AN ENGINE OR MACHINE FOR THE MORE EASY,. EXPEDITIOUS, AND PERFECT MANUFACTURING OF TWINE CABLE AND OTHER CORDAGE
Year: 1786

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BENJAMIN
SEYMOUR, of Shad Thames, in the County of Surry, Ropemaker, send greeting.
WHEREAS, I, the said Benjamin Seymour, did, by my Petition, humbly
represent to His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that,
after much application and expence, I had invented and brought to perfection.
"AN ENGINE OR MACHINE FOR THE MORE EASY,. EXPEDITIOUS, AND PERFECT
MANUFACTURING OF TWINE CABLE AND OTHER CORDAGE," I therefore most most
humbly prayed His said Majesty to grant unto me, the said Benjamin Şeymour,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent for the
sole use and benefit of the said Invention, within that part of His said
Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales,
and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of fourteen years, according
to the Statute in that case made and provided; His said Majesty, being
willing to give encouragement to all arts and inventions which might be for
the publick good, was graciously pleased to condescend to my request, and
therefore by His Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the
Fourth day of March, in the twenty-sixth year of His reign, of His especial
grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, for Himself, His heirs and
successors, did give and grant unto me, the said Benjamin Seymour, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that I, the said Benjamin Seymour, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves, or
by my and their deputy or deputies, servants, or agents, or such others as I,

page_text: the said Benjamin Seymour, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thenafter, during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend my said Invention within that part of
His Majesty's said Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion
of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me, the
said Benjamin Seymour, my executors, administrators, or assigns, or any of
us, should in our discretions seem nieet; and that I, the said Benjamin
Seymour, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully might
have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time
to time coming, growing, accruing, and arising by reason of the said Invention,
for and during the term of years therein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise,
and enjoy the said licence, powers, privileges, and advantages therein-before
granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said Benjamin Seymour, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end
and term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent next and
immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the
Statute in that case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent is
contained a proviso that if I, the said Benjamin Seymour, 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 High Court of
Chancery within one calendar month next and immediately after the date of
the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties
and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine,
and become void, any thing therein-before contained to the contrary thereof in
anywise notwithstanding, as in and by the said Letters Patent (relation being
thereunto had) will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Benjamin Seymour, in compliance with
the said proviso, do hereby describe the nature of the aforesaid Invention, and
declare that the same is to be performed in manner following (that is to
say):
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"It consists in its parts of a large iron worm, which acts upon nine wheels,
"with a spindle through each, to which spindles the respective strands of the
"cables or ropes are fastened. This large iron worm or screw receives its
velocity and effect to enable it to turn the wheels and spindles, to which the
rope is fastened, by being connected to two large iron fly wheels by two rope
bands, which pass round a wheel at each end of the worm, and gives its
"motion by the men heaving round the two large fly wheels. The whole is
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page_text: "fixed on a large oak or wooden frame. Its properties and advantages are,
"that the cables or ropes are made by it in higher perfection, with more
strength and accuracy, and in less time than the common methods, and with
"a less number of hands."
In witness whereof, I, the said Benjamin Seymour, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, and in the twenty-sixth year of
the reign of His said Majesty King George the Third, by the grace of
God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the
Faith and so forth

page_text: Exhibls a Front View with the Top Timber removed & shows by N°1&2
the Rope Leading from the Fly Wheels to the Word Wheels t the ends of
the Wom by which it Receives its Velocity & Mction
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