| Description | 40 horse power sun & planet engine, with 31½ inch cylinder, 7 foot stroke, parallel motion. Suction pumps and air vessels added 1799. Circular nozzles and eccentric working gear added 1807.
Includes reverse general view of the engine, reverse plans and sections of the engine and boilers showing connection to the mill, reverse plan of the beam; reverse plan and sections of the engine and boiler houses; cistern - reverse drawings; parallel motion - reverse drawings; working gear - coloured reverse front and side views; fly wheel, damper plate and frame, manhole pipe, fire box and doors, grate bars (all reverse); sheet of calculations on the machinery in the works; undated and unmarked reverse general view and plan of the engine and boilers; undated press copy plan of boilers.
Several drawings from the 1799 alterations: sections and plans of air vessels; sections and plans showing pumps and air vessels with the engine; parallel motion for working the pumps, marked "See the drawing of air pump links J. Homfray & Co. 45 horse marked DRK"; working gear - front and side views; cast iron plug and brass guides; plans and sections of the suction vessels, air vessels, suction pipes and pumps; press copy sketches of hot water pump and pipes; two undated and uncoded drawings of suction pipes.
Also from the 1807 alterations: ground plan and general view of the engine showing governor, with eccentric gearing pencilled in - on the reverse of this is mounted a press copy sketch of the eccentric working gear dated 26 Jun. 1807. Most of the drawings bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 184. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 8.
For Wormald Fountain & Gott. Park Mill woollen manufactory, near Leeds. The firm later became Wormald Gott & Wormald. |