A MACHINE BY WHICH HE COUNTERBALANCES THE WEIGHT OF ANY COLUMN OF WATER OR OTHER FLUIDS REQUIRED TO BE LIFTED BY ANY STEAM OR WATER ENGINE, OR OTHER MACHINERY EITHER WORKED BY ANIMALS OR MEN
Year: 1809

page_text: SCANTLEBURY'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
SCANTLEBURY, of Redrictb, in the County of Cornwall, Brazier, send greeting..
WHEREAS His most excellent Majesty King George the Third, did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the First day of March, in
the forty-ninth year of His reign, give- and grant unto me, the said Richard
Scantlebury, my exors, admors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power,
sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Richard Scantlebury, my exors,
adiiors, and assigns, during the term of years therein mentioned, should and
lawfully might mako, uso, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A MACHINE BY WHICH HE
COUNTERBALANCES THE WEIGHT OF ANY COLUMN OF WATER OR OTHER FLUIDS
REQUIRED TO BE LIFTED BY ANY STEAM OR WATER ENGINE, OR OTHER MACHINERY
EITHER WORKED BY ANIMALS OR MEN;" in which said Letters Patent there is
contained a proviso obliging me, the said Richard Scantlebury, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the
nature of my said Invention, and what manner the same is to be performed,
to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar
month after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same
relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that, in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Richard Scantlebury, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described by
the Drawings in the margin hereof, and in manner following, that is to say:-
My Invention is founded on the principle of the inclined plane, that is, I
make an inclined plane of wood, cast iron, or wrought iron, or of any other fit

page_text: materials, and of a convenient length, breadth, and thickness, to the center of
which I fix pinions, that it may turn alternately or incline at each end as many
degrees below its horizontal or center level as the nature of the machine may
require. On this plane I place a traveller or car (so called by me), which is
about half the whole length of the plane, with a weight or weights fixed on
one or both its ends, which weight or weights when moved, rolled, or carried
by wheel-work from the center of the plane towards either end will cause the
plane to sink or be depressed to a certain degree of inclination below its
center level, and so vice versa.
Fig. 1 is a side view of the plane and car; A, the plane; B, the car; W, W,
the weights of the car; F a toothed wheel in which the rack works.
Fig. 2 is a bird's-eye view of the plane and of the axle of the wheel-work
by which the car is moved, rolled, or carried along the inclined plane; A, the
plane; D, an axle with a toothed wheel at each end; the wheel E is placed
within the opening of the plane; F, a wheel at the opposite end; G, a rack
which works in the teeth of the wheel F (the rack is separated over the wheel
F, to shew it the rack may be drawn at each end); 0, 0, pinions of the plane.
When the rack G is drawn backward or pushed forward over the wheel F it
causes the wheel E to carry along with it the car, first towards II, then
towards A, and so vice versa. By means of a rack fastened to the under part
of the car which falls into the teeth of the wheel E, or in the room of the
wheel F and rack G, a crank or lever or any other mechanical power may be
placed so as to move the axle D backward and forward, and drive the car B
to and from the center of the plane A. I move the rack G by hand or by
connecting it with cranks of water-wheels, mill-wheels, &c. &c., or I attach it
to the piston rod, or bob or beams of steam engines, or to any kind of rotatory
or reciprocative motion whatever; I also apply a fly-wheel to regulato tho
motion of the plane, car, &c. &c.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Scantlebury, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, the Twenty-fourth day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and nine.
RICHARD SCANTLEBURY, by JAMES POOLE, his Attorney. (L.S.)
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, Richard Scantlebury, of Redruth,
in the County of Cornwall, Brazier, for divers good causes and considerations
me thereunto moving, have made, nominated, constituted, and appointed,
and by these Presents do make, nominate, constitute, and appoint, James
J'oole, of the Patent Office, Lincoln's Inn, London, Esquire, my true and
lawful attorney, for me and in my name to sign, seal, deliver, acknowledge,

page_text: and execute a certain indenture, deed, or instrument or instruments in writing,
purporting to be the Specification of a Patent granted to me under His
Majesty's Royal Letters Patent for the discovery of balancing or counter-
balancing columns of water or other fluids, in as good and effectual a manner
as if I were personally present and did the same, and generally for me
and in my name to make, do, and execute all such further and other acts,
deeds, matters, and things whatsoever, needful and necessary to be done for
the completing the said Patent, and all and whatsoever my said attorney shall
lawfully do or cause to be done in the premises I do hereby ratify, allow, and
) confirm.
Sealed and delivered, in the presence
of us,
WM WARREN.
THOMAS POPE BUCKINGHAM.
William Warren, of the Borough of Truro, in the County of Cornwall,
Gentleman, maketh oath and saith, that he did see Richard Scantlebury
sign and seal, and as his act and deed deliver the deed poll or power of
attorney hereunto annexed, bearing date the Sixteenth day of this present
month of March, and purporting to be a power of attorney from the said
Richard Scantlebury to James Poole, Esquire, for the purposes therein-
mentioned. And this deponent further saith, that the name "Richard
Scantlebury" sett to the said deed poll or power of attorney is of the proper
handwriting of the said Richard Scantlebury party thereto, and that the
names "W Warren" and "Thomas Pope Buckingham," subscribed as
witnesses to the said deed poll or power of attorney, are of the respective
handswriting of the said Thomas Pope Buckingham and of this deponent.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-fourth day of
March, in the year of our Lord 1809, the aforesaid Richard Scantlebury,
by the said James Poole, his attorney, by virtue of the aforesaid power of
attorney, came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknow-
ledged the Specification aforesaid as and for the act and deed of him the said
Richard Scantlebury. And also the said Specification was stampt according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.