NEW APPARATUS TO BE APPLIED TO THE WORKING OF PUMPS, ENGINES, OR MACHINES IN GENERAL, WHETHER FOR SEA OR LAND SERVICE,
Year: 1798

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MARK
NOBLE, of Royal Row, in the Parish of Saint Mary, Lambeth, in the County
of Surry, Engine Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George' the "Third, 'by
His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing
date: the or about the Twenty-seventh day of November, in the thirty-ninth
year of His said "Majesty's reign, did give and grant unto me, the said
Mark Noble, my exors; admors, and' assigns, "His especial licence, full' power,
sole "privilege and authority; that 'I, the said Mark Noble, my exors,
admors, and assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves, or by my
and their deputy or deputies, servants for agents, or suchwothers as I, the
said Mark Noble; amy exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from's time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend my "NEW APPARATUS TO BE APPLIED TO THE WORKING OF
PUMPS, ENGINES, OR MACHINES IN GENERAL, WHETHER FOR SEA OR LAND SERVICE,

page_text: OR OTHERWISE," within that part of His Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain
called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
in such manner as to me, the said Mark Noble, my exors, admors, or assigns,
or any of them, should in my or their discretions seem meet; in which said in
part recited Letters Patent is contained (amongst other things) a proviso
obliging me, the said Mark Noble, to particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of my said Invention, and in what, manner the same is to be per-
formed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and to 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 in part
recited Letters Patent, as in by the same, reference being thereto. had,..will.
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Mark Noble, do hereby declare that my said new apparatus is made, exercised,
and performed in manner following (that is to say) :-
This apparatus, to be applied to the working pumps, engines, or machines,
consists of one or more cranks, the throws of which each work in a leaver
perforated in the middle at one end, as a long groove in which the crank arm
or arms revolve round in working, the leaver being fixed to a stancheon,
post, or upright at one end by a bolt or pin on which the leaver or leavers move
up and down as the crank arms revolve round in the perforated or grooved
part of the leaver or leavers. To the lower part or extreme end of the move-
able end of the leaver or leavers may be fixed the piston rod of the
pump,
engine, or machine, which is necessary to work perpendicular, and the further
it is fixed from the bolt or pin which fixes the leaver to the stancheon, post,
or upright, approaches the nearer to a perpendicular. The perforated
slot or groove in the leaver may be left open at one end for the arms
or throws of the crank to slip in where the labour is not very great;
but where great labour is required, it is the best and strongest way to
have a perforated slot or long groove, and whole all round to slip on the
arms of the crank from one end when necessary to put the same together.
The leavers may be made of wood or metal; the cranks are generally made
of metal.
In witness whereof, I, the said Mark Noble, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of December, in the thirty-
ninth year of the reign of King George the Third,..and in the year
of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight...
MARK NOBLE. (L.B.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-seventh day of Decem-
ber, in the year of our Lord 1798, the aforesaid Mark Noble 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 Twenty-seventh day of December, in the year of our Lord