A NEW OR IMPROVED HYDRAULIC MOTIVE-POWER ENGINE
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Francis Sewell Colc, of Thorncliff, Freemantle,
Southampton, in the County of Hampshire, Gentleman, for the
Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED HYDRAULIC MOTIVE-POWER ENGINE."
Scaled the 29th December 1871, and dated the 12th July 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Francis Sewell Cole
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 12th July 1871.
I, FRANCIS SEWELL COLE, of Thorncliff, Freemantle, Southampton, in
the County of Hampshire, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED HYDRAULIC MOTIVE-POWER
ENGINE," to be as follows:-
The motion of my machine is caused by water or other power acting
on two or more wheels enclosed in water-tight cases supplied by
reservoirs, the whole enclosed in and supported by framework, which
framework revolves on axletrees supported on trestles or other supports,
so that the reversal of the machine suffices to renew its action.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Francis Sewell Cole in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 4th January 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FRANCIS
SEWELL COLE, of Thorncliff, Freemantle, Southampton, in the County of
Hampshire, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Francis Sewell Cole, Her special
licence that I, the said Francis Sewell Cole, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Francis Sewell
Cole, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"A NEW OR IMPROVED HYDRAULIC MOTIVE-POWER ENGINE," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said Francis Sewell Cole, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Francis Sewell Cole, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
My hydraulic motive-power engine is composed of a series of two
or more wheels placed between a series of two or more water-tight
reservoirs above and below the wheels, said wheels being enclosed in
water-tight cases, and motion being communicated to the wheels by
water or other motive power falling in its passage from the upper to the
lower reservoirs, the axles of the said wheels enclosed in water-tight

page_text: cases passing through the centre of the water-tight cases creating an
external motion, which turns other external wheels or other external
instruments to raise water or effect other purposes by chains of buckets
or other ordinary means, the action of the machine being renewable
by simply turning the framework which supports the reservoirs, wheels,
and the rest of the machinery upside down, the framework being made
to revolve on an axletree supported by trestles or other means.
In witness whereof, I, the said Francis Sewell Cole, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this First day of January, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.