IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR BERADING CONTENT AND HAR SEMANAS BREAKING STONES AND OTHER HARD SUBSTANCES
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Sir John Scott Lillie, Companion of the
Most Honourable Order of the Bath, of 4, South Street, Finsbury,
Loudon, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR
BERADING CONTENT AND HAR SEMANAS
"
Sealed the 13th April 1854, and dated the 13th October 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Sir John Scott
Lillie at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 13th October 1853.
I, Sir JOHN SCOTT LILLIE, Companion of the Most Honorable
Order of the Bath, of 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, do hereby
declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
FOR BREAKING STONES AND OTHER HARD SUBSTANCES" to be as follows:—
My improvements consist in the construction of machinery for
breaking stone & other hard substances into small pieces, instead of
exposing such substances to be crushed into powder by what are termed
rushing machines, which I propose to effect by means of stops or studs
so placed as to prevent the surface of the hammer, wheel, or other weights
used for such purposes coming in contact with the surface on which

page_text: such stones or other hard substances are placed; the distance at which
these two surfaces are kept apart regulating the size of the broken
pieces.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Sir John Scott Lillie in the Great Seal Patont
Office on the 18th April 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
Sir JoN SCOTT LILLIE, of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, of
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent. bearing date the Thirteenth day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the seven-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give & grant unto me, the said Sir John Scott Lillic, Her special
license that I, the said Sir John Scott Lillic, my executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, or such others as J, the said Sir John Scott
Lillie, 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
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR BREAKING STONES AND OTHER HARD
SUBSTANCES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Sir
John Scott Lillie, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, & in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the
same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calender
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Sir John Scott Lillie, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, that is to say:

page_text: My improvements consist in the construction of machinery for
breaking stones, ores, or other hard substances into small pieces, instead
of exposing such substances to be crushed into powder by what are
termed crushing machines. This object I propose carrying into effect
by means of stops, studs, or rails so placed as to prevent the surfaces
of the hammers, wheels, or other machines used for such purposes
coming in contact with the the anvils, floors, or other surfaces on which
such stones, ores, or other hard substances are placed; the distance at
which these two surfaces are kept apart by such stops, studs, or rails,
will regulate the size of the broken pieces.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner of carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that
I do not confine myself to the precise details herein laid down, so long
as the principal features of the Invention be retained; but what I claim
as new, and intended to be protected by the hercin in part recited
Letters Patent, is, the construction of machinery for breaking stones or
other hard substances into pieces of any required size by means of stops,
studs, or rails, whereby the said substances, when broken, are prevented
from being reduced to powder.
In witness whereof, I, the said Sir John Scott Lillie, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of April, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
J.
S. LILLIE.
(L.S.)