AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF TURNIP CUTTERS
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Hammond Bentall, of Heybridge, in the
County of Essex, Ironfounder, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT
IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF TURNIP CUTTERS "
Sealed the 28th January 1859, and dated the 22nd November 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Hammond Bentall
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 22nd November 1858.
I, EDWARD HAMMOND BENTALL, of Heybridge, in the County of Essex,
Ironfounder, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN
IMPROVEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF TURNIP CUTTERS," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to a method of discharging the dirt and the chips
made in turnip cutters separately from the other portions of the cut turnip.
The Invention applies chiefly to the Gardner or barrel turnip cutter, and
consists in providing it with an additional spout or discharge for those portions
that do not find their way into the barrel, but lie outside the barrel until
discharged. By this means the chips and dirt are effectually prevented from
mixing with the portions which fall as they are cut within the barrel, and are
thence discharged either at one or both ends thereof.
5 SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edward Hammond Bentall in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 21st May 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
HAMMOND BENTALL, of Heybridge, in the County of Essex, Ironfounder,
O send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Edward Hammond Bentall, Her special license that I, the said Edward
Hammond Bentall, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said Edward Hammond Bentall, 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 "AN
IMPROVEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF TURNIP CUTTERS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Edward Hammond Bentall, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, 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 tho
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward Hammond Bentall, 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, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed,
and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say) :-
This Invention of "An Improvement in the Construction of Turnip
Cutters" relates to a method of discharging the dirt and the chips made in
turnip cutters in such a manner that they may be collected separately from
the other and clean portions of the cut root or turnip.
The Invention applies chiefly to the Gardner or barrel turnip cutter, and
consists in providing it with an additional spout or discharge to receive and
convey away those portions of the root that do not pass through the knives
and find their way into the barrel, but lie outside the barrel until they are
discharged. By this means the chips and dirt are effectually prevented from
mixing with the portions which fall as they are cut within the barrel, and are
thence discharged either at one or both ends of the barrel thereof.
In the accompanying Drawing, Fig. 1 represents in sectional view a
Gardner's turnip cutter with my improvement adapted thereto.
a, a, is the
wooden framing and box of the machine; and 6, the cylinder, which is
mounted on the axle c, and rotated in the usual manner. This cylinder is
provided with the well-known knives or cutting instruments d, d, which cut or

page_text: reduce the root into pieces of an uniform size, or nearly so, and all the pieces
so cut off pass between the knives into the interior of the barrel or cylinder,
from the open ends of which they are discharged, and fall down a spout e into
any suitable receptacle placed below. An additional spout f is adapted to the
box a in front of the cylinder or barrel in such a manner that the dirt and also
the chips that pass the point g without entering the interior of the barrel will
fall into the spout f, and be conveyed away out of the machine. The same
object (namely, that of discharging the dirt and chips separately from the clean
cut portions of the root,) may be effected by causing the cylinder or barrel to
discharge its contents from both ends into spouts or shutes placed outside,
instead of allowing the clean cut portions of the root to fall into a spout or
hopper placed below like the spout e, as is usually the case. The dirt and
chips may then be allowed to pass down the spout e into a suitable receptacle
placed below to receive them.
I would remark, that although I have constructed machines in this manner
and found them to answer the purpose, I prefer the plan shewn in the Drawing,
as it is much simpler in form and arrangement.
Having now described my Invention of "An Improvement in the Con-
struction of Turnip Cutters," and explained the manner of carrying the same
into effect, I wish it to be understood that I claim as the Invention secured to
me by Letters Patent as aforesaid, the application to rotary machines for
cutting roots or turnips of an additional spout, so arranged as to receive the
dirt or chips of the root (which do not pass into the interior of the cylinder or
barrel), and convey the same away to a suitable separate receptacle, and thereby
prevent them from mixing with the clean cut portions.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Hammond Bentall, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, the Seventeenth day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
o Witness,
J. W. MOFFATT,
66, Chancery Lane.
E. H. BENTALL. (L.S.)