IMPROVEMENTS IN SUPPLYING WATER TO WATER WHEELS."
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Aitken, of Lasswade, near Edinburgh, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SUPPLYING WATER TO WATER WHEELS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Aitken at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 16th December
1861.
I, JOHN AITKEN, of Lasswade, near Edinburgh, do hereby declare the
nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SUPPLYING WATER TO WATER
WHEELS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in supplying water to water
wheels. For these purposes in place of allowing water to flow directly as
heretofore to a water wheel, whatever be the form of the wheel, I introduce
a syphon between the wheel and the head or source of supply, in such
manner that the water from the head or source of supply rises up the shorter
leg of the syphon and descends through the longer leg of the syphon to
the wheel. The water may be pumped, or otherwise returned to the head
or source of supply where the shorter leg of the syphon is situated.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Aitken, in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 14th
June 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN AITKEN,
of Lasswade, near Edinburgh, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters

page_text: me,
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
the said John Aitken, Her special licence that I, the said John
Aitken, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said John Aitken, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN SUPPLYING WATER TO WATER WHEELS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said John Aitken, my executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to
be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Aitken, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in supplying water to water
wheels. For these purposes in place of allowing water to flow directly as
heretofore, to a water wheel, whatever be the form of the wheel, I introduce
a syphon between the wheel and the head or source of supply in such manner
that the water from the head or source of supply rises up the shorter leg of the
syphon and descends through the longer leg of the syphon to the wheel. The
water may be pumped or otherwise returned to the head or source of supply
where the shorter leg of the syphon is situated.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Aitken, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twelfth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.