GB Patent: GB-181,003,373
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| Rotative steam engines on a new principle, simpler, cheaper, and less liable to be out of repair than those now in use
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Patentee:
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| Richard Witty (exact or similar names) - Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire, England |
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Patent Dates:
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Aug. 31, 1810 |
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Joel Havens
"Vintage Machinery" entry for Smith, Witty & Co.
Article in Discoveries and Improvements in Arts, Manufactures, &c.
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| This patent was, for some reason, omitted from the From the "Titles of Patents of Invention" of 1854, which retroactively numbered all patents issued before that time. The number given here (3,373) is the number it would have received had it been included. See patent GB-181,103,497 for improvements to this patent.The August 1810 issue of "Discoveries and Improvements in Arts, Manufactures, &c.": "In Mr. Witty's steam engine, cylinders with pistons moving in a rectilinear direction, are made to cause a rotative motion, of which they themselves partake, by obtruding weights outwards, from the centre of a wheel, (serving as a fly or momentum wheel), at its upper part, and again retracting them at its lower part, towards the centre, which causing always an excess of weight at one side of the wheel, must give it thereby a rotative motion. Different methods are mentioned by the patentee of applying the above principle..." |
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