A MACHINE UPON AN ENTIRE NEW PRINCIPLE, FOR THE PURPOSE OF ASCERTAINING THE WEIGHT OF ALL KINDS OF GOODS, WARES, MERCHANDIZE, AND OTHER SUBSTANCES, WITH MUCH GREATER PRICISION, AND INFI- NITELY MORE EXPEDITIOUS, THAN BY ANY METHOD HITHERTO PRACTICED
Year: 1786

page_text: MILLER'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
MILLER, of the Parish of Saint James's, Westminster, Engraver, 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
Thirteenth day of May, in the twenty-sixth 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 lawfully might
use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A MACHINE UPON AN ENTIRE NEW PRINCIPLE,
FOR THE PURPOSE OF ASCERTAINING THE WEIGHT OF ALL KINDS OF GOODS, WARES,
MERCHANDIZE, AND OTHER SUBSTANCES, WITH MUCH GREATER PRICISION, AND INFI-
NITELY MORE EXPEDITIOUS, THAN BY ANY METHOD HITHERTO PRACTICED;" in which
said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso 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 Majestie'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
Samuel Miller, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described in the
above Plan and description thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Miller, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twelfth day of June, One thousand seven hundred and
eighty-six.
SAM MILLER. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the 12th day of June, in the year
of our Lord 1786, the aforesaid Samuel Miller came before our said Lord
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of the
Statutes made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twelfth day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and eighty-six.

page_text: wheels in a
the exact weight
give
out the quantity of immersion of a Body in a fluid when pressed upon by the descending Article whose weight is to be ascertained – This Machine will
of any substance animate or inanimate but as the weighing of Live Cattle in Smithfield for the better regulation of the Market gave rise to the Invention Figure the
1st represents an Ox in a situation to be weighed by the Machine . A. the Ox - B the Seale or or Trough to receive the object to be weighed C the piston or vessel immersed
in the Fluid D the Cistern or Receiver which contains the fluid and is to be fixed below the surface with its top level with the Ground - E. a cylindrical tube which
-receives the fluid from the Cistern D. F. F. the Index which points out the Summersion of the Piston C and the weight of the Ax A - G and II is a frame which runs with
groove affixed to the outside of the Cistern so as not to interrupt the motion of the Piston but to keep it steady and perpendicular in the Astern Figure 2rd is a section of the piston Cistern
tube and Index shewing the action of the foid &e as the weight pressed the piston from a to 6 the fluid in the Cistern and Tube will rise from a to it and the
quantity of difference between the two motions the descent of the piston and the ascent of the fluid will be in a reciprocal proportion to the weight of the substance or
artice to be weighed the cube of the piston and specific gravity of the fluid accurately calculated and taken together and will point out on the index the precise
• weight of the Beast or any other article required to be weighed. The catch e is intended to stop the Index after the fall of the Fluid by which means the weight
of the Beast
other article is seen or the Index after it is moved from the Trough or Soale Quicksilver water or any other fluid may be used but the
specific gravity thereof must be known and attended to so as to regulate and determine the diameter of the piston which must always be formed in a calculated/
proportion to the specific gravity of the Gluid made use of and on which defends the truth and precision of the Machine - This Machine
Forms and sizes and also of different matrials such as Silver Brass Iron Wood Earth to as most approved of for the use and purpose to which it is to be applied.
or
any
may
be constructed in various