NEW INVENTED AND IMPROVED HAND PUMP FOR RAISING WATER OUT OF SHIPS AND OTHER PLACES, BY WHICH A GREATER QUANTITY OF WATER CAN BE RAISED IN LESS TIME THAN BY ANY OTHER PUMP THEN IN USE
Year: 1796

page_text: TO ALL PEOPLE TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
WILLIAM WOODS, late of Walberswick, in the County of Suffolk, Master
Mariner, but now of Greenwich, in the County of Kent, Engineer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under His Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Seventeenth day of March, in the thirty-sixth year of His reign,
did grant unto me, the said William Woods, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, His said Majesty's especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said William Woods, my executors administrators, 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 William
Woods, 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 "NEW INVENTED AND IMPROVED HAND PUMP FOR RAISING WATER
OUT OF SHIPS AND OTHER PLACES, BY WHICH A GREATER QUANTITY OF WATER
CAN BE RAISED IN LESS TIME THAN BY ANY OTHER PUMP THEN IN USE,"
within that part of His Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England,
His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner
as to me, the said William Woods, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or any of them, should in their discretions seem meet; and that I. the said

page_text: William Woods, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully
might have 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. priviledges, and advantages therein-
before granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said William Woods,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, for and during and unto the full
end and term of fourteen years from the date thereof next and immediately
ensuing, and fully to be compleatand ended, according to the Statute in such case
made and provided; in which said recited Letters l'atent is contained a proviso
that if I, the said William Woods. should not particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be per-
formed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal. and cause the
same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date thereof, that then the said recited
Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted,
should utterly cease, determine, and become void, anything therein-before con-
tained to the contrary in anywise notwitlistanding, as in and by the said in part
recited Letters l'atent, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at
Jarge appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Woods, do hereby declare my
said Invention, and declare that the same is of the description, and to be
performed as appears by and according to the perspective views, geometrical
plans, and elevations of the several parts thereof hereunto annexed, and herein-
after particularly mentioned in manner following, that is to say:―
Figure 1, represents a perspective and in part transparent view of the pump,
and the whole of the apparatus. A, a, the chamber in which the upper
box D works, which is two feet long, the water being discharged over the
flanch thereof. B, b, the suction pipe, which is also proportionally long,
according to the depth required, the upper part being screwed to the lower
part of the chamber A. a, by means of the flanches o, o. C. c, the lower valvo
to suction pipe B, 6, being two pieces of circular or square plates of brass, with
a piece of leather thereunder, to which the same is screwed sufficient to cover
the whole of the top of the suction pipe .B. which receives everything the pipe
will admit to pass, without any obstruction, it opening cutirely clear thereof,
the part C being screwed to the flanch o, and thereby operates as a hinge to the
valve c.
D, the upper box; d. the clapper thereto, which will be down when
the lower valve C is up, and will be up when the lower valve C is down.
E, e, the spear to staple of upper box (D), which prevents friction, it passing up

page_text: and down through the stay H, h, at II, without a possibility of the box D being
thrown out of its perpendicular direction. F, F, the staple of the box D.
G, g, g, the pump rod or tongs, the lower part thereof working upon the
bolt V, which passes through the tongs and spear E, e, aided by the stay H, h,
through the eye of which the spear passes and keeps the box (D) in a
perpendicular direction, and thereby prevents friction on the sides at the
working barrel or chamber, the upper part thereof being bolted through the
hole in the break N, which bolt being removed will occasion a greater or less dip
in the barrel, and therefore discharges more or less water according to the force
applied. H, h, the stay to the spear of the pump box D, through which the.
spear E, e, passing during the working thereof, and unships out of the socket
at 1. (Y) the pin and chain to fasten stay H in socket I. I, the socket to
receive the stay H, which is affixed to and part of the stauncheon (L). K, k,
the step to receive the stanchion I, which may, if necessary, be placed level
with the floor or deck. 1, the stauncheon ship'd into step (K), affixed in deck or
clsewhere. M, m, the nails or screws to fasten the stop K, and also the flanch of
the chamber A to the floor or deck. N, n, n, n, the pump break, shewing the
bow for the convenience of the men to work thereat. O, o, o, the flanches to
the lower part of the chamber A, a, and the suction pipe B, b. P, the pin or
pevit, affixed to and part of pump break N, which ships into the stanchion L.
Q, q, the bolt which passes through the head of the tongs G, and fastens same
in break N. R, a perspective view of a cistern head, that may occasionally
be screwed on the head of the pump, that the water may be led by a hose or
shoot over the ship's side, or for the purpose of furnishing water to wash.
decks, or any other purpose where it is necessary to save water; S, the
flanche thereof.
The geometrical plan, according to the scale in the drawing: Figure 2,
chamber and suction pipe; 3, elevation of the spear staple and box; 4, side
elevation of ditto, showing the clapper open; 5, plan of the under side of
the box; 6, plan of the top of the box, shewing the form of the clapper.
7, elevation of the tongs; 8, plan of the pump break; 9, elevation of the
stauncheon; 10, elevation of the stay; 11, elevation of the step, the dotted
lines shewing the dimensions of the socket to receive the stauncheon L;
12, plan of ditto, shewing the socket to receive the stauncheon L; 13, the pin
and forelock which confines the spear and staple to the tongs below, and the
tongs and brake together above.
The whole of the pump and apparatus above specified and described,
(excepting the leather upon the flaunches), may be made of any metal,
and for some purposes with wood, chambered or unchambered; but for

page_text: most purposes. copper;. brass,, and. iron is preferable, its simple construction is:
such that. the whole of the apparatus thereof may be shipped or unshipped;
by ono person in the space of one minute; it may be removed from one
place to another by two men in the space. of ten minutes, in case of limbers
heing choaked or otherwise, whilst it is not liable, to be choaked at all; and in
ships of war. privateers, or others, clearing for or in action with an enemy,
very little time is required to remove the whole away; and the chamber,
thereof, being level with the deck, will not be so liable to be shot away as those
But, lastly, and principally, it raises a greater quantity of water
out of ships and other places in less time than by any other pump now in use.
In witness whereof; I, the said William Woods, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Tenth day of September, in the thirty-sixth 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
and so forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred