THE EFFECTUALL MEANS OP TAKING OFF OR CARCELLING THE FRICTION OF THE WHEEL PULLY, BALLANCE, AND PENDULUM, &C. WHEREBY, FIRST, ALL LAND CARRIAGES DRAWN ON WHEELS WOULD REQUIRE A FARR LESS DRAUGHT OF HORSES THAN COMMON, AND UNIVERSALLY ALL ENGINES WOULD BE EXERCISED TO THEIR RESPECTIVE PURPOSES WITH ONE THIRD LESS POWER THAN USUALLY; AND SECONDLY, THAT W PRAC CON PRO, TO CAUSE ONE OR THE BAME POWER TO ACT. MANIFOLD MORE SWIFTLY THAN USUALL, OR WITH ONE AND THE SAME POWER TO LIFT UP GREATER WEIGHT THAN USUALL IN THE COMON TIME OF PERFORMANCE
Year: 1734

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Second, in and
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Brittaine, bearing date
at Westminster, the First day of February, in the seventh year of His reign,
thereby reciteing, that whereas it has been humbly represented to His said
Majesty, by the petition of Jacob Rowe, therein styled his trusty and well-
beloved subject Jacob Rowe, Gentleman, that the said Jacob Rowe had for
severall years last past, with great labour, as well as at a considerable expence,
made it his study to improve and reduce into the most beneficiall practice, the
operation of the mechanick powers made use of in the exerciseing of all kinds
of fforcible engines, and had at length found out "THE EFFECTUALL MEANS OP
TAKING OFF OR CARCELLING THE FRICTION OF THE WHEEL PULLY, BALLANCE, AND
PENDULUM, &C. WHEREBY, FIRST, ALL LAND CARRIAGES DRAWN ON WHEELS WOULD
REQUIRE A FARR LESS DRAUGHT OF HORSES THAN COMMON, AND UNIVERSALLY ALL
ENGINES WOULD BE EXERCISED TO THEIR RESPECTIVE PURPOSES WITH ONE THIRD LESS
POWER THAN USUALLY; AND SECONDLY, THAT IT WOULD BE PRACTICABLE, BY AN ADDI-
TIONALL CONTRIVANCE PROPOSED BY THE SAID JACOB ROWE, TO CAUSE ONE OR THE
BAME POWER TO ACT. MANIFOLD MORE SWIFTLY THAN USUALL, OR WITH ONE AND THE
SAME POWER TO LIFT UP GREATER WEIGHT THAN USUALL IN THE COMON TIME OF
PERFORMANCE;" and had therefore most humbly besought His said Majesty to
grant unto him His Royall Letters Patents for the sole benefitt and advantago
of his said new Inventions for the term of fourteen years, according to the
Statute in such case made and provided; His said Majesty, out of His
especiall grace, certaine knowledge, and meer motion, did, for Himselfe, His

page_text: heirs and successors, give and grant unto the said Jacob Rowe, his executor
administrators, and assignes, His especiall lycense, full power, sole privileg
and authority, that he, the said Jacob Rowe, his executors, administrators
and assignes, and every of them, by himselfe and themselves, or by his an
their deputy or deputys, servants or agents, or such others as he, the sai
Jacob Rowe, his executors, administrators, or assignes, should at any tim
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times then afte
during the terme of fourteen years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend his said new Inventions, to be parti
cularly described by an instrument in writeing under his hand and seale, to
be enrolled in the Court of Chancery within two kalendar months from the date
of the said Letters Patents, within that part of Great Britain called England
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to
him, the said Jacob Rowe, his executors, administrators, and assignes, or any
of them, should in their discretion seem meet; and that he, the said Jacob
Rowe, his executors, administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully might
have and enjoy the whole profitt, benefitt, comodity, and advantage from time
to time comeing, growing, accrewing, and ariseing by reason of the said Inven-
tions, for and dureing the terme of years therein mentioned, to have, hold,
exercise, and enjoy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages
therein-before granted unto the said Jacob Rowe, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, for and during the terme of fourteen years from the
date of the said Letters Patents next and imediately insucing, and fully to be
compleat and ended, according to the Statute in such case and provided, with
a strict command to all persons whatsoever, for the said term of fourteen
years, not directly or indirectly to make, use, or put in practice the said
Inventions, or any part of the same so attained unto by the said Jacob Rowe
as aforesaid, nor in anywise counterfitt, imitate, or resemble the same, nor
should make or cause to be made any addition thereunto or substraction from
the same, whereby to pretend himself or themselves the Inventor or Inventors,
devisor or devisors thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the
said Jacob Rowe, his excors, administrators, and assignes, in writeing under
their hands and seales, first had and obtained in that behalfe, under such pains
and penalties as can be justly inflicted on such offenders for the contempt of
His said Majesties Royall commands; and also that all and singular justices
of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bailiff's, constables, and headboroughs, and all other
officers and ministers whatsoever of His said Majesty, His heirs aud succes-
syrs, for the time being, do not nor should at any time then after during the
said terme thereby granted, anywise molest, trouble, or hinder the said Jacob

