MAKING WATCHES UPON A NEW CONSTRUCTION, SO AS TO KEEP TIME AND MOTION WITHOUT THE USUAL METHOD OF WINDING UP BY A KEY OR OTHER MANUAL OPERATION, BY WHICH MEANS THE WORKS WILL BE RENDERED MORE DURABLE AND LESS LIABLE TO ACCIDENT
Year: 1780

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Eighteenth day of March, in the twentieth year of
His reign, did give and grant unto me, LOUIS RECORDON, of Greek Street,
Soho, in the County of Middlesex, Watch Maker, His especial licence, full
power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said Lewis Recordon, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of us, during the term of
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, my Invention or method of "MAKING WATCHES UPON A NEW CONSTRUCTION,
SO AS TO KEEP TIME AND MOTION WITHOUT THE USUAL METHOD OF WINDING UP
BY A KEY OR OTHER MANUAL OPERATION, BY WHICH MEANS THE WORKS WILL BE
RENDERED MORE DURABLE AND LESS LIABLE TO ACCIDENT;" within that part of
the Kingdom of Great Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or any of us, should in our discretions seem meet;
in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if I, the said Louis
Recordon, should not particularly. describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled
in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calender months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the
same Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby

page_text: granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void, as in and by the
said Letters Patent more fully and at large doth appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Louis Recordon, in pursuance and
compliance with the said provisoe, and the purport and true meaning of the
said Letters Patent, and of His Majesty's said most gracious intentions, do,
by this Instrument in writing under my hand and seal executed, declare that
my said Invention or -method of making-watches upon-a-new construction is
performed in the manner and according to the plan or description hereto
annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Louis Recordon, have hereunto set and put
my hand and seal, the Fifteenth day of July, in the twentieth year of
the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of
God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the
Faith, and so forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven
hundred and eighty.

