A NEW METHOD OF PREPARING ROUGH MEAL FROM GROUND WHEAT OR OTHER GRAIN PREVIOUS TO THEIR BEING DRESSED FOR FLOUR, ALSO ROUGH MEAL FROM GROUND BARLEY, MALT, OR OTHER GRAIN PREVIOUS TO THEIR BEING PUT INTO THE MASH TUN FOR BREWING OR DISTILLING
Year: 1832

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
GOODLET, residing in Leith, Proprietor of the London, Leith, and Edinburgh
Steam Mills, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
the Palace at Westminster, the Third day of May, in the second year of His
reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said George Goodlet, my exors, admors, and assigns, His especial licence, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said George Goodlet, my
exors, admors, and assigns, and such others as I, the said George Goodlet,
my exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of His
said Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England,
His Majesty's Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
Invention of "A NEW METHOD OF PREPARING ROUGH MEAL FROM GROUND WHEAT
OR OTHER GRAIN PREVIOUS TO THEIR BEING DRESSED FOR FLOUR, ALSO ROUGH MEAL
FROM GROUND BARLEY, MALT, OR OTHER GRAIN PREVIOUS TO THEIR BEING PUT INTO
THE MASH TUN FOR BREWING OR DISTILLING;" in which said Letters Patent is
contained a proviso obliging me, the said George Goodlet, by an instrument
or writing under my hand and seal, to particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
and cause the same to be enrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of

page_text: Chancery within six months next and immediately after the date of the said
in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto
had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with said proviso, I, the said
George Goodlet, hereby declare the nature of my said Invention to consist in
the application of artificial heat to rough meal of wheat or other grains
previous to its being dressed for flour; also the application of artificial heat to
rough meal of ground malt, barley, or other grain, previous to their being put
into the mash tun for brewing or distilling. The plan which I have success-
fully adopted is, spreading the rough meal of ground wheat or other grain six
or eight inches thick, more or less, according to circumstances, on a steam
kiln, with a linen bedding, or bedding of other suitable material, and allowing
it to remain ten or fifteen hours, more or less, according to the condition of the
grain or heat of the kiln, during which time it is necessary to turn it occa-
sionally. Afterwards it is removed from the kiln, for the purpose of being
cooled previous to its being dressed for flour, or of malt or barley, previous to
its being put into the mash tun. It will be found that the rough meal of
wheat, when prepared in this way, will dress through a much finer engine, and
that the flour prepared agreeably to the Patent possesses in an eminent degree
all the qualities which flour has when made from fresh-thrashed old wheat,
thereby superseding the necessity of a mixture of old wheat even at the
beginning of a new crop, when the wheats are raw. The bread baked from it
is lighter, whiter, drier, and finer flavored, and is found to keep better. Any
apparent extra waste will be recovered when the flour from its dry state is
manufactured, as a sack of flour prepared in this way has been known to
produce upwards of ninety loaves. This process removes in a certain degree
any stale or bad smell the wheat may have, expedites the ripening of the flour
for the baker, and the bread from it requires less baking by at least twenty
minutes. It may also be observed, that the bran, sheelings, and sharps are
lighter, and the parings barer, than flour dressed in the usual way.
Certificates from highly respectable bakers in corroboration of the advantages.
of flour prepared in the way above described are in possession of the Patentee.
And such my Invention being, to the best of my knowledge and belief,
entirely new, and never before used within that part of His said Majesty's
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, His said Domi-
nion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, I do hereby declare this to be
my Specification of the same, and that I do verily believe this my said Specifica-
tion doth comply, in all respects, fully and without reserve or disguise, with
the proviso in the said herein-before in part recited Letters Patent contained;

page_text: hand and seal, this I wenty-sixth day of October, in the year of our
Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty-two.
GEO. GOODLET. (L.S.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-sixth day of October, in
the year of our Lord 1832, the aforesaid George Goodlet came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
.
Inrolled the Third day of November, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.