MY INVENTION OF THE ART OF MAKING CERTAIN NEW AND CURIOUS SMOKE JACKS TO TURN MEAT, &C., TO ROAST HORIZONTAL AND PERPENDICULAR
Year: 1770

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PETER
CLARE, of the Town of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Jackmaker,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
the Twenty-fourth day of December, in the eleventh year of His reign,
give and grant unto me, the said Peter Clare, His especial licence that
the said Peter Clare, during the term of years therein expressed, should
and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, "MY INVENTION OF THE ART OF MAKING CERTAIN
NEW AND CURIOUS SMOKE JACKS TO TURN MEAT, &C., TO ROAST HORIZONTAL AND
PERPENDICULAR;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a provisoe
obliging me, the said Peter Clare, under my hand and seal, to cause a
particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and how the same
is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within four calendar months 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said provisoe, I, the said
Peter Clare, do hereby declare that my said Invention of the Art of
Making certain New and Curious Smoke Jacks to turn Meat, &c., to roast
Horizontal and Perpendicular, is described in the Plan thereof hereunto.
annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Peter Clare, have hereunto sett my hand
and seal, the Twenty-sixth day of December, One thousand seven
hundred and seventy.
PETER CLARE. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Twenty-eighth day of December,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Peter Clare came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specifica-
tion, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification 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 Seventeenth day of January, One thousand seven hundred
and seventy-one.

page_text: A Cup fixed on the worm at the upper part to hole oil to supply the pevot or upper part of the woud worm
which said cup is contracted at the upper end to prevent the oil being thrown out and hath a tube fixed through
the bottom to convey the oil into cistern.
The Cistern to hold oil to supply the main wheel and bottom part of the worm likewise there is a step fixed to the
side of the Frame which goes into the Cistern for the lower part of the Worm to run in which said step hath and
Iron Fork fixed in it to prevent the worm being thrown out of it's place.
The Fly which hath five veins.
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A Shield which is screwed on at the top of the frame on side by the middle piller in which one end of the spinste
of the wheel runs which said shield hath a Bush fixed to it and goes into the cup that is fixed on the warm to maut
the said worm in its place. This Bush hath two holes drilled in t to convey to Oil (that works up down into y Cup
again.
The Bottom Bar of the Frame.
The Main Spindle on which the main wheel and pulley are fixed for turning the meat horizontally.
The Standard on which a frame with friction wheels are fixed and passes through the main Bar in a Square Hole
at the end which is fasten/d by a Screw at the under part.
The Frame with two friction wheels for the main Spindle to rest on.
The pulley with three four or five Grooves turned in it as the place requires for the Spit or Spits and perpendicular work
to be turned by which hath a hole at the end with a pin to put in to stop it occasionally. –
A Tube that goes into the Chimney to convey oil into the Cup that is rivetted on the worm in order to supply it with the
same without getting into the Chimney to do it.
A Tube fixed to the Cistern in the inside of the Frame to take off the overplus orl and carry it to the outside.
A Cup to receive the Orl when conveyed out.
The Jack Chain or Chains.
The Spit or Spits.
farther from the firef
A Board fixed to the Breast of the Chimney on which is fastened a Bearer to support the perpendicular work.
B. The Bearer has a slott by means of which the perpendicular work may be carried nearer to or
as occasion requires and is kept in its place by means of a screw.)
Frame of the perpendicular work.
The perpendicular Spindle by which the meat is turned on which is a wheel fixed supported by three wheels fastened
on the under plate of the above frame to diminish the friction:
-The spindle of the perpendicular wheel which is horiantall to turn the perpendicular work on which a pulley is fixed to
receive the motion from the smoke Jacks by a bord or Rope String.
A stay to fasten the perpendicular work when the Core or Rope String is tight to turn it and secured by a Screw:
The Rack spit by which the meat hangs may be raised or lower'd as occasion requires ._
Twelve hooks to be hung on the rack spit 6 in a bloiser one six above ye other by means of which twelve fowlasor less
may be turn'd at once. -