placing a roller or wheel at the end of any kind of lever; the gain
of power being according to the diameter of the roller or wheel, it matters
but little whether the roller or wheel be at the end of the lever, or upon the
thing operated upon by the lever.
Figure 2 exhibits a way whereby power may be gained as regards a steam
or any other engine. If a wheel, say a pulley wheel or any other wheel, bo
placed on the top of the piston rod, or else on each end of the transverse bar
of the piston rod (as the make of the engine may be), and that end of the
working beam be made, as shewn in Figure 2, videlicet, with a slot in it, so as
to allow of the wheel to turn round and work freely therein, then, as the
piston rises and falls, the wheel will turn round in the slot, and cause the strain
of friction to be thrown off and lessened, and by a proper adjustment of the
parallel motion rods they will stay the extra strain thrown sideways on the
piston rod, or else the piston rod may work in between a slot with friction
rollers. As the sole of the foot levers of Figure 1 and Figure 3 do not travel
over the whole of the periphery of the wheel situated beneath them, there may
be placed instead of the whole wheel so much of the segment of the wheel as
may be required for them to pass over, thereby giving you all the advantage of
a larger wheel without its unnecessary bulk, as the fulcrum of it can be farther
removed from the circumference, thus
; but then it will be necessary to
have a pulley attached to each side of the segment, so that the working
of the segments of one side of the machine may operate on the segments on
the other side, by restoring them to their upright position.
Figure 3 is the same kind of machine as Figure 1, only of a more powerful
kind. A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, is frame work to support machinery. Bland B
are two balance levers or working beams in a line with each other, supported
at their centres a, a, cach beam having at one end a wheel, 63, 6, over which is
a bulb lever, C, D, having its fulcrum at c, d, to which is an arm that has a
wheel inserted. at the end, over which wheel there is placed a lever, E, F,

page_text: branching out at top at right angles, to the end of which at w¹ and w
there is jointed a rod, G, HI, at the end of that there also jointed infinitive
levers or lazy tongs, 1, K, which acts on a bearing in the frame work at
X, X; at the end of the infinitive levers there is placed a wheel L, M.
O, N, are bulb levers having their fulcrum at Y', Y; to the arm of them there
is a rod jointed, Q', Q. S is a rod attached to one end of the working beam B,
to a crank S that is fixed to the shaft T. At P there is a pulley wheel that
has a chain round it that connects the rod Q to the working beam B. Now
a perfect machine will have two sides exactly similar to Figure 3, as here
described. Now if a prime mover, say a small steam engine, or man power, or
water power, or any other motive power, be connected to the rod Q¹ by the
means of a crank or any other way, so as to cause the rod Q to descend, it
will (that is, the rod Q',) drag down the arm of the bulb lever O, which acts
on the wheel L, which will cause the infinitive levers to collapse, thereby
dragging after them the right-angled lever E, which, bearing on the wheel of
the bulb lever C, will cause that to descend, and the bulb lever C, resting on
the wheel of the working beam B', will force that end of the working beam
down, while the other end of the working beam will rise, drawing up with it
the chain that runs round the pulley wheel at P, causing thereby the rod Q
to descend, and dragging down with it the bulb lever N, which acts on the
wheel M, thereby causing the infinitive levers K to collapse, which will pull
down the right-angled lever F, and that resting on the wheel of the bulb
lever D will cause that to descend, and the bulb lever D resting on the wheel
of the working beam B will cause that end of the working beam to descend
also, while the other end will rise, forcing up the crank rod S, which will give
an up motion to the crank S, turning thereby the shaft T half round. Now
as one side descends the other side levers will be restored to their upright
position by the levers of one side of the machine being connected to the same
kind of levers on the opposite side of the machine by a counter pulley wheel
at w, which is not seen in the Figure 3, but is seen at U³, which will act
contrarily, the strap on the pulley wheels rising and descending on contrary
sides of it.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Sutton, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fanty
JOHN (L.S.) SUTTON.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-third day of May, in the
year of our Lord 1840, the aforesaid John Sutton came before our said
Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to
the tenor of the Statute made for that;
purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty.