A PUMP AND A PLOUGH UPON A NEW OR IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION
Year: 1800

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
PLENTY, of the Town and County of the Town of Southampton, Carpenter,
send greeting..
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George: the Third did, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Eighteenth day of October, in the fortieth year of His reign, give
and grant unto me, the said William Plenty, His especial licence, that I,- the
said William Plenty, during the term of years therein mentioned, should and
lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales," and the
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A PUMP AND A PLOUGH UPON
A NEW OR IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION;" in which said Letters Patent there is.con-
tained a proviso obliging me, the said William Plenty, by an instrument in
writing under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature
of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to
be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar
month after the date of the said recited Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, f, the said
William Plenty, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described in
the Drawings and description thereof hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Plenty, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred.
The following is a Specification of my Patent for a Plough and Pump:-
The plough consists of a stock or body of iron, to which is fixed in grooves

page_text: by means of screw bolts and nuts, a beam, share, coulter, turnfurrow, and
shoe. A handle on the left hand is likewise fixed in a groove to the stock,
and the right handle to the beam by screw bolts. A fore carriage, consisting
of an axis, bed, axis, two wheels, a swivel regulator, an upright collar, and a
pin and chain, is connected with the body by means of a dole chain. The beam
passes through the upright collar, and is raised or lowered by. lengthening or
shortening the dole chain, so as to give the plough a shallower or deeper
direction. The regulator is a tube with a shoulder, which passes through a
plate of iron fixed on the axis bed and the stem of the collar, through the
tube, which is raised or lowered by the pin, and prevents the plough overset-
ing when turning on rough ground. The beam handles and axis bed are of
wood. The facility with which the plough is worked is a saving of one horse
in four. The pump is made of six or more angular pieces of wood, bound
together by iron hoops; and form one or more chambers or barrels to receive
as many boxes and buckets, or two buckets in one barrel, if required, the
whole to be worked by an indented wheel fixed in a frame, by one 'or 'more
"evers.
ter Extry in
Chancery.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Fourteenth day of No-
vember, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid William Plenty came
before our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged. the Specifi-
cation aforesaid, 'and all and every thing therein contained, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute in that case made and provided..