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small wheel's marked A.B.C
returning by a click at I & Fig 2 and on the Return of the weight the blick at K Trig 7 raining some few seeth carries the Ratch wheel still further and thus of the airmake motion of the wright up and down is the hain
in Fig: 1 carried round wich taking by its pinion at C Fogt into the wheel D which being fixed on the square of the Fuzce the Chain is wound up off the Bare m-xxted. Is in Fig 2 and Fig. 9 and thus while the external rction is continued does the watch
continue winding up hill the rain is nearly wound off the Baise and then the Chain being on the top of the Fuzee winds against a piece of Feel mark'd M Fig9 wasich being pinn'et to another piece of Theet masked N Fig 9) by that means thrown outwards
and fixes against the part ofhe weight masked V in Fig 7 and Gg. 8 which stops all motion on the weight till the Watch by going down a small way suffers the vel M & return to its former situation which is caused by the springmarked P, which draws in the steel
marked N and me weight then suffered to go on again. A provision is likewise made to the off the operation of the renovating part that when the watch hang up et not it may not impede the performance of that port which vates to the measuring Time and is
effected in this manner The iece marked W Dig: 2 huns on a souw at W which is so fixed mant is the center of gravity to the weight being so poized, that the Train of smell wheels 4.B. C the bridge F and spring tax & and all the ick at the small end of the weight, is
but a counter balance to the roe and and the whole turns fecely on the screw at W Fis. I which it is sufied to do about 1/8 of an Inch so that the pinion of the small wheel C in 97: 1 may be of a proper depth in the large wheel D when the renovatin part opciates but when the watch is
hung up the What D by hung towards the Train of small wheels throus the pinion out of its peeth and then is inhiely disengaged from them by the piece marked W sliping (1,1% of an Inch towards the Barrel but in order to convey the owe power to the balance at all times
there is a Ratch something ser than the great wheel teeth fixed to the great which as marked (Fig 5 and 6 which the piece marked S in Tig: 3 and 4 and hur upor « pin where the dots are near W in Fig 4 by which mean all the power which is used in
forcing up the Wheel I is klied to the Rakhett of the Great Wheel and consequently the same power carried to the Butance but this is only in use while the Renovaing tears is in action for at other Time me katchett of me Great heel pawow it peely . Frg: § is a side
view of the weight the arimasked Z the pivot at the upper and works in the Cock F Fig. 1. The pivot at the lower end works in the Barril lover at G Fig. 4 Anore method of applying the unovating part is by using the jece marked W in Try 2 with the
spring and Barrel to barce the weight and the picce marked S in Fig. 3 and 4 with the Ratch to the Great Wheel and way part as disuited before exces the Diuin of small wheels marked ABC in the room of which a double crank as in Fig 12 is
used as described at Np which how Levers are guided at O and P into the Ratchet Whey I) the motion of the weight up and down works the Levers O and P er und down alternately and by that means force the Raket Wheel D forwards which being fixed
on the Juzce Square us, the before described method winds the Chain off the Barrell and onsequently raises the spring which it continues doing till it is copper by the work M.NP before described in Fig 9. The picce máed # Figt is us in the other memed
used in this, which whene Watch is at sest by sliding 1/8th of an Inch disengages the Levers from the hatch and the Watch is left to -go on entirely free of the Reneating work
Another way of applying the Renovating part is in eve respect as the last only instead of
a brank to make use on endless screw as in Fig. 11 at F which works into the Feither Wheel D and disengages itself in the same manner by sliding & the quare W Fig 2 1/8 of an Inch and the flicce F Fig 4 hann a curve which working against a
Din at K Fig 11 by theliding throws the endless screw out of the teeth of the Wheel D Dig 13 shews the Dial of the Watch it has an Hour and Minute ham is in common mitches the Seconds Hand is in the center and trops one ination part of the birde
at once that is what innerally called a Dead Second to effect which there is a pinion of 8 on the Horizontal Wheel Arbor which drives a wheel of 80 s sur in Fig. 14 over which is put a wheel made by putting & wheele together as Fig 15 which
shews the Plan and ile 30 Tuth is cut in each the point of the Tuth of the love one comes exactly into the center of the space of the upper Teeth and which means forms a wheel of 60 Teeth, a Wheel is then ud on the Horizontal pinion which
takes into another of al sise and number on which wheel is fixed two Triangular pieces of Theel as Fig 20 which are laid on one another an are four of a proper depth in the double wheel before mentioned; that when the blatt side of the upper
one is next to the Where tooth of the upper which escapes by and the Gooth of the lover Wheel is puvenhed by lodging against the corner of the lover The angle and there reoks till the Watch has made 5 beats hen it escapes that and lodge-
• against the corner of sUpper Tuangle and so alternately every five beaks the upper whel of 60 and lower Wheel of 80 is connected by a Tender Spring ither pral or otherwise will do as the whole action of it is a more than the year of a bride, the
in 30 beaks and shews to the 15th part of a seconds.
Arbor of the Wheel Fig. carries the Hand in the Circle B in Fig 13 which goes.
ed.
round
Ince
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The scapemenisperformed in the following manner Letter A Fig 22 is an Ho contul Wheel of 15 Teeth or of any other number the Watch marequers to is the pailat of the lege which is to hun fice ofthe two teeth of the wheel A marked
1
C and D when the fur is at rast it lodges on either of the Dittons II or I The Pallait is supposed to be in its progress and the Tooth C with it changings, sercaron for that of D and the Forth D resting against 14. Diton I as, sun in Fig 23 and
by the Impulsr the sh gives the pallat is the balance carried forward till that Impulse being exhausted it is rehuned by the Pendulum Spring when x ome!! aim mashed A in Fig 24 ack on that peat of the Ditton masked 3 and huning
the Ditton the notch I presents itself to the Tooth D and suffers it to pass on to the Ditton F when the pendulum sping again rehuning the verge, therm A eves the part of the Ditton 5 till the notch in E presonic by and suffers the Foot to pass and
Then it goes on as be