A MACHINE FOR THE CLEANING OF WHEAT, WHICH MACHINE IS WROUGHT BY WATER, TOGETHER WITH THE CORNE MILL, AND IS SO CONTRIVED AS TO TAKE AWAY ALL THE STAINS, SHUTT BAGGS, AND OTHER TRUMPERY, WHICH CANNOT BE CARRIED OF BY THE METHOD HOW PRACTICED OF CLEANING WHEAT, AND WHICH WILL PROVE EQUALLY ADVANTAGEOUS BOTH TO THE BUYER AND SELLER
Year: 1731

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
BARLOW, of Reading, in the County of Berks, Millwright, send greeting.
WHEREAS our Sovereign Lord George the Second, by the grace of God,
of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, &c. hath,
by His Letters Patents, under His Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Two-and-twentieth day of March, in the fourth year of His
raigne, granted unto me, the said Robert Barlow, my executors, administrators,
and assignes, the whole use and benefitt of my new Invention of "A MACHINE
FOR THE CLEANING OF WHEAT, WHICH MACHINE IS WROUGHT BY WATER, TOGETHER
WITH THE CORNE MILL, AND IS SO CONTRIVED AS TO TAKE AWAY ALL THE STAINS,
SHUTT BAGGS, AND OTHER TRUMPERY, WHICH CANNOT BE CARRIED OF BY THE
METHOD HOW PRACTICED OF CLEANING WHEAT, AND WHICH WILL PROVE EQUALLY
ADVANTAGEOUS BOTH TO THE BUYER AND SELLER," to hold and exercise the samo
within England, Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for and during
the terme of fourteen years, according to the Statute in such case made and
provided; in which said Letters Patents there is a proviso in the words
following (viz'): provided also, that if the said Robert Barlow do not parti-
cularly describe and ascertain the nature of his said Invention, by an instru-
ment or writing under his hand and seal, to be inrolled in our High Court of
Chancery within four kalendar moneths from the date of these our Letters
Patents, that then and in such case these our Letters Patents shall forthwith
cease, determine, and be utterly void, to all intents and purposes, anything
herein-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding, as
by the said recited Letters Patent (relation being thereunto had) may more
all and at larve annear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YEE, that I, the said Robert Barlow, in obedience to His
Majestie's said Letters Patent, have described and ascertained, and by these
Presents doe describe and ascertain, the nature of my said Invention of a
machine for the cleaning of wheat to consist of seven parts, by which the whole
operation of my said Invention is performed in manner following, viz*:--
The first part is a hopper with large wyer work at bottom, which letts all
tho wheat through, and takes out the trumpery that is larger than the corne.
The second is a large pair of bellows that blows away the smutt baggs and
all other dust that is lighter than wheat.
The third is a hopper, with fine wire work, that takes out the small seeds
and sand and other dust that is smaller than corne.
The fourth is a barrell which resembles a nutmeg grater within side that
scowers the corn, and takes of the smutt stains and the beard which grows att
the ends of the corn, which is the cause of itts growing stale and musty.
The fifth is a wire work that takes out the soot and small seeds, and other
dust and soile that is smaller than wheat.
The sixth is a spout where the corn runs out when it is clean.
The seventh is a case that incloses the whole work, and receives the soil
and all the trumpery that comes from the corn, which machine is to be drove
or worked either by water, wind, horses, or men.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto sett my hand and seal, this Sixteenth
day of June, in the fifth year of His said Majestie's raigne, anno
Sealed and delivered (being first duely
stamped) in the presence of,
JOHN TENCH.
JAMES STUBBS.
ROBERT BARLOW.
"
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ET MEMORANDUM, quod dic et anno suprascriptis prefatus Robertus
Barlow venit coram dicto Domino Rege in Cancellaria sua et recognovit 80
Scriptum predictum, ac oñia et singula in eodem content. et spificat, in forma
supradict. Necnon Scriptum predictum impress. fuit secundum tenorem Statut.
fact annoq, regni Regis Gulielmi et Regine Marie &c. Sexto.
Irr. xvi° die Junii supradict.