A MACHINE FOR DRESSING OR BOLTING OF FLOUR AND MEAL
Year: 1781

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
SMITH, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, by His Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster,
the Twenty-fourth day of December, in the twenty-second year of His
reign, did give and grant unto me, the said Charles Smith, His special
licence that I, the said Charles Smith, during the term of years therein
expressed, should and might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A
MACHINE FOR DRESSING OR BOLTING OF FLOUR AND MEAL;" in which said
Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Charles
Smith, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner it is to be performed, to
be enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar"
months after the date of the said recited 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
Charles Smith, do hereby declare that my said method of Dressing or
Bolting Flour and Meal, mentioned in the said Patent, is described in the

page_text: two Plans thereof marked respectively Number 1 and Number 2, and the
references to such Plans hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Smith, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twentieth day of April, in the twenty-second year of His
said Majesty's reign, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven
hundred and eighty-two.
JAS HILTON,
THO. MILNE,
Clerks to Mr. Jones,
Attorney at Law in Manchester.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twentieth day of April, in the
year of our Lord 1782, the aforesaid Charles Smith came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, 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 Statutes made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King
and Queen W and Mary of England, and so forth, and in the Seventeenth
year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the Thirtieth day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand
..seven hundred and eighty-two.

page_text: C. The Flouvor Meal undressed coming from the shoe of the hopper into the sieves.
D.D. The Sieves which dress the Flour or Meal.
E. The finest Drest Flour or Meal.
6. The coarser sort which if not clean ezzough may be put into the hopper again
F. The Bran or Sudes clean dressed.
GGG. The Boxes to receive the Flour or Nil and the Bran or Sudes and to conver
them in the Sacks.
HHH. The Sacks to hold the flour or meat and the Bran or Sudes..
FF. The Shap which communicates uri. the main shaft or other wheel work mad
on purpose as suits best with the situation of the Mill or convenience of the Mile
KKK. The Crank which
gives the necessary motion to the machine or Sieves.
I. The Barrel Wheel fixed upon the Crank round which the Strap runs and puts
in motion when the Mill is going ever by Wind. Water.
or
M. The Button upon the Crank to support and keep the Machine in a proper
situation.
N. The hold fast fastened to the first time and embracing the Crank.
0.0. The Bands which holds the sieves together one of which can but be seen in this pla
the other of a similar size and shape being on the other side.
PP. The Tins which keep the sorts of flour or meal separate.
N.B. By taking away the higher tin and uniting the flour or meal boxes one sort
only will be made.
Q. The cross piece to support the Crank.
R. The Cord or Chain to support the love end of the Machine by raising or lowering of
be made to dress slower = faster coarser or finer.
which it
may.
S.S. The steps in which the Crank runs.
The enrolled drawing is colored.