AN APPARATUS FOR OR METHOD OF GENERATING POWER, APPLICABLE TO VARIOUS PURPOSES
Year: 1828

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDMOND
GIBSON ATIIERLEY, of York Place, Portinan Square, in the Parish of Mary-
lebone, in the County of Middlesex, Esquire, sends greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twelfth day of June, in the ninth year of His reign,
did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Edmond Gibson Atherley, His especial licence that I, the said Edmond
Gibson Atherley, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Edmond Gibson Atherley, my exors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also within all His Majesty's Colonies and Planta-
tions abroad, my Invention of "AN APPARATUS FOR OR METHOD OF GENERATING
POWER, APPLICABLE TO VARIOUS PURPOSES;" in which said Letters Patent there
is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Edmond Gibson Atherley, 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 enrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after

page_text: the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference
being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Edmond Gibson Atherley, do hereby declare that the nature of my said
Invention, and in the manner in which the same is to be performed, is de-
scribed and ascertained in and by the Drawing hereunto annexed and the
following description thereof (that is to say):-
The nature of my Invention consists in the application of the same priu-
ciple by which one scale of a pair of heavily loaded scales in a state of balance
or equilibrium is raised above the level or horizontal merely by placing a
small additional weight in the opposite scale, when it is intended to raise the
lever marked B, B, in the annexed Drawing or Diagram so as to place it
in the position or situation in which to act upon the crank, piston, or
other thing to which it is attached; all the three levers in the annexed
Diagram or Drawing are to be considered as constituting, or as in principle
resembling, a pair of loaded scales in a state of balance or equilibrium; a
sufficient force applied at the right-hand side of the lower extremity of the
lever or pendulum marked D, D, in the annexed Drawing or Diagram will
raise the lever which in the annexed Drawing is marked B, B, and place it in
such a position or situation as to act upon the crank or other thing to which
it is attached. As soon as the lever marked B, B, is placed in this position
or situation the means by which it has been raised in such position or
situation must be withdrawn, and this is to be done by the recoil or return
of the two levers marked C, C, and D, D. In their return or recoil those
two levers alone (and without the lever marked B, B,) are to be considered
as constituting or as in principle resembling a pair of scales in a state of
balance or equilibrium, and the application of a sufficient force or power at
the left-hand side and at the lower extremity of the lever marked H in the
annexed Drawing will raise the right-hand end of the lever marked C, C,
to a like height above the level or horizontal that the lever marked B, B,
had been previously raised to, and by raising the right-hand end of the
lever marked C, C, (above the level or horizontal, the lever marked B, B,
is allowed to fall from the point to which it had been raised above the level
or horizontal to a corresponding distance below such level or horizontal,
and during its fall it acts upon the crank, piston, or other thing to which
it is attached. It is therefore by the alternate application of a power or
force to the opposite sides of the lower extremity of the lever marked D, D,
that the machine is to be kept in motion, and by which the lever marked B, B,
is made to act upon the crank or piston to which it is attached. The

page_text: power or force to be applied to the lever marked D, D, forms no part of
my Invention; any power or force may therefore be applied which may
be deemed the most effectual for the purpose.
To particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, A, A, A, A, front view of
the framework, in which the apparatus of my Invention is fixed, but which
constitutes no part of the Invention. B, B, a lever of the supposed length
of five feet, namely, of the length of one foot from the fulcrum to that end
or extremity to which the rod. chain, or rope, marked E in the annexed
Drawing or Diagram, is attached, and of the length of four feet from the
fulcrum to the other end or extremity of the said lever marked B, B. C, C,
a lever of the supposed length of eight feet, namely, of the length of four
feet from the fulcrum to each end or extremity of the lever. D, D, a lever
of the supposed length of cight feet from the fulcrum to the centre of
the ball marked H at the lower end or extremity of this lever. E, an iron
rod, chain, or rope, attached to a crank, piston, or other thing which is to be
moved by the action of the lever marked B, B. F, a ball fixed to the end
or extremity of the lever marked B, B, and which ball must be of sufficient
weight to overcome the resistance occasioned by the work which is to be
performed by the fall or drop of this lever. It is by this lever, thus loaded,
that a pump is to be worked, the machinery of a mill or manufactory put in
motion, or other thing done to which the Invention may be found applicable.
G, a ball, equal in weight with the ball marked F in the annexed Drawing
or Diagram. N.B. If the ball marked G, G, was a moveable ball, and run
in a hollow lever, instead of being fixed at the extremity of a solid lever, the
action of the machine might probably be improved thereby. H, a ball equal
in weight with the ball marked F in the annexed Drawing or Diagram; or if
the ball marked H was of somewhat greater weight than the ball marked F
the action of the machine might be thereby improved; K, a rim or frame
to keep the levers marked C, C, D, D, in their proper positions, and for the
purpose of strengthening them L is a joint by which the levers B, C, are
connected. Although in the above description of the annexed Drawing or
Diagram the levers are described to be of certain determinate lengths,
yet this is only for the purpose of better explaining the nature of my
Invention, and not as intending to fix the levers to any particular lengths.
As to the materials of which the machine should be made, it may be made
entirely of iron, or partly of iron and partly of oak or other tough or strong
wood. The annexed Drawing or Diagram represents the machine in the
position in which it would be when the lever marked B, B, was raised