A FLOATING HOLLOW BUOY ON A NEW CONSTRUCTION, FOR SUPPORTING MOORING CHAINS, CABLES, ROPES, &c.
Year: 1807

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JANES
PEACHE, of Cupers Bridge, Lambeth, in the County of Surry, Barge Builder,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, in and by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Eighth day of April last, for Himself, His heirs and successors,
did give and grant unto me, the said James Peache, His especial licence,
full power, sole privilege and authority that I, the said James Peache, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by myself and them-
selves, or by my or their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others
as I, the said James Peache, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter 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, my Invention of "A FLOATING HOLLOW BUOY ON A NEW
CONSTRUCTION, FOR SUPPORTING MOORING CHAINS, CABLES, ROPES, &c.;" in which
said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said James
Peache, 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 inrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next and
immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the
same, reference being thereto had, will more fully appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
James Peache, do hereby declare that my said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be carried into effect and practice, aro described as
followeth, that is to say :-
I construct my said buoy out of picces of wood longitudinally applied to each
other after the manner of staves, but instead of making the joints to consist
of flat surfaces evenly or squarely-applied to or against each other, I do rabbit
the same together, by making the half thickness of each piece to overlap the
other, and I do tar the faces which are 'to be' applied to each other, and upon
one of the said faces I do apply a thin covering of beaten hair, such as is
used by plaisterers, or of wool, or flax, or any other fibrous matter, and upon
the said hair, wool, flax, or other fibrous matter, I apply or smear, in the hot
and melted state, a coat of a mixture of pitch and tar, and immediately there-
after I do put the said joints together, and secure the same by nails, or screws,
or pins, or pegs, or bolts, and by hoops suitably enveloping the whole; and
further, I do put in the heads of my said buoy, by rabbitting the same in and
with the staves or side pieces thereof, and I do make good. the fitting by
several steps or successive faces in the joint, between which I apply tar and
hair, wool, flax, or other fibrous matter, and pitch, in the manner already
described; and for greater security I do, in some cases, put in and fix two or
more additional heads within the external heads. And farther 1 do, in con-
structing and making my said buoy, place and fix therein. a trunk, or tube,
or perforated piece, so that the same shall not occasion or allow the water to
enter the said buoy from without, but that a passage or opening shall never-
theless remain, through-which--tho-chain, or rope, or cable used for mooring-
shall or may be passed, and remain and continue to be moveablo therein in
the same manner as is done with. regard to the small and imperfect buoys
which are made out of single and solid pieces of wood. And I do make and-
put together and fix the said trunk, tube, or perforated piece, by rabbitted
joints put together and secured as aforesaid, as well with regard to the parts
thereof, as with regard to the places at which the said-trunk, tube, or perfo-
rated picco may be applied to and connected with the parts of the said buoy.
And, morever, I do place and fix the said trunk, tube, or perforated pieco in
any convenient direction, position, or situation within the said buoy, and in
some cases wherein the same may be found convenient or useful, I do place
and fix as aforesaid, two or more such trunks, tubes, or perforated pieces
within the said buoy, instead of a single one. And lastly, I do declare that
my said buoy may be made, framed, and put together, of any convenient and
_suitable figure, but that in general the cylindrical, or prismical, or conical, or

page_text: pyramidal figures are to be preferred, and that when the cross section of the
figure is not circular, the number of sides which in practice I do prefer is
eight.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Fifth
day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
Inrolled the same Fifth day of May, in the year above written.