A METHOD OF APPLYING STEAM FOR THE FORCING AND RAISING OF WATER. HEAVY BODIES, AND WORKING MACHINERY IN A MORE SIMPLIFIED MANNER THAN HAS HITHERTO BEEN PRACTISED
Year: 1806

page_text: TO ALL WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RALPH DODD,
of Change Alley, in the City of London, Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Ralph Dodd, did by my Petition humbly represent
to Elis present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that I had by
much previous study invented "A METHOD OF APPLYING STEAM FOR THE FORCING
AND RAISING OF WATER. HEAVY BODIES, AND WORKING MACHINERY IN A MORE
SIMPLIFIED MANNER THAN HAS HITHERTO BEEN PRACTISED," and in regard I was
the first and sole Inventor thereof, and that the same had not been practised
by any other person or persons whomsoever to my knowledge or belief, I
humbly prayed His said Majesty to grant unto me, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent under His Great of His
United Kingdom, for the sole use, benefit, and advantage of iny said Invention
within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term
of fourteen years, pursuant to the Statute in that case male and provided;
His said Majesty, being willing to give encouragement to all arts and inven-
tions that might be for the public good, was graciously pleased to condescend
to my request; and therefore by His Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at
Westminster, the Sixth day of June, in the forty-sixth year of His reign, of
His especial grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, did give and grant
unto me, the said Ralph Dodd, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His
especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Ralph

page_text: Dodd, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of us, by myself or
themselves, or by mine and our deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such
others as I, the said Ralph Dodd, my executors, administrators, or assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend my said Invention within that part of
His Majesty's said United Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to
mc, the said Ralph Dodd, my executors, administrators, and assigns, in mine
and their discretions, should seem meet; and that I, the said Ralph Dodd,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully-might havo 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, privileges, and advantages therein-before granted
or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said Ralph Dodd, my executors,
administrators,.and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term of
fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent next and immediately
ensuing, and fully to be complete and ended, according to the Statute in such
case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso,
that if I, the said Ralph Dodd, should not particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the
same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within the
space of six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advan-
tages 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, relation being thereunto
had, may moro fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I,.tho said Ralph Dodd,-in-compliance with the-
said proviso, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention is described
and ascertained in and by the Drawings and description thereof hereunto
annexed.
In witness whereof, I, tho said Ralph Dodd, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, the Fifth day of December, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and six
RALPH DODD. (L.S.)

page_text: A, the boiler, to be made of any kind of metal, or part wood, either circular,
square, or of any other figure; B, transverse section of the boiler, shewing the
grate and fire flue; C, cylinder with guide (a) and piston rod (b); D, transverse
section of cylinder, with piston (c) and piston rod (d); F, two-armed steam
cock, with nosle for steam pipes and steam regulator at E; G, transverso
section of steam cock; H, steam pipe to conduct to condenser, heat rooms,
water, and various liquors; I, working beam and slings (e) attached to piston
rod; J, plug frame rod for opening and shutting steam cock; K, rod for
working the condenser and hot and cold water pumps; L, standard or fulchrum
for working the beam upon, with brace (f); M, water and air-feeding pump,
wrought from the beam by a rod or other apparatus; N, transverse section of
"water and air-fceding pump;" the upper division for air by the valve (O);
the lower division is for water, which is drawn up and forced in by the piston
till the ball (9) rises, and stops the inner communication with the boiler at (h)
and opens another course for the water to run to wasto at (i), or return into
the vessel from whence it is drawn. P, small cylinder to work the damper
when the steam is too highly rarified; Q, transverse section of the small
cylinder, the piston of which rising closes the fire damper (R); S, rear part
of the boiler, either cylindrical, square, or of any other figure, for heating and
boiling water or any other liquids; T, transverse section of rear part of the
boiler, of either cylindrical, square, or of any other figure, for heating and
boiling water or other liquids, shewing the fire passing thro' the same; U,
plan of the steam boiler with a double fire-place; V, situation of the fire
damper (represented by R in the other section; W, front end of a cylindrical
boiler with water and air pump; X, rear end of a cylindrical boiler, with fur-
nace door, fire flue (j), and cylinder damper (k); Y, smoke condenser, to place
on the top of the flue or chimney, with a cullender bason, mark'd Z, to permit
small particles of water to fall down the long arm of the smoke condenser.
The filling of the cullender bason with water is to be regulated by a ball cock.
No. 1, cisterns or vessels for condensers; hot or cold water to be placed either
above or below the engine; 2, fork end of the working beam as it works over
the engine cylinder; 3, connecting rod to be attached from the working beam
to any species of machinery, but here represented as attached to a conical
bucket, marked 4, 4, open, and in the act of descending, which when ascending
takes the reverse figure as the one below marked 4, 4, in a state of rest; 5, a
platform to be fixed across any well, pit, or shaft within the distance of the
water as high as it will rise by the pressure of the atmosphere, to which is
simply screwed the working barrel (6, 6); 7, plug, to be drawn when the water
is to passed below the platform 5, for the purpose of fixing the lower buckets

page_text: in the working barrel, or for purposes of repairs; 8, extremities of an under-
ground shaft or well, or tube, cistern, or reservoir raised above ground, made
water-tight by timber, masonry, cement, or artificial stone made from calcined
iron stone, ground calx, or oxydated iron, with proportion of calcined lime-
stone and sand, gravel, shingle, or any other dense bodies mixed with water,
which when made water-tight will fill to the top and run out or over at the
made aperture (9) without the necessity of pumps, and deliver a quantity in
proportion to the dimensions of the conical buckets and working barrel, shown
in the section, and marker (4, 4, and 6, 6); 10, piers to place and fix the
engine boiler upon; 11, situation for fixing wheels for moving the engine
from one place to another, either by applying her own or other power; 12,
cocks to draw off heated water or liquors; 13, cocks to draw off the residium
from condensed smoke; 14, safety valve to the engine boiler; 15, man-hole;
16, vessel to hold water for producing hodrogen gas, which is represented blue,
as passing thro' the hollow bars of the fire furnace, marked 17, and returning
out of the holes when generated, of a green color, marked 18. The quantity
of water is regulated by the cock marked 19, and the four holes in the front
bar are for putting in iron wire for producing with the water hydrogen gas.
20, situation for fixing a condenser beneath the engine when it works by con-
densation in that way, but by only unscrewing the nosle from the steam pipe H
and the rod K from the beam it will become an atmospheric engine and work
without condensation where water cannot be conveniently obtained for that
purpose, or where it may be necessary to employ the steam for other valuable
purposes. N.B. The colours red and yellow denote fire, and the blue, water
or liquids.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fifth day of December, in
the forty-seventh year of His Majesty King George the Third, the said Ralph
Dodd came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknow-
ledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained
and specified, in form above written. And also the Instrument aforesaid
was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made in the forty-fourth
year of His said Majesty's reign.
Inrolled tho Fifth day of December, in the year of our Lord One

page_text: Boiler, by a Steam Pipe er ôther apparatus for a double Engine, the different apertures for the Steam
may be made Cirailar, Squaro, or any other figure.
To make the Cock suit a single Engine, it is only necessary to stop up one of the apertures
from the Boiler that conducts Steam into either the right or left of the Cock.