THE MODE OF APPLYING ADDITIONAL POWERS TO ALL KINDS OF MACHINERY, BY WHICH THE FORCE OF A MAN IS GREATLY ENCREASED, AND HE IS ENABLED TO DO MUCH MORE THAN HE COULD OTHERWISE PERFORM
Year: 1799

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, JAMES LAMBIE,
Machine Maker, at Paisley, in that part of Great Britain called Scotland,
sends greeting.
WHEREAS the King's most Excellent Majesty, by Letters Patent under the
Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the Twenty-second day of July, in
the thirty-ninth year of His reign, gave and granted unto the said James
Lambie, his executors, administrators, and assigns, His Majesty's special
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that he, the said James Lambie,
his executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by themselves,
or by their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as he, the said
James Lambie, his executors, administrators, or assigns, shall at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, his Invention of "THE MODE OF APPLYING ADDITIONAL POWERS TO ALL
KINDS OF MACHINERY, BY WHICH THE FORCE OF A MAN IS GREATLY ENCREASED, AND
HE IS ENABLED TO DO MUCH MORE THAN HE COULD OTHERWISE PERFORM," being &
principle entirely new within that part of Great Britain called England, the
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner to the
said James Lambie, his executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of them,
should, in their discretion, seem meet, and that he, the said James Lambie,

page_text: his executors, administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and
enjoy the whole profit, commodity, and advantage from time to time coming,
growing, and arising by reason of the said Invention, for and during the
term of years therein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said
licence, powers, privileges and advantages, therein-before granted, or mentioned
to be granted unto the said James Lambie, his executors, administrators, and
assigns, for and during and unto the full end and 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 such case made and pro-
vided; in which said Letters Patent, is contained a proviso, that if the said
James Lambie should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of his
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instru-
ment in writing under his hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled
in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month 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,
relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
.
NOW KNOW YE, that the said James Lambie, in pursuance of and com-
pliance with the said proviso in the said Letters -Patent contained, and the
purport and true intent and meaning thereof, and of His Majesty's said' most
gracious intentions, do, by this instrument in writing under his hand and seal
duly executed, describe and ascertain the nature of his said Invention, and
several of the methods by which the same may be performed, that is to say:
Figure 1st, front view.-A, B, C, D, a footboard or platform, on which the
man employed in working stands. This platform is suspended on an axis.
moveable upon two pivots, and so placed that the platform when at rest shall
be in equilibrio. One of the pivots is seen at E. The platform acts as a lever in
driving the machine by means of the upright shaft F. F, an upright shaft
affixed to a crank G, and by a hinge or joint to the corner B of the platform.
H, another crank, with a roller on it, which works in the slit d, e, of the handle
J, K. J, K, a handle moveable on a pivot K; by this handle the man
standing on the platform works with his hands. L, L, L, L, a fly wheel which
regulates the motion of the machine. M, M, the frame -which-supports -the-
machine.
Figure 2d, side view.-A, B, the footboard or platform on which the man
stands. F, the upright shaft fixed to the corner of the platform and the crank
G. H, the crank and roller working in the slit of the handle. J, K, the

page_text: handle moveable on a pivot at K. L, L, the fly wheel fixed on the axis N, H.
11, M, the frame which supports the machine.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Lambie, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and ninty-nine.
1, M, the frame which supports the machine.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Lambie, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and ninty-nine.
Sealed and delivered (being first duly
stamped) in the presence of
JA* GIBSON,
In Chancery.
One of the Writers to His Majesty's Signet in Scotland.
THOMAS GIBSON,
Writer in Edinburgh.
Thomas Gibson, of the City of Edinburgh, in North Britain, Gentleman,
maketh oath and saith, that he did see James Lambie; mentioned in
the deed poll hereunto annexed, sign, seal, and, as his act and deed, in due
form of law, deliver the said deed poll, and at the same time subscribe
and indorse his name on the Drawing "of the Mode of Applying Addi-
tional Power to various Kinds of Machinery, by which the Force of a Man is
greatly Encreased, and he is enabled to do much more than he could otherwise
perform," mentioned and referred to in the said deed poll, in the presence of
James Gibson, one of the Clerks to His Majesty's Signet in Scotland, and this
deponent. And that the names James Lambie, appearing to be set and sub-
scribed at the foot of the said deed poll as the party executing the same, and
indorsed on the said Drawing (referred to in the said deed poll), and Jas
Gibson and Thomas Gibson, set and subscribed to the said deed poll, as
witnesses attesting the due execution of the same, and the said James Lambie's
subscribing and indorsing his name on the said Drawing, are of the respective
proper hand-writing of the said James Lambie, James Gibson, and this
deponent, Thomas Gibson.