NEW-INVENTED WHEEL ENGINE OR MACHINE, WHEREBY TO GIVE OR COMMUNICATE TO MILLS, CLOCKS, TIMEPIECES, OR OTHER INSTRUMENTS OR ENGINES REQUIRING THE SAME PROPERTIES, A CONSTANT AND PERPETUAL FORCE AND MOTION
Year: 1782

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, HILDEBRAND
MORLEY, of Clement's Inn, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, sends
greeting.
WHEREAS the King's most Excellent Majesty by Letters Patent under
the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the Fifteenth day of April
last, gave and granted unto the said Hilldebrand Morley, his executors,
adors, and assigns, His Majesty's special licence, full power, sole privilege
and authority, for the said Hilldebrand Morley, his executors, adñiors, and
assigns, and every of them, by himself or themselves, or by his or their
deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as he, the said Hillde-
brand Morley, his executors, adiñiors, or assigns, should at any time agree
with (not exceeding the number of five) and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter, to make, use, exercise, and vend his "NEW-INVENTED
WHEEL ENGINE OR MACHINE, WHEREBY TO GIVE OR COMMUNICATE TO MILLS, CLOCKS,
TIMEPIECES, OR OTHER INSTRUMENTS OR ENGINES REQUIRING THE SAME PROPERTIES,
A CONSTANT AND PERPETUAL FORCE AND MOTION;" to have, hold, exercise, and
enjoy the said licence, power, privilege, and advantages to the said Hilldebrand
Morley, his executors, admors, and assigns, for the 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

page_text: provided; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if I, the
said Hilldebrand Morley, should not particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause
the same to be iurolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
four calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and liberties and advan-
tages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become
void, as by the said Letters Patent may more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Hilldebrand Morley, in pursuance of
the said proviso in the said Letters Patent contained, do hereby declare that
the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be
performed, appears and is described and ascertained in form following (that
is to say):-
My said invented Wheel Engine or Machine, whereby to give or commu-
nicate to Mills, Clocks, Timepieces, or other Instruments or Engines requiring
the same Properties, a Constant and Perpetual Force and Motion, has a frame-
work of wood, iron, or other metal to which the machinery is fixt and
supported. It consists of a wheel which is divided on the rim or outward
edge into any number of divisions in the manner of a water wheel, so that
each division be sufficient to contain a round ball, which balls are made of
wood, or hollow balls made of tin, copper, iron, or other metal, or of glass.
These balls, as the wheel moves round, fall off on an inclined plane or spout,
from whence they acquire sufficient velocity or force to enter through a passage
a tall square tube filled either with quicksilver, water, or other fluids, which
is there supported by the pressure of the outward air. As soon as those
balls enter the aforesaid tube they will rise upwards therein, being lighter than
the fluids, and through a certain number of new contrived valves which support
the fluids alternately in the tube. When the balls are arrived at the top or
broad head of the aforesaid tube, they are conducted to a wheel with a certain
number of teeth, on which are placed lifters to lift the balls out of the said
fluids. This said wheel is drove by another wheel with the same number of
teeth and diameter, to which is joined a pulley, over which, passes a cord,
chain, catgut, silken thread, or any other line or twist, which, being joined at
both ends, is passt over another pulley fixt to the axle of the great wheel,
which great wheel, when loaded with the aforesaid balls, turns round the
aforesaid two other wheels, by which means the balls are lifted out of and
from the fluids, and fall on an inclined plane or spout, which lead to the great
'wheel. At the lower end of this inclined plane or spout is fixt a small wheel,

page_text: hich is put into motion by spokes fixt on the rim or outward edge of the
reat wheel, which turns the balls separately on itself to continue the motion..
In witness whereof, I, the said Hilldebrand Morley, have have hereunto
set my hand and seal the First day of August, in the twenty-second
year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the
grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender
of the Faith, and so forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and eighty-two.
HILLDEBRAND (L.s.) MORLEY.
Sealed and delivered (being first duly
stampt, and the interlineations be-
tween the cight and ninth & eigh-
teenth & nineteenth lines being first
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same First day of August,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Hilldebrand Morley came before
our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, 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 their late
Majesty's King William and Queen Mary of England, and so forth.