page_text: Rowe, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, or his or their
deputies, servants, or agents, in and about the due and lawfull use or exercise
of the said Inventions, or anything relateing thereto; in which said Letters
Pattents, amongst others, is a provisoe that if the said Jacob Rowe should
¡ not particularly describe the nature and forme of his said Inventions, by an
instrument in writing under his hand and seale, and cause the same to be
enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two kalender
months next and imediately after the date of the said Letters Pattents, as had
been frequently done in like cases, that then the said Letters Pattents, and
all libertys and advantages thereby granted should utterly cease, determine,
and become void, anything therein-before mentioned to the contrary thereof in
anywise notwithstanding; and His said Majesty, by His Letters Patents, did
further grant unto the said Jacob Rowe, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, that the said Letters Patents, or the enrollment or exemplification
thereof, should be in and by all things good, firme, valid, sufficient, and effec-
tual in the law, according to the true intent and meaning thereof, and should
be taken, construed, and adjudged in the most favourable and beneficiall sence
for the best advantage of the said Jacob Rowe, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, as well in all His said Majesty's Courts of Record as elsewhere,
and by all and singular the officers and ministers whatsoever of His said
Majesty, His heirs and successors, in that part of the Kingdom of Great
Britain called England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed aforesaid, and amongst all and every the subjects of His said Majesty,
His heirs and successors, whatsoever and wheresoever, notwithstanding the not
full and certaine describeing the nature and quallity of the said Inventions, or
of the materialls thereto conduceing and belonging, as in and by. the said
Letters Patents, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large
appeare.
NOW KNOW YEE, that I, the said Jacob Rowe, in most dutifull obedi-
ence to His Majesty's Royall command, do hereby describe my said Inven-
tions in manner following:-
Namely, all heavy, such as water wheels belonging to all kinds of mills,
and all other heavy wheels, have their frictions greatly diminished by means of
other wheels caused to turn under the axis of the heavy wheels, or against
the point or place where the said axis must bear, so that, according to the
greatness of the diameters of the wheels used for taking of the friction, the
same is proportionably greatly diminished beyond common, and more particu-
larly by adding severall of the wheels called friction wheels, their axiss bear-
ing on each others circumference. The usuall frictions is thereby more con-
siderably diminished, (that is,) by one friction wheel the friction is made less

page_text: beyond common, as the diameter of the friction wheels axis is less than the
diameter of the said friction wheel; and if two friction wheels are concerned
than the friction is less than common, as the diameter of the axis is less than
the square of the diameter of the wheel; and where three are concerned the
friction is diminished, as the cube, and so forth. The which length was never
before arrived to by the antients, haveing never any recourse but to the help of
rollers vastly inferior to the former. And lastly, no means was ever before
invented for takeing of the friction of wheel carriages of any kind, the which is
now performed by the axis of the wheels that runns on the ground as usuall,
turning round on other wheels lying on the topp of the same, and also the
shoulder of the said axis turns round on wheels instead of a dead surface, as
usuall, which is a considerable saveing in the draught of horses, or of the
strength of men in drawing wheelbarrows.
In witness whereof, the said Jacob Rowe hath hereunto sett his hand and
seale, this Twenty-second day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and thirty-three, and in the seventh year of
our Sovereign Lord George the Second, by the Grace of God of Great
Britain and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith.
JACOB ROWE.
Sealed and delivered, being first duly
stampt, in the presence of
THO. PARKER,
At the Cross Keys, Thredneedle Street.