AN ENTIRELY NEW AND PARTICULAR KIND OF MACHINE OR ENGINE FOR PRESSING SUGAR CANES AND SQUEEZING THE JUICES THEREFROM, WHICH, ACTUATED BY WHEELS UPON A PECULIAR AND MUCH MORE SIMPLE CONSTRUCTION THAN ANY INVENTION OF THE LIKE NATURE HITHERTO FOUND OUT, AND, AS I HUMBLY CONCEIVE, WOULD BE MUCH MORE USEFULL AND ADVANTAGEOUS TO THE PUBLICK THAN ANY INTION OR DISY OF
Year: 1773

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
FLEMING, now of the Minories, London, Mill Carpenter, late of Grenada,
in the West Indies, send greeting.
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WHEREAS His Majesty King George the Third, by His Letters Patent
under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the
Eighteenth day of December, in the fourteenth year of His reign, reciting that I,
the said John Fleming, had, by my Petition, humbly represented unto His said
Majesty that I had found out and invented "AN ENTIRELY NEW AND PARTICULAR
KIND OF MACHINE OR ENGINE FOR PRESSING SUGAR CANES AND SQUEEZING THE
JUICES THEREFROM, WHICH, ACTUATED BY WHEELS UPON A PECULIAR AND MUCH
MORE SIMPLE CONSTRUCTION THAN ANY INVENTION OF THE LIKE NATURE HITHERTO
FOUND OUT, AND, AS I HUMBLY CONCEIVE, WOULD BE MUCH MORE USEFULL AND
ADVANTAGEOUS TO THE PUBLICK THAN ANY INVENTION OR DISCOVERY OF THE LIKE
NATURE," and praying His Majesty's Letters Patent for the sole making,
using, and vending my said Invention within that part of Great Britain called
England, the Dominion of Wales, Town of Berwicke-upon-Tweed, and His
Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, for the term of fourteen years
from the date of the said Letters Patent; in which said Letters Patent is
contained a provisoe that if I, the said John Fleming, shall not particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and

page_text: seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within four calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and
advantages whatsoever thereby granted, shall cease, determine, and become
void, as in and by His Majesty's said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto
had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Fleming, in compliance with the
said provisoe, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, by the Plan or particular
thereof hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Fleming, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirty-first day of March, in the fourteenth year
of His said Majesty's reign, and in the year of our Lord One thousand

page_text: Figure 2 is a haft of cast iron.
each other and interject about
m is the head. q, q, is two mortises across.
their length. Their length is twice their
breadth. The substance of iron on each side of the mortice is of the breadth
of the mortice. n, the neck. The diameter is one half the square of one
side of the head; the length is the same as the diameter.
0, 0, are two arms
for fixing it in the wood; p, two more on the contrary side. There must be,
a pin cast to each end for turning the neck by.
.
Figure 3, a perspective view of the whole. A, A, C, C, E, F, is explained
in Figure 1. g, g, are two gudgeons or pivots that go through the rollers.
There is a tenon on two sides of the gudgeon, about twenty inches from the
largest end. The tenon is about one fourth of an inch and the whole breadth
of the gudgeon. This tenon prevents the roller from slipping on the gudgeon
when let in the wood. The roller is made of several peices of wood, and
borne together by the case and wheel. There is a strong iron hoop on the
top of the rollers, which also binds the peices of wood together. d, the.
wallener wheel mentioned in Figure 1, that goes over the spindle. (d) is tho
wheel as it is fixed, and is of cast iron, with holes in it to answer the distance
of the coggs upon the roller wheels. This wheel is fixed by four arms of
hammer'd iron, two to each part of the wheel; they go across and through
the spindle. There is a part let in the wheel, which projects beyond the
spindle, to which the wheel is fixed by bolts. The holes for the wallerers in
the lower part of the wheel must not be through, so that the wallerers may
turn on a pivot. The wallerers must be of hammer'd iron pointed at one end,
about three inches of each end turned, of an inch smaller than holes in wallerer
wheel, and brass run on the ends, and turned to fit the holes in the wheels.
The brass prevents the holes in the wheels from wearing, and may be renewed
when wore off. i, a wheel fixed at the end of the shaft, which has a set of
wallerers made of cast iron, and brass run on them, as in the wallerer wheel
on the spindle. There is a set of boxes of the same iron let in the wheel for
the wallerer to turn in. This wheel turns the wheel K, which is fixed on the
spindle and gives motion to the rolers. h, the wood in which the iron shaft is
fixed, and is in four peices, bound about the shaft by iron hoops. t, t, two
arms that go through the mortices of the shaft. The arms are across and let
about an inch in each other, which prevents them from slipping. m, m, m, m, the
vanes fixed on the arms by iron clamps. The laths the sales are fixed on are
on an angle of 30 degrees at the end next the shaft, and continues of an
equal breadth to the end of the arm; from the end of the arm to the end of
the point it diminishes one third;
as (m, m, m, m; the other
of the sales are on one side of the point,
on the other side, as n, n, n, n. The angle

page_text: diminishes from the end of the arm to the end of the point from 30 to
10 degrees. The neck of the shaft runs on a brass, the same as all the
gudgeons or pivots do. This method of making rollers will answer water and
cattle mills for the same purpose, and also the method of turning the cane.
The method of making lanthron wheels with
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tipt in brass will be
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that the Thirty-first day of March, in the
year last above written, the said John Fleming 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 stampt according to the tenor of the Statute
made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen William and
Mary of England. and so forth.
Inrolled the Thirty-first day of March, in the year above written.