A NEW IMPROVEMENT ON THE CHAIN AND HAND PUMPS, AND A NEW-INVENTED FIRE-EXTINGUISHING ENGINE, AND STEAM ENGINE
Year: 1809

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MARK
NOBLE, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
in and by His Letters Patent under His Great Seal of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Fourteenth
day of December, in the Fiftieth year of His reign, for Himself, His heirs
and successors, did give and grant unto me, the said Mark Noble, my exccutors,
administrators, and assigns, His special licence, full power, sole privilege, and
authority, that I, the said Mark Noble, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves, or by my and their
deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said Mark
Noble, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within that part of His said Majesty's United Kingdom
called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
my Invention of "A NEW IMPROVEMENT ON THE CHAIN AND HAND PUMPS, AND
A NEW-INVENTED FIRE-EXTINGUISHING ENGINE, AND STEAM ENGINE;" in which
Letters Patent is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Mark Noble, by

page_text: an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe
and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within two calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same,
relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in complianco with the said proviso, I, the said
Mark Noble, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, by the
several Plans or Drawings hereunto annexed, and as follows (that is to
say):
No. 1. My improvement on the chain and hand pumps are as follows: -
The links of the chain being so alike as to interchange into each other, I
shall bush them (should they be made of iron) with brass or gun metal,
which I conceive will make them in point of quality equal in durability to
those which are made of brass, and, of course, much cheaper. I have next to
observe on the sawcers, pallats, and pestons, the leathering of which I have so
contrived as to make them perfectly elastic, which I have done by doubling
them round and nailing them to the bottom of the wood sawcer, or screwed
or sewed to a metal cup or collar, so that they shall be less liable to a check,
retain their water, and will not wear out so fast as those which are now in
use, they being made with a sharp flat edge, sec No. 1, Fig. 1. I make the
bottom, which receives the chain or chamber, semicircular or eliptical,
whether of metal or wood, and perforated on each side, leaving a smooth
surface within, both at top and bottom, of 3, 4, or 5 inches wide, as may be
judged most convenient, according to the size of the pump, to prevent any
obstruction to the leathers in their passing round: see Figure 2, No. 1. I
make the whole of the lifting side of metal tubes, and the descending side the
same, in one or more joints, according to the length of the pump, for the
purpose of their being taken apart or put together, as may be judged con-
venient; and in diameter half an inch, or something larger than the chamber,
so as to leave full room for the passage of the sawcers, and thereby provent
unnecessary friction.
The improvement in my hand pump or ship engine is as follows:-I have
so contrived that the apparatus which works the chain pump will also work
the hand pump, or both together, as the exigence of the case may require.
The latter may be used as a clearing pump, or a reach deck pump, and also as
a first-rate fire-extinguishing engine. I have also contrived that, by adding a
crank in the axis of the chain pump, that the two instruments may be worked

page_text: together without the smallest degree of complexity, as represented in No. 2,
Figures 1 and 2.
I am now to speak on my improvement in the land fire extinguishing
engine, which I work by a rotative motion with winches on each side, giving
motion to a crank axis of two, three, or four throws, extending from one
end of the engine to the other, and working as many pestons. The winches
on each side of the cistorn are supported on slides to draw out or slide in, as
may be judged necessary. I also make it with arms, to turn up or let down
with the middle winch, so as to make it convenient for stowing, or removing
from place to place. On each end of the middle winch, where more than
two are employed, on one side is fitted a winch with a crank at each end,
which, with a connecting bar at each end of the engine, will give motion to
the crank axis which works the pestons. In this engine the crank, working
barrels, and pestons, are in the middle; and where there are three barrels,
which I should always recommend, the draught or suction pipe I would
place in the middle; and the conveyance of the forced parts to the air vessel
I should lay parallel, and close with each other; from whence the water is, by
the compression of the air therein contained, expelled through the nose piece
in the direction wanted. The suction hose which I make use of is of iron or
copper, wound in one continued spiral, which retains, gives, and preserves its
elastic form, and is much superior to rivetted, brazed, or solder ferrils, which
has hitherto been the custom.
The foregoing may be applicable to the lever or fan vale lever engine,
by the application of an arm fixed on each end of the axis, if worked
by pestons, or on the axis if worked by a fan or fan valve, from which
arm to each of the two winches, on each side of the engine, I fix a separato
connecting bar or joint for working the same by a circular motion from the
winches, producing alternate motion on the arms, aud consequently on the
pestons of fan valve.
I also propose to introduce a fire engine, of which the Drawing No. 3 will
be explanatory. Figure 1, a plan of the engine, with the winches extended. A,
the cylinder; B, the axis, to which the rotative fan is fixed; D, D, D, D, D, D,
winches; E, E, E, E, supports to the winches, which are made to slide
in. Figure 2, end view of the engine, with fly wheels if necessary, with a
view of the winches folded down. Figure 3, a side view of the engine, with
the winch. Figure 4, a representation of the internal part of the cylinder and
air vessel. A, the cylinder; B, the sliding peston which slides through the
axis; C, C, the axis, with a circular piece bolted on each side, which axis is
fixed out of the centre of the cylinder, so that as it revolves round draws water

page_text: through the suction pipe D, on one side, and forces it on the other side
through the pipe E into the air vessel F.
Explanation of a Rotative Steam Engine.-Figure 1, No. 4. A, the fire-
place; B, the boiler; C, the steam pipe; D, the cylinder; E, the rotative peston
made to slide over the flat part of the axis F; F, the axis, which is fixed out
of the centre of the cylinder D, so that when the steam begins to press on the
peston E, which, having a greater purchase from F to I than it has from F
to K, is forced round the to escape pipe; G, G, the pipe for the steam to
escape through to be condensed; H, the fly wheel; L, L, segments of a
cylinder, equal in diameter to the cylinder D, which is bolted to the sliding
peston for the purpose of filling up the lower part of the cylinder D, thereby
preventing any loss of steam. N.B.-The rotative peston is made to slide over
the axis, and constructed with or without joints at each end, to which is fixed
a circular piece made to fit the cylinder, on which is fixed packing, with or
without clastic springs; in case there are no elastic springs it will be necessary
to have a piece of metal fixed to the top of the cylinder to make it equal in
space to the short diameter, as represented by the letter M.
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Figuro 2, No. 4, shews a rotative engine, which I shall work by the force
of steam acting upon the catches or ratchets of a wheel, as represented by
Figure No. 2, where the steam from the boiler is suffered to pass or force its
way through the pipe B into the spaces or cavities of the catches or ratchets
of the wheel C, which is intended to give motion to any machinery to
which it may be attached, the ratchets of which are inclosed with a flat rim
from A to B, the edge having a broad smooth surface for the packing or
segment part of the circle d, which is to be kept down on the smooth flat
edges of the wheel at b, with any spring or weight as may be found necessary
to exclude the air and retain the force of the steam to act upon the catches
or ratchets of the wheel to put the same in motion. E, a ratchet wheel, with
a catch pall F, to prevent the possibility of a contrary direction. G, a
padded catch or pall to prevent the entrance of the external air, and the
escape of steam in a contrary direction.
In witness whereof, I, the said Mark Noble, party hereto, have hereunto
set my hand and scal, this Fourteenth day of February, in the fiftieth
year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the
Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and ten.
MARK NOBLE. (L.B.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fourteenth day of February,
in the fiftieth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, the
said Mark Noble came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and
acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein
3 contained and specified, in form above written. And also the Instrument
aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made in the
forty-eighth year of His said Majesty's reign.