A CERTAIN MACHINE OR CERTAIN MACHINERY FOR THE REMOVING AND CONVEYING OF EARTH, STONES, MUD, SAND, BALLAST, OR ANY OTHER ARTICLES, MATERIALS OR THINGS ON LEVEL GROUND, AND FOR EMPTYING AND CONVEYING THE SAME FROM OR OUT OF CANALS, RIVERS, PONDS, FOUNDATIONS OF HOUSES, CELLARS, PITS, OR HOLES, AND ALSO FOR LOWERING AND CONVEYING THE SAME FROM EMINENCES AND HEIGHTS, AND WHICH IS APPLICABLE TO VARIOUS OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1794

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
SLADEN, of Sherborne, in the County of Dorset, Innkeeper, 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 Twenty-ninth day of July last, give and grant unto me, the
said William Sladen; my executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said William
Sladen, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of Great Britain called England,
the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention
of "A CERTAIN MACHINE OR CERTAIN MACHINERY FOR THE REMOVING AND CONVEYING
OF EARTH, STONES, MUD, SAND, BALLAST, OR ANY OTHER ARTICLES, MATERIALS OR
THINGS ON LEVEL GROUND, AND FOR EMPTYING AND CONVEYING THE SAME FROM OR OUT
OF CANALS, RIVERS, PONDS, FOUNDATIONS OF HOUSES, CELLARS, PITS, OR HOLES, AND
ALSO FOR LOWERING AND CONVEYING THE SAME FROM EMINENCES AND HEIGHTS, AND
WHICH IS APPLICABLE TO VARIOUS OTHER PURPOSES," for the term of fourteen
years from the date thereof; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso,
obliging me, the said William Sladen, particularly to describe and ascertain the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and to 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,

page_text: as by such Letters Patent, reference being thereunto had, may more fully and
at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said Letters Patent, and
the proviso therein contained, I, the said William Sladen, do hereby declare,
that the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the same is
to be performed, is particularly described and ascertained as follows, that is to
say :-
My said Invention consists of and in the machine or machinery particularly
described in the Drawing or Drawings hereunto annexed, and the explanations
hereunder written referring thereto, and which machine or machinery consists
of the several parts, and is to be constructed and put together and used in the
manner described in the said Drawing or Drawings so hereto annexed, and the
explanations hereunder written so referring thereto, and may be made of such
materials as in the said explanations is in that behalf inentioned, or any other
materials of the like nature; and which machine or machinery, as described in
the said Drawing or Drawings and the aforesaid explanations so referring
thereto, may be and is intended to be worked by two or more men, but may
also be worked as well by a horse or horses, by taking out or removing the
four wheels in the head of the frame (and which are described in Figure 2),
and adding or using a common horse wheel; as also by the application or using
of most of the powers commonly applied or used in the working of other
machines or machinery.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Sladen, have hereunto set my
'hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of August, in the thirty-fourth
year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, now King
of Great Britain, and so forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and ninety-four.
WILLIAM SLADEN. L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered (being first
duly stampt), in the presence of
JOHN WILSON,
JOHN ATKINSON,
Clerks to Mr. Mainstone, Essex Street.
Fig. 1 is a plan of the whole machine, which may be worked with two cog-
wheels only, and either worked upon a plane or upon an ascent or perpen-
dicular, by applying the small purchase cog-wheel or wheels to any part or
parts of the main wheel, as the different positions of using may require; but
when used in perpendicular direction the framework on which the buckets, &c.

page_text: may
be omitted. A, A, A, A, the frame woodwork; B, B, B, blocks on the cog-
wheels, round which the rope, chain, &c., are put, which turn upon the same axis,
but not always fixed to the cog-wheel; C, the principal wheel, on this wheel
the block is fastened; D, the winch handle or fly by which the machine is
worked; E, E, E, E, the rope, chain, &c.; F, F, pieces of timber across the
frame to which the wheels are fixed; G, G, wheels upon a new construction to
support the head of the frame; II, H, buckets fixed to the carriage; J, J,
Do which rests on the top of H, H, the right-hand one thrown up and
emptying itself; K, K, D°, the one on the right hand discharged of its load;
L, L, L, L, L, L, L, L, the wheels on which the carriages moves in grooves
cut in the frame; M, M, rollers over which the rope, chain, &c., N runs, which
also set up the empty buckets in returning. A proportionable number of these
must be introduced as the length of the frame may require. N, N, rope, chain,
&c., to cause a return of the carriage; 0, 0, 0, handles for emptying the
buckets; the rope fixed on the handles of the buckets behind serves to tilt them.
P, P, P, P, iron axles for the wheels of the carriage; the axle of tho
wheel which supports the head of the frame; Y, an iron fixture to the piece
of timber, of large wire, which will occasion the buckets to be tilted by the
person at the winch; Z, Z, two rollers in the bottom of the frame for the rope
to run on as represented, which must be removed when the frame requires
lengthening; &, is a plank grooved across to receive the bottom edges of the
frame halfway across; the other half to receive an additional length of frame
when required.
Fig. 2 is the plan of the wheels of the machine without blocks, to shew how
they act. The block is fastened to the holes in the principal wheel, as repre-
sented; the others are put on the spindles.. Q, the wheel where the winch
handle or fly is placed to turn the machine. In case of very great weight this
wheel may be taken off occasionally, and winches put on the other two wheels,
and wheels as rollers or cog-wheels put towards the centre of the large wheel
to keep the rope at a greater distance.
Fig. 3 is the block to be put to the cog-wheels round which the rope, chain,
&c., is put. R, the course of the rope with groves for the ranns of the rope to
prevent it from sliding; the other part for the links of the chain.
Fig. 4 is the form of the bucket which tilts, and which is placed on the top
of the fixed one, and shews that a sliding board may occasionally be placed to
prevent the earth, &c, from falling out. S, the hind part of the bucket.
Fig. 5 is the carriage and three buckets and wheels complete in a sidelong
position. T, T, the buckets which tilt and discharge themselves by means. of
the handles.

page_text: Fig. 6 is the wheel which supports the head of the machine, upon a new
construction. U, U, a part of the wheel compleat; V, V, a part of the wheel
shewing the sides thereof and the spokes within the fellies, also the manner in
which the spokes are put; W, the iron work which is fixed on the sides of tho
fellics extending above the fellies in the exterior circumference; X, the iron
work which is groved out on each side to take the iron work placed on the
sides of the fellies, and must be made to fit very tight; a, a, ketches to
prevent the main wheel from running back.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-third day of August, in
the thirty-fourth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third,
the said William Sladen came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery,
and acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and overy thing therein
contained and specified, in form above written. And also the Instrument
aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the several Statutes made in the
sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen William and Mary of
England, and so forth, and in the seventeenth and twenty-third years of tho
reign of His present Majesty King George the Third.
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written.