IMPROVEMENT TO CATTLE, WATER, WIND, AND STRAM MILLS, FOR GRINDING SUGAR CANES, AND APPLICABLE TO ANY OTHER MILL. OR MACHINE, WHEREBY THE MOTION IS RENDERED MORE EQUAL, THE POWER EMPLOYED TO WORK THE SAME VERY CONSIDERABLY ASSISTED, AND A MUCH GREATER PROPORTION OF WORK EFFECTED IN A GIVEN TIME
Year: 1807

page_text: PEDDER'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
PEDDER, of Norfolk Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Gentlemen,
do send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Nineteenth day of October, in the forty-seventh year of His
reign, did give and grant unto me, the said William Pedder, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, His special licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said William Pedder, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also His Majesty's Plantations, Colonies, and
Dominions abroad, my newly invented "IMPROVEMENT TO CATTLE, WATER, WIND,
AND STRAM MILLS, FOR GRINDING SUGAR CANES, AND APPLICABLE TO ANY OTHER MILL.
OR MACHINE, WHEREBY THE MOTION IS RENDERED MORE EQUAL, THE POWER EMPLOYED
TO WORK THE SAME VERY CONSIDERABLY ASSISTED, AND A MUCH GREATER PROPORTION
OF WORK EFFECTED IN A GIVEN TIME;" in which Letters Patent there is con-
tained a proviso obliging me, the said William Pedder, under my hand and
seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be enrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next and immediately

page_text: after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same (rela-
tion being thereunto had), will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Pedder, do hereby declare that my said newly-invented improve-
ment consists (as reference to the annexed Drawing will more fully explain) of
No. 1, a cog wheel of twelve feet diameter, more or less, fixed horizontally
on the main shaft or spindle of the center roller or case, and placed as close
to the head cills as possible, to be made of wood, iron, or any other metal,
either entirely of one simple material, or combined with any others that may
be found most convenient, and of strength sufficient to effect the purposes
intended. In water mills the present large cog wheel on the gudgeon of the
main case or roller, to which the power is communicated from the water wheel,
may serve in its stead. Next, No. 2, a small cog or trundle wheel of one foot
more or less in diameter, composed of whatever material may be thought best,
to work horizontally in the cog wheel of twelve feet diameter, more or less,
and to be fixed on a shaft which must be made of strength in proportion to
the power it may be necessary to employ; to be supported above by a small
frame, continued in a line with the head cills of the mill frame, and to be so
fixed that it may be put by means of a lever or other way in or out of geer
, at pleasure, the length of which shaft or spindle must be determined by
the height of the mill cases or rollers, and at the lower end of the shaft
or spindle there must be fixed a cappoose to turn on a steel plate in the
. same way that the gudgeons of the mill cases do when so placed; the fly
wheel is to work above the small cog wheel, and as the fly will extend con-
siderably over the large cog wheel, it must be fixed at such a distance above
the small cog wheel as to be perfectly clear of the larger one. When the fly
wheel is intended to be worked below, the shaft or spindle frame must be
placed in a straight line from the center roller or case, and secured to the
head cills, and braced sufficiently to make it steady, so as to permit part of the
circle of the fly to work underneath the bed, and between the lower uprights
of the mill frame. The length of the shaft or spindle must in this as well as
in the other case be determined by the height of the mill rollers or cases,
and the height of the mill bed from the ground, and the strength, agreeable
to the directions already given; the lower end of which shaft must also have a
cappooose and turn as before mentioned on a steel plate placed in a step or
frame, to be secured in the ground. And No. 3, the fly wheel placed
horizontally, which should be well proportioned, and of from twelve to fifteen
hundred pounds weight, or more or less, as may be found most applicable to
the purpose. The diameter may be as great as that of the large cog wheel,

page_text: and it may be made either in parts and bolted together, or in one piece, as may
be most convenient. The rim may be so made as to receive different pieces
of metal for the purpose of increasing its weight if necessary.
In witnes
and it may be made either in parts and bolted together, or in one piece, as may
be most convenient. The rim may be so made as to receive different pieces
of metal for the purpose of increasing its weight if necessary.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Pedder, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Eighteenth day of November,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid William Pedder came before our
0 Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And
also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute in that case made and provided.
Insolled