AN IMPROVED THRASHING MACHINE
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jozé Luis, Patent Agent, of No. 1", Welbeck St.,
Cavendish Sq, London, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention
of "AN IMPROVED THRASHING MACHINE."-A communication.
Sealed the 10th September 1858, and dated the 10th June 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jozé Luis at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 10th June
1858.
I, JOZE LUIS, Patent Agent, of No. 1, Welbeck St., Cavendish Sq", London,
in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "AN IMPROVED THRASHING MACHINE" (a communication to me from a
foreigner residing abroad), to be as follows:-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
A, two beams resting on two pieces of woodwork, fixed on the sides of the
thrashing floor; the two beams are raised to the height of two yards, and
serve to support the different parts of the apparatus; B, beam supporting
the driving wheel G; C, another beam supporting the vertical shaft, on which
are fixed the pinion I of the driving wheel and the bevel wheel J; D, D, two
beams resting on the beam A, supporting the horizontal shaft on which the
bevel pinion K and the pulley L work; E, little sliders placed vertically at
the ends of the beam C, for receiving a beam which holds the top of the shaft
on which the pinion I and and bevel wheel J-work; F; support placed on the

page_text: beam A, holding the cushions which support the shaft of the driving wheel G;
G, driving wheel about 32 inches in diameter, the shaft of which passes
through B about 5 inches; this part of the shaft has a sexagon form, & is
securely fixed in an iron nut; H, vertical shaft attached to the levers, moved
by horses; I, pinion, 11 inches in diameter; J, bevel wheel, 22 inches in
diameter; K, bevel pinion, 11 inches in diameter.; L, pulley, 18 inchos in
diameter, with a groove made in the midde for receiving a chain to com-
municate the motion to the beaters; M, another pulley, 9 inches in diameter,
or rather the pinion of the pulley L; N, wheel, 20 inches in diameter; O,
pinion moved by the wheel N, 3 inches in diameter; P, chain for
transmitting the movement to the beaters by means of the pulleys L & M,
which are placed at 6 yds. from each other.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Jozé Luis in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 26th
November 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOZE LUIS,
Patent Agent, of No. 1, Welbeck Street, Cavendish Sqr, London, in the
County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Jozé Luis, Hor special licence that I, the said Jozé Luis, my exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Jozé
Luis, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED THRASHING
MACHINE" (a communication), upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Jozé Luis, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
. describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Jozé Luis, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (and accompanying Drawings), (that is to say) :-
:-
A, A, two beams resting on two pieces of woodwork fixed on the sides of the
thrashing floor; the two beams are raised to the height of two yards, and
serve to support the different parts of the apparatus; B, a beam supporting the
driving wheel G; C, another beam supporting the vertical shaft, on which are
fixed the pinion I of the driving wheel and bevel wheel J; D, D, two beams
resting on the beams A, supporting the horizontal shaft, on which the bevel
pinion K and the pulley L work; E, little sliders placed vertically at the ends
of the beam C, for receiving a beam which holds the shaft on which is the
pinion L and the bevel wheel J; F, support placed on the beams A, holding the
cushions which support the shaft of the driving wheel G; G, driving wheel about
30 inches in diameter, the shaft of which passes through the beam B about
five inches; this part of the shaft has six angles, and enters in a strong nut
of iron; H, vertical shaft on which are fixed the levers (drawn by horses);
I, pinion about eleven inches in diameter; J, bevel wheel about twenty-two
inches in diameter; K, bevel pinion, about eleven and a half inches in
diameter; L, pulley eighteen inches in diameter, with a groove made in the
middle of the circle of the wheel in order to receive a chain which communi-
cates the motion to the beaters; M, another pulley nine inches in diameter, or
rather the pinion of the pulley L making two revolutions; N, wheel twenty
inches in diameter, turning on the same shaft as the cylinders; O, pinion
fixed on the shaft of the thrashers, of three and a "half inches in diameter,
making four and a half revolutions; it is governed by the wheel N ; P, chain
for transmitting the movement to the beaters by means of the pulley I & M,
which are placed at six yards one from the other.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jozé Luis, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.