A MACHINE (TO SERVE AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR A CRANK) FOR RAISING WATER, &c
Year: 1784

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, MARK
NOBLE, of Corrington Street, Ratcliff Highway, Gentleman, sends greeting.
WHERE the said Mark Noble, did, by his petition, humbly represent unto
His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third that he had
invented "A MACHINE (TO SERVE AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR A CRANK) FOR RAISING
WATER, &c." He therefore most humbly prayed His said Majesty that he
would be graciously pleased to grant unto him, his executors, administrators,
and assigns, His Majesty's Royal Letters Patent, under His Great Seal of Great
Britain, for the sole use, benefit, and advantage of his said Invention, within
that part of Great Britain called England, his Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also within all His said Majesty's Colonies
and Plantations abroad, for the term of fourteen years; and His said
Majesty, being willing to encouragement to all arts and inventions which
may be for the public good, was graciously pleased to condescend to his
request; and, therefore, by His Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at West-
minster, the Sixth day of November, in the twenty-fifth year of His reign,
of His especial grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, for Himself, His
heirs and successors, did give and grant unto the said Mark Noble, his
executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that he, the said Mark Noble, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, and every of them, by himself and themselves, or by his
and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as he, the said
Mark Noble, his executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time

page_text: agree with, and no others, from time to time or at all times hereafter, during
the terms of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might use, exercise,
and vend, his said Invention, within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom
of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also within all His said Majesty's Colonies and Plan-
tations abroad, in such manner as to him, the said Mark Noble, his executors,
administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the
whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time to time coming,
growing, accruing, and arising by reason of the said Invention, for and during
the term of years therein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the
said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages therein-before granted or
mentioned to be granted unto him, the said Mark Noble, his executors,
administrators, and assigns, for, and during, and unto the full end and term of
fourteen years from the late of the said Letters Patent next and immediately
ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended according to the form of the
Statute in such case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent is con-
tained a proviso that if the said Mark. Noble should not particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of his said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under his hand and seal, and
cause the same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within four calendar months next after the date of the said Letters Patent,
then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever
thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void, anything
therein-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding,
as in and by the said Letters Patent, reference being thereunto had, may more
fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, he, the said
Mark Noble, doth hereby describe and ascertain the nature of his said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by a writing hereunto
annexed, that is to say:-
It consists of two racks joined together, making a kind of frame having
the teeth within on both sides directly opposite to cach other; there must be
also a wheel to work in the rack having teeth so continued on it that when
placed on the rack they will just extend from one side to the other, and so
fitted that they will leave and take at the same instant when turn' round,
whereby it is alternately rais'd and depress'd; there are also plates fixt on each
side of the rack projecting a little beyond the teeth to keep the wheel in the
rack, and on these plates or in any other manner there must be near the ends
of the rack strong projecting teeth or stops to receive the projecting teeth or

page_text: stops on the sides of the wheel near to its axle or center; also that part of the
wheel which had no teeth on it must be left full, so that in its action it will
glide against the opposite teeth, by which the rack will be kept in its proper
situation without any other assistance whatever.
Inrolled the Fourth day of March, in the year above written.