A PUMP ON A NEW CONSTRUCTION
Year: 1785

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
SKEYS, Member of the British Factory at Lisbon, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Seventh day of November, in the twenty-sixth year of His reign, give and
grant unto me, the said John Skeys, His especial licence that I, the said
John Skeys, during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, a particular Discovery made and communicated to me
by a certain Foreigner with whom I am connected, of "A PUMP ON A NEW
CONSTRUCTION;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso
obliging me, the said John Skeys, under my hand and seal, to cause a par-
ticular description of the nature of my said Discovery, and how the same is to
be performed, to be inrolled in His Majestie's High Court of Chancery within one
calendar month after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by
the same, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that, in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Skeys, do hereby declare that my said Discovery is described. in the
above Plan and description thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Skeys, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Seventh day of December, One thousand seven hundred
and eighty-five.
JOHN SKEYS.
(L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Seventh day of December,
in the year of our Lord 1785, the aforesaid John Skeys 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 stampt according to
the tenor of the Statutes made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Seventh day of December, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and eighty-five.

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which diverge from the center to the exchemity of the wheel
hoop or
ring of metal to secure the ends of the fans
force of the water it being essential to the easy working
should be as thin as possible particularly the lower edc
of these leaves or fand may be more or less but mine is
be varied as the power used to work the
elevation
may
ου
milar to a common ventilator having.
leaves to enable them to resist the
fans
- the Dump that the leaves ov
which cuts the Water the number
generally be found sufficient. Their
or less for if
greater
a
pump is
must likewise add to the revistance
made with a socket or hole in their center so
they may
greater elevation will admit of greater flow of water &
these Aqualators are
easily fixed on the Shaft
or
Spindle D. ov
they may
as
be
connected to each other by hollow
subes secured by Screws in succession one above another at equal spaces the distance
be varied but
between each
may
generally from
one
third to half the diameter.
a
of the Aqualator will answer best and are contried to the heighth to which the
Immediately & der each Aqualutor may be placed
is made in two parts grooved and tongued together in
groove
cut in the Cylinder & as at F which renders
water is required to be raised .
what I call a shamer B. which
the middle and run into a
the water more steady so as it must ascend in μst Lines and likewise prevent a return
a'
an
Cylinder under the strainer is placed
"flat piece of netul or word extended from wsill
of water between the outward rum of the Aqualutor
what I call a breaker C. which is
fastened to each side of the bylinder. These in pump = of
in the form of
highly essential to the power of the pump
a
large
Diameter.
may
be made
a cross they are intended to break the circular motion of the water and are
The Ag-ulators thus fixed to the shaft as
before explaimed must be placed in the Cylinder hose dimensions must be as near
00
us to rub
or occasion.
a
the Diameter of the Aqualator as possible (but re
friction)
The bottom of the shaft turns in a center as at the point E. and runs through.
step or
block which is intended to prevent an irregularity of motion and the top
of the shoeft is secured by a cross piece or other se to take and preserve a circular
motion in the shaft which circular motion to
adapted to the peculiar situation or work
be
given by any mechanic power
-d raises the water corrected in
it's course by the breakers through the strainers and between each Fan or
меди
Leaf of
the Aqualators to the top of the pump and is there discharged in a constant
stream which is either increased or diminished excording to the power and velocity
applied to
give the pump motion. Where particitur cirannstances may make
it needful to keep the Machine full of water when at rest a
placed in the bottom And where the pump cannot reach the water ou
Cylinder with a valve at the bottom will a sever by filling the pump .
with Water as is practised in common Pumpe
ov
valve.
may
be
pipe