A MACHINE FOR THRESHING CORN AND OTHER GRAIN, ON A NEW CONSTRUCTION
Year: 1810

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JonN
ONIONS, of Broseley, in the County of Salop, Iron Master, do send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty George the Third, by His Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-second day of May now last
past, did give and grant unto me, the said John Onions, my executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, His special licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said John Onions, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
máke, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A MACHINE FOR THRESHING CORN AND
OTHER GRAIN, ON A NEW CONSTRUCTION;" in which said Letters Patent there is
contained a proviso, obliging me, the said John Onions, 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
High Court of Chancery within two calendar months next and immediately
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, otherwise the saiḍ
Letters Patent to be void.
A
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said John
Onions; do hereby declare that my said Invention is fully ascertained by the
Drawings in the margin of these Presents, and the following description thereof,
that is to say:

page_text: Figure 1, end view of the iron frame, &c. of the thrashing machine, a, a, a,
the cast-iron frame that carries the thrashing wheel; b, b, the thrashing wheel,
with beaters, as marked A, on one of the ten squares, made of wood, faced with
iron; c and d the feeding rollers that take in the unthrashed grain; 6, the circular
part of the cast-iron frame, with seventeen common square bars of wrought iron,
one inch square each, as marked black; f, a cast-iron receiving box; g, a cast-
iron bar for delivering the straw; h, a cast-iron bridge bar to carry the horizon-
tal shaft made to fit both sides of the large frame, so that the machine may be
fixed on any side of the barn doors; i and k, the two wheels for driving the feeding
rollers, with cross bold, as dotted; 7, the flat board for supplying the machine
with grain; m, a wire riddle to separate the grain from the straw; n, a board
with hinges to prevent the grain from flying forward; o, a cast-iron tilt ring,
covered with boards half an inch thick to keep the dust from the man that
feeds the machine; p, the bottom sills, six feet six inches long, of wood; q, a
spur wheel, six feet four inches diameter, which is fixed on the horizontal shaft,
working into the pinion at r, that drives the beates wheel; s, a carriage and
small pinion to drive the winnowing machine. Figure 2, front view of the
machine, shewing the length of the beates wheel with its axes, &c. The letter
A is the axes; B, the pinion that drives the beates; G, the spur wheel, as
shewn in Figure the First; D, the horizontal shaft, thirteen feet six inches
long, of cast-iron. Figure 3, plan and elevation of the machinery out of the
barn. The letter E is an iron wheel, six feet three inches diameter, working
into a pinion at F, eleven and a half inches diameter; G, the shaft that is
under the horse path, thirteen feet six inches long. Figure 4: the letter H,
the upright shaft; I, a section of the bevil wheel; K, the pinion; L, a
wrought-iron spindle; M, the horizontal shaft; N, N, the triangular supports
to the upright shaft; O, the bottom ring or foundation plate; P, P, the ratchet
wheel, to prevent the horse lever from pushing upon the horses when the machine
is to be stopped. Figure 5: S, plan of the top ratchet, shewing the boxes for
fixing the horse levers to. Figure 6: R, plau of the top that connects the
triangular supports to the upright shaft. Figure 7: T, T, T, standard under the
level pinions. Figure 8: u, plan of one of the triangular supports to the upright
shaft at H; b, the cross plate under the upright shaft; w, a roller to prevent
the large wheel from springing from the pinion.
hand
In witness whereof, I, the said John Onions, have hereunto set my
and scal, the Eighteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and ten
JOHN (L.B.) ONIONS.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eighteenth day of July, in the
fiftieth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, the said John
Onions came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged
the instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified,
in form above written. And also the instrument aforesaid was stamped
according to the tenor of the Statute made in the forty-eighth year of His said
Maiesty's reion.
Inrolled the Twenty-first day of July, One thousand eight hundred
and ten.