MY NEW MACHINE FOR RAISING WATER OR OTHER LIQUID BY RARIFIED AIR OR STEAM, BEING AN IMPROVEMENT ON SUCH MACHINES, AND FAR SUPERIOR TO THE COMMON METHOD OF RAISING WATER AND LIQUIDS
Year: 1777

page_text: TO ALL PE
M THESE
JOHN JONES, of the City of Bristol, Iron Founder, send greeting.
COME,
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 Fourth day of January, in the seventeenth year of His reign,
did grant unto me, the said John Jones, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, His said Majesty's especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and
authority, that I, the said John Jones, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves, or by mine or their
deputy or deputys, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said John
Jones, 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 MACHINE FOR RAISING WATER OR OTHER LIQUID
BY RARIFIED AIR OR STEAM, BEING AN IMPROVEMENT ON SUCH MACHINES, AND FAR
SUPERIOR TO THE COMMON METHOD OF RAISING WATER AND LIQUIDS," 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 John Jones, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or any
of them, should in their discretions seem meet; and that I, the said John
Jones, 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, accrewing, and arising by reason of the said

page_text: 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 John
Jones, 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 compleat and ended according to the
Statute in such case made and provided; in which said recited Letters
Patent is contained a proviso that if the said John Jones, should not
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same was to be performed, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be enrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within four calendar months next and immediately
after the date thereof, that then the said recited Letters Patent, and all
libertys and advantages 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 in part Letters
Patent, relation being thereunto had, will more fully at large appear..
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Jones, do hereby declare my
said Invention, and declare that the same is of the description and to, be
performed in manner following (that is to say):
It works without pistern, bucket, laverage, or anything that creates
friction, excepting a small matter which is occasioned by the opening of
two valves; it consists of a column of pumps, with a branch rising from
the middle of the column,. as hereafter described, made of wood, iron, or any
other material or metal that can be made air-tight; the diameter of the bore
proportioned to the quantity of water to be raised, viz, supposing the
tubes to be round, the following sized engine will raise twelve to fourteen
hogsheads of water or other liquid twenty-six feet high in a minute.. The
column of pumps must be thirty-five feet deep, of which two feet of the
bottom part may be blast holes, and as much of the small bore as is
necessary to lie in the pitt below the surface of the liquid to be raised, and
seven feet at the top part to make the vacuum; the small bore may be twelve
inches diameter for nine feet above the surface, where a clack is fixed to open
upwards and receive the water forced by the pressure of the atmosphere up
into the vacuum in the top of this tier, and when that is full the weight will
close the clack, and the liquid will vend itself through branch pipes hereafter
described. Above the clack must be a clack door as usual; from the bottom
of the clack to the bottom of the clack door the bore of the pumps may widen
to fifteen inches diameter, and continue that size to the top of the tier;
:

page_text: fifteen feet below the top of this tier opens a branch of tubes fifteen inches
diameter, which ascends paralel with the main tier to within seven feet of the
same heighth, or twenty-six feet high from the surface of the liquid in the pitt,
and there deliver the contents of what is raised into a trough. In this branch,
three feet below the top, must be a clack, which opens upwards to vend all
the liquid which is raised in the vacuum'in the main tier, and then it will
shut and prevent the air and water returning, while t
the pressure of 'the
atmosphere again fills the vacuum. A boiler of about fifty-five inches
diameter upon the surface. of the water will be sufficient for raising steam;
that, with a small reservoir for condensing water, must be fixed in some
convenient place about the top of the main tier of the tubes. The steam and
condensing water may be applied by a regulator and injection cock in the
usual manner, or it may done by a large cock fixed in. the center of the top
of the main tier, the plug of which must be hollow in the inside, and two
apperatures through the sides to receive the steam and condensing water alter-
nately into the hollow of the plug, from whence it rushes into the top of the
main tier. This machine may be constructed different ways upon the same
principles, and the tubes although supposed here to be in a perpendicular
form, some of them may be fixed horazontal, or in any degree of elevation
the business or situation may require. A small wheel may be fixed in the
trough where the water is delivered to raise the condensing water into the
reservoir, and also to work the engine, which will require no other attendance
but a boy to keep up the fire; or if the wheel should be thought cumbersome
it may be done by other methods that will require very little room; by
adding the force of steam, the liquid may be raised in the same manner
much higher.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Jones, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, the Fifth day of March, in the seventeenth 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
and seventy-seven.
igned, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named John Jones in the
presence of me,
JOHN (L.s.) JONES.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fifth day of March, in the
year of our Lord 1777, the aforesaid John Jones came before our said Lord
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Indenture aforesaid, and
all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the Indenture aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of the
Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen Wm
and Mary of England, and so forth.
Inrolled the Twelfth day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven.