A MACHINE OR MACHINERY FOR RAISING, LOWERING, DRAWING, DRIVING, FORCING, IMPRESSING, OR MOVING BODIES, SUBSTANCES, MATE- RIALS, FLUIDS, ARTICLES OR COMMODITIES
Year: 1809

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SIMEON
THOMPSON, of Maddox Street, Hanover Square, in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twentieth day of March,
in the forty-ninth year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said Simeon
Thompson, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that I, the said Simeon Thompson, my exors, adiñors,
and assigns, during the term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A MACHINE OR MACHINERY FOR RAISING, LOWERING,
DRAWING, DRIVING, FORCING, IMPRESSING, OR MOVING BODIES, SUBSTANCES, MATE-
RIALS, FLUIDS, ARTICLES, OR COMMODITIES;" in which said Letters Patent there is
contained a proviso obliging me, the said Simeon Thompson, by an instrument
in writing 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 per-
formed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one
calendar month 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
Simeon Thompson, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly
described and ascertained as follows, that is to say :-
In the Drawing hereunto annexed the lines a, a, denote certain parallel
ropes, duly stretched and secured, or certain leading pieces or sliders placed
for the purpose of steadily conducting a seat or carriage C, in which a man can
or may place himself, and descend from the upper to the lower parts of the
said ropes, leading pieces, or sliders, and the said ropes, leading pieces, or sliders
may be either perpendicular or inclined in the positions thereof; but I do find
it most convenient to give an inclined position to the same, in an angle of about
twenty degrees from the perpendicular. And I do secure the said carriage by
connecting the same with the said ropes, leading pieces, or sliders, by rings, or
loops, or bearing parts, of such form or figure that the said carriage shall
be confined in the descent and ascent thereof; and farther, I do connect the
said carriage to and with the weight or counterpoise, or place of reaction,
represented by the letter E, to be either raised, lowered, or suspended, or at
which or where the intended work or operation is to be done and performed,
by means of a rope or chain or other flexible material passing over the wheel,
pulley, or sheeve d; and b, b, represents a ladder, or steps, or shrouds, for the
workman or workmen to ascend. And the manner of using or. working the
said machine or machinery is described as follows:-The workman ascends
by b, b, and places himself in the carriage C, in which his weight (by prefer-
ence) forms nearly an equilibrium with the weight c (which may be imagined
to be, a basket of coals). In this situation, by a moderate exertion of his
arms, either by taking hold of the parallel ropes, leading pieces, or sliders a, a,
or of a rope or bar or other piece, duly placed or applied for that
purpose, he
causes the carriage to descend briskly, which at the same. time brings
upe; he then quits the carriage, and at that time e (which we suppose to have
been emptied by another assistant, by reversing it or otherwise) being some-
what heavier than C, descends again and raises C to its first situation, and by
the time e is again filled the workman is ready upon the ladder, where he enters
the carriage and raises a second load: And in this manner the work may be
continued at pleasure. And the said work may be performed by two or more
workmen ascending and descending in succession, by means of the same
ladder, or, if more convenient, by more ladders than one. And in case it
should be desired that the body e 'should be lifted through a greater space than
is to be ascended by the workman upon b, b, the. same may be effected by
fixing higher, and causing two carriages to descend in succession along the

page_text: ropes or guides a, a; or otherwise, but not by preference, the rope d, e, may
be wound on a barrel, and the rope d, c, on another smaller barrel, both on the
the same axis.
And farther, I do declare, that the said machine or machinery is applicable
to drawing, driving, forcing, impressing, or moving bodies, substances, mate-
rials, fluids, articles, or commodities; and that in such applications and uses
of the same no other variations in the construction, connection, and working
thereof will be needful, but such as may and can with facility be made by any
person of competent skill in the ordinary course of mechanical works and
operations.
In witness whereof, I, the said Simeon Thompson, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, the Nineteenth day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and nine.