AN HYDROSTATICK PUMP OR ENGINE ON A NEW CON- STRUCTION, WHICH WILL ANSWER THE PURPOSE OF A COMMON PUMP, AND FOR EXTIN- GUISHING FIRE, WATERING ROADS, GARDENS, &C., AND WILL BE VERY USEFUL ON BOARD OF SHIPS AS AN HEAD PUMP, WHICH MAY BE WORKED WITH MUCH LESS STRENGTH, AND WILL FORCE MORE WATER, THAN ANY OTHER ENGINE NOW IN USE
Year: 1774

page_text: DLANCES
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
BLANCH, of the Parish of Saint George, Bloomsbury, in the County of
Middlesex, Carver and Gilder, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent. Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
the Seventeenth day of June, in the fourteenth year of His reign, give and
grant unto me, the said John Blanch, His especial license, that I, the said
John Blanch, during the term of years therein expressed, should and law-
fully might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in all His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations
abroad, my Invention of "AN HYDROSTATICK PUMP OR ENGINE ON A NEW CON-
STRUCTION, WHICH WILL ANSWER THE PURPOSE OF A COMMON PUMP, AND FOR EXTIN-
GUISHING FIRE, WATERING ROADS, GARDENS, &C., AND WILL BE VERY USEFUL ON
BOARD OF SHIPS AS AN HEAD PUMP, WHICH MAY BE WORKED WITH MUCH LESS
STRENGTH, AND WILL FORCE MORE WATER, THAN ANY OTHER ENGINE NOW IN USE;"
in which said Letters Patent there is contained a provisoe obliging me, the
said John Blanch, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description
of the nature of my said Invention, and how the same is to be prepared, to be
inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar months
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.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said provisoe, I, the said.
John Blanch, do hereby declare that my said Invention of an Hydrostatick
Pump or Engine on a New Construction, which will answer the Purpose of a

page_text: Common Pump, and for Extinguishing Fire, Watering Roads, Gardens, &c.,
and will be very usefull on board of Ships as an Head Pump, which may be
worked with much less Strength, and will force more Water, than any other
Engine now in Use, is described in the Plan thereof hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Blanch, have hereunto sett my
hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of September, One thousand seven
hundred and seventy-four.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the aforesaid Fifteenth day of Septem-
ber, in the year above said, the aforesaid John Blanch came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification of his
Invention 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.
Insolled the Sixtoonth den of Santambox in the reox above written

page_text: DEANC
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
BLANCH, of the Parish of Saint George, Bloomsbury, in the County of
Middlesex, Carver and Gilder, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent. Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
the Seventeenth day of June, in the fourteenth year of His reign, give and
grant unto me, the said John Blanch, His especial license, that I, the said
John Blanch, during the term of years therein expressed, should and law-
fully might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in all His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations
abroad, my Invention of "AN HYDROSTATICK PUMP OR ENGINE ON A NEW CON-
STRUCTION, WHICH WILL ANSWER THE PURPOSE OF A COMMON PUMP, AND FOR EXTIN-
GUISHING FIRE, WATERING ROADS, GARDENS, &C., AND WILL BE VERY USEFUL ON
BOARD OF SHIPS AS AN HEAD PUMP, WHICH MAY BE WORKED WITH MUCH LESS.
STRENGTH, AND WILL FORCE MORE WATER, THAN ANY OTHER ENGINE NOW IN USE;"
in which said Letters Patent there is contained a provisoe obliging me, the
said John Blanch, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description
of the nature of my said Invention, and how the same is to be prepared, to be
inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar months
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.
NOW KNOW YE,. that in compliance with the said provisoe, I, the said.
John Blanch, do hereby declare that my said Invention of an Hydrostatick
Pump or Engine on a New Construction, which will answer the Purpose of a

page_text: Common Pump, and for Extinguishing Fire, Watering Roads, Gardens, &c.,
and will be very usefull on board of Ships as an Head Pump, which may be
worked with much less Strength, and will force more Water, than any other
Engine now in Use, is described in the Plan thereof hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Blanch, have hereunto sett my
hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of September, One thousand seven
hundred and seventy-four.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the aforesaid Fifteenth day of Septem-
ber, in the year above said, the aforesaid John Blanch came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification of his
Invention 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 Sixteenth day of September, in the year above written.

page_text: |the will, E is the valve, F. F. is an air vrosell made round the pump Barrell and has a communication with
the Pump Barrell by the hole G. II.H. is a piece of leather with iron hoops within side of it and come
tapering down from the top of the Burrell and fastens to the Red by the screw I.I. the Rod being made
in two parts for that purpose, K. is a play of Wood with a hole in the middle of it for the Rod to work
through and is driven into the top of the pump Barrell so tight that no air or water can get out, I is w Brass
Cap that screws on to the top of the pump Barrell to prevent the plug I from flying out by the force of
the ner and water, I the Brass Cap Screwed off: M M the spout fixed near; the bottom of the pump Barrell
having a valve in it I and a little higher has a short tube. O fixed to it and communicates with the air
Vessel F.F. Pis the handle with: a/Quadrant wheel made to it and two Chains one lifting the Rod upe
the other pulling it down; Q is the Shundard Post, R. is a piece of Wood that lays acros having Brass's
for the Gudgeons to work in, S.S. is a Leather Hose and Branch that screws on to the Vessel or Spout
M when wanted to make it an Engine.
The
vume new invented pump when made in a cistern on four wheels as Figure 2 is a compleat :
Engine for extinguishing fire and will force water fifty yards high in a constant stream.
NB. F is a plate of iron with a hole through the middle of it sometimes used instead of the Brass Cup

page_text: the Pump Barrell by the hole G. HH, is a piece of leather with iron hoops within side of it and come
tapering down from the top of the Barrell and fastens to the Rod by the screw I.I. the Rod being made
in two parts for that purpose, K. is a play of Word with a hole in the middle of it for the Rod to work
through and is driven into the top of the pump Barrell so tight that no air or water can get out, Li is w Brass
Cap that screws on to the top of the pump Barrell to prevent the plug K from flying out by the force of
the aur and water, Is the Brass Cap screwed off. M M the spout fixed near the bottom of the pump Barrell
having a valve in it N and a little higher has a short tube O fixed to it and communicates with the air
Vessel F.FP is the handle with a Quadrant wheel made to it and two Chains one lifting the Rod up
the other pulling it down; Q is the Stundard Post, R. is a piece of Wood' that lays across having Bruss's
for the Gudgeons to work in, S.S. is a Leather Hose and Branch that screws on to the Vessel or Spout
M when wanted to make it an Engine.
The
same new invented pump when made in a cistern on- four wheels as Figure 2 is a compleat
Engine for extinguishing fire and will force water fifty yards high in a constant sheam.
NB. F is a plate of iron with a hole through the middle of it sometimes used instead of the Brass Cap
I to keep the plug I from flying out.