A MACHINE FOR THE PURPOSE OF RAISING WATER AND OTHER FLUIDS
Year: 1802

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
ELLIOTT, of Rathbone Place, in the Parish of Saint Marylebone, in the
County of Middlesex, Mechanic, 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 Second day of August,
in the forty-second year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said
George Elliott, His especial licence that I, the said George Elliott, 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 FOR THE PURPOSE OF RAISING WATER AND OTHER
FLUIDS;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging
me, the said George Elliott, 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 performed, 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
hereunto had) may more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
George Elliott, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described by the
above Drawings and references thereto.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Elliott, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and two.
GEORGE ELLIOTT. (L.S.)
REFERENCES TO THE DRAWINGS.
A, A, A, A, A, are the under suckers or valves fixed in the water. B, B, B,
are pipes for water to ascend from the under suckers or valves through the
middle suckers or valves C, C, C, C, C, C, C, into the first receivers D, D, D,
D, D, D, D. E, E, E, E, E, E, E, the box and valve fixed in the middle of
the first receivers D, D, D, D, D, D, D, which divides them, and by the
motion of the valve the water is drawn up through the right hand middle
suckers or valves C, C, C, C, C, C, C, into the first receivers D, D, D, D,
D, D, D, and by the same motion forces the water up through the left hand
upper suckers or valves F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, into the upper receivers
G, G, G, G, G, and as the valve reverses the effect of the valve on the right
hand and left hand suckers reverses also. H, H, H, a solid iron wheel with
two or more coggs on the side fixed on one end of the large spindle K, with
the fly wheel I, I, I, fixed on the other end; when in motion the coggs of the
solid wheel H, H, H, will strike against the two iron catches L, L, L, L, fixed
upon the two spindles S, S, which reverses the catches by means of the crank
joint T, T, which will reverse them four or more times in proportion to the
number of coggs fixed on the solid iron wheel H, H, H, with once going
round. M, M, is an iron rod fixed to the spindle of catches L, L, L, L, and
communicates to the spindle of the valve E, E, E, E, E, E, E, and causes the
valve to turn backwards and forwards four or more times at the same time as
the catches are reversed, and with such force, with proper power affixed, as
will cause the water immediately to ascend with great velocity through the
upper suckers F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, into the upper receiver G, G, G, G, G,
to any height intended by the swiftness of the motion of the valve E, E, E, E,
E, E, E. N is a pipe or spout from which the water is discharged. 0, 0, 0, 0,
are the iron screw bolts, nuts, and plates, which fix the whole machine
together. P, the elevation of the machine. Q, the section of the entire
machine. R, the water.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Thirtieth day of June, in the
year above mentioned, the aforesaid George Elliott came before our Lord the
King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and all
and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And also the
Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute in
that case made and provided.
Inrolled the First day of September, in the year above written.