A METHOD OF DESTROYING FRICTION IN ALL WHEEL CARRIAGES, CAPSTONS, AND WINDLASSES, AND ALL AXIS OF ALL KIND OF WATER MILLS AND WINDMILLS,EITHER HORIZONTAL, PERPENDICULAR, OR OBLIQUE
Year: 1787

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WATKIN
GEORGE, of Preston, in the County of Somerset, Milwright, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by His
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twelfth day of May, in the twenty-seventh year of His reign,
give and grant unto me, the said Watkin George, my exors, adñiors, and
assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I;
the said Watkin George, my exors, adññors, and assigns, and every of
them, by myself and themselves, or by my and their deputy and deputies,
servants or agents, or such others as I, the said. Watkin George, my exors,
admors, and assigns, should agree with, and no.other, from time to time and at
all times thereafter during the term of fourteen years therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of His King-.
dom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, an Invention of "A METHOD OF DESTROYING FRICTION IN
ALL WHEEL CARRIAGES, CAPSTONS, AND WINDLASSES, AND ALL AXIS OF ALL KIND OF
WATER MILLS AND WINDMILLS, EITHER HORIZONTAL, PERPENDICULAR, OR OBLIQUE;"
in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said
Watkin George, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of
the nature of my Invention, and how the same is to be performed, to be
inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calender
month next and immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent,.
as in and-by the same, reference being thereunto had, may more fully and at
large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Watkin George, do hereby declare that my said Invention of A Method
for Destroying Friction in all Axis and other Movements, as aforesaid, is
performed in the manner following, and the principle thus described, that
is to say:-
Let A, A, in Figure the First in the above Plan, be a section of an axis of a
wheel or pulley, which may be either solid or hollow. On or around this axis,
and in contact with it, let any convenient number of cylinders, cones, or what
are commonly called rollers, be placed or ranged one against another, so as to
touch each other within the nave or container B, B. The whole set of cylin-
ders, cones, or rollers R, R, R, being set in motion, any power that should
move either the axis A, A, or container B, B, will move or revolve round its
axis A, A; and each said cylinder doth act and assist each other in their
revolving motion, and produces no more friction than one rolling on the other's
surface. Every other cylinder, as aforesaid, within Figure the First, is longer
than those that bear the burthen, any convenient length that should be thought
proper; and two rings, one at each end, to encompass the same all round, as
at C, C, C; and, by reason of the power that sets the axis A, A, in motion, the
said rings doth move or revolve the reverse; or if it be the nave or container
that moves, then they are reverse also. There is a flanch or ring cast or fixed
to the two covers or caps that go on the nave or container, fixt in the most
convenient method that should be thought proper at each end of the con-
tainer B, B, so that the said long cylinders within the ring C, C, C, shall find a
bearing to move upon in their own circle as at D, D, D. The principle of
this method in Figure the First is, placing all the cylinders, cones, or rollers,
one to touch or bear against each other, to move or revolve round their axis
without centers to bear upon or to keep them separate from touching each
other.
The chief principle of the Second Figure is, that of placing as many
cylinders or cones or rollers as should be thought most convenient for the
different movements one in the other (that is to say), every cylinder shall be
nicked down or made smaller in some places than in others, or notches made
at any convenient distance from each other, so that the projection of one
cylinder will move in the notches or groves or cavities in the others, as you
may see in the Figure C, C, C, by having their centers so near together, so
the axis A, A, has a greater bearing always when it is in motion, which is an
advantage to power. On every other cylinder is a cylinder or wheel, as at
E, E, placed on the centers D, D, and touches on the two nearest cylinders,
as at n, n, n, n. So the chief principle is, their moving one in the other with-

page_text: out touching each other to cause friction. If cylinders or cones or rollers are
placed one on the other, as is shewn, from the axis A, A, to the segment of the
container L, L, revolution will take place, and answer the same purpose as
the First and Second Figures will for large axle of water wheels, and for sundry
movements. The principle is, placing them to bear properly on each other, as
at 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Each row or tier must not touch or bear one
against another that ranges or moves in one direct circle, but must bear one
on the other, from the axis A, A, to the container L, L, which may more fully
appear by the several Plans above drawn.
In witness whereof I, the said Watkin George, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven.
Signed, sealed, and delivered (being
first duly stamp'd) in the presence of
WATKIN (L.S.) GEORGE.
GEO. VAUGHAN.
Tres Ca
Inrolled the Twenty-sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven.