INPROVEMENTS IN MILLS FOR GRINDING COFFEE, PEPPER, SPICES, AND OTHER SUBSTANCES
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Nye, of No. 79, Wardour Street, in the
County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "INPROVEMENTS IN MILLS FOR
GRINDING COFFEE, PEPPER, SPICES, AND OTHER SUBSTANCES."
Sealed the 18th December 1857, and dated the 29th June 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Nye at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 29th June
1857.
I, SAMUEL NYE, of No. 79, Wardour Street, in the County of Middlesex,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MILLS FOR GRINDING COFFEE, PEPPER, SPICES, AND OTHER SUBSTANCES," to be
as follows:-
This Invention consists of a cone (Fig. 1), the interior surface of which is
serrated, and of another cone (Fig. 2); having its exterior surface serrated,
which is made to revolve in the cone Fig. 1 by means of the winch a.
Fig. 3 represents the stand, which is provided with a cramp and thumb-
screw, by which it is readily fixed to and removed from a table or any other
convenient place; in the centre of the stand is a screw b,-by means of which
the mill is regulated. I also make the stand without the cramp and thumb-
screw; and in this case I make the cramp and thumbscrew separate, as
in Figure 4. Figure 5 represents an external elevation of the mill.
hopper into which the coffee, &c. is put to be ground.
c is the
And what I claim is, the mode of fixing the machine to a table or other
convenient place, and also of combining the parts, herein explained.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Nyo in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 29th
December 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
NYE, of No. 79, Wardour Street, in the County of Middlesex, Coffee Mill
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the
in the year of our Lord
day of
'
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the
year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Samuel Nye, Her special licence that I, the said Samuel Nye, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Samuel Nyc.
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agreo 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 MILLS FOR
GRINDING COFFEE, PEPPER, SPICES, AND OTHER SUBSTANCES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Samuel Nye, 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 Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Samuel Nye, do hereby declare tho
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
My Invention consists of a cone, the interior surface of which is serated, and
of another cono having its exterior surface serated, which is made to revolve
in the cone first mentioned by means of a winch. I form a stand, which
is provided with a cramp and thumbscrew, by which it is readily fixed to and
removed from a table or any other convenient place; in the centre of
the stand is a screw, by means of which the mill is regulated. I also make
the stand without the cramp and thumbscrew; and in this case I make the
cramp and thumbscrew separate.
In the Drawings hereunto annexed I have shewn one of these machines
constructed according to my Invention. Figure 1 represents an external

page_text: elevation of the same; Figure 2 is a cone with its interior surface serated;
(a) is the hopper into which the coffee, &c. is put to be ground; Figure 3 is
a cone with its exterior surface serated, which revolves in the first-mentioned
cone by means of the winch (6); Figure 4 is the stand with the cramp and
thumbscrew attached; in the centre of the stand is the regulator (c); Figure 5
is the stand without the cramp and thumbscrew; and Figure 6 is the cramp
and thumbscrew detached, which I make for fixing the stand, when made
as represented in Figure 5.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim as my.
improvement in mills for grinding coffee, pepper, spices, and other substances,
is the mode of fixing the machine to a table or other convenient place,
and also of combining the parts herein explained.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Nye, have hereunto set' my
hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of December, One thousand
aight hundred and fifty-savon
SAMUEL NYE. (L.S.)
Witness,
SAM. T. NYE.