A NEW METHOD OF REGULATING OR EQUALIZING THE FORCE OR POWER OF THE MAIN SPRING IN WATCHES OR OTHER SIMILAR MACHINES FOR MEASURING TIME
Year: 1808

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
SAVAGE, of Huddersfield, in the County of York, Watchmaker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-sixth day of
January, in the forty-eighth year of His reign, for Himself, His heirs and
successors, did give and grant unto me, the said George Savage, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, His special licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said George Savage, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves, or by my and their
deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said George
Savage, my executors, administrators, or assigns, at any time agreed 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 that part of His said Majesty's United Kingdom called England,
His Dominion of Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Inven-
tion of "A NEW METHOD OF REGULATING OR EQUALIZING THE FORCE OR POWER OF
THE MAIN SPRING IN WATCHES OR OTHER SIMILAR MACHINES FOR MEASURING TIME;"
in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the
said George Savage, 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

page_text: in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
George Savage, do hereby declare that my said Invention is accomplished by
introducing à minor spring, to be wound up by the major or main spring
at certain periods.
The Drawing in the margin of these Presents exhibits a method of effecting
the desired end. It shows that, as the wheels revolve, the pins placed in a
small circle in the hour or centre wheel, as denoted by the dots at A, Fig. 1,
force up at certain periods, according to the number of pins inserted, a lever b,
which is connected with the detent or small-pallet c,-and-thereby unlock_the
quarter piece d, Fig. 2, which covers the minor spring, and the lever b is brought
again to its proper place by the pressure of the spring .f. This operation
causes the major or main spring, to wind up the minor spring, situated, accord-
ing to this Drawing, under the quarter piece, and administers an equal
impelling power to move the train of wheels. e exhibits a bridge, the samō'as
is commonly used in watches made to denote seconds of time, upon which the
minor spring barrel moves.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Savage, have hereunto set my
hand and scal, the Nineteenth day of February, in the forty-eighth
year of the reign of our said Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the
grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
King, Defender of the Faith, and in the year of our Lord One-thousand
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on-the-Nineteenth day of February,
in the forty-eighth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third,
the said George Savage came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery,.
and acknowledged the Instrument- aforesaid, and all and every thing thercin
contained and specified, in form above written. And also the Instrument
aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made in tho forty-
fourth year of His said Majesty's reign.