A WATER MACHINE, WHEREBY A LESS POWER OR FORCE GIVES LIBERTY FOR OBTAINING A GREATER WITHOUT WASTING ANY OF THE FLUID IMPLOYED IN THE OPERATION; BY WHICH MACHINE NOT ONLY PERPETUAL MOTION IS EFFECTED, BUT ALSO A VERY GREAT DEGREE OF FORCE WILL BE AT LIBERTY FOR PERPETUAL SERVICE
Year: 1741

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
TAYLOR, of the Parish of Rygate, in the County of Surry, Yeoman, sendeth
greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty by His Royall Letters Patent, under the
Great Seal of Great Brittain, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of May,
in the Fifteenth year of His reign, hath given and granted unto me, the
said Joseph Taylor, my executors, administrators, and assigns, the sole license
and priviledge of using, exercising, and vending a new Invention of "A
WATER MACHINE, WHEREBY A LESS POWER OR FORCE GIVES LIBERTY FOR OBTAINING A
GREATER WITHOUT WASTING ANY OF THE FLUID IMPLOYED IN THE OPERATION; BY WHICH
MACHINE NOT ONLY PERPETUAL MOTION IS EFFECTED, BUT ALSO A VERY GREAT DEGREE
OF FORCE WILL BE AT LIBERTY FOR PERPETUAL SERVICE;" to have, hold, exercise,
and enjoy the said license and priviledge unto me, my executors, administra-
tors, and assigns, for the term of fourteen years from the date of the said
Letters Patent, according to the Statute in such case made and provided; in
which said Letters Patent is contained a provisoe, that if I, the said Joséph
Taylor, shall 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, the same to be inrolled in the
High Court of Chancery within three calendar months next after the date of
the said Letters Patent, that then the same Letters Patent shall be void, as in
and by the said Letters Patent (relation being thereunto had) may more
fully annear.

page_text: NOW KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, the said
Joseph Taylor, do by this present writing under my hand and seal, declare the
nature of, and in what manner the said new Invention is to be performed, by
the Plan or Draft of the said machine hereto annexed, the explanation of
which is as follows (to wit):-
Suppose M, M, the surface of a capacious cistern or pool full of water, in
which is placed (standing upright) a row of cylindrick pipes, eleven in number
(but any number may be used), and these pipes to be twelve, thirteen, sixteen,
or eighteen inches diameter, and eight, ten, or twelve feet long. The upper
and lower ends of these pipes or barrels are fixed into a one-foot square trunk,
only reaching just into the trunks, to be closed in so secure as not to admitt any
water passing into the trunks by them that way. The trunks must be fastened
to a strong frame for supporting them upright and steady in the pool; the top of
the uper trunk riscing a small matter above the water's surface; each pipe has
a center piece through it, which centers are confined in fit holes at the uper
and lower ends of the pipes; on every centre shaft are fixed pairs of sails set
slaunting about forty-five degrees, and opposite to each other, and about one
foot distance from each other on the centers. The sails in the shape of a
quadrant, each center of the sails rise through the upper trunk, and have
wheels fixed on them with teeth upwards, to run in the teeth of those wheels
on the beam lying over all the centres for collecting all their force into one;
and by cranks at the end of the said beam, or by a wheel instead of the cranks,
water may be forced up for descent on the originall wheel; the upper end of
the first barrell is fixed into a three-sided box through the bottom, close to the
end; the box is three foot wide, fourteen inches deep, four foot long, open
upwards; about the middle of this box lys a cross on the two uper side edges,
the axele of the originall wheel, on which are fixed at equall divisions of the
circle six sweeps; every one of these sweeps is a thin board or plate of such
wedth and depth as by turning the originall wheel, fit the wedth and depth of
the box exactly; a pann of lead lys at bottom of the box, which pann is the
dimention of a sixth part of the circle the sweeps make to prevent the return
of water, so that before one sweep leaves the outside edge of the
pann, another
sweep takes the inner edge thereof and keeps a continuall stream forward
when in motion. The originall wheel is six or seven feet diameter, bucketed
round. The lower cistern is a small pool of water, it's surface three or four
foot, according to the half diameter of the originall wheel, below the other. In
it may be placed any comon contrivance for raising water to decend on the
originall wheel, by which decent it falls again into the same cistern, and so
is continually circulated. This is a description of so much of this machine as

