CERTAIN HAND CORN MILLS
Year: 1768

page_text: TO ALL PEOPLE TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
SAMPSON FREETH, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Merchant, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, by His Royal
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Sixth day of October now last past, hath given and granted
unto me, the said Sampson Freeth and SAMUEL FREETH, of Birmingham
aforesaid, Merchant (my partner), our executors, administrators, and assigns,
and every of us, by ourselves, or by our deputy or deputies, servants or
agents, or such others as we, our executors, administrators, or assigns, shall at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after during the term of fourteen years, especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, to make, use, exercise, and vend "CERTAIN HAND
CORN MILLS," which we had, with much labour and expence, invented and
brought to perfection, for the grinding of wheat in private families, in a more
easy and expeditious manner than had been then done by any other mill or
machine calculated for private use theretofore invented; in which said Letters
l'atent is contained a proviso obliging me and the said Samuel Freeth, or one
of us, by writing under our hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one
of us, to cause a description of our said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of

page_text: Chancery within four calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent, as in and by the said Letters Patent, referenco
being thereunto had, may (amongst other things) more at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Sampson Freeth, in compliance of the
said proviso, do, by this my Instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
declare that our said new-invented Hand Corn Mills are made and performed
in the manner and according to the Plan and description following (that is
to say)
:-
The windlass A is fixed to the axis of the carriage B; this axis moves in
two brass bushes fixed in two strong iron cramps C, C, which, by two
pins, are screwed to the post on which the mill is fixed. On the other
extremity of this axis there is a fly wheel D, three foot and a half in diameter.
Next to the windlass, on the same axis, is fixed a cog wheel E, full five inches
diameter, which moves the larger wheel F, which measures full ten inches
diameter. This wheel F is fixed to the axis of a roller which moves in the
box G (both the roller and the box are made of refined iron, and case-
hardened) at H, H, where the two extremities of the roller's axis are; it is
incompassed with brass, which is let into the side plates, keeping the box G
close; on one end of this axis is placed the regulating screw pin I, which is
to act upon the center of the roller's axis to make it move either higher or
lower. The roller, as well as the box G in which it turns round, are both
made a little taper, and full of fine teeth, which increase in fineness from the
smaller to the larger end; these teeth first break, then crush the corn either
into fine or coarse meal, according as the regulating screw pin is sett. One
man may work this mill with great ease, and it discharges the meal without
clogging the mill at the spout K.
In witness whereof, I, the said Sampson Freeth, have hereunto set my
hand and seal this Thirtieth day of January, in the ninth year of the
reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of God
of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith,
and so forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred
and sixty-nine.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Thirty-first day of January, in
the year of our Lord 1769, the aforesaid Samuel Freeth came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification 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 Third day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and sixty-nine.