Specification of Henry Penneck : steam engines, &c.

  • Penneck, Henry.
Date:
1854
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Henry Penneck : steam engines, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Edmonds, Extra. Penneck's Improvements in Machinery for Lessening the Consumption of Fuel. the engine will only have to lift the contents of the kibble then below it; besides, the kibbles will be kept steady, and not be liable to be dashed about, which they often are, to the great injury and expence of the adventurers in the mine, and particularly when the shafts underlie, or have an inclined direction; and in order that the miners may be able to draw their stuff from 5 lifts of different depths, the ropes may be made divisible by means of shackles placed at such distances, similar to the method by which Mr. Acraman shortens his patent cables, and at the different lifts hooks should be placed suspended as before mentioned at the mouth of the shaft, and rings on the ropes at proper distances from the hooks to hold by, and by such means little difficulty will be 10 experienced in the use of this method. In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Penneck, have to these Presents (written or engrossed on three skins of parchment, each being first duly stamped) set my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of August, One thousand eight hundred and twenty-one. 15 HENRY (l.s.) PENNECK. AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-first day of August, in the year of our Lord 1821, the aforesaid Henry Penneck came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and all and everything therein contained and specified, in form above written. 20 And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose. Inrolled the Twenty-fourth day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty-one. LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. 1854.