A MACHINE INVENTED BY ME FOR RAISING COALS AND MINERALS OF ALL KINDS FROM THE PITT BOTTOM TO THE SURFACE, DRAWING WATER, DRIVING WAGGONS, AND ALL SORT OF MILLS, WITHOUT THE AID OF HORSES, FIRE, WIND, OR WATER, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1788

page_text: I, JOHN BEAUMONT, of the County of Ayr, having applied for Letters
Patent, under the Great Seal of Great Britain, for the sole making, using, and
vending "A MACHINE INVENTED BY ME FOR RAISING COALS AND MINERALS OF ALL
KINDS FROM THE PITT BOTTOM TO THE SURFACE, DRAWING WATER, DRIVING WAGGONS,
AND ALL SORT OF MILLS, WITHOUT THE AID OF HORSES, FIRE, WIND, OR WATER, AND
FOR OTHER PURPOSES," do now herein set forth and specify the uses more parti-
cularly of the said machine, and the uses and purposes to which it may be
applied.
No. 1 is a perspective view of the machine for drawing coals without
horses. A, A, is the great wheel; B is the small wheel, fixed on the same
axis with the great wheel; C is the pinion turned by the wheel B and the big
wheel A, A; D is the roller fixed on the same axis with the pinion C, on
which the ropes a, b, are alternately winding, that is, while the one rope is at
the top the other rope is at the bottom, et vice verca. There is a check on the
roller D, by which the machine can be stopped at any time in one moment.
The whole machine is supported by the frame 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
which may be used on the same axis with the great wheel
and pinion, when the pitt does not exceed fifteen fathoms. No. 3, a side view
of wheel and pinion. No. 4, a flat view of the same. No. 5, a crank, to be
used when this machine is applied for drawing water only by pumps, and fixed
in the place of the roller D. This machine is put in motion by men walking
in the inside of the great wheel A, A, and also by men on the outside of the
No. 2, a roller,
without the wheel

page_text: great wheel on the steps 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, &c. If such power is wanted, the
power of this machine can be increased or decreased, according to the weight
to be raised and depth of the pitts, by enlarging the diameter of the great wheel
A, A. The velocity of the roller D is twelve to one of the great wheel A, A,
which revolutions can be altered at pleasure. No. 6 is a skeleton of a coal
waggon, intended to be put in motion by one man turning the crank A in
No. 7, which is the real view of a coal waggon complete. By applying the
great wheel A, A, of No. 1 upon the same axis of a windmill where the sails
are now used, by this improvement any mill can be kept constantly going,
having no dependance on the wind.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, at Ayr, Tenth
of May, One thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight years.
Signed and sealed in the presence of
Charles Buchan, Agent for the Ayr
G
CHA BUCHAN.
JOHN JAMES.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-third day of May,
in the year above mentioned, the above mentioned Specification was inrolled
in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery, it appearing that it had been
acknowledged by a writing (the tenor of which is underwritten) in Scoland :-
"To all and sundry to whose knowledge these presents shall come: Know ye,
"that I, John Ballantine, Lord Provost and Chief Magistrate of the Burgh
"of Ayr, in the County of Ayr, North Britain, hereby certify, that, upon the
day of the date hereof, personally appeared before me, Charles Buchan, Agent
"for the Ayr Coal Company, being a person well known and of good credit,
"and by solemn oath, which he took before me upon the Holy Evangelists of
Almighty God, he did depose and say, that he and John James, Clerk to the
"said Company, were present and did see the above John Beaumont sign and
"seal the above written Specification, and that the name John Beaumont
"thereto set as the party executing, and the names Charles Buchan and
"John James thereto set as the subscribing witnesses, are of the respective
proper hands writing of the said John Beaumont, John James, and of this
deponent.

page_text: "In faith and testimony whereof, I have subscribed these presents, and have
"also caused the common seal of the Burgh of Ayr to be hereunto annexed.
"Dated at Ayr, this Tenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand
"seven hundred and eighty-eight.