EXPEDITION CRANE FOR LANDING AND SHIPPING GOODS AND MERCHANDIZE, AND OTHER USEFULL PURPOSES, WHEREBY MUCH LABOUR AND TIME WILL BE SAVED, AS WELL AS MANY OTHER ADVANTAGES ATTENDING THE SAME
Year: 1764

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
WEBB, of the Steel Yard, in the Parish of Allhallows the Great, in the City
of London, Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS King George the Third, by His Royal Letters Patent under
the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the Eighth day of March, in
the fourth year of His reign, and in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and sixty-four, did give and grant unto me, the said John
Webb, my exors, adññiors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power,
sole privilege and authority, that I, the said John Webb, my exors,
adñiors, and assigns, should and might, during the term of years therein
expressed, make, use, exercise, and vend, throughout that part of His
said Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales,
and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my new-invented "EXPEDITION CRANE
FOR LANDING AND SHIPPING GOODS AND MERCHANDIZE, AND OTHER USEFULL PURPOSES,
WHEREBY MUCH LABOUR AND TIME WILL BE SAVED, AS WELL AS MANY OTHER
ADVANTAGES ATTENDING THE SAME;" in which said recited Letters Patent is
contained a provisoe obliging me, the said John Webb, by writing under my
hand and seal, to cause a description of my said new Expedition Crane to
be inrolled in the King's High Court of Chancery within four calendar
months from 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 complyance with the said provisoe, I, the said
John Webb, do hereby declare that my said new-invented Expedition Crane
is made and performed in manner following (that is to say):-

page_text: The same works with a horse, hath two gibs and two ropes, which wind on
one barrell with two measures; as one goes up the other comes down, with a
waggon or trunk to convey coals or other things into the magazine, &c., and a
hopper on a ballance to hold up the sacks for loading the coals, &c. into carts,
&c. as is more particularly described in a Plan hereunder drawn. Also this
machine may be made use of on the common wheel cranes on the publick or
any other keys working with the double principle of two gibbs, and may be
adapted and varied and varied upon the same principles in diverse ways, as
circumstances and occasion may require.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Webb, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Sixth day of July, in the fourth year of the reign of
King George the Third, and in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and sixty-four.
Signed and sealed in the presence of
J. WAY.
H. ALDERSEY.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that Sixth day of July, in the year of
our Lord 1764, the aforesaid John Webb came before our said Lord the
King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Indre aforesaid, and all
and every thing therein contained and specifyed, in form above written.
And also the Indre aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of the
Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen
William and Mary of England, and so forth.