A MACHINE ON A SELF-MOVING PRINCIPLE, OR PERPETUAL MOTION
Year: 1790

page_text: SCHWIERS AND BLYDESTEYN'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CONRADUS
SCHWIERS, of Hoxton, in the County of Middlesex, Doctor in Divinity, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third hath been
graciously pleased, by His Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of Great
Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-first day of April, in the
thirtieth year of His said Majesty's reign, to give and grant unto me, the said
Conradus Schwiers, and Isaac Blydesteyn, of Harp Lanc, Tower Street, London,
Merchant, our executors, administrators, and assigns, his especial licence, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that wo, the said Conradus Schwiers and
Isaac Blydesteyn, our executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of
thein, by ourselves or themselves, or by our or their deputy or deputies,
servants or agents, or such others as I, the said Conradus Schwiers, and the
said Isaac Blydesteyn, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, should and lawfully might, from time to time
and at all times hereafter during the term of years therein expressed, make,
use, exercise, and vend, within that part of Great Britain called England, the
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my new Invention of
"A MACHINE ON A SELF-MOVING PRINCIPLE, OR PERPETUAL MOTION," in such
manner as to me and the said Isaac Blydesteyn, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or any of them, should in our or their direction seem mect; and
that I, the said Conradus Schwiers, and the said Isaac Blydesteyn, our exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy
the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time to time coming,

page_text: growing, accruing, and arising by reason of the said Invention; to have, hold,
exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, privileges, and advantages
therein granted unto me, the said Conradus Schwiers, and the said Isanc
Blydesteyn, our executors, administrators, and assigns, for and during and
unto the full end and term of fourteen years from the date of the said
Lotters Patent next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat
and ended according to the Statute in such case made and provided. And
whereas in the said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso that I, the
said Conradus Schwiers, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is 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 one calendar
month next after the date of the said Letters Patent, as in and by the
said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in obedience of the said Letters Patent, and the
proviso therein contained, I, the said Conradus Schwiers, do hereby declare my
said new invented self-moving principle, or perpetual motion, is made and
performed in manner following, that is to say:
Two stiles or uprights marked in the plan hereunto annexed, A, A, &c., and
fastened together by the surews 1, 2, 3, and to the base at 4, 4. 4, 4, between
which stiles or uprights run the wheel C, and the pinion D, and the two
double pinions D, D, &c., over which double pinions runs the double chain
E, E, &c., to which chain.are fixed the bucketts F, F, &c. The chain is made
with joints on each side and bars running across, equal in number to the bogs
of the wheel C. Upon the same axle with the wheel C, on the farther side of
the inner stile A, runs the wheel G, whose diameter is full double that of the
wheel C; and the pivot of the wheel G runs in the back I as the other pivot
of the same axle runs in the front stile A. The wheel G is divided near the
periphery into receptacles in number equal to the buckets on the chain, which
receptacles are supplied with metal balls I, I, &c. from the buckets F, F, &c.
by means of the gutter K, which balls by their weight forcing round the wheel
G, and thereby lifting up the buckets F, F, &c. on one side as they go down
on the other side, discharge themselves again at the gutter L, where they are
taken up by the buckets F, F, &c., and discharged again at the gutter K, and
are so repeated in a constant succession as often as any receptacle is vacant in
the wheel G at the gutter K for their reception, and by that means the por-
petual revolution is obtained, the upper ball being at the same time discharged
from one bucket when the lower ball is taken up by another.

page_text: In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and scal, this Twentieth
day of May, in the thirtieth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord
George the Third, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France, and
Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, &c., and in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and ninety.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the said Twentieth day of May, in
the year above written, the aforesaid Conradus Schwiers came before our Lord
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and
all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And also the
Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of the Statute in that
case made and provided.