NEW IMPROVED METHOD OF MAKING AND CONSTRUCTING REPEATERS OR REPEATING WATCHES AND TIMEPIECES
Year: 1806

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
MOSELEY ELLIOT, of the Parish of Saint James, Clerkenwell, in the County of
Middlesex, Watchmaker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
did, by His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the
Thirtieth day of October, in the forty-seventh year of His reign, give and
grant unto me, the said Joseph Moseley Elliot, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that
I, the said Joseph Moseley Elliot, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
during the term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend my "NEW IMPROVED METHOD OF MAKING AND
CONSTRUCTING REPEATERS OR REPEATING WATCHES AND TIMEPIECES," within
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner
as to me, the said Joseph Moseley Elliot, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should in my discretion seem meet; in which said Letters Patent is
contained a proviso that if I, the said Joseph Moseley Elliot, should not
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in

page_text: what manner the same is to be performed, by an Instrument in writing under
my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters l'atent, that then the said Letters Patent,
and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly
ccase, determine, and become void, as in and by the said recited Letters
Patent, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Joseph Moseley Elliot, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, is particularly described
and ascertained in the Drawing in the margin hereof, and the following
description thereof and references thereto, that is to say :-
A, B, represents the pillar plate; C, the hour rack, having ratchet teeth,
which act upon the small pallet 2, moveable on the arbor of the hammer;
D, the quarter rack having three teeth moveable on the axis of the hammer;
E, the escape wheel; F, the balance; G, the hour star wheel and snail;
H, the minute wheel of sixty teeth, which moves the wheel 4 of the same
number of teeth, which jumps every minute, on the arbor of which last-
mentioned wheel is fixed the minute snail; K, the pendant; Q, the hammer;
1, 3, the lever which determines the number of strokes; 5, the arch of the
minute rack; 6, the jumper; 7, the jumper spring; 8, the minute rack
spring 9, motion wheel, as usual in every watch; 10, the pendant rack
which acts in a pinion on the hour rack arbor when pushed in; g, the pallet;
h, a cock for the balance; n, a small pallet fixed on the arbor of the hour
rack; its use is to act against the pin o to move the quarter rack and make it
strike the quarters. I have thought it necessary to represent in the Drawing
the usual motion wheels which are common to all watches, in order to show
the situation of the parts which are newly invented, but a watchmaker will
be able immediately to distinguish the old parts from the new. Upon this
method of construction watches and timepieces may be made to repeat, not
only the hour and quarter, but also to the last minute, with one hammer only,
without the usual train of wheelwork.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Moseley Elliot, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Twenty-ninth day of November, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and six.
J. MOSELEY ELLIOT. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-ninth day of November,
in the forty-seventh year of the reign of His Majesty King George the
Third, the said Joseph Moseley Elliot came before our said Lord the King
in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and
every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written. And
also the aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made
in the forty-fourth year of His said Majesty's reign.
Inrolled the Twenty-ninth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and six.