IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUSES FOR MEASURING AND REGISTERING CORN AND OTHER GRAIN
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles James Neale, of High Oakham, in the
County of Nottingham, Gentleman, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN APPARATUSES FOR MEASURING AND REGISTERING CORN AND OTHER GRAIN."
Sealed the 7th November 1862, and dated the 12th May 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles James Neale
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 12th May 1862.
I, CHARLES JAMES NEALE, of High Oakham, in the County of Nottingham,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUSES FOR MEASURING AND REGISTERING CORN AND OTHER GRAIN,"
to be as follows:-
My improvements in apparatuses for measuring and registering corn and
other grain are as hereafter described. I take a ring closed at the back and
formed with an aperture at top, and with another aperture at bottom; the
upper aperture is in communication with the supply of corn to be measured,
while the latter serves for its outlet. I insert into the space between the
first-named ring another ring with portions cut away and with a division
across the same, and I mount this second ring upon a shaft; the ring and
shaft are turned by a handle in the front of the meter, and the shaft is con-
nected to registering wheels.
The registering wheels are acted upon as follows:-Upon the shaft behind
the face of the meter there is a two-armed tappet, one or other of the armus

page_text: comes in contact with one of four vanes upon one or other of two wheels, and
causes the wheel to move upon its axis. The wheels are geared together to
ensure a registration whether the handle be moved in one direction or in the
contrary direction. A pinion upon the axis of one of the vane wheels gears
into a figured dial, which is made to turn on its axis upon the vane wheels
being moved, and expose a figure through an aperture made for the
in
purpose
the face of the machine; a ratchet drops into serrations on the edge of the dial
and prevents it turning in the wrong direction. This figured dial may be
made to gear into another and larger figured dial so as to make it move when
the first dial has completed one rotation. The action is as follows:-Supposo
one of the compartments of the apparatus to be full of corn, then, on turning the
handle, the inner ring is brought round till one of the apertures therein comes
in a line with the outlet from the outer ring, when the corn in the compartment
runs out; at the same time an aperture on the other side of the division plate
has been brought in a line with the inlet aperture in the outer ring, and on
the handle being again partially turned, the outlet from that side of the
division is brought in a line with the outlet in the outer ring, and so on, every
motion of the handle being registered and indicated by the registering wheels.
Although I have described the inner ring as formed with two compartments
only, the number may be varied.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Charles James Neale in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 12th November 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
JAMES NEALE, of High Oakham, in the County of Nottingham, Gentleman,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Charles James Neale, Her special licence that I, the said Charles James
Neale, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Charles James Neale, 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 yend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain

page_text: and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUSES FOR MEASURING AND REGISTERING CORN AND
OTHER GRAIN," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Charles
James Neale, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles James Neale, do hereby
declare the nature of my 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, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say:-
My improvements in apparatuses for measuring and registering corn and
other grain are as hereafter described. I take a ring closed at the back and
formed with an aperture at top and with another aperture at bottom. The
upper aperture is in communication with the supply of corn to be measured,
while the latter serves for its outlet. I insert into the space between the
first-named ring another ring with portions cut away and with a division
across the same, and I mount this second ring upon a shaft; the ring and
shaft are turned by a handle in the front of the meter, and the shaft is
connected to registering wheels. The registering wheels are acted upon as
follows: Upon the shaft behind the face of the meter there is a two-armed
tappet. One or other of the arms comes in contact with one of four vanes
upon one or other of two wheels, and causes the wheel to move upon its axis.
The wheels are geared together to ensure a registration whether the handle
be moved in one direction or in the contrary direction. A pinion upon the
axis of one of the vane wheels gears into a figured dial, which is made to turn
on its axis upon the vane wheels being moved, and expose a figure through an
aperture made for the purpose in the face of the machine; a ratchet drops into
serrations on the edge of the dial and prevents it turning in the wrong
direction. This figured dial may be made to gear into another and larger
figured dial so as to make it move when the first dial has completed one
rotation.
In order that my Invention may be well understood, I proceed to describe
it with reference to the accompanying Drawings. Figure 1 is a front eleva-
tion of the meter; Figure 2. is a similar view, the face plate and the front of
the inner ring being removed; Figure 3 is a front view of the registering

page_text: wheels; and Figure 4 is a section through the line a, a, Figure 1. Similar
letters refer to similar parts in all the Figures. A is the ring or outer casing,
closed at back and all round the circumference except at a, where there is an
aperture in communication with a hopper 6 and at c, where another aperture
opens into an outlet spout d. B is an inner ring or drum shewn divided into
two compartments by a cross plate e; portions are removed from the periphery
of this drum B at f, f, ff, to allow of the corn or other grain entering and
leaving the compartments therein according to the position in which the drum
is moved; C is a shaft on which the drum is affixed. The shaft extends
through the face plate D, which is screwed on to the outer casing A, and carries
a crank handle g. The play of the handle is limited by the slot h in the plate
D, in which slot a stud on the inner side of the handle button works. The
registering wheels are carried on a plate E let into the back of the face plate
D. On the shaft C I key a two-armed tappet i, one or other of the arms of
which upon the tappet being caused to oscillate by the motion of the handle
on the shaft comes in contact with one of four vanes k, k; upon one or other
of two toothed wheels 1, 1; m is a pinion on one of the wheels 7, which gears
into the figured dial ; o, is the ratchet to prevent the dial falling back or
moving in a wrong direction; p is another and larger figured dial, which may
be geared into by a pinion on the back of the dial n; q and rare apertures
in the face plate D, through which the figures on the registering dials may
be seen. The action is as follows:-Suppose one of the compartments in the
drum B to be full of corn, then, on turning the handle, the drum is brought
round until the upper or inlet aperture is closed, and by turning the handle
further in the same direction, the lower or outlet aperture therein comes in a
line with the outlet connected with the spout in the lower part of the outer-
ring or casing A, when the corn in the compartment runs out; at the same
time an aperture on the other side of the division plate has been brought in a
line with the inlet aperture in the outer ring or casing A, and on the handle
being again partially turned the outlet from that side of the division is brought
in a line with the outlet on the outer ring, and so on, every motion of the
handle being registered and indicated by the registering wheels. Although I
have described the inner ring as formed with two compartments only, the
number may be varied.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I do not limit myself to
the arrangement of registering wheels herein-before described, as any train of
wheels acted upon by the motion of the shaft or handle for turning it may be
adopte without departing from my Invention, and I claim, constructing appa-

page_text: ratuses for measuring and registering corn and other grain with a drum
or ring held in an outer ring or casing and fixed on a shaft connected with
registering wheels, all constructed and acting substantially in manner and for
the purposes described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles James Neale, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Tenth day of November, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-two.
CHARLES J. NEALE. (L.B.)