A MODE OF DRIVING AND WORKING MILLS, AND ALL OTHER MACHINES AND ENGINES DRIVEN OR WORKED WITH WHEEL WORK
Year: 1794

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
BANNISTER, of Devizes, in the County of Wilts, Hosier, do send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Brittain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Twenty-second day of November, in the thirty-fifth year of His reign,
did give and grant unto me, the said John Bannister, my executors, administra-
tors, and assigns, His special licence that I, the said John Bannister, my execu-
tors, administrators, and assigns, during the term of years therein expressed,
should and lawfully might use or cause to be used, apply or cause to be applied,
"A MODE OF DRIVING AND WORKING MILLS, AND ALL OTHER MACHINES AND ENGINES
DRIVEN OR WORKED WITH WHEEL WORK," within England, Wales, and the
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed; in which Letters Patent there is contained
a proviso obliging me, the said John Bannister, under my hand and seal, to
cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be enrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within one calendar month next and immediately after the
date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation being
thereunto had) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Bannister, do hereby declare that my said Invention consists in applying
the power of air to effect the motion of one or more wheels, which is to be
performed by one, two, or more cylinders, pistons, bellows, or other machine,
capable of producing wind sufficient for the purpose required. The application
of this principle will be seen by reference to the annexed Drawing, where A,

page_text: Fig. 1, represents a pair of bellows directing the air against the wheel B, and
so communicating motion to any engine or machine to which it may be applied.
Fig. 2 shows the mode of applying this wheel in the ordinary way of mill
work; and it is needless to say that the mode of applying it, either vertically or
horizontally, may be varied according to the discretion of the workmen; and
that the means of working the bellows, cylinders, pistons, or other machine to
produce the wind may be performed by any of the known powers; my Inven-
tion consisting only in the application of the force of wind through such
medium or means as I havo described; observing also that the wheel B be so
contrived (either as represented in the Drawing or otherwise) as to allow the
wind applied to it the greatest possible effect.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Bannister, havo hereunto set my
hand and scal, this Sixteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and ninety-four.
JOIN BANNISTER. (L.S.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Sixteenth day of December,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid John Bannister came before our
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained, in form abovo written. And also
the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statuto
Inrolled the same Sixteenth day of December, in the year above
mentioned.