AN INTIRE NEW WIND MACHINE WHICH, FROM THE SIMPLICITY OF IT'S CONSTRUCTION, MAY BE PUT INTO ACTUAL OPERATION IN THE SPACE OF A QUARTER OF AN HOUR, FOR THE PURPOSES OF PUMP- ING WATER OUT OF SHIPS AT SEA, FOR ADDING VELOCITY TO A SHIP BY MEANS OF SKULLS PLACED IN THE STERN AT THOSE TIMES WHEN OARS WOULD BE USELESS, AND FOR LOADING AND UNLOADING GOODS INTO AND OUT OF ALL KINDS OF VESSELS
Year: 1775

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
MILLER, of the Town and County of Southampton, Sail Maker, 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 the
Twenty-second day of November, in the sixteenth year of His reign, give and
grant unto me, the said Samuel Miller, His especial licence that I, the said
Samuel Miller, during the term of years therein expressed, should and law-
fully might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN INTIRE NEW WIND MACHINE
WHICH, FROM THE SIMPLICITY OF IT'S CONSTRUCTION, MAY BE PUT INTO ACTUAL
OPERATION IN THE SPACE OF A QUARTER OF AN HOUR, FOR THE PURPOSES OF PUMP-
ING WATER OUT OF SHIPS AT SEA, FOR ADDING VELOCITY TO A SHIP BY MEANS OF
SKULLS PLACED IN THE STERN AT THOSE TIMES WHEN OARS WOULD BE USELESS, AND
FOR LOADING AND UNLOADING GOODS INTO AND OUT OF ALL KINDS OF VESSELS;" in
which said Letters Patent there is contained a provisoe obliging me, the said
Samuel Miller, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of
the nature of my said Invention, and how the same is to be performed, to be
inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calender months
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 provisoe, I, the said
Samuel Miller, do hereby declare that my said Invention of an intire New
Wind Machine which, from the Simplicity of it's Construction, may be put
into Actual Operation in the Space of a Quarter of an Hour, for the Purposes

page_text: of Pumping Water out of Ships at Sea, for adding Velocity to a Ship by
Means of Skulls placed in the Stern at those Times when Oars would be
Useless, and for Loading and Unloading Goods into and out of all Kinds of
Vessells, is described in the Plan thereof hereunto annexed.
T

page_text: A.A.AA. The Vanes. B. the Arbor. that the Vanes are
fixed to
C. a wooden pulley fixed to the Aibor B.D. the upright. E, a rope
that goes
round the pulleys C and F, the Pulley F is fixed to the
arbor & and turns the wheel II which is fixed to the same Arbor
the wheel II runs in the wheels II. which are lose on the Arbor K
see Fig the Second. the Arbor K has two snails fixed to it, the wheels
1.I have a Click to them as you see in Fig. the third, the wheel H,
when turn'd half way round, turns one of the wheels I half way round
which brings the Click to rub against the screw and lifts it out of the snail
as in Fig, the third as soon as it is lifted out, the other takes hold and
alternately they give a vibration to the wheel I which is fixed to the
arbor II the wheel It runs in the part of a wheel II, which wheel M
by having the rope N fixed to its upright gives a vibration to the sculls
0.0 in Fig. the first which sculls gives motion to the Body.
50
Look. Fig, the first, the Arbor & being continued through the pulley Q
and its connection as mentioned before works the Chain pump R. the handel
S is for working the machine, occationly by hand.
Look the upper part of Fig the first, the Arbor B has two Cranks to it, to
2
which are
-fixed the two ropes T.T. which two ropes lead through the two-
Double Blocks V. Vone of the ropes I takes hold of the pump handle I. the
other goes through the pump and takes hold of the upper part of the spire"
W when the Vanes AAA.A turn round the Arbor B by means of the
two cranks, and the connection of the two ropes T.T. works the hand pump
X. Fig. the fourth flat piece of iron inclined Forty five degrees which cut
through the water, B the yard fiveteen fiet long, six inches thick in the middle
three inches at each end, C the sail Concave six inches on each side, convex
fiveteen inches at the Upper end, D a rief to lessen the sail E the Cross piece
that the Sail is hoisted upon, F the he that hoist the sail.