NEW-INVENTED MACHINE FOR MAKING SHIP BOLTS,LARGE ROUND RODS OP IRON AND STEEL, AND IRON AND STEEL WIRE OF VARIOUS SIZES, THAT IS IN MANY RESPECTS FAR MORE SERVICEABLE AND PREFERRABLE THAN ANY METHOD THAT HAS HITHERTO BEEN MADE USE OF FOR THAT PURPOSE
Year: 1766

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
PURNELL, of Froombridge, in the County of Gloucester, Iron Master, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Thirty-first day of July, in the sixth year of His said Majesty's reign, did
give and grant unto me, the said John Purnell, His special lycence, full
power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said John Purnell, my exors,
adiiors, and assigns, should and lawfully might, during the term of years
therein expressed, make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of His
Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England and Dominion of Wales
and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in His Majesty's Colonies and
Plantations, my "NEW-INVENTED MACHINE FOR MAKING SHIP BOLTS, LARGE
ROUND RODS OP IRON AND STEEL, AND IRON AND STEEL WIRE OF VARIOUS SIZES, THAT
IS IN MANY RESPECTS FAR MORE SERVICEABLE AND PREFERRABLE THAN ANY METHOD
THAT HAS HITHERTO BEEN MADE USE OF FOR THAT PURPOSE;" in which said Letters
Patent is contained a provisoe obliging me, the said John Purnell, by writing
under my hand and seal, to cause the nature of my said Invention to be
described and ascertained, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calender months
after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the said recited
Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, may more at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said provisoe, I, the said
John Purnell, do hereby declare that my said new Invention is composed
and made in the manner as the same is in the annexed Map or Plan deli-
niated and herein-after particularly described and explained (that is to say) :-
(A,B,) a perspective view of a pair of rollers as they stand together when
working. (AI), (A 2), two rollers that work together. (BI), a square
end to the gudgeon (C), which is to be fixed to a square gudgeon belonging
to a common water wheel, that puts the whole machine in motion, by the
long strong hollow box or cilender B 2. (B2) is a long strong hollow mettall
box or cylinder, part to be put on the square BI, and part on a square
gudgeon belonging to a common water wheel that puts the whole machine
in motion. (E, E,) two squares to the two gudgeons F, F, on each of
which is to be fixed a cogg wheel as G. (G) is a cogg wheel, one whereof
is to be fixed on each of the squares E I and E 2, the roller A I being to be
driven by the common water wheel; the cogg wheel being to be put on EI,
running in the cogg wheel to be put on E 2, which puts the roller A 2 in
motion. (F, F, C, D,) are gudgeons on which the rollers turn, in the nature
of an axis. (H, H, H,) are grooved projections of different sizes, to work
in the grooved intersections H I, through which the iron and steel are
to pass, being of different sizes (being first properly heated), by which
means the iron and steel rods and iron and steel wire are reduced to the
variety of sizes in use. I, I, I, are grooved intersections of different sizes,
wherein work the grooved projections H, H, H, by which means the iron
and steel rods and wire are reduced as aforesaid. The roller A I, fixed to a
common water wheel by the mettall box or cylinder B 2, being set in motion
by a water wheel, and the roller A 2 being joined to the roller A I, is driven
by the cogg wheel to be fixed to the squares E, E. The use of this machine
is for the making of ship bolts, large round rods of iron and steel, and iron
and steel wire of various sizes.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth
day of November, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred
and sixty-six.
JOHN PURNELL. (L.S.)
Sealed and delivered (being first duly
stampt), in the presence of,
F. CHAMBERS,
A Master Extraordinary

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fifteenth day of November, in
the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and six, the aforesaid John
Purnell came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknow-
ledged the Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained
and specified, in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid
was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made in the sixth year of
the reign of the late King and Queen William and Mary of England, and
so forth.
Inrolled the Nineteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and sixty-six.