METHOD FOR THE MORE EFFECTUALLY APPLYING WATER OR ANY FLUID TO TURN MILLS OR MACHINES OF ANY KIND
Year: 1787

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, JAMES
COOPER, of Poplar, in the County of Middlesex, Engineer, sends greeting.
WHEREAS the King's most Excellent Majesty, by His Letters Patent
under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the
Fifteenth day of May, in the twenty-seventh year of His reign, gave and
granted unto the said James Cooper, his executors, administrators, and assigns,
His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that the said
James Cooper, his executors, administrators, or assigns, by himself or them-
selves, or by his or their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such other
person or persons as he, the said James Cooper, should at any time agree
with, and no other, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term of years therein and herein-after expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend his new-invented "METHOD FOR THE
MORE EFFECTUALLY APPLYING WATER OR ANY FLUID TO TURN MILLS OR MACHINES
OF ANY KIND," within that part of Great Britain called England, the Dominion
of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to him, the
said James Cooper, his executors, administrators, and assigns, should and
lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, and advantage from

page_text: time to time coming, accruing, or arising by reason of the said new Invention
for and during and unto the full end and term of years therein and herein-after
mentioned, to have and to hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, power,
privileges, and advantages herein-before mentioned to be granted unto the
said James Cooper, his executors, administrators, and assigns, of the sole use,
exercise, and vending of his said new-invented Method for the more Effec-
tually Applying Water or any Fluid to Turn Mills or Machines of any Kind;
for and during and unto the fully to be compleat and ended, according to the
Statute in that case made and provided; His Majesty in such Letters Patent
thereby strictly commanding all and every persons, bodies politic and corporate,
and all other His Majesty's subjects whatsoever, of what estate, quality, degree,
name, or condition soever, they being within that part of His Majesty's King-
dom of Great Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, that neither they or any of them at any time during
the continuance of the said term of fourteen years thereby granted, either
directly or indirectly, do make, use, or put in practice the said Invention, or
any part thereof, so attained unto the said James Cooper, his executors, admi-
nistrators, or assigns as aforesaid, nor in any wise counterfeit, imitate, or
resemble the same, nor make or cause to be made any addition thereunto
or subtraction from the same, whereby to pretend himself or themselves the
inventor or inventors, devisor or devisors thereof, without the licence or consent
or agreement of the said James Cooper, his executors, administrators, and
assigns, in writing under his or their hands and seals first had and obtained
in that behalf, upon such pains or penalties as can or may be justly inflicted
on such offender or offenders for their contempt of His Majesty's Royal
command, and further to be answerable to be said James Cooper, his
executors, administrators, and assigns, according to the law for his or their
damages occasioned thereby; in which said Letters Patent is contained a
proviso that if the said James Cooper, his executors, administrators, and
assigns, or any other person or persons which shall or may at any time
hereafter during the continuance of the said grant have or claim any right,
title, or interest, at law or in equity, of, in, or to the powers, privileges, and
authority of the sole use and benefit of the said Invention, should make any
transfer or assignment, or any pretended transfer, or assignment, of the said
liberties or privileges, or any share or shares of the benefits or profits thereof,
to or for any number of persons exceeding the number of five, and also that
if the said James Cooper should not describe or ascertain the nature of his said
Invention or New Method for the more Effectually Applying Water or any
Fluid for the Turning of any Mills or Machines of any Kind, and in what

page_text: manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under
his hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within one calendar month next and immediately after
the date of the said Royal Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent,
and all liberties and advantages whatsoever hereby granted, should utterly
cease, determine, and utterly become void, any thing herein contained to the
contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Cooper, in pursuance of and in
compliance with the said provisoe in the said recited Royal Letters Patent
contained, do by this present instrument declare that the nature of my new-
invented Method for the more Effectually Applying Water or any other Fluid to
Turn Mills or Machines of any Kind, and the manner in which the same is to
be used and performed, is described and ascertained in the plan, section, or
Drawing hereunto annexed, and which is explained and referred to by the
letters, figures, and manner following (that is to say) :—
Upon the shaft or axis (A) of the mill or machine one or more wheels B,
are affixed of any diameter, with any number of arms C, &c., projecting
therefrom; on the extremity of these arms one or more endless chain or
chains D, D, are hung, having a projection d in each link to act upon the
arms; a float board E, is fixed either horizontally or obliquely in any part of
the links, the size of which in all cases will be determined by the velocity they
are intended to move with, and the quantity of fluid afforded by the mill head;
these floats descend in a straight direction from the arms down to and through
an aperture F, of their own dimensions, as near as may be, to allow the neces-
sary freedom for motion, which aperture is something more in depth than the
distance from one float to another, so that one float shall not have quitted the
lower part of it till the next had entered into the upper part, and the whole
depth of this aperture, or so much of it as the distance of one float from another,
may be immerged below the level of the mill tail X. The bottom of the
floodgate G may go down to the level of the mill tail or otherwise, and be in
any position or at any distance with respect to the floats, and when drawn up
the fluid flows into and over the aperture to the whole heighth of the mill head
Y, and is so bounded on all sides as to prevent communication between the mill
head and the mill tail, except through the aperture F. The chain or chains and
floats, by the pressure of the incumbent fluid, pass through the said aperture,
and pass through side the boundary H, up to the aforesaid arms C, &c., and
so by a continued rotation, by means of the projection d in each link acting
upon the arms C, &c., communicate motion to the mill; or the small projec-
tions h, h, which are at the end of the arms C, are guides for the chain or