IMPROVEMENTS IN TREATING WHEAT-MEAL OBTAINED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FLOUR
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Beaumont, of Elland, in the Parish of Halifax,
and County of York, Miller, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Beaumont at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
5th May 1855.
I, JOSEPH BEAUMONT, of Elland, in the Parish of Halifax, and County
of York, Miller, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN TREATING WHEAT-MEAL OBTAINED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
FLOUR" to be as follows:-
The improvements relate to the application of heat to the meal in its transit
from the grinding means to the sieves or other apparatus, for separating the
bran or pollard from the flour, in order to drive off the moisture contained
therein, by which the flour obtained will be less liable to clog the sieves, and
the sifting of the flour through silk will be better effected. I employ for this
purpose hot water, steam, or hot air in chambers or passages in connection with
the screw or other means of transit used.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Beaumont in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
3rd November 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
BEAUMONT, of Elland, in the Parish of Halifax, and County of York, Miller,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the eighteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Joseph Beaumont, Her special licence that I, the said Joseph Beaumont, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph
Beaumont, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN TREATING
WHEAT-MEAL OBTAINED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FLOUR," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Joseph Beaumont, by an instrument in
writing under my hand and seal, should particularly-describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be per-
formed, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Beaumont, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement
thereof (that is to say) :-
The improvements relate to the application of heat to the meal in its transit
from the grinding means to the sleves or other apparatus, for separating the
bran or pollard from the flour, in order to drive off the moisture contained
therein, by which the flour obtained will be less liable to clog the sieves, and
the sifting of the flour through silk will be better effected. I employ for this
purpose hot water, steam, or hot air in chambers or passages in connection with
the screw or other means of transit used.
But that the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner I carry the

page_text: and letters marked thereon.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shows the section of a shoot box or trough with a worm therein,
such as is usually employed in flour mills, to conduct the meal from the grinding
means to the sieves or other apparatus employed to separate the bran or pollard
from the flour; and I have not thought it necessary to show other views of the
apparatus, as such is well known; and the main difference therein when
adapting my improvements from that ordinarily employed is in forming the
axis of the screw hollow, for the passage of hot water, steam, or hot air, and in
the application to the trough of pipes, passages, or chambers for a like purpose.
a is the trough, which in carrying out my improvements I form of sheet iron
(by preference galvanized or tinned on the surface) or other metal; and 6 are
a series of tubes, which I prefer to be of sufficient length to extend the whole
length of the trough, and also to be connected so as to form a continuous
passage for the heating media employed to circulate therein; and when hot
water or steam is employed, I connect the two ends of the pipe 6 with a boiler
in such way as to insure a circulation therethrough, as is well understood; or
I cause the hot water, steam, or hot air to circulate first through the hollow
axis c, carrying the worm or screw d, and thence through the pipes b. The
hollow axis c of the screw or worm d is at its ends connected by suitable joints
to the supply and discharge pipes to admit of its freely turning in its bearings,
in order that the screw or worm d may in the ordinary way have a tendency
by its rotation to cause the meal fed in at one end of the trough to traverse to
the other end. In some cases I employ several of such troughs placed side
by side, as shown by Figure 2, where the same letters indicate similar parts.
I would, however, state, that although I have shown pipes as the means which
I have found to answer well for conducting the heating media in contact
with the trough a, such trough may for this purpose be formed with an outer
casing or jacket, forming a chamber, in which the circulation may be obtained.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the means which
I adopt in carrying the same into practice, I would have it understood that I
do not confine myself to the precise arrangement shown and described, as
variations may be made therein without departing from the peculiar character
of my Invention; but what I do claim is, the mode of arranging and combining
apparatus employed in conducting wheat-meal from the grinding means to the

page_text: sieves or other apparatus used in separating the bran or pollard from the flour,
that heat may be applied thereto, as and for the purpose explained.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Beaumont, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Second day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
Witness,
WILLIAM BROOKES,
78, Chancery Lane, London,
Patent Agent.
JOSEPH BEAUMONT. (L.B.)