A MACHINE WHICH IS TO BE TURNED BY THE WINDS ONLY, AND OF SUCH CONTRIVANCE AND PURCHASE THAT IT WILL DRAW AND EXTRACT WITH GREAT EASE ANY WEIGHT OF WATER, METAL, ORE, OR OTHER WEIGHT WHATSOEVER FROM PITTS, QUARRIES, AND OTHER GREAT DEPTHS; THAT THE SAID MACHINE WILL ALSO BE VERY USEFULL TO PERSONS OCCUPYING WINDMILLS AND STAMPING MILLS, AND ALSO ON SHIPBOARD, FOR LIFTING GREAT WEIGHTS, AND IN MANY OTHER CASES WILL BE OF GREAT EMOLUMENT TO THE PUBLICK
Year: 1749

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TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, RICHARD
LANGWORTHY, of South Brent, in the County of Devon, Chirurgeon, sendeth
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Second, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Ninth day of May, in the twenty-second year of His reign,
reciting, that whereas I, the said Richard Langworthy had, by my Petition,
humbly represented that I had, at great expence and labour, invented and
brought to perfection "A MACHINE WHICH IS TO BE TURNED BY THE WINDS ONLY,
AND OF SUCH CONTRIVANCE AND PURCHASE THAT IT WILL DRAW AND EXTRACT WITH
GREAT EASE ANY WEIGHT OF WATER, METAL, ORE, OR OTHER WEIGHT WHATSOEVER
FROM PITTS, QUARRIES, AND OTHER GREAT DEPTHS; THAT THE SAID MACHINE WILL
ALSO BE VERY USEFULL TO PERSONS OCCUPYING WINDMILLS AND STAMPING MILLS, AND
ALSO ON SHIPBOARD, FOR LIFTING GREAT WEIGHTS, AND IN MANY OTHER CASES WILL
BE OF GREAT EMOLUMENT TO THE PUBLICK,") His said Majesty did therefore give
and grant unto me, the said Richard Langworthy, my executors, admors,
and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority,
that I, the said Richard Langworthy, my executors, admors, and assigns,
and every of them, by myself and themselves, or by mine and their deputy
or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said Richard
Langworthy, should at any time agree with, and none others, should
and might during the term of fourteen years from the date of the said
Letters Patent, make, use, exercise, and vend my said Invention within
England, Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to
me, the said Richard Langworthy, my executors, admors, and assigns, or
any of them, should in their discretion seem meet; in which said Letters

page_text: Patents there is contained a proviso, that if I, the said Richard Lang-
worthy, did not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled
in the High Court of Chancery within four kalendar months next and ime-
diately after the date of the said recited Letters Patents, that then the same,
and all liberties and advantages thereby given, should utterly cease, determine,
and become void, as in and by the said recited Letters Patent (referrence
being thereunto had) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YEE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Richard Langworthy, do hereby declare that the said Invention doth consist of
the materials & is to be performed in the manner laid down in the Plan here-
unto annexed, and is more particularly described by the several referrences
and explanations herin-after mentioned and expressed (that is to say) :-
A, A, the axis, principal post, or shaft, which stands perpendicular, and the
vanes which are fixt to it to turn horizontal. B, B, the iron pivots or peggs
in each end of the said axis or post, &c., which turn in stone, brass, or any
other metal, &c. C, C, the said stones, brasses, or any other metal, &c.
D, D, D, D, the arms which go through the said axis, principal post, or shaft,
and which may be either straight or crooked, and must be in number as many
or more than there are vanes, which may be from four to sixteen, or more;
but they need not go all thro' the axis or post, &c.; and the wind must be
prevented from going through, and they are to be strengthened by two or
more peices of timber reaching from vane to vane, and fixed to them at or
near the outer end of all the said vanes; to make it stronger, there may be
more put about the middle; E, E, the covering of the said arms, either with
boards or sail cloth, &c. F, F, F, F, the outmost frame, made with strong
timber; there must be another made in the same manner, which must stand
directly across, and joyned to one another. G, a spindle made of timber or
iron, &c., fixed in the middle of the said upper frame where the upper pivot
of the post shaft turns in; the upper end of it must be square for the better
fixing it to the cross beams. H, a collar fixed near the end of the abovesaid
spindle, which the upper part of the case turns upon, made of brass or iron,
&c., in the end of which the upper pivot of the axis, principal post, or shaft
turns in. I, I, the outer vanes or tails, which are hung to the aforesaid spindle
above the case, are covered with boards or sail cloath, &c., and turn round the
spindle, and are fixed at a proper distance by cross peices joined to the
aforesaid vanes or tails, which said vanes or tails are moveable upon the said
case, by which means it turns the whole case as often as the wind shifts or
alters, and takes off any part or the whole wind, so as to lessen it when too

page_text: hard, or quite stop it from the vanes, which will prevent it from going. K, K,
ropes or chains, which may be several in number, and which move the said
vanes or tails, and fix them to the said case at any place where required, so
as to answer the above ends of lessening or stopping it. L, L, one or two
beams which are fixed in the outer frame made of timber, or if in a house;
fixed in the walls, &c. M, the locket made of iron or brass, &c., which the
axis, principal post, or shaft goes through, and which must be fixed to the
last-mentioned beam or beams, &c., and which the lower part of the case
turns upon. O, O, the collar whereon the lower part of the case turns.
P, P, the description of the upper & lower part of the case, which are to be
made both alike with timber and boards, or framework, &c., and covered with
sail cloth, &c. Q, the case from the upper spindle to the lower collar, which
is to be more than half covered by the sides being joyned to the edges of the
said bottom and top. U, U, the circular frame made of timber fix'd to the
cross beam or beams which the socket and collar is fixed in, & also to the
outmost frames, which is for the wheels or trucks of the case and vanes
or tails to turn round upon, which is performed by the wind falling upon the
said vanes or tails. W, W, W, W, the wheels or trucks fastned to the case,
which must be several in number, according to the bigness of the case.
X, X, the wheels or trucks fastned to the vanes or tails. Z, the wheel fix'd
by the arms. Thro' the axis, principal post, or shaft, may be a cog and spur
wheel, which wheel setts stamping-mills, windmills, and other engines for
drawing and extracting water, metal ores, &c., to work, the other parts being
well known to all workmen, for which reason it needs no other description.
N.B.-The height and length of the vanes must be according to what
purchase is wanted, and all the other work in proportion. The spindle and
collar may not be made use of on some occasions, and the vanes or tails may
be hung to the upper pivot or pegg; the beams described by the letters L, L,
may be left out on some occasions, and likewise the upper frame, &c.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Langworthy, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, the Nineteenth day of August, in the said Twenty-
third year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Second,
and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and
forty-nine.
Scaled & delivered, being first duly
stampt, in the presence of
JN HAYNE, Jun'.
CLEMENT KING.
RICH LANGWORTHY. (L.s.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Twenty-second day of August,
the aforesaid Richard Langworthy came before our said Lord the King in
His Chancery, and acknowledged the Writing aforesaid, and all and every
thing therein contained and specified, in form above said. And also the
said Writing was stamped according to the form of the Statute made in the 5
sixth year of the reign of King William and Queen Mary,and so forth.
Inrolled the Twenty-sixth day of August, in the twenty-third year of
the reign of His said Majesty King George the Second.