A MACHINE BY ME FOUND OUT AND DISCOVERED FOR RAISING WEIGHT OR WATER IN A MORE SIMPLE AND EASY MANNER THAN ANYTHING THENTOFORE DISCOVERED, AS THEREIN MORE PARTICU- LARLY MENTIONED AND EXPRESSED IN THAT BEHALF
Year: 1769

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
TAYLOR, of Ashton-under-Line, in the County of Lancaster, Watchmaker,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the Fourth
day of August, in the ninth year of His reign, did give and grant unto me,
the said James Taylor, my exors, admors, and assigns, His said Majesty's
especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, for me, the said
James Taylor, my exors, admors, and assigns, to make, use, exercise, and
vend, in England, Wales, Berwick-upon-Tweed, and in all His Majesty's
Colonies and Plantations abroad, for the term of years in the said Letters
Patent granted, expressed, and mentioned, "A MACHINE BY ME FOUND OUT AND
DISCOVERED FOR RAISING WEIGHT OR WATER IN A MORE SIMPLE AND EASY
MANNER THAN ANYTHING THENTOFORE DISCOVERED, AS THEREIN MORE PARTICU-
LARLY MENTIONED AND EXPRESSED IN THAT BEHALF;" in which said Letters
Patent, among other things, is contained a provisoe, to the purport or effect
following, that is to say:-That if I, the said James Taylor, should not par-
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument-in writing, under my
hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled. in the High Court of
Chancery within four calendar months next and imediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties

page_text: and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine,
and become void, anything therein contained to the contrary in anywise not-
withstanding, as in and by the said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto
had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YEE, that the machine aforesaid named or mentioned is
constructed and operates in manner and form or to the intent or purport
following, that is to say:-
It is worked by chains and buckets; chains of any construction whatsoever.
The chains are put together at the ends, which make them have no end, like a
jack chain which turns a spit. There are two of these chains, which go round
two wheels or pulleys, which wheels or pulleys are piked or notched to fit the
chains, so that when the wheels or pulleys are turned about they take the
chains along with them. The buckets are fixed between the two chains, with
two iron rods, and hang loose, so that when they come to the top they dis-
charge themselves into a cylinderical receiver, which is is fixed between the
two wheels or pulleys. The receiver has a large space cut out of one side to
receive the edge of the buckets, and the buckets dischargo themselves into the
cylindrical receiver, and the buckets go down with their mouths downwards for
Д further charge, and go round the two wheels or pulleys at the bottom, which
wheels or pulleys at the bottom direct the buckets to charge again, and go up.
There is an ear crane fixt to each bucket, so that when the buckets come to
the water or other portable matter with their mouths downwards the crane
discharges the ear out of the bucket, and then the bucket charges again, and
so the buckets go on charging and discharging one after another during the
time the said engine is in motion, which may be worked by men, horses, or
other sufficient force.
In witness whereof, the said James Taylor hath hereunto set his hand
and seal, the Twenty-fifth day of November, in the tenth year of
the reign of our said 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 Christ One thousand
seven hundred and sixty-nine.
Sealed and delivered, by the above-
named James Taylor (being first
duly stamped), in the presence of,
JAMES (L.s.) TAYLOR.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-fifth day of November,
in the year of our Lord 1769, the aforesaid James Taylor 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 the late
King and Queen William and Mary of England, and so forth.
Inrolled the Twenty-ninth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and sixty-nine.