A MACHINE OR MODEL FOR THE MORE EXTENSIVE USE AND APPLICATION OF THE FIRE ENGINE, WHEREBY FIRE, BY THE HELP OF A CIRCULAR MOTION COMMUNICATED BY A PERPENDICULAR STROKE FROM THE ENGINE, CAN, WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF SO SMALL A STREAM OF WATER AS Two HOGSHEADS BY THE HOUR, DO THE SAME WORK AS THOSE MILLS THAT REQUIRE ONE THOUSAND HOGSHEADS BY THE HOUR, AND HAY HE APPLYED TO THE SAME USES
Year: 1740

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN WISE,
of Sow, in the County of the City of Coventry, Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS our Sovereign Lord George the Second, King of Great Britain,
and so forth, hath by his Letters Patent passed under His Great Seal of Great
Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Seventh day of August, in fourteenth
year of His reign, given and granted unto me, the said John Wise, my execu-
tors, administrators, and assigns, the sole use and benefitt of my new Invention
of "A MACHINE OR MODEL FOR THE MORE EXTENSIVE USE AND APPLICATION OF THE
FIRE ENGINE, WHEREBY FIRE, BY THE HELP OF A CIRCULAR MOTION COMMUNICATED
BY A PERPENDICULAR STROKE FROM THE ENGINE, CAN, WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF SO
SMALL A STREAM OF WATER AS Two HOGSHEADS BY THE HOUR, DO THE SAME WORK
AS THOSE MILLS THAT REQUIRE ONE THOUSAND HOGSHEADS BY THE HOUR, AND HAY HE
APPLYED TO THE SAME USES" within that of His Majesty's Kingdom of Grea
Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, and His Colonies and Plantations in America, for and during the Term
of Fourteen Years, according to the Statute in such cases made and provided;
in which said Letters Patent there is contained a provisoe in the words or to
the effect following (that is to say) :-
Provided, also, that if the said John Wise shall not particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of his said Invention, and in what manner the same is to

page_text: be performed, by an instrument in writing under his hand and seal, and cause
the same to be inrolled in Our High Court of Chancery within three kalendar
months next and imediately after the date of these Our Letters Patent, that
then these Our Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever
hereby granted, shall utterly cease, determine, and become void, any thing
herein-before conteyned to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding, as
in and by the said recited Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, may
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Wise, in obedienco to and pursu-
ance of the said recited Letters Patent, do hereby declare that the fire engine
itself works as with its latest improvements, but instead of drawing or forcing
water with pumps, there is fixed a chain, rope, or rod to the end of the working
beam, which comes down perpendicular to my new invention or machine, which
is under a seperate roof from the fire engine, where is a horizontal shaft on
which are wheels moveing (that is to say), one wheel fixed on the shaft with
iron rounds, on which run iron dogs with teeth to catch in the said rounds to
move the said shaft half round, and then quit the same; the second is a double
tumbling wheel, to which the above chain and dogs are fixed, and is also moved
half round with a shaft by the perpendicular stroke from the fire engine, and
then returns back againe to its place by a weight, whilst a fly keeps the said
shaft in its proper motion to make it circular.
But it is required for large heavy works, such as plating, rolling of copper,
iron, and so forth; then it works by throwing the raised water through
cylinders or trunks on an overshott wheel fixed on the horizontal shaft, which
will, with a spring or stream of water of two hogsheads by the hour, do the
same work as other water mills that require one thousand hogsheads by the
hour.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto sett my hand and seal, this Eleventh

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Eleventh day of October, in
the year above written, the aforesaid John Wise came before our said Lord
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Invention aforesaid, and all
and every thing therein contained and specifyed, in form above written. And
also the Invention aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of the Statute
made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen William and
More of England and
Inrolled the One-and-twentieth day of October, in the year above
written.