IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR Apparatus for CLEANING SEEDS AND SUCH LIKE SUBSTANCES
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Bonc, of Framlingham, in the County
of Suffolk, Machinist, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MEANS OR Apparatus for CLEANING SEEDS AND SUCH LIKE SUBSTANCES
"
Scaled the 23rd November 1875, and dated the 29th July 1875.

page_text: the lower part of frame is another roller. Round these two rollers
passes an endless band made by preference of canvas. Immediately
over the top part of the canvas and fitted to said frame is a hopper,
and connected to the upper roller is a fly wheel with handle in connection
therewith for working the endless band.
The action of the machine is as follows:- The seed or grain is fed
into the hopper on to the canvas, and generally so as to have a uniform
spread over the whole of the surface of the band, a bar or piece of wood
being fitted just above the surface of the canvas, so that the seed as it
falls from the hopper strikes against such bar, and in passing under
same is spread into an uniform layer.
The canvas band as the sced is fed on to same is caused to revolve
by the operator actuating same by means of the handle, and as the band
descends, the seed being heavier than the husk and other impurities,
goes with it, and by the time the seed arrives at the bottom end of the
band it is purified and passes over the roller into a suitable receptacle to
receive same. The impurities howover by their lightness ascend and go
up over the top roller into any suitable receptacle as required.
The machine, as above described. is to be driven by hand, although
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Bone in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 28th January 1876
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
BONE, of Framlingham, in the County of Suffolk, Machinist, send a
greeting
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of July, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heurs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said William Bone, Her

page_text: special licence, that I, the said William Bone, my executors, admini-
strators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Bone,
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
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR CLEANING SEEDS AND SUCH LIKE
SUBSTANCES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
William Bone, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and scals, 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

page_text: from the nature of my said Invention the same may be varied to suit
practical requirements.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Bone, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.
Witness,
ROBT. CAPON,
Dennington,
Wickham Mkt.,
Suffolk.
W. BONE. (L.S.)