THE APPLI- CATION OF CERTAIN MACHINERY TO THE PURPOSE OF BREAKING OR CRUSHING OF SUGAR
Year: 1819

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
BROCKSOPP, of Fore Street, Cripplegate Without the City of London, Grocer
and Tea Dealer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-third day of
February, in the fifty-ninth year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the
said Thomas Brocksopp, my exors, admors, and assigns, His especial licence,
full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Thomas Brocksopp,
my exors, admors, and assigns, during the term of years therein mentioned,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "THE APPLI-
CATION OF CERTAIN MACHINERY TO THE PURPOSE OF BREAKING OR CRUSHING OF
SUGAR;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso that if I,
the said Thomas Brocksopp, shall not particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause
the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages
whatsoever thereby granted, shall utterly cease, determine, and become void,

page_text: as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Brocksopp, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly
described and ascertained by the Drawing hereunto annexed and the following
description thereof (that is to say) :-
The Application of certain Machinery to the Purpose of Breaking or
Crushing of Sugar consists of applying a mill or rolling machine, of a con-
struction hereafter to be described, to the breaking, crushing, or reducing of
the lumps of brown sugar from the coagulated form in which parts of it are
found upon receiving the sugar out of the hogshead, which breaking or
crushing has been hitherto imperfectly performed by hand with a mallet,
pestle, rolling pin, or some such like contrivance.
The various parts and most convenient construction of my mill or rolling
machine will be seen by the annexed Drawing and following description, the
respective letters referring to the same parts of the machine in every Figure
(that is to say):-A is a frame with standards supporting a pair of rollers and
hoppers above, and the box below for containing the pounded sugar. B is the
box under the rollers which receives the sugar after it has passed through the
rollers and become broken or powdered. C, a hopper for receiving the sugar
from the hogshead in its rough lumpy state; from the hopper it falls down
between the rollers. D, D, two rollers which devolve against each other by
means of the pinion and cog wheel attached to these axles being put in action;
but as the pinion and cog wheel are of different diameter, the rollers will
'necessarily turn with different velocities, and consequently rub against each other.
"There are also grooves in one roller, and pins in the other, in order to assist
in catching such lumps of the sugar as might not otherwise be drawn between
the rollers. E is a box or case covering the rollers, and also supporting the
hopper. F is a knife or scraper placed under the roller that receives the
cogs, so as to prevent the sugar from adhering to that roller. G is a fly-
wheel attached to the axle of the pinion, and turned by the handle designed
to regulate the motion.
In witness whereof, 1, the said Thomas Brocksopp, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
THOMAS (L.S.) BROCKSOPP.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-third day of August, in
the year of our Lord 1819, the aforesaid Thomas Brocksopp came before
our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-third day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and nineteen.