A MACHINE FOR THE MORE EASY DRAWING OF COALS, STONES, EARTH, RUBBISH, AND WATER FROM COLLIERIES AND COAL PITTS OR OTHER PITTS AND SHAFTS TO BANK, AND FOR THE MORE EASY LEADING, REMOVING, CARRYING, AND CONVEYING OF COALS, STONE, EARTH, RUBBISH, OR ANY OTHER HEAVY WEIGHT OR BURTHEN, AT ANY DISTANCE, WITH OR WITHOUT A COAL WAGGON WAY, WHEREBY DOUBLE THE WEIGHT USUALLY DRAWN TO BANK OR LED TO COAL STAITHS, AND TO OR FROM OTHER PLACES, BY ONE OX, HORSE, MARE, OR GELDING ONLY
Year: 1767

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
STOKOE, of Sissons House, in the Parish of Heworth, in the County of Durham,
Viewer of Collieries and Coal Mines, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Thomas Stokoe, did by my petition humbly repre-
sent unto His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that
I had, by my great study, labour, and application, invented "A MACHINE FOR
THE MORE EASY DRAWING OF COALS, STONES, EARTH, RUBBISH, AND WATER FROM
COLLIERIES AND COAL PITTS OR OTHER PITTS AND SHAFTS TO BANK, AND FOR THE
MORE EASY LEADING, REMOVING, CARRYING, AND CONVEYING OF COALS, STONE, EARTH,
RUBBISH, OR ANY OTHER HEAVY WEIGHT OR BURTHEN, AT ANY DISTANCE, WITH OR
WITHOUT A COAL WAGGON WAY, WHEREBY DOUBLE THE WEIGHT USUALLY DRAWN TO
BANK OR LED TO COAL STAITHS, AND TO OR FROM OTHER PLACES, BY ONE OX, HORSE,
MARE, OR GELDING ONLY, WOULD BE SO DRAWN OR LED WITH MUCH GREATER EASE BY
SUCH Ox, HORSE, MARE OR GELDING, AND SO IN PROPORTION TO THE NUMBER OF OXEN,
HORSES, MARES, AND GELDINGS IMPLOYED IN AND ABOUT SUCH WORK, A MACHINE
NEVER BEFORE INVENTED, WHICH INVENTION WOULD BE OF GREAT UTILITY TO THE
PUBLICK IN THE REDUCTION OF THE PRICE OF COALS, AND OF THE EXPENSE AND LABOUR
OF DRAWING, LEADING, CARRYING, CONVEYING, OR REMOVING OF GREAT WEIGHTS OR
HEAVY BURTHENS ;" and therefore most humbly prayed His said Majesty that He
would be graciously pleased to grant unto me, my executors, adññors, and
assigns, His Royal Letters Patent for the sole use and benefit of my said
Invention within that part of IIis Kingdom of Great Britain called England,
His Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and in His Plan-
tations in America, for the term of fourteen years, pursuant to the Statute in
that case made and provided; and His said Majesty, being willing to give
encouragem to all arts and inventions which might be for the publick good,

page_text: was graciously pleased to condescend to my request, did therefore by His
Royal Letters Patent, bearing date the Second day of November now last past
of His special grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, for Himself, His
heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Stokoe, my
executors, admors, and assigns, His especial license, full power, sole privilege
and authority, that I, the said Thomas Stokoe, my extors, adññiors, and assigns,
and every of us, by myself and ourselves, or by mine or our deputy or deputys,
servants or agents, or such others as I, the said Thomas Stokoc, my executors,
adiñiors, 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 Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion
of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and in His Colonies and Planta-
tions abroad, in such manner as to me the said Thomas Stokoc, my executors,
adiñiors, and assigns, or any of us, should in our discretion seem meet, and that I,
the said Thomas Stokoe, my extors, admors, & assigns, should and lawfully
might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from
time to time coming, growing, accrewing, and arising by reason of the said Inven-
tion, for and during the term of years therein mentioned; to have, hold, exercise,
and enjoy the said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages in and by the
said Letters Patent granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said
Thomas Stokoe, my executors, adññors, 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 compleat and ended,
according to the Statute in such case made and provided; in which said
Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, that if I, the said Thomas Stokoe,
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 His said
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four callendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said
Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted,
should utterly cease, determine, and become void, anything therein contained
to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding.
NOW KNOW YE that I, the said Thomas Stokoe, in compliance with the
said provisoe, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, as follows (that is to say) :-
A scotch or whim gin, to be turned upside down and supported with wood,
on which the oxen, horses, mares, or geldings, and riders or drivers thereof, to

page_text: be used, are to be placed, and to draw a weight, thirty or forty stones or there-
abouts, upon a four-wheel carriage, with rowlers or cylinders, vertical or hori
zontal wheels, also with a cap of iron upon the overtree bolt and wheels, to
be fixed to the overtree & crosstree, if occasion requires them; the rope to be
used therewith in drawing coals, stones, earth, rubbish, and water from coal
pitts, or other pitts and shafts, must be an endless rope, and to pass round a
small roller, to be fixed at or near the bottom of such pitts or shafts, the better,
if necessary, to guide such rope; and when the machine is to be made use of
to remove any heavy weight or burthen to any distance, with or without a
coal waggon way, then the cylinders or rollers, vertical or horizontal wheels,
must be affixed to the carriage with irons, ropes, or wood, whereby as well the
weight as the strength of the oxen, horses, mares, or geldings used in drawing
the same are got.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto put my hand and seal, this Eleventh
day of February, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred
L
Inrolled the Twenty-seventh day of February, in the year last above.
mentioned.