IMPROVEMENTS CONSTRUCTION OF CHEESE PRESSES
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Simpson, of Melksham, in the County of
Wilts, Ironmonger, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
CONSTRUCTION OF CHEESE PRESSES."
IN THE
Scaled the 23rd June 1871, and dated the 28th December 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Simpson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
28th December 1870.
I, HENRY SIMPSON, of Melksham, in the County of Wilts, Ironmonger,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE CONSTRUCTION OF CHEESE PRESSES," to be as follows:-
:-
This Invention consists of certain improvements which are applicable
to the construction of single, double, or triple cheese presses, and whereby
the efficiency of the same is greatly increased. The press is constructed
with upper and lower levers, and on each side of the press is placed a
tubular iron pillar. Through each of these pillars is placed a rod
formed of iron or other suitable material, which rods respectively
connect the upper and lower levers of the press. Instead of the tubular

page_text: pillars being placed at the respective sides of the press, they may be
arranged in the centre thereof, and one rod passed through each pillar
or one pillar alone may be so placed, and two rods passed through the
same, thus connecting the upper and lower levers in the same manner
as if the tubular pillars and rods were placed at the respective ends
of the press. At the end of each of the lower levers is fixed a vertical
rod formed of iron or other suitable material which passes through the
bottom or stand of the press, and carries a plate of iron or other material
on which the weights for producing pressure (as will be well understood)
are placed.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henry Simpson in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 28th June 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
SIMPSON, of Melksham, in the County of Wilts, send grecting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Henry Simpson, Her special licence
that I, the said Henry Simpson, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry Simpson, 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
THE CONSTRUCTION OF CHEESE PRESSES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Henry Simpson, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Simpson, 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, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon, that is to
say :-
My said Invention consists in certain improvements which are
applicable to the construction of single, double, and triple cheese
presses, and whereby the efficiency of the same is greatly increased in
a simple and economical manner. The press is constructed with upper
and lower levers, the upper lever being placed at the top of and above
the head of the press, and containing the nut in which the screw for
lowering the press follower and guide works, the lower lever being
placed underneath the stand. At each end of the press is placed a
tubular iron pillar, and in the case of double and triple presses a tubular
iron pillar is also placed in the centre of the press, such pillars sup-
porting the head of the press. Through each of the pillars at the ends
of the press a rod of iron or other suitable metal is placed, which rods
connect the upper and lower levers. Instead of the rods passing through
the pillars placed at each end of the press respectively they may both
be brought through the pillar placed in the centre thereof, or two pillars
may be so placed in the centre, and one rod passed through each respoc-
tively, and thus connecting the upper and lower levers in the same
manner as if the tubular pillars and rods were placed at the sides of the
press. At one end of each of the lower levers is fixed a vertical rod
formed of iron or other suitable material, which passes through the
bottom or stand of the press, either at each side of the centre pillar or
at each end of the stand, and carries a plate of iron or other suitable
material on which the weights for producing the pressure, as will be well
understood, are placed.
I will now refer to the annexed Drawings from which the nature of
my said Invention will be more clearly understood, Figure 1 shews a
portion of the lower part of a cheese press with the tubular pillar and
the rod which passes through the same, and which latter is shewn con-
nected to the lower lever; Figure 2 is a portion of the press shewing
the vertical rod which carries the plate of iron on which the weights
are placed as above mentioned. The same letters of reference refer to
the like parts in both the Figures.

page_text: A is the tubular pillar; B, the rod which passes through the same;
C, the press stand; D, the lower lever; E, the vertical rod passing
through the stand and carrying the iron plate F for the weights to be
placed on.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I would observe
in conclusion that what I consider novel and original and therefore
claim as constituting the Invention secured to me by the herein-before
in part recited Letters Patent is, the construction and arrangement of
cheese presses in the manner substantially herein-before set forth and
described, or any mere modifications thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Simpson, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.