IMPROVEMENTS IN GRINDING WHEAT AND OTHER GRAIN
Year: 1850

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
SEELY, of Heighington, in the County of Lincoln, Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain and Ireland,
bearing date at. Westminster, the Fifth day of April, One thousand eight
hundred and fifty, in the thirteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her
heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Charles Seely, my exors,
adñiors, and assigns, Her especial license, full power, sole privilege, and
authority, that I, the said Charles Seely, my exors, admors, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Charles Seely, 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 England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN GRINDING WHEAT AND OTHER
GRAIN;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that I, the said
Charles Seely, shall cause a particular description of the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within six calendar 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Charles Seely, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to
the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon,
that is to say:-
My Invention consists of certain improvements in apparatus for introducing
streams of air between millstones. And in order that the same may be fully
understood I will proceed to explain the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shews an elevation, in section, of two millstones having the
improvements applied thereto; Figure 2 is a plan thereof, partly in section.
a, a, are the horns or hollow channels, or collectors of air, which at their
smaller ends are attached to the cylinder or chamber d, so that the whole of
the air collected by the horns a passes into the common chamber d, which
is contained within the eye of the runner stone, as is shown, there being
an inner cylinder d for the passage of the corn or grain to the stones; b, b,
are fans or blades, affixed to the outer ends of the horns, with a view to aid in
collecting air into the horns; c, is a case or hollow ring, within which the
outer ends of the horns work.
I would remark that I am aware that horns similar to those above shown
and described have before been applied to millstones for the purpose of intro-
ducing streams of air, I do not therefore claim the same; but what I claim
is:
First, the application of the fans or blades b in combination with horns
employed for introducing air between millstones.
Secondly, I claim the application of a case c in combination with the use
of horns employed for introducing air between millstones.
And, thirdly, I claim the causing of the horns used for collecting air for mill-
stones to be connected with a chamber in the eye of the millstone, as shewn
and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Seely, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-third day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty.
CHARLES (L.S.) SEELY.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-third day of September,
in the year of our Lord 1850, the aforesaid Charles Seely came before our
said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, 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.
Enrolled the Fifth day of October, in the year of our Lord One thousand