A CON- SIDERABLE IMPROVEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF MACHINES FOR RAISING WATER IN AND FOR CLEARING SHIPS OF THE SAME; ALSO TO TAKE OFF THE PRESSURE OF THE ATMOSPHERE OR EDDY WINDS FROM THE TOPS OF CHIMNIES, TO PREVENT WHAT ARE CALLED SMOAKEY CHIMNIES
Year: 1798

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WALTER
TAYLOR, of Portswood Green, in the County of Southampton, Esquire, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, did, by
His Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-eighth day of February, in the thirty-eighth year of
His reign, give and grant unto me, the said Walter Taylor, His especial
licence, that I, the said Walter Taylor, during the term of years therein men-
tioned, should and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed, my Invention of "A CON-
SIDERABLE IMPROVEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF MACHINES FOR RAISING WATER IN
AND FOR CLEARING SHIPS OF THE SAME; ALSO TO TAKE OFF THE PRESSURE OF THE
ATMOSPHERE OR EDDY WINDS FROM THE TOPS OF CHIMNIES, TO PREVENT WHAT ARE
CALLED SMOAKEY CHIMNIES;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained
a proviso, obliging me, the said Walter Taylor, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my
said Invention, and in 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Walter Taylor, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described in
manner following, (that is to say):-
First A description of improved machines for raising water in general,
and particularly in ships; machines for raising water, consisting of tubes or
trunks or buckets; the tubes, trunks, or buckets may be made of wood or
metal, or both; I prefer the outer trunk being made of plank, as being most
convenient and most easily made and repaired, especially in cases of accident
on board of ship, the tube or trunk to have an inside tube or trunk or bucket,
to be made to pass freely up and down within the outer tube or trunk. In
the bottom of the said inner tube, trunk, or bucket, a valve or valves to be
placed, in order that when it is lowered or let down within the outer tube or
trunk, the water may pass freely into the same, and that when the said inner
tube, trunk, or bucket is drawn up, the valve or valves may be shut by the
water till it is brought to the upper part of the outer tube or trunk to be
delivered; a roller or rollers turned with or without a winch, or a pulley or pul-
leys, or both, to be placed in or over tlie said tube or trunk, or in such a situa-
tion as for a rope or chain to pass over, fastened to the said inner tube, trunk
or bucket, so as to be drawn up'in either a parallel, perpendicular, or any other
direction, which may be simply worked by men or any other power; two or more
of these tubes or trunks being placed near or convenient to each other act in con-
junction mutually to assist each other; thus that while one inner tube, trunk, or
bucket is raising in order to deliver the water, another is descending in order to fill
itself, that the weight of one descending may help to raise another ascending, and
so alternately, so as to make a constant stream. The aforesaid inner tubes, trunks
or buckets are assisted their operation by having leather or any other spongy
or other substance fastened upon or about the same, so as to press close to the
inner parts of the outer tube or trunk,, in order to make a vacuum as it
descends, which vacuum will be naturally supplied with water. Be it observed
that these tubes, trunks, or buckets, may be worked singly or in conjunction
with others, as before mentioned. Be it further observed, that a valve, or
valves be placed at the bottom of the outer tubes or trunks, as to keep it or
them as full of water as possible, and that all the valves may be made with
metal joints.
Secondly-Description of the machine for taking off the effects of the
pressure of the atmosphere or of eddy winds from the tops of chimnies,
so as to prevent what are commonly called smoakey chimnies. First, the
materials It may be made of iron, or copper, or lead, or tin, or of any other
metal, or of clay or any other earthy substance, dried, baked, or burnt;

page_text: secondly, the shape or construction may be either round, or square, or oval, or
octagon, or of any form, and ornamented at the top according to fancy,
provided it has a free passage through the centre and sides thereof for the
smoak. It is composed of various rows of rims or plates separated from cach
other all about at proper distances in a sloping, level, or any other direction,
kept open all around, so as to give room for the smoke to discharge itself either
through openings at the centre or at the sides, and so at the same time as to prevent
any undue pressure of the atmosphere or the eddy winds from getting down
the flue of the chimney. The before-mentioned machine, for the convenience
of casting or otherwise making them as well as for fixing on the top of the
chimney, may be made in parts to fix in or upon each other, and the orna-
mental parts or top may be fixed on the rest in the same manner as the other
parts, so as to make the machine complete.
In witness whereof, I, the said Walter Taylor, have hereunto set my.
hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and ninatu