CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN WEIGHING MACHINES
Year: 1828

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BENJAMIN
MATTHEW PAYNE, of the Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Scale Maker,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth
did, by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Eighteenth day of August, in the ninth year of IIis
reign, give and grant unto me, the said Benjamin Matthew Payne, His
especial licence that I, the said Benjamin Matthew Payne, my exors, adñiors,
and assigns, and such others as I, the said Benjamin Matthew Payne, my
exors, adññiors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times 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 "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN WEIGHING MACHINES;" in which said Letters Patent is
contained a proviso that if I, the said Benjamin Matthew Payne, shall
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

page_text: High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the
same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Benjamin Matthew Payne, do hereby describe the manner in which my said
Invention is to be performed, by the following description thereof, that is
to say:
The new improved large and small patent moving slide indexed weighing
levers, beams, or stillyards are made with any sort of scale beam ends or
stillyard heads, with a body, pin, and cheek, a tail indexed with lever power,
and a moving graduated slide index or rider on the tail index, requires but
two weights and only one scale for general goods; if to weigh hogsheads, tubs,
or bales, then they require cau-hooks and chains. The movcing slide index on
the tail has a pin and cheek, and carries out the two weights on the tail index
any length to give the power of lever required. The indexes then shew the
equilibrium of weight, the large marked tail index show the hundreds and
quarter of hundreds, and on some sizes the fourteen pounds and seven pounds,
and the small moving slide index show the pounds, and on some sizes the half
and quarter of pounds. Each index has a steel edge to fix the equilibrium, or
a thumb screw to fix for the same purpose. They have also for supporting
the lever tail a pillar porter, standing on the ground or fixed to the ceiling
joist as may be needful; they likewise have a screw power to raise by one man
any heavy weight with facility, which is too heavy to be lifted into the scale, or to
lift from the ground any hogsheads, tubs, or bales, when weighted with can-hooks.
The small moving sliding indexed weighing lever beams or stillyards are made
with any sort of scale beam ends or stillyard heads and weights, the smallest
weight in the same way as the large ones, requiring, as them, only two weights
and one scale, showing the equilibrium of weight by two indexes, the tail
index the pounds, and the moving slide index the ounces and drams, and on
some sizes the tail index show the ounces, and the moving slide index the penny-
weights, scruples, and grains. The annexed sketch shows a patent moving
slide index weighing lever beam and scale, which weighs ten hundred-
weight, and the rider index graduated to fourteen pounds, being the same
quantity of weight as each division on the tail index.
In witness whereof, I, the said Benjamin Matthew Payne, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of February, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.
BENJN MATTW (L.S.) PAYNE.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Seventeenth day of February, in
the year of our Lord 1829, the aforesaid Benjamin Matthew Payne 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 stamped
according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Eighteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.