NEW-INVENTED OR IMPROVED CURIOUS SINGLE AND COM- POUND TIME-PIECES, WHICH POR ELEGANCE, LENGHT OF TIME, SIMPLICITY, AND CHEAPNESS, FAR EXCEEDS ANYTHING OF THE KIND HERETOFORE MADE
Year: 1782

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENT 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 Fifth day of November, in the twenty-third year of His
reign, did give and grant unto me, HILDEBRAND MORLEY, of Clement's Inn, in
the Parish of Saint Clement Dánes, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman,
His especial license, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said
Hildebrand Morley, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of
us, during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might use,
exercise, and vend my "NEW-INVENTED OR IMPROVED CURIOUS SINGLE AND COM-
POUND TIME-PIECES, WHICH POR ELEGANCE, LENGHT OF TIME, SIMPLICITY, AND
CHEAPNESS, FAR EXCEEDS ANYTHING OF THE KIND HERETOFORE MADE," 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, admors, and assigns, or any of us, should in our discretion seem
meet; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that if I, the said
Hildebrand Morley, should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by
an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be
inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar 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
granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void, as in and by the
said Letters Patent more at large doth appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Hildebrand Morley, in pursuance of
and compliance with the said proviso, and the purport and true meaning
of the said Letters Patent, and of His Majesty's most gracious intentions, do,
by this Instrument in writing, under my hand and seal duly executed, declare
that my said New-invented or Improved Curious Single and Compound Time-
pieces, which for Elegance, Lenth of Time, Simplicity, and Cheapness, far
exceeds anything of the Kind heretofore Made (is described in the Plans or
Drawings hereunto annext).
In witness whereof, I, the said Hildebrand Morley, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of February, in the twenty-
third 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-three.
HILDEBRAND (L.S.) MORLEY..
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the same. Twenty-eight day of
February, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Hildebrand Morley,
came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the:
Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified,
in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt accord-
ing to the tenor of the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of Their late.
Majesties King William and Queen Mary of England, and so forth.
Inrolled the same day and year above mentioned.

page_text: The Descriptions of New Invented or Improved curious Single and Compound Time prices as follow A. A. is
a Back Board with four knews or Nails at each corner for fixing
it fast to any place, in the middle of this Back Board is a Round Hole in which work a wooden Cylinder or Roller and to which is fasted a smaller Back board B
fastned, which is also fastned to the Back of the Time price C. C. new or at the centre or middle. The use of these is to support the Time piece and to permitt it to be
a hollow Tube E. E. fed in front with a long piece cut out
hern'd round to sett it agoing. D is the Head of the time piece hollow within side to which is joined
Belt and
on
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over
it
on
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At the Line
the Chamber to prevent
of it where is fixed a long slip of Glass in
grooves
each side for the purpose of seuing what is therem contained, along side this Fires in the front of the Tube goes
Belt
running
on two hollers one at each end and fastired to the Tube, on which is markt the Hours and the divisions of Hours inte halves quarters ofe
or partition at I is a Chamber where on is fixed a Valve to be hereafter discribed, Over a small hole in this Chamber is fixet also a piece of Brass Lection or Glass
in which is a very small hole, through which is discharged the contents contained in the Head D into the Tube E. E. As it fills the contents rises gradually and
very slowly upwards (which is seen through the slip of Glass) the Top of which is opposite to a Line with some Hour or division an Hour markt on the aforesaid
this means informs the Spectator the time of day
by
night As the contents rises in the Tube it presses against the Air contained therein, to prevent
which there is an Air pipe G one end of which goes through the Chamber F into the Tube E. E. the other end reaches nearly the Top of the Head D, through which
the di
goes
into the Head as the Tube fills. The contents used in this time piece above described is very fine sand burnt and Aed and also Eggshells duped beat fine and
sifted or other thing proper for the purpose - As those are not fluids they require a particular valve, and single or double falls to sem a line at the front of the Glass
and also goes with or without a Regulator to make the Hours regular and equall in the time piece, the Valve Figure 2 is place on the Chamber F so that when the
Head is turn'd downwards, the Valve pamitts the contents to descend out of the Tube into the Head, which when filled again and Turn'd upwards, setts the time
a Round Snuff Box without the Bottom, the Top is like the lid shutting or foxing
peice to work, the Valve is made in the four of
