IMPROVEMENTS IN OBTAINING SPRING POWER, AND IN ITS APPLICATION TO VARIOUS PURPOSES."
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Herbert Maberly, of Stowmarket, in the
County of Suffolk, Master of Arts, for the Invention of" IMPROVEMENTS
IN OBTAINING SPRING POWER, AND IN ITS APPLICATION TO VARIOUS PURPOSES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Herbert Maberly
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on,the
4th February 1859.
I, FREDERICK HERBERT MABERLY, of Stowmarket, in the County of Suffolk,
Master of Arts, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN OBTAINING SPRING POWER, AND IN ITS APPLICATION TO VARIOUS
PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
I propose in obtaining and applying spring power to employ a rack (double
toothed or otherwise) with double-toothed pinions working into the same,and
these pinions while working the racks are themselves worked by a lever and
ratchet properly fixed and geared into them for this purpose. This machinery
in obtaining this power is operated upon by hand or other power, and the
application of it by this machinery is through the medium of the power itself
thusobtained; or Iapply the power thus obtained somewhat after the manner
in which it is done in the spring roasting jack, and 1 employ these improve-

page_text: ments or machinery together with an excentric or cranks and upright or
parallel movements where required to the driving of locomotives and ships,
barges, boats, mills, ploughs and harrows, threshing machines, chaff cutters,
saws, sieves, pumps, swimming machines, loading and unloading of guns,
knife and fork cleaners, candlesticks, cranes, fire engines, and to -all other
purposes to which this power has not been hitherto applied after this fashion.
I use box springs to a great extent for these purposes, yet I do not confine
myself to such springs. This power, thus obtained, is applicable to the
minutest purposes.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Frederick Herbert Maberly in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 4th August 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FREDERICK
HERBERT MABERLY, of Stowmarket, in the County of Suffolk, Master of Arts,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-second year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Frederick Herbert Maberly, Herspecial licence that 1, the said Frederick
Herbert Maberly, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Frederick Herbert Maberly, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should 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, within the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Iuven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN OBTAINING SPRING POWER, AND IN ITS APPLICATION TO
VARIOUS PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that 1, the said
Frederick Herbert Maberly, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to
be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Frederick Herbert Maberly, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is

page_text: to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
To accomplish my purposes I prefer box springs with fusees, one or more
of each as needful, to be operated upon by levers and ratchets (best may e
in the first instance), the ratchet apparatus affixed by squares to the spindles
of the fusees so as to be moveable at pleasure, and the ratchets worked by the
levers operated upon by racks and pinions. The racks supported or balanced
by weights and these racks worked up and down by double cogged or otherwise
pinions, the racks carrying the levers of the ratchets up and down, and these
double cogged or otherwise pinions are themselves revolved by ratchets and
levers such as aforesaid, operated upon by hand or other power appropriate to
aid or increase the power of the whole. The whole or only part of this
machinery needful according to the work to be done by it.
All the springs may be fixed on one spindle, and so all the fusees on another,
and thus a row of springs and fusees, of however many, may be worked by the
same apparatus, or the springs and the fusees may be loose on such spindles,
and so worked accordingly, or may each have a separate spindle, and be worked
thus singly or together, each pair having their respective apparatus.
I do not confine myself to this machinery, as any that will accomplish
the purpose is all that is required, and of course this may be varied ad
libitum.
The spring power may be aided by weight power, as in the case of balance in
the racks. I attach wheels to fusees, and these carrying straps work the paddle
wheels or paddles of whatsoever sort they be. These straps I tighten or loosen
at pleasure. This machinery is simple in the extreme. I detach, if needful,
these wheels from the fusees. Cog wheels, as also pendulums, may be used.
Of course I cannot enumerate the purposes to which this apparatus as a
whole or in part is applicable; I can only make a general claim in respect of
it, enumerating only a few particulars which I hereafter mention, such as to
the driving of locomotives and ships, barges, boats, mills, ploughs and harrows,
threshing machines, chaff cutters, saws, sieves, pumps, swimming machines,
loading and unloading of guns, knife and fork cleaners, candlesticks, cranes,
fire engines, and to all other purposes of a like kind to which this power has
not been hitherto applied after this fashion.. I use box springs to a great
extent for these purposes, yet I do not confine myself to such springs. This
power, thus obtained, is applicable to the minutest purposes.
I claim any spring power that may be used for accomplishing the aforesaid
purposes after the aforesaid manner.

page_text: Rope or chain or gutta percha or india-rubber or any other more suitable
material may be used for its bands, if the same are used in the aforesaid spring.
It is the whole of these parts as combined and for their respective purposes
that I make my claim, and not for the particular parts taken separately.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Herbert Maberly, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Fourth day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
F. H. MABERLY, M.A. (L.s.)