A MACHINE FOR CUTTING OF WHEAT AND ALL OTHER CORN
Year: 1799

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
JOSEPH BOYCE, of Pine Apple Place, in the Parish of Saint Maryle-
bone, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing
date at Westminster the Fourth day of July in the thirty-ninth year
of His reign, give and grant unto me the said Joseph Boyce, His especial
licence that I, the said Joseph Boyce, during the term of years therein
mentioned, should and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within
England, Wales, and the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention
of "A MACHINE FOR CUTTING OF WHEAT AND ALL OTHER CORN;" in which
said Letters Patent, there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said
Joseph Boyce, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to
cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be enrolled in His Ma-
jesty's High Court of Chancery, within one calendar month after the
date o the said recited Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the
said Joseph Boyce, do hereby declare that my said Invention is de-
scribed in the drawings hereunto annexed, and the following description.
thereof; that is to say, A, the cart, framed similar to a common cart,

page_text: about five feet six inches long and three feet wide, more or less; the
head or front of the cart projects about eighteen inches to the right
hand side, more or less. B, the axle-tree, with two wheels three feet
diameter, more or less, on each shoulder of the axletrec. Next to
the nave of the wheels is fixed an iron collar, about ten inches diameter,
more or less, with holes near its periphery, to receive the end of a bolt
which is placed on the naves of the wheels in order to lock the wheels
and axletree together when the machine is at work. Near the right-
hand side of the cart is the bevel gear-wheel C, fixed on the axletree.
with forty teeth, more or less, which works in a bevel pinion D, with
thirteen teeth, more or less; this pinion is fixed on an iron shaft or
spindle E, which passes diagonally through the right-hand side of the
cart. On the front end of the spindle E, is fixed the bevel wheel F,
having fifty-five teeth, more or less. G, is a spindle standing perpendicular,
and nearly in a line with the wheel of the cart, on which is fixed the
bevel pinion H, having fourteen teeth, more or less, which works in the
bevel wheel F. On the lower end of the spindle G, is a collar, I, fitted
to move up or down occasionally. On the collar I, is fixed horizontally
the knives, with the points inclining towards the ground. K, is a guard
fixed over the knives, which is made to extend or contract occasionally,
and is shaped so as to guide the corn to the knives, and to lay it smooth
against the standing corn. The machine may be made on a larger
or smaller scale, as the nature of the work may require.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Boyce, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Third day of August in the year of
our Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the Third day of August, in the
thirty-ninth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third,
the said Joseph Boyce came before our said Lord the King in His S
Chancery, and acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all- and
everything therein contained and specified in form above written, and
also the Instrument aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of

page_text: the several statutes made in the sixth year of the reign of the late
King and Queen William and Mary of England, and so forth, and in
the seventeenth, twenty-third and thirty-seventh years of the reign of
His present Majesty King George the Third.