the contents falling out of the Head when turn'd upwards, it has a Wire passing through the whole with Cross Bars to keep the Top in its place in its rise
and fall and also a stay at the Top fixed at the back of the Time price Figure 3 represents the single fall it is pla: under the small hole made in
the latten and under the Chamber F' when the Sands fe descends it falls on it and is retained there till a sufficient quarrity overballances the small weight
1 when it falls off and forms a Line against the Glass in the Tube as soon as the sand &c is off the weight A by its power brings the fall into its place again
for the next operation, the fall works on a centre pin or Axle as the Drawing shows, there is also a catch to prevent the night A falling too fare back placed on
the side of the time piece Figure 4 represents the double full which throws the Sand Eggshell Dust be both before and behind in the Tube alternately it works on a
Spindle or Axis as the single fall afores'd; which is placed at A below the weight B and by the falling of the sand go the t falls overballance each other there an
two catches one on each side to keep the falls in their necessary situations Figure 5 represents the Regulator which is a wong Wire made the length of the Tube
which is run through sundry small peices of wood AAAA this where with the peices of wood on it is placed within the Tube next to the Back and the Wood
fixt at such place as require it the use of it is to make the Tune of the Sand &c Rising equall all the way up the Tr: Figure 6 represents the Chamber F
in which is a dot to show the small hole in the Lasten or Glass. Over which is placed a Broad price of Thin or other sub ance at the height from about one
to two inches, the use of this is to support the weight of the sand so from pressing too forcibly
on the Hole. It is to be asted that the Time peice abovel
described shows the Time by the contents, Rising upwards in the Tube, Whereas it is also contrived to shew the Time by the contents falling downward in the
Tube and this is effected by reversing the Head downwards when the Tube is fill'd and also reversing the Valve to the opposite side of the Chamber and the
Air Pipe also and lengthing it to near the end of the Tube and in respect to the Hours on the Belt they must be reversed downiv.eds also and it is likewise to be
observed that the sand & in this Time peice is made to show the Time both by its rise and fall alternately in the same Tu in this the Valve is to be taken
away the Hours on the Belt placed houzontilly and a price of Tim placed on both sides the Chamber over the small hole to sufront the weight of the sand as before.
discribed Figure 7 represents the same kind of Time price as before discribed but instand of Sand & this is made to show the time by the fall of Mercury
Quicksilver or any other fluid and considering the nature of fluids that their force in pressing downwards is in proportion to their perpendicular heigths it is
necessary to have the Tube 4. A Wider at Top than at bottom in such proportion as to show the fall of the Meavey or oxer fluid to be equall at equall
distances or divisions in the Tube for the purpose of regulating the Time, the Tube is also made the same diameter the ughout and the Time regulated by
insexting within it a long slip of Wood small at one end and gradually increasing in Diameter to the other end to sufficient size. Alongside the
Tube is placed a long Hole or pipe B one end of which communicates and joins at or near the upper end of the Tube and the other end does the same at the
Head or receiver C the Bottom of the Tube 1. A. is closed up with Cork Wood Metall or other substance made so perfectly light, that the Mercury or other fluid
can pass only through the very small Glass Tube from the Great Tube A.A. into the Head or Receiver C to sett this Tim piece to work, fill the Tube 1.A.
or other Fluid will pass very
with Mercury or other Fluid at the Hote or Pipe II which done the pipe is closed up sufficiently tight and the Merce: ey
slowly through
small Tube of Glass at the bottom of the Tube 1. A. into the Head C which when full is to be turned upwards and then the
Mercury or other theid will pass and go down the pipe B and fill the great Tube A.A. agam so that when the Head C is twen'd down the Time
peice is sett at work again, the outside and in front of this time price is a small long Tube of Glass E. E. mmmunicating and found at both
ends by the means of two sockets to the guat Tube A.A. so that when it is filled with Muany or other Fluid The Long Glass Tube in front will
be filled also so that as the Mercury 8° falls in the great Tube A. A. so it will also fall and stand at the same t gth in the long Glass Tube E.E.
Figure 8. is a Belt running on two hollers markt with the Hours increasing downwards to be placed alongside the mall long Glass Tube E. E
front of the Time peice Fique of with the Rotters one at each and for showing the time the Mecaury or other fluid to is in uinning out of the two
tubes A. A and E E . It is to be noted that all the above Time pleices are made of Wood with a Thick Coat of "lue within side to stop up the
Bores and also made with the Tin, Glass, Iron, Copper and other Metalls and Compound Metalls and also with pours barth &. _ And the Belts on
which the Hours are markt are made of feather Purchment Linnen Cloth Silk or any other Substance that is fitt for the purpose. These Time Pieces
are also Ouramented with Mouldings carv'd work Gildings Prints and Paintings and also by means of the fall San Quicksilver & o Running moving
Fiques and Varnisht with and of Sundry Coters...
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