HEATING CRUSHED SEED FOR MAKING CAKE, FOR DRYING SEEDS, CORN, AND OTHER GRAIN, AND FOR FEEDING MILLSTONES OR OTHER GRINDING APPARATUS
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Harvard, of Stoke Holy Cross, in the County
of Norfolk, and Joshua Womersley, of Stoke Holy Cross, in the County
of Norfolk aforesaid, for the Invention of "HEATING CRUSHED SEED FOR
MAKING CAKE, FOR DRYING SEEDS, CORN, AND OTHER GRAIN, AND FOR FEEDING
MILLSTONES OR OTHER GRINDING APPARATUS"
Sealed the 29th December 1854, and dated the 6th July 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Harvard and
Joshua Womersley at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 6th July 1854.
We, SAMUEL LARVARD and JOSHUA WOMERSLEY, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "HEATING CRUSHED SEED FOR MAKING CAKE, FOR
DRYING SEEDS, CORN, AND OTHER GRAIN, AND FOR FEEDING MILLSTONES OR OTHER
GRINDING APPARATUS," to be as follows:-
The above objects are effected by the use of machinery of the character
hereafter described, that is to say:-
In connection with suitable framework, we have a cylinder of some suitable
material, within which there is another cylinder; between the cylinders steam
is introduced. Or a single cylinder may be used, heated by fire, hot air, or steam.

page_text: Within the inner or single cylinder, propellers, vanes, or a series of fans (with
or without scrapers) work on a shaft, set in motion from its end by suitable
motive power. The inner or single cylinder is fed by a hopper. The seed, corn,
or other grain in its passage through the cylinder, by means of the propellers,
vanes, or fans, becomes heated or dried by the heat from the steam, &c. until it
reaches a receiving hopper, from which it is received into bags, as usual. The
outlet into and from the cylinder is regulated by a slide or screw.
For feeding millstones or other grinding apparatus, a cylinder or half
cylinder may be used, in connection with the propellers, vanes, or fans, and the
inlet and outlet to and from the cylinder is regulated by a slide or screw, as in
the heating apparatus.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Harvard and Joshua Womersley in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 4th January 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, SAMUEL
HARVARD, of Stoke Holy Cross, in the County of Norfolk, and JOSHUA
WOMERSLEY, of Stoke Holy Cross, in the County of Norfolk aforesaid, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the eighteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
Samuel Harvard and Joshua Womersley, Her special licence that we, the
said Samuel Harvard and Joshua Womersley, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said Samuel Harvard and Joshua
Womersley, our 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 "HEATING CRUSHED SEED
FOR MAKING CAKE, FOR DRYING SEEDS, CORN, AND OTHER GRAIN, AND FOR FEEDING
MILLSTONES OR OTHER GRINDING APPARATUS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said Samuel Harvard and Joshua Womersley, by an
instrument in writing under our hands and seals, should particularly describe

page_text: 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 we, the said Samuel Harvard and Joshua
Womersley, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:―
Our Invention, as stated in the Provisional Specification already filed,
consists in the peculiar arrangement of machinery for effecting the above
objects, the peculiar character of which machinery, or the means whereby it
was intended to carry the Invention into practical effect, being the adoption
of a cylinder or cylinders heated by steam, hot air, or fire, provided with vanes,
fans, blades, or propellers for propelling the corn, seeds, et cetra, through the
same, and delivering the same as required; all which, together with the manner
of performing the same, will be readily ascertained in and by the following
Specification, reference being had to the Drawings accompanying the said
Specification, by the words, figures, and letters placed thereon and herein
soformed to (vis)..

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its being ground by millstones. Fig. 4 is an end view of Fig. 1, shewing also
the horizontal shaft f, f, and the pullies 9, 9, all of which will be evident at
sight. Fig. 5 is a sectional elevation of another method of constructing
heating or drying machinery, embodying the principles described in Figs. 1 to 4,
with the addition of a ventilating tube s, s, in the centre, to carry off the
aqueous vapour escaping in the process of drying. The tube has a number of
perforations, and is covered with wire gauze, to retain the seeds in the inner
cylinder. As the same letters on this refer to the uses already described,
further explanation is unnecessary. Fig. 6 is a bird's eye view at the top of
Fig. 5, also equally evident. Fig. 7 is another mode of constructing heating
or drying machinery for the same purposes as above, and which for the sake
of explanation is shown in the act of feeding a pair of millstones, shown in
section y, c,=. In this heating or drying machinery the vanes are fixed to the
outer cylinder &, k, and the steam for the purpose of heating or drying is
admitted only into the inner cylinder p, p, by a small tube or pipe 7, as shewn
in Fig. 1, and the condensed water is allowed to escape by a similar pipe and
stop-cock o, as also shewn in that Figure, the outer cylinder k, k, being covered
with felting X, X, or other non-conducting substance, to retain the heat;
which outer cylinder k, k, is kept concentric with the inner cylinder p,p, by the
vanes h, h, impinging on the inner cylinder, which is correctly turned for that
purpose; and the outer cylinder k, k, is retained in its inclined position by the
friction roller r working upon the end face, also correctly turned for the pur-
pose. The end of the outer cylinder k, k, is serrated with cogs t, t, for the
purpose of driving the stirrer b, b. Motion is given to the outer cylinder by
the worm wheel u, u, fixed thereon, and driven by the worm wupon the
horizontal shaft f, f, shewn in Fig. 8, which is an end view and transverso
section of Fig. 7, shewing the vanes h, h, and the inner cylinder p, and also
the millstones y, z, and the framing for supporting the same is cut off for the
purpose of more clearly shewing the cylinders and vanes. It is not intended
to confine the application of the first-described machinery simply to heating or
drying crushed seed, grain, or seeds, nor the last-described machinery to
feeding millstones, nor is the precise way of feeding millstones described the
only one intended to be adopted, for it is obvious in feeding millstones
the machinery can be so placed as to feed two or more pairs of millstones as the
common dressing machines are now placed in corn mills. And, further, the
Inventors intend to apply either of the three modes of beating or drying
crushed seed, grain, or seeds, and also to supplying or feeding millstones, as
may be most conducive to manufacturing purposes.

page_text: Having now described the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is, the
Invention of Heating Crushed Seed for Making Cake, for Drying Seeds, Corn,
and other Grain, and for Feeding Millstones or other Grinding Apparatus, of
the nature and character herein-before set forth.
In witness whereof, we, the said Samuel Harvard and Joshua Womersley,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Second day of January, in
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
the
year
(L.B.)
JOSHUA WOMERSLEY. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the said
Samuel Harvard and Joshua Womersley,
in the presence of
SAMUEL HARYARD.
(L.B.)
JOSHUA WOMERSLEY. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the said
Samuel Harvard and Joshua Womersley,
in the presence of
W. J. WRIGHT, Sol',
Norwich.