NEW INVENTED MACHINE OR PIECE OF MECHANISM, WHICH, WHEN APPLIED TO A STEAM ENGINE OR ANY RECIPROCAL MOVEMENT, PRODUCES A CIRCULAR OR ROTATIVE MOTION WITHOUT THE MEDIUM OF A WATER WHEEL
Year: 1779

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MATTHEW
WASBROUGH, of the City of Bristol, Engineer, send greeting..
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His Let-
ters Patent, under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the Tenth day
of March, in the nineteenth year of His said Majesty's reign, did give and grant
unto me, the said Matthew Wasbrough, His special licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that I, the said Matthew Wasbrough, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully might; during the term of
years therein expressed, usc, exercise, and vend, throughout that part of. His
Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, the Dominions of Wales,
and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in His Majesty's Colonies and
Plantations abroad, my "NEW INVENTED MACHINE OR PIECE OF MECHANISM,
WHICH, WHEN APPLIED TO A STEAM ENGINE OR ANY RECIPROCAL MOVEMENT, PRODUCES
A CIRCULAR OR ROTATIVE MOTION WITHOUT THE MEDIUM OF A WATER WHEEL;" in
which said recited Letters Patent is contained a proviso obliging me, the said
Matthew Wasbrough, by writing under my hand and seal, to cause a par-
ticular description of the nature of the said Invention to 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 said Letters Patent,
relation being thereto had, may more at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Matthew Wasbrough, do hereby declare that the following is a particular
description of the nature of my said Invention, and of the manner in which
the same is to be performed, that is to say:-

page_text: 1st. To any steam engine or other machine that hath a reciprocal or alter-
nate movement, I apply one or more pullies, wheels, or segments of wheels,
to which are fastened rochets and clicks or palls, so contrived that while the
engine or machine moves in a perpendicular, horizontal, or diagonal direction,
that the rotative motive shall be effected.
2d. Likewise I make the application to the engine (in many cases by mov-
ing or shifting a wheel and its axis from one set of teeth or cogs) to another,
by which the ascending and descending impulsion will produce the same effect.
3d. I also for some purposes apply racks with teeth, and sometimes the teeth
I make to tumble or move on their own axis or center, and those racks are
either fastened to the working beam or great lever of the engine, or connected
with it by means of chains or spears.
4th. In particular cases I only apply one end of the working beam or great
lever of the engine, as in others I apply both ends thereof, and for some pur-
poses instead of applying a working beam or great lever, I substitute a wheel
or pulley working by racks or chains from the piston in the engine cylinder.
5th. Likewise in some cases I add a fly or flys, in order to render the motion
more regular and uniform.
6th. I hereby declare that I make my engines or machines in the different
forms as above described, as I find it most convenient or eligible for effecting the
following different purposes (viz'), grinding, bolting, sifting, rolling, turning,
rasping, chipping, polishing, burnishing, cutting, boreing, stamping, hammering,
slitting, drawing of wire, spinning, twisting, fulling, milling, pressing, dressing,
callendering, beetling, sawing, drilling, raising minerals, loading and unloading
vessells, and every other mechanical purpose heretofore done by means of
wheel-work.
Lastly, I also intend to apply my engine as described above, for the purpose
of moving ships, boats, or lighters, or any vessell on the water.
In witness whereof, I, the said Matthew Wasbrough, have hereunto se
my hand and seal, this Sixth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Sixth day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine, the said Mat-
thew Wasbrough came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and
acknowledged the Writing aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained
and specified, in form abovesaid. And the said Writing was stamped
according to the tenor of the Statutes made in the sixth year of the reign of
the late King William and Queen Mary, and seventeenth year of King
George the Third.