A MACHINE FOR THE CUTTING OF TOBACCO, TALLOW FOR TALLLOW CHANDLERS AND SOAP BOILERS, AND ALSO FOR THE CUTTING OF TURNIPS, CAB- BAGES, CARROTS, AND OTHER KIND OF ROOTS FOR THE FEEDING OF CATTLE
Year: 1803

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMA
BROWN, of Alnwick, in the County of Northumberland, Whitesmith, 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-first day of
June, in the forty-third year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said
Thomas Brown, His especial licence, that I, the said Thomas Brown, during
the term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might use, excrcise,
and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
Invention of "A MACHINE FOR THE CUTTING OF TOBACCO, TALLOW FOR TALLLOW
CHANDLERS AND SOAP BOILERS, AND ALSO FOR THE CUTTING OF TURNIPS, CAB-
BAGES, CARROTS, AND OTHER KIND OF ROOTS FOR THE FEEDING OF CATTLE;" in
which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said
Thomas Brown, by an instrument in writing, 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 inrolled in His Majesty's Court
of Chancery within one calendar month after the date of the said recited

page_text: Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation being thereunto had) may
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Brown, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, of a
method of cutting turnips, potatoes, carrots, or any other fodder for cattle;
for cutting or shredding of butcher's fat for the easier melting it into tallow,
and by which means a great saving is made, as well in collecting a greater
quantity of tallow from a given quantity of fat, as in time, labour, and fuel;
for the cutting tobacco, kneading dough, bruising fruit, or any other matter
requiring the same, is particularly described and ascertained by the Drawings
hereunto annexed, in the following manner :-
A is a crank, that is to say, to which the fly-wheel B and the working
rods C, C, C, C, to the joints D,D. In these rods are attached paralel joints
E, E, E, E; these prevent friction and noise, otherwise the machine may be made
without them. To the lower part of the working rods C is fixed the knife or
bruiser F, which, by the motion of the crank, is raised and driven downwards
with the necessary force required. G is the trough or box (made to slide
between the framework) into which the matter to be cut or bruised is to be
put. His a bevelled cog wheel fixed on the crank A; this works I,
another wheel fixed horizontally on the upright shaft or axle K, working
on a bearer. At the lower end of this shaft is fixed another horizontal
wheel L, working into the wheel M. These wheels are all bevelled, and of
one size and number. This last-mentioned wheel is fixed on a horizontal
shaft or axle Fig. 3, working in the framework below the box. This shaft
has a tooth N, Fig. 3 and 4. On the bottom of the box is fixed a rach O,
Fig. 2, into which the tooth N works, and thus moves the box until one end
thereof comes close to the knife, when it will go no further. The tooth N not
acting on the smooth pieces 0 at the end of the rack, by reversing the
motion of the crank it will be driven back again, until the matter is sufficiently
cut or bruised. The motion of the box may be accelerated or retarded at
pleasure by mechanical methods already well known. The machine may
be driven by the hand, steam, or any other power. If a circular trough
is preferred, it may be worked with a circular rack, an turn on a pivot or
center.
In, witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Brown, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Second day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand night
THOMAS BROWN. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Second day of July, in the
year above mentioned, the aforesaid Thomas Brown came before our Lord the
King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, 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.
Inselled the Ninth day of