A WATER ENGINE, WHICH RAISES MORE WATER IN QUANTITY AND WITH LESS LABOUR AND EXFENCE THAN BY ANY OTHER ENGINE HITHERTO INVENTED OR USED, AND WILL BE MORE USEFULL THAN ANYTHING AS YET INVENTED OR USED IN THIS KINGDOM FOR DRAINING LOW AND MARSHY LANDS, FOR SUPPLYING TOWNS AND CITYS WITH WATER, FOR DRAINING MINES, AND SAVING SHIPS FROM SINKING BY SPRINGING LEAKS AT SEA
Year: 1742

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
TUITE, of the City of London, Goldsmith, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Second, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Thirtieth day of July, in the sixteenth year of His reign, did give and grant
unto me, the said John Tuite, His especial lycence that I, during the term of
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend my
new Invention of "A WATER ENGINE, WHICH RAISES MORE WATER IN QUANTITY
AND WITH LESS LABOUR AND EXFENCE THAN BY ANY OTHER ENGINE HITHERTO
INVENTED OR USED, AND WILL BE MORE USEFULL THAN ANYTHING AS YET INVENTED OR
USED IN THIS KINGDOM FOR DRAINING LOW AND MARSHY LANDS, FOR SUPPLYING
TOWNS AND CITYS WITH WATER, FOR DRAINING MINES, AND SAVING SHIPS FROM
SINKING BY SPRINGING LEAKS AT SEA," within that part of Great Britain called
England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed; in which said
Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said John Tuite,
by & 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 three kalendar

page_text: months after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the
same, relation being thereunto had, may more at large appear.
NOW KNOW YEE, that in compliance with the said provisoe, I, the said
John Tuite, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention for
raising water doth consist and is to be performed in the manner herein-after
mentioned (that is to say):-
This engine is to be worked by one or more men by turning a winch that
is placed on each end of a barr, whereon is fixed one or two upright flys. On
this barr is a nut of four or six or more teeth, as the different work that the
said engine is to be employed in requires. On the same barr is also fixed one
or two worm wheels, or crown wheels, with a proper quantity of teeth in
them to work one or two horrizontal flys, if the work requires them. These
flys have a worm on each of them to play or work in the worm wheel, and a
nut of four or six or more teeth on the barr of the horrizontal flys to work
the crown wheels. The aforesaid bar, with four or six teeth, commonly called
a nut of four or six teeth, works in a wheel with sixteen or twenty-four teeth
in it, more or less, as the work requires, through the middle of which wheel
runs a bar, on which is a nut of three or more teeth in it, which works in a
jointed bar or chain, with teeth in the said barr or chain to receive the said
nut, or a tumbler on the said bar to be made use of as the work requires,
and several live pivetts to be placed in the where they may be most usefull.
The said joynted bar or chain has pins in it to fasten boxes or tubes to it,
which hold the water raised by the said bar or chain. It may have two or
three jointed bars, with or without teeth, to work the same, as the work
requires. The said bar or chain slides in an iron frame, to which is fixed a
roller or tumber for the barr or chain to work on, or it may work without the
slide. The aforesaid bar or chain may be made with or without teeth, as the
work may require. On the first barr may be fixed a water wheel to help the
work. If it should be requisite to add greater powers to the aforesaid engine,
then the above-mentioned bar, with the nut of four or six teeth in it, must
work in a wheel with sixteen teeth or more, in the center whereof is to be
fixed a nut with three or more teeth, which nut is to work in a second wheel
with sixteen teeth; in the center of which said second wheel a bar is to run
with three or more teeth in it, to work in the before-mentioned joynted bar,
or a tumbler on the said bar, to be made use of as the said work shall require,
together with the power of the hand-screw, works the said engine. All the
aforesaid wheels are to be fixed in an iron frame, which iron frame is to
fastned into a wooden one made of a proper height to support the whole
work. This engine may be made not only so as to be worked by men, but

page_text: also by horses, or with the wind, and likewise by water, in such manner as to
be made to work with the water raised thereby.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Tuite, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Fifth day of October, One thousand seven hundred and
and forty-two, and in the said sixteenth year of King George the
Second.