IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR MEASURING CORN, PULSE, SEEDS, OR OTHER PRODUCE USUALLY SOLD BY DRY MEASURE
Year: 1853

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION filed by John Jarman at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 28th June 1853.
1, JOHN JARMAN, of the City of Manchester, in the County of Lan-
caster, Commercial Traveller, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR MEASURING CORN,
PULSE, SEEDS, OR OTHER PRODUCE USUALLY SOLD BY DRY MEASURE," to be
as follows:-
I make a graduated scale on an external groove or rim round a
solid or hollow substance made of metal, wood, or any suitable ma-
terial, and place it on a stand so that the top circular rim or measure
shall slide round, or may be shifted from one groove to the other.
When the quantity requires an alteration of the measure the top rim
or measure thus forming the receptacle of any given quantity, as
marked on the graduated scale. By the alteration of a screw or peg
made to fit at any given quantity on the scale it can be easily shifted

page_text: from one screw hole to another, each hole indicating the quantity
required. The top of the substance or block will form the bottom of
the measure, and when large quantities require to be placed in sacks
the apparatus may be constructed with sliding doors, so that a boy who
can hold a sack up will be competent to fill any reasonable quantity
without waste, thus economising labor, time, and material; or the whole
quantity may be removed by means of the lever and pinion, as shewn
in the accompanying illustrative outline Drawing.
If the block or bottom substance be made of wood the groove should
be let in flush, and project thus , but if made of metal it may be
grooved in the body itself.

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION filed by John Jarman at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 28th June 1853.
I, JOHN JARMAN, of the City of Manchester, in the County of Lan-
caster, Commercial Traveller, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR MEASURING CORN,
PULSE, SEEDS, OR OTHER PRODUCE USUALLY SOLD BY DRY MEASURE," to be
as follows:-
I make a graduated scale on an external groove or rim round a
solid or hollow substance made of metal, wood, or any suitable ma-
terial, and place it on a stand so that the top circular rim or measure
shall slide round, or may be shifted from one groove to the other.
When the quantity requires an alteration of the measure the top rim
or measure thus forming the receptacle of any given quantity, as
marked on the graduated scale. By the alteration of a screw or peg
made to fit at any given quantity on the scale it can be easily shifted

page_text: from one screw hole to another, each hole indicating the quantity
required. The top of the substance or block will form the bottom of
the measure, and when large quantities require to be placed in sacks
the apparatus may be constructed with sliding doors, so that a boy who
can hold a sack up will be competent to fill any reasonable quantity
without waste, thus economising labor, time, and material; or the whole
quantity may be removed by means of the lever and pinion, as shown
in the accompanying illustrative outline Drawing.
If the block or bottom substance be made of wood the groove should
be let in flush, and project thus , but if made of metal it--may be
grooved in the body itself.

page_text: LONDON: Imited by GEORGE EDWARD EYRE and WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE.
Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. 1853.