A NEW MACHINE, OR KIND OF BELLOWS, WHICH MIGHT BE MADE EITHER OF CAST IRON, WROUGHT IRON, WOOD, LEAD, OR ANY KIND OF METAL, FOR THE BLOWING OF FURNACES OR FORGES AT ANY DISTANCE, TO BE WROUGHT OR PUT IN MOTION BY WATER OR FIRE ENGINES, WHICH I APPREHENDED AND VERILY BELIEVED WOULD BE OF GREAT BENEPITT AND
Year: 1757

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ISAAC
WILKINSON, of Barsham Furnace, in the Parish of Wrexham, in the County
of Denbigh, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Second, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Twelfth day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred
and fifty-seven, did, on the humble Petition of me, the said Isaac Wilkinson,
representing that I had, by great charge, trouble, and industry, found out
"A NEW MACHINE, OR KIND OF BELLOWS, WHICH MIGHT BE MADE EITHER OF CAST
IRON, WROUGHT IRON, WOOD, LEAD, OR ANY KIND OF METAL, FOR THE BLOWING OF
FURNACES OR FORGES AT ANY DISTANCE, TO BE WROUGHT OR PUT IN MOTION BY
WATER OR FIRE ENGINES, WHICH I APPREHENDED AND VERILY BELIEVED WOULD BE OF
GREAT BENEPITT AND IMPROVEMENT IN MAKING OF PIG OR BARR IRON, AND THAT THE
SAME MIGHT BE THEREBY MANUFACTURED AT A MUCH LOWER RATE THAN COULD BE
DONE BY ANY OTHER MACHINE OR ENGINE THENTOFORE MADE USE OF;" give and
grant unto me, the said Isaac Wilkinson, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, His special licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the
said Isaac Wilkinson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of
them, by himself and themselves, or by His and their deputy or deputys,
servants or agents, or such others as I, the said Isaac Wilkinson, my executors,
administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree agree with, and no others,

page_text: from time to time and at all times thereafter, during 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 such case
made and provided, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend
the said Invention within that part of His said Majestie's Kingdom of Great
Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, and also in His Majestie's Colonies and Plantations in America, in such
manner as to me, the said Isaac Wilkinson, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or any of them, should in their discretion seem meet; with a proviso
therein contained, that if I, the said Isaac Wilkinson, should not particularly
describe or ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His said Majestie's High Court of
Chancery within four kalender months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties
and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine,
and become void, anything therein contained to the contrary thereof in any-
wise notwithstanding, 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 proviso, I, the said
Isaac Wilkinson, do hereby describe and ascertain my said Invention for
the blowing of furnaces or forges at any distance, in manner herein-after
mentioned (that is to say):-
My said Invention or machine for blowing furnaces or forges, lead works,
copper works, or any other sort of works where a blast is required, is made in
the manner following, viz:-Vessels made square, round, oblong, octagon, or
any other form, made of iron, wood, brass, copper, lead, or any other thing, or
any compound thing or things in number one, two, three, four, five, six
or more, and placed one by the side of another, or one over another, and so
contrived that when full of air, that the air is compressed by a pillar of water
of a proper altitude, coming in and filling the place or space that the air took
up before. And by the means of valves, regulators, cocks or siphons, opening
and shuting alternately, the water is let out, and the air is taken in, and forsed
out by the water through a pipe at any distance required, so that a furnace,
forge, or any other works may be blowed from any waterfall or falls, or from a
fire engine or engines to several miles distance from the machine, by means of
a pipe being fixed to the machine, to force or convey the wind through to the
said work. When the wind is prest out of each vessel by the water, the water
is again sent out by the motion of the machine opening the valves, regulators,

page_text: cocks, or siphons, and filling them again with air to make a second blast.
This machine is putt in motion by a waterwheel or wheels, moving in any
form, or a fire engine or engines, waterfall or falls, and siphons or valves,
regulators and cocks, or by mixing the water and air together by the fall of
water, so as the water shall compress the wind out of the vessels, as above,
through a pipe to the said work.
In witness whereof, I have sett my hand & seal, the First day of June,
One thousand seven hundred and fifty-seven.
Sealed and delivered in the presence of
JN RICHMOND.
MATHEW BROWN.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the First day of June, in the year
above written, the aforesaid Isaac Wilkinson came before our Lord the
King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Writing aforesaid, and every
matter and thing therein contained and specified, in form above said.
And the said Writing was stamped according to the Statute made in the
sixth year of the reign of the late King William and Queen Mary, and so
forth
Inrolled the Ninth day of June, in the thirtieth year of the reign of His
Majesty King George the Second, 1757.