INVENTION OF MILLS OR ENGINES FOR THE CLEANSING, SPLITTING, GRINDING, AND DRESSING OF BEANS, PEASE, WHEAT, AND ALL OTHER SORTS OF CORN, GRAIN, AND FLOUR, TO BE WORKED EITHER BY MEN OR HORSES, WIND OR WATER, WITH THE GREATEST ACCURACY AND DISPATCH
Year: 1775

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
RAWLINSON, of Drayton-in-the-Clay, in the County of Leicester, Builder, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Twelfth day of June, in the fifteenth year of His reign, give and grant unto
me, the said George Rawlinson, His especial licence that I, the said George
Rawlinson, during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, and also within all His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations
abroad, my "INVENTION OF MILLS OR ENGINES FOR THE CLEANSING, SPLITTING,
GRINDING, AND DRESSING OF BEANS, PEASE, WHEAT, AND ALL OTHER SORTS OF CORN,
GRAIN, AND FLOUR, TO BE WORKED EITHER BY MEN OR HORSES, WIND OR WATER,
WITH THE GREATEST ACCURACY AND DISPATCH;" in which said Letters Patent there
is contained a provisoe obliging me, the said George Rawlinson, under my
hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my said
Invention, and how the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calender months after 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said provisoe, I, the said
George Rawlinson, do hereby declare that my said Invention of Mills or
Engines for the Cleansing, Splitting, Grinding, and Dressing of Beans, Pease,
Wheat, and all other Sorts of; Corn, Grain, and Flour, to be worked either by
Men or Horses, Wind or Water, with the greatest Accuracy and Dispatch, is
described in the Plan thereof hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Rawlinson, have hereunto sett my
hand-and-seal,-this-Seventeenth-day-of-August, One thousand seven
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the same Seventeenth day of
August in the year above written, the aforesaid George Rawlinson came
before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Speci-
fication of the Invention aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained
and specifyed, in form above written, and in the Draughts or Plans of the
machinery annexed delineated. And also the Specification aforesaid was
stamped 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.
Inrolled the First day of September, in the year aforesaid.
ter

page_text: Is the Hopper-
Is the Dressing Trive consisting either of Wire
a combination of all.
Is a Brush Roll that turns in a concave,
Lawn or Hair or
by to cleans the Bran
Is a
ve wire
( a small Dressing sive to seperate the
bran and grudgings
Is a wheel with Teeth, to work the Dressing
sieve, by means of
a Live, and cord communicated
the said wheel works
or
Fron
a m
which wheel or wheeld are made of Wood
0. Is a Cank and Handle fixed to the axis of
the Wheel, on the opposite side is fixed
Balance wheel to regulate and ease the motion
11. Is Drawers that receives the different sorts of
Flower from the Dressing sieves
The said Mill is calculated to Press all sorts of
Corn and Grain when pulvrised by hand and
horse, wind and svaler.
5. Is the Hopher.
6. Is
a Coars Try, to convey the Bunks from the
Chaff and Com by means of a shake from the
Wheel that communicates with a Lever. _
7. Is.
a Lander to
convey
the Chaff and Corn received
from the Course Try Before the Fan..
3. Is. a small spur wheel, on which axis is fixed s
the Fan, wone either of Boards or
Cloth also may
be fixed on ne end of the axis, one or two Balanc
2
Es et silly sperer...
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the small, hed and is turned by
else.
a winch fixḍ
to a bank at the axis, and the said wheel:
be made either of Wood or Iron and to work
by Spun or Band...
may
70. Is two Try!
one
both in a direction to
coarser then the other and fix!
convey
the best com and light
after it has pass d before the Fan, into two bags by
of a shake from the wheel communicated
means.
with
11. Is
a
Lever. –
one or two steelyards fixed to a Scale or Seatt
to weigh the Bags, made either of Wood or Iron.
12. Is the Bags fixed parallal to each other on the
Scales.
The above machines is calculated to Winnow and
cleans all sorts of Corn and Grain - bags and weigh
it at one operation..