A MACHINE FOR MAKING FRESH WATER FROM SEA WATER OR BRINE SPRINGS WITHOUT BOILING, WHICH WILL BE PURE ELEMENT WITHOUT SPIRIT OF SALT, BITUMEN, HETERRO- GENOUS MATTER, AND FOR MAKING SALT FROM SEA WATER, OR FROM BRINE SPRINGS, WITH MUCH LESS BOILING THAN IN THE COMMON WAY OF BOILING IT
Year: 1777

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALEXANDER
MABYN BAILEY, of the Parish of Saint Martin in the Fields, in the County
of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Nineteenth day of July, in the seventeenth year of His
reign, did give and grant the sole use and. benefit unto me, the said
Alexander Mabyn Bailey, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His
especial licence and authority, that I, the said Alexander Mabyn Bailey,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, during the term of years therein
specified, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in all His
said Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, my Invention of "A MACHINE
FOR MAKING FRESH WATER FROM SEA WATER OR BRINE SPRINGS WITHOUT BOILING,
WHICH WILL BE PURE ELEMENT WITHOUT SPIRIT OF SALT, BITUMEN, HETERRO-
GENOUS MATTER, AND FOR MAKING SALT FROM SEA WATER, OR FROM BRINE SPRINGS,
WITH MUCH LESS BOILING THAN IN THE COMMON WAY OF BOILING IT;" in which
said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said
Alexander Mabyn Bailey, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular
description of the nature of my said Invention, 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 next and immediately after the date of the said
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had,
may more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Alexander Mabyn Bailey, do hereby declare, that my said Invention of a
Machine for making Fresh Water from Sea Water or Brine Springs without
Boiling, which will be Pure Element without any Spirit of Salt, Bitumen,
or Heterrogenous Matter, and for making Salt from Sea Water, or from Brine
Springs, upon a new and particular construction, is to be performed in manner
following (to wit):
This machine consists of five parts, viz:-First, a large pair of bellows on
a strong frame. Secondly, an iron stove with a tube or pipe, which conveys
the air (from the bellows) through the fire into a dodecagon frame (or barrell.
Thirdly, an iron pan with a groove (or channel) on its upper edge to receive
the cover (or condenser), and with a pipe at the bottom of it to draw off the
salt water when needful. Fourthly, the dodecagon frame (or barrell) covered
with flannel (or course canvas), which revolves on two concave cylinders, the
one to convey the hot air from the stove into the dodecagon frame (or barrel),
the other is to let out the air occasionally. Fifthly, the cover (or condenser),
with a groove (or channel) on its inside to convey off the fresh water; on it's
outside is a pipe which communicates to the groove (or channel aforesaid; the
upper part of it has a conic roof, and is a reservoir of salt water to supply
the pan when wanted. This machine may be worked by 'hand, horse, wind,
or water.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Mabyn Bailey, have hereunto