A FIRE ENGINE FOR DRAWING WATER OUT OF MINES, OR FOR DRAINING OF LANDS, OR FOR SUPPLYING OF CITYES, TOWNES, OR GARDENS WITH WATER, OR WHICH MAY BE APPLICABLE TO MANY OTHER GREAT AND USEFULL PURPOSES IN A BETTER AND MORE EFFECTUAL MANNER THAN ANY ENGINE OR MACHINE THAT HATH HITHERTO BEEN MADE OR USED FOR THE LIKE PURPOSE
Year: 1758

page_text: BRINDLEY, of Leek, in the County of Stafford, Millwright, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Second hath been
gratiously pleased to grant unto me, the said James Brindley, His Royal Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of September, in the thirty-second
year of His reign, for the sole benefit and advantage of my Invention of "A
FIRE ENGINE FOR DRAWING WATER OUT OF MINES, OR FOR DRAINING OF LANDS, OR
FOR SUPPLYING OF CITYES, TOWNES, OR GARDENS WITH WATER, OR WHICH MAY BE
APPLICABLE TO MANY OTHER GREAT AND USEFULL PURPOSES IN A BETTER AND MORE
EFFECTUAL MANNER THAN ANY ENGINE OR MACHINE THAT HATH HITHERTO BEEN MADE
OR USED FOR THE LIKE PURPOSE;" and whereas in the said Letters Patent there
is a proviso to the effect following -Provided also, that if I, the said James
Brindley, should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in 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
the High Court of Chancery within four calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters
Patent, and all libertys and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should
utterly cease, determine, and become void, anything therein contained to the
contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding.

page_text: NOW I, the said James Brindley, in pursuance of the said proviso, in the
said Letters Patent contained, do hereby declare the following to be a true and
particular description of the said fire engine or machine.
The boyler or cistern for the water is to be made with brick or stone, arched
over, and some part of the materials belonging thereto are to be of wood. The
face of the fire at the bottom of one side of the boyler is to be made of stone or
cast iron, and there is to be joined to it a plate of wrought iron to give way
to expansion. In the center of this plate is to be fixed the fire door, which is
to be made of wrought or cast iron. The stove over the fire-place is to be
made of cast iron, and is to be fixed within the boyler. At the top of the stove,
in the center, an elbow pipe is to be fixed that lyes flat in the said boyler, and
at the end of that elbow pipe is to be a short pipe screwed to it, which forms a
right anglo; and at the other end of this short pipe is to be screwed another
pipe, which lies parallel to the elbow pipe; and at the end of the last pipe is
to be screwed an upright pipe, which reaches to the top of the boyler; and joined
to the top of the said upright pipe there is to be square cap of stone or cast
iron, upon which cap of stone the chimney is to be built. This is a great improve-
ment upon the common method, according to which the boylers are made of
iron, covered with lead or copper, which are often out of repair, and are apt
to burst; and the fire to heat them consumes a much greater quantity of coal.
At the top of the said boyler is to be fixed a pipe called the feeding pipe,
which, by means of buoys in the boyler that rise and fall with a clack, supplys
the boyler with water without any attendance; but if the part be neglected by
persons who attend on common fire engines, there boyler is often damaged,
and sometimes destroyed. The great arch chains for the engine are to be
made of wood, with iron pins through them, which chains are more safe and
durable than iron ones that are used in the common way. The pump trees
are to be made of pipe staves hooped together, which come cheaper than iron
pipes or bored trees, commonly used.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Brindley, have hereunto sett my
hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of December, in the year of
our Lord One thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight.
Sealed and delivered (being first duly
stampt) in the presence of
JOHN CLAYTON.
JOHN WOOD.
JAMES (L.s.) BRINDLEY.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-sixth day of December,
in the thirty-second year of the reign of Liis Majesty King George the Second,
the said James Brindley came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery,
and acknowledged the Writing aforesaid, and every matter and thing therein
contained in form above said. And the said Writing was stamped according
to the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King William
and Queen Mary and so forth
Inrolled the Eighth day of January, in the thirty-second year of the
reign of His Majesty King George the Second, 1759.