A CURIOUS ENGINE INVENTED BY THEM FOR RAISING OF WATER, DRAINING OF LANDS, EMPTYING MINES, SUPPLYING OF CITIES, TOWNS, AND GENTLEMEN'S SEATS WITH WATER, AND WILL EXTINGUISH FIRES, AND
Year: 1752

page_text: TUITE, DONALDSON, AND SPIVEY'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, greeting.
WHEREAS the King's most Excellent Majesty, by His Letters Patent
under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the
Twenty-fifth day of June now last past, gave and granted unto John Tuite,
John Donaldson, and Charles Spivey, their executors, admors, and assigns,
His said Majesty's especial lycence, full power, sole priviledge and authority,
that they, the said John Tuite, John Donaldson, and Charles Spivey, their
executors, admors, and assigns, and every of them, by himself and themselves,
or by his and their deputy or deputys, servants or agents, or such others as
they, the said John Tuite, John Donaldson, and Charles Spivey, their execu-
tora, admors, 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, within that
part of the Kingdom of Great Britain called England, Dominion of Wales,
and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, "A CURIOUS ENGINE INVENTED BY THEM FOR
RAISING OF WATER, DRAINING OF LANDS, EMPTYING MINES, SUPPLYING OF CITIES,
TOWNS, AND GENTLEMEN'S SEATS WITH WATER, AND WILL EXTINGUISH FIRES, AND

page_text: SAVE SHIPS FROM PERISHING AT SEA BY SPRINGING OF LEAKS, AND WILL BE OF VERY
GREAT USE TO HIS MAJESTY'S NAVY AND SUBJECTS IN GENERAL;" to have, hold,
exercise, and enjoy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, & advantages therein
granted, or mentioned to be granted unto the said John Tuite, John Donaldson,
and Charles Spivey, their executors, adiiors, and assigns, for and during and
unto the full end and term of fourteen years from and immediately ensuing the
date of the said Letters Patent, according to the Statute in that case made
& provided; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that if the
said John Tuite, John Donaldson, and Charles Spivey, should not parti-
cularly describe and ascertain the nature of their said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under their
hands & seals, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within four calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all
liberties and advantages thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and
become void, as by the said Letters Patent (relation being thereunto had) may
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that wee, the said John Tuite, John Donaldson, and
Charles Spivey, in pursuance of the said proviso in the said Letters Patent
contained, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of our said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, as follows, viz*:-
The engine is worked by a winch or winches that turns a wheel, which
wheel raises a lever up and pulls it down with a chain or rope over and under
two sheaves or pullies, which lever is fastned to a bar that works in collers.
On the said bar are fixed rowlers, racks, or crancks, these rowlers, racks, or
crancks to be of what size and as many of them as the workman thinks proper,
according to the force or strength he works it with. On the said rowlers, racks,
or crancks there are fixed chains or barrs, that are fastned to tubes which are
lifted up and pressed down by the said chains or barrs, that are fixed to the
aforesaid rowlers or crancks; these tubes may be made round, oval, in squares,
or angles. In these tubes is fixed an upright bar that goes through these
outer tubes; at the top of this bar is a screw which screws through a bar
that bears the tall inside tubes, which may be made round, oval, in squares,
or in angles; within the tubes are fixed valves and leathers to keep the
water from returning back. These valves may be made with hinges or
without; the tall tubes may be made single or double, that is, two tubes
joyned together, so that the water may force from two under tubes into
one upper one. This engine may be worked with a large iron wheel worked

page_text: a nutt or lantron wheel. The aforesaid engine may be worked by men,
rses, wind, or water.
In witness whereof, wee, the said John Tuite, John Donaldson, and
Charles Spivey, have to this present instrument sett our hands and
seals, this Twenty-fifth day of September, in the twenty-sixth year of
the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second, by the grace
of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the
Faith, & so forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven
hundred and fifty-two.