A MACHINE FOR GRINDING OR CUT- TING MALT, SPLITTING BEANS, AND ANY OTHER KIND OF GRAIN, AND VARIOUS OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1810

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
WILLIAMS, of Gravel Lane, Southwark, Millwright, 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 Second day of August now last
past, did give and grant unto me, the said Charles Williams, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, His special licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said Charles Williams, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A MACHINE FOR GRINDING OR CUT-
TING MALT, SPLITTING BEANS, AND ANY OTHER KIND OF GRAIN, AND VARIOUS
OTHER ARTICLES;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso,
obliging me, the said Charles Williams, under my hand and seal, to cause a
particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, to be enrolled in His Majesty's High Court
of Chancery within two calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said recited Letters Patent, otherwise the same utterly to cease, deter-
mine, and become void, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had,
may more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Williams, in compliance with
the said proviso, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention is
fully described and ascertained by the Drawings in the margin of these
Presents, and as follows, that is to say:-
My machine or mill is composed of a cylindrical or conical roller made of
cast iron, or any other metal, with grooves cut in it in an oblique or parallel
direction. This roller acts against loose knives made of hardened steel,
screwed together so as to form the same curve as the roller. These loose
knives or cutters may be taken out and ground or sharpened at pleasure.
The Drawing, Fig. 1, is an elevation of the mill. a is a roller, put in motion
by a steam engine or any other power, which roller acts against the knives
or cutters at b, fixed in a parallel direction with the roller. The malt or any
other matter to be ground or cut passes between the roller and the cutters.
c is an adjusting screw to keep the roller at a proper distance from the knives;
d represents one of two levers that act against the brasses of the bearing of
the roller, and keep the roller up to its work. The weights e are made to slide
on the levers d, so that they may be adjusted, and more weight not permitted
to act against the roller than is sufficient to keep it to its work. f is a carriage
to carry the roller and cutters, but which may be fixed in various forms; 9 is
the spindle to which the moving power is to be applied; h, h, the sliding
brasses for the roller to work in; i is a double wired screen to take the
rubbish and dust from the malt or other matter; the upper wire is coarse
enough to let the malt or other matter through, and the bottom one to take
out the dust. k is a beater fixed on the screen, to act against projections on
the roller, to give motion to the skreen, to shake the malt or other matter;
7 is a spout to clear the top screen of the rubbish; m is a hopper fixed at the
top of the skreen, in which is put a wire screen to take out the thickest of the
rubbish; n is a regulating sluice to feed the mill.
Fig. 2 is an end view of the mill. a is the roller; 6 is the cutters; c, c,
adjusting screws; f, f, carriage for roller; g, roller spindle; i, doubled wired
screen; k, the beaters; 1, the spout to clear the rubbish; m, hopper at the
top of screen; n, regulating sluice to feed the mill.
Fig. 3, plan of the mill. 6, the knives; c, c, set screws; d, d, the levers;
c, c, regulating weights; f, f, carriage for roller; 9, roller spindle; i, double
wired screen; h, k, beaters; 1, spout of upper screen.
Fig. 4, section of roller and knives on a three-inch scale. a, sagment of
roll; b, knives bolted down together with plate cat top; o, a hopper to keep
the grain or other matter to the mill.
The description I have now given is of a mill to grind malt where great

page_text: quantities are wanted, but I make machines or mills in different forms and
sizes, to suit the work intended to be done and the power to be applied to give
them motion.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Williams, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Second day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and ten.