A NEW CHAIN PUMP, A NEW HAND PUMP, AND A NEW IMPROVED EXTINGUISHING FIRE ENGINE
Year: 1807

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MARK
NOBLE, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
in and by His Letters Patent under His Great Seal of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-fifth
day of April, in the forty-seventh year of His reign, for Himself, His heirs
and successors, did give and grant unto me, the said Mark Noble, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, His special licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that I, the said Mark Noble, my executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves, or by
my and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the
said Mark Noble, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within that part of His said Majesty's United
Kingdom called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A NEW CHAIN PUMP, A NEW HAND PUMP,
AND A NEW IMPROVED EXTINGUISHING FIRE ENGINE;" in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Mark Noble, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe
and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in His
said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and
by the same, relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Mark Noble, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, by the several
Plans or Drawings hereunto annexed, and as follows (that is to say) :-
The novelty of my new-invented chain pump is principally in the chains,
which is of two different sorts of chains. The links of each chain being in
themselves all alike, although each chain is different in themselves, the links
of each chain being alike will so fitt as to interchange into each other throughout
the whole chain. One of the chains, see Figure 1, the links of which will so
fitt into each other as to work without any bolts, and with or without keys.
The other chain, see Figure 2, the links of which are all exactly alike, and so
as to interchange out of one into the other, but with bolts and keys, both of
the above chains being so constructed as to bend one way only, both having
rule joints at the back, by which means they are straight one way and flexable
the other only, see Figure 1 and 2 on No. 1.
No. 2. My improved hand pumps, represented on No. 2, Figure 1 and
Figure 2, are both so constructed as to work as fire engines on occasion.
Figure 1. A represents the chamber in which the peston B works, and is fixed
close to the main pump piece C, and communicates by drawing and forcing its
contents of water through the double-valved box D into the upper part of the
pump C, the top of which, closed by the screwed cap E, with or without
the conveyance pipe F, serves and becomes an air vessel. The water may be
dscharged through a hose screwed on at the nossle or spout G, which is for
the delivery of the water when used as a lifting pump only, or on the top of
the screw cap E. For the advantage of a long stroke I use the quadrant H,
working in the rack I of the spear of the peston by the lever K.
No. 2, Figure 2, my other hand pump, which likewise is so constructed as to
act as a fire engine. The chamber A, in which the piston B works, is directly over
the lower box C, and discharges its contents of water, through the valve D,
into the vessel E, E, which surrounds the chamber A, and becomes an air vessel
by being closed with the flange of the top of the chamber A, another at the
bottom a, a, through the nossle or spout F, into which the hose is screwed
when worked as a force or extinguishing fire engine, either by the quardrant
and rack, as is described, see Figure 1, or by the lever G, in which is the
roler H, working in the jaw or clam I, on the peston rod B.
No. 3. My improved extinguishing fire engine consists in being able to employ
double, treble, or a greater number of men than those on present construction
are capable of; and this I do by the following means to any engine on the
present or any other construction, whose chambers and other internal works
are of sufficient magnitude:-I fix at each end of the axis to which the

page_text: present levers are fixed another axis or winchis described on the engine
No. 3, and are so made to draw out or slide through the holes in the levers,
one pair at each end, which is supported by stancheons with folding leggs, to
let down and fix where ever the engine is to be worked. This I consider as the
most convenient mode, although the same effect may be produced by another
axis, with levers fixed to the axis of the engine, with a flexable socket or a
universal joint, and with a moveable or triangle stancheon, to be removed or
fixed at pleasure for working.
My further improvement consists in ejecting or discharging through one
branch or nose piece the united and forced contents, be it done in whatsoever
manner it may, and this I do by receiving the forced contents of other engines
into mine by having a stronger air vessel for that purpose for receiving their
forced contents at the ends and sides of mine, from and through one or more
pipes, tubes, or branches conveyed to the air vessel, and then ejected through
one single branch pipe or nose piece. The same effect may be produced by
various other means, videlicet, that of a distinct air vessel, tube, or other formed
vessel with or without valves, having convenience to receive the separate hose
of other engines; but that of discharging the forced contents of several
different engines from one single aperture is one main point on which I rest
this part of my patent privilege.
In witness whereof, 1, the said Mark Noble, party hereto, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Twenty-fourth day of October, in the forty-
seventh year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by
the
grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
King, Defender of the Faith, and in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seven