page_text: I think necessary to form an idea of the method to be used for obtaining any
degree of force, and how this is done I shall endeavour to shew. It must be
considered that the whole body of water contained in the cistern and pipes is
naturally in a state of rest before any partiall pressure is applied; but let ten
pound be kept continually descending on the originall wheel on the side
marked with a cross. It will go round in less space of time than three
seconds, and circulate about forty gallons by the sweeps driving or waving the
water forward amongst itself in the cistern, out of the box where in to the
uper end of the first pipe is inserted, and sinks the water's surface in the box
behind the sweeps so much lower than that on the fore side of the sweeps, till
thereby it makes an exact equalibrium; that is, till the water against the
sweeps is an equall opposite weight to that on the originall wheel, in which state
of exact equipose it evermore preserves it self. And thus an equalibrium is the
primum mobile or first cause of perpetuall motion, and has motion itself. Its
motion proceeds from its being obtained and always existing by diminishing a
weight of water at the uper end of the first pipe, by which continuall removall
of a weight from thence, the equalibrium in the pipes is destroyed. Therefore,
consequently, by the law of gravity, the water being much heavier at one end of
the pipes than at the other, must move forward in a stream through the whole
length of pipes with a velocity equall to the difference of weight at each end
of the pipes, endeavouring the restoration of the equalibrium wanting where
the impulse is given or removall made, and by so doing gives motion to the
originall impulse. The stream makes its course through the pipes in the
following manner :-It enters at the lower end of the eleventh barrel at A,
passing up that in the space B, where is open also the tenth barrel, but
between the tenth and ninth is a totall stop in the trunk, which obliges it to
turn down the tenth barrel in the space C, where likewise is another stop in
the lower trunk, which directs it up the ninth pipe into the space D, where
again is another stop, and so by proper stops in the trunks it continually runs
up one pipe and down another, making its course through them all (be there
ever so many), being constantly discharged by the sweeps at the upper end
of the first pipe or barrel. Thus a stream of any length may be made, and,
consequently, a force of any degree may be produced, for the sails properly
placed on centers make a partiall obstruction of about one fourth part of the
stream. The stream being by such partiall obstruction divided, and having
the liberty of passing on between the quadrute slaunting pairs by such partiall
obstruction and passage, gives each pair a weighting, twisting, or jostling turn,
every pair receiving a like shock, are carried round equall to tho velocity of

page_text: the stream. If ten pound be the originall impulse, it gives liberty for a
stream of such velocity as will strike and turn each pair of sails with more
than two pound force; (that is) suppose the aforesaid centers had ten pair of
sails on each of them (at one foot distance from each other on the center
piece), ten pound on the originall wheel would make a stream of such
rapiddity against the hundred pair of sails as would obtain more than two
hundred pound force on the collecting beam. And so to a further degreo
either by the same originall impulse acting by a greater length of pipe accomo-
dated with sails, or by a greater weight on the originall wheel acting by the
same length of pipe. By this contrivance a nest of pipes may be placed in a
pool about fifteen foot square, able to produce two thousand pound force on a
wheel six foot diameter, and moving with equall velocity with the originall, for
the centers go something more than five times round whilst the originall wheel
goes one round. The center wheels being about fourteen inches diameter,
five rounds of them will carry the wheels on the collecting beam, being three
foot diameter, two rounds, which two rounds will carry a wheel for forcing six
foot diameter one round, in the same space of time with the originall wheel.
Thus a wheel three foot diameter, instead of the cranks at the end of the
collecting beam over the lesser cistern, may by its teeth or coggs running in
the teeth of a wheel of six foot diameter, carry the said wheel of six foot
diameter with a velocity equall to the motion of the originall wheel, and with
a force sufficient to raise by every round six or eight gallons of water six or
seven foot high, which is more than sufficient to cause an impulse of ten pound
on the originall wheel continually descending; and what force is designed for
other service being obtained for the severall collecting beams may be united
and fall on one wheel, which one wheel may be applied to work other
machenes, either for raising water out of the wells, and forcing it to any
height for service, or to any other purpose whatsoever which will admitt of
being done by the motion of a wheel.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Taylor, have to these Presents
set my hand and seal, this Twenticth day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand seven hundred and forty-one

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that the Twentieth day of August, in
the year above written, the aforesaid Joseph Taylor came before our said Lord
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Invention aforesaid, and
all and every thing therein contained and specifyed, in form above written.
And also the Invention aforesaid was stampt 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 Twentieth day of August, in the year above written.