Improved Method of Grinding Oats and Barley by Stones..
Year: 1888

page_text: Late of Application, 29th Nov., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 29th July, 1889-Accepted, 31st Aug.. 1889 ·
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Method of Grinding Oats and Barley by Stones..
I, GEORGE SANDS, of Heathfield, Hawkhurst, in the County of Sussex, Miller,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to facilitate the reduction of oats or barley to
meal, in such a manner as to cause the husks of the corn to be reduced with the
other parts of the grain, without for that purpose having to adjust the stones
employed to effect the reduction in as close proximity as is requisite in the ordinary
method for effecting same, and which necessitates the frequent redressing of the
stones.
For this purpose I adjust the stones so that their working surfaces are further
apart than usual, and I feed the oats or barley thereto by a damsel and shoe in the
ordinary manner. After being ground the ineal is conveyed from the stones to a
reel or sieve, and the part thereof (viz. the husk etc.,) which will not pass through the
reel or sieve is then conveyed by any suitable means and delivered to the shoe on
the top of the oats or barley which is passing down the same, and is carried with such
oats or barley and refed into the stones, whereby such husks will be gradually
reduced until they can pass through the reel or sieve with the rest of the meal.
Dated this 29th day of November 1888.
ALLISON BROS.,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Method of Grinding Oats and Barley by Stones.
I, GEORGE SANDS, of Heathfield, Hawkhurst, in the County of Sussex, Miller, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
The object of my invention is to facilitate the reduction of oats or barley to meal,
in such a manner as to cause the husks of the corn to be reduced with the other
parts of the grain, without for that purpose having to adjust the stones employed to
effect the reduction in as close proximity as is requisite in the ordinary method for
effecting same, and which necessitates the frequent redressing of the stones.
For this purpose I adjust the stones so that their working surfaces are further
apart than usual, and I feed the oats or barley thereto by a damsel and shoe in the
ordinary manner. After being ground the meal is conveyed from the stones to a
reel or sieve, and the part thereof (viz. the husks etc.,) which will not pass through
the reel or sieve is then conveyed by any suitable means and delivered to the shoe on
the top of the oats or barley which is passing down the same, and is carried with
such oats or barley and refed into the stones, whereby such husks will be gradually
reduced until they can pass through the reel or sieve with the rest of the meal.
By returning the part of the meal which will not pass through the reel or sieve to
the shoe and on the top of the corn as it is working to the eye, the feed is regulated
so as to prevent over feeding, as the part returned checks the feed of the whole corn
and prevents same coming too fast.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
The improved method of grinding oats and barley by stones, consisting in adjusting

page_text: the stones, further apart than usual and leading the meal therefrom to a reel or sieve,
then returning the part which will not pass through the latter back to the shoe on the
top of the oats or barley passing down same, substantially as and for the purpose
specified
ALLISON BROS.,
Agents for the Applicant.