AN IMPROVED COMBINED THRESHING MACHINE FRAME
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Riley, of Whetstone, near Leicester, in
the County of Leicester, Machine Proprietor, for the Invention of
"AN IMPROVED COMBINED THRESHING MACHINE FRAME."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Riley at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
29th January 1868.
I, CHARLES RILEY, of Whetstone, near Leicester, in the County of
5 Leicester, Machine Proprietor, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVED COMBINED THRESHING MACHINE FRAME," to be
as follows, that is to say :-
This Invention relates to
combined threshing machine frames, and
consists of an improved form or construction and manufacture thereof

page_text: for increasing the strength and rigidity of the frame in order to lessen,
prevent, or compensato the injurious effect of vibration upon the
machine from locomotion, and also to lessen the injurious effect of
the machinery when in motion upon the frame or framework when
the latter is stationary. The usual mode of constructing these frames is
to employed wood, and to mortice the same together at the angles.
In the improved construction I dispence with wood and substitute
iron rolled to an angular or trough-like section, and weld or rivit or
bolt the same together at the angles, or bend the metal itself to
the required form by heating and forging. By the substitution of
metal scantlings and rivitted or welded joints I obtain greater strength,
increased space, and a more secure base or foundation for fixing the
machinery and gearing in position. The metal frame is also less
liable to injury from fire or other accidental causes when travelling or
stationary.
SPECIFICATION filed in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, and of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, by the said
Charles Riley in the Great Scal Patent Office on the 4th August
1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
RILEY, of Whetstone, near Leicester, in the County of Leicester,
Machine Proprietor, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the
thirty-first year of Her reign, did for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Charles Riley, Her special licence
that I, the said Charles Riley, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Charles Riley, 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 "AN IMPROVED COMBINED THRASHING

page_text: MACHINE FRAME," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Charles Riley, 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 Scal Patent Office on or before the
Fourth day of August, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Riley, do hereby declare
the nature of said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, that is to say :-
This Invention relates to combined thrashing machine frames and
the like, and consists of an improved form or construction and manu-
facture thereof, or parts thereof, for increasing the strength and rigidity
of such frames or parts thereof in order to lessen, prevent, or compensate
the injurious effects of vibration upon the machinery from locomotion,
and also to lessen the injurious effects of the machinery when in
motion upon the frame or framework when the latter is stationary.
The usual mode of constructing these and similar machine frames is
to use or employ wood scantlings, and to mortice the same together
at the angles or joints. In the improved construction I dispense with
wood and substitute iron rolled to an angular, trough-like, hollow, or
other suitable section, and weld, rivet, or bolt the same together at the
angles and joints, or bend the metal itself to the required form by
heating and forging. By the substitution of metal scantlings and
rivetted or welded joints I obtain greater strength, increased space,
and a more secure base or foundation for fixing the machinery and
gearing in position. The metal frame is also less liable to injury from
fire or other accidental causes when travelling or stationary.
Having thus described the nature and object of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I hereby further
declare that what I claim and desire to secure by the above in part
recited Letters Patent is, an angle iron frame and the use or employment
of angle iron or iron rolled or otherwise formed or shaped to an angular
trough-like, hollow, or other suitable section with and without plated,
bent, rivetted, bolted, or welded corners, joints, or angles, in the
construction of frames and parts of frames for combined thrashing

page_text: machines, and in the construction of frames similar or analagous thereto,
also in whole or in part.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Riley, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand cight hundred and sixty-eight.