AN IMPROVED METHOD, BY MEANS OF MACHINERY, OF KNEADING DOUGH WITHOUT MANIPULATION
Year: 1811

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
BAKER, of Butlers Green, near Cuckfield, in the County of Sussex, Navy
Contractor, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-third day of
November, in the fifty-second year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the
said Joseph Baker, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, His especial licence, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Joseph Baker, my exors,
admors, and assigns, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of
"AN IMPROVED METHOD, BY MEANS OF MACHINERY, OF KNEADING DOUGH WITHOUT
MANIPULATION;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso
that if I, the said Joseph Baker, shall not particularly describe and ascertain
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, and cause
the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said recited
Letters Patent, that then the said recited Letters Patent, and all liberties and
advantages whatsoever thereby granted, shall utterly cease, determine, and
become void, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, may more
fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Joseph Baker, do hereby declare that my said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, is particularly described and ascertained as
follows, that is to say:
The principle of my Invention for kneading dough is, to amalgamate flour
or meal or pulse of any kind with water in a circular trough having an
upright shaft turning on a pivot fixed in the centre of the machine, so that
the dough placed in such trough may be kneaded by a stone or iron roller on
its edge passing over it in a rotary motion, being fixed at a due distance by an
horizontal bar or axle to the shaft, which is to be turned by means of one or
more other horizontal bars likewise fixed thereto, and worked like a capstan
by a proportionate number of bipeds or quadrupeds, such horizontal bars
having small shares fixed to them so as to run in the trough, and acting like
a plough cause the dough to present fresh surfaces for each successive revo-
lution. This kneading machine may be made in metal of any kind, or wood of
any kind, or their compositions or combinations; perhaps the preferable way
would be to make the foundation of brick or stone, to make the trough of
stone or iron, to make the upright shaft of wood crampt with iron; and the steps
in which the iron pivots are to run of flint or metal, and the shares of iron..
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Baker, have hereunto set my hand'
and seal, this Seventeenth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and twelve.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Seventeenth day of January,
in the year of our Lord 1812, the aforesaid Joseph Baker came before our 2
said Lord the King in His 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 stampt according to
the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.