NEW INVENTED THRESHING MACHINE WITH LOOSE BEATERS
Year: 1804

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I THOMAS
Noon, of Burton-upon-Trent, in the County of Stafford, Watchmaker, do
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 Thirtieth day of
October, in the forty-fifth year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said
Thomas Noon, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His special licence,
full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Thomas Noon, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, during the term of years therein ex-
pressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my "NEW INVENTED
THRESHING MACHINE WITH LOOSE BEATERS;" in which Letters Patent there is
contained a proviso, obliging me, the said Thomas Noon, 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 inrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next and immediately
after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same
(relation being thereunto had) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Noon, do hereby declare that my said Invention is fully described and
ascertained by the Drawings in the margin of these Presents, and which I
explain in manner following, that is to say:-

page_text: Figure 1 is an elevation or side view of the machine at rest; and Figure 2
is a plan or bird's-eye view of the same, of two-horse power, each drawn upon
a scale of half an inch to the foot. The same letters on each of the Drawings
refer to the same parts in each Figure. a is a cylinder or drum, upon which
the loose beaters bare hung, by means of the pivot ends c; d, d, are two fluted
rollers, through which the corn is introduced into the machine to be threshed
from the feeding board, in the common way; these rollers must be pressed
towards each other by means of springs, weights, or any other mode, so as to
hold the straw sufliciently tight in its passage through them while the beaters
seperate the corn from it. Underneath these rollers is a trough, ribbed or
fluted within the whole width of the cylinder, about and one-third of its circum-
ference, against which the beaters strike, and thereby separate the corn from
the straw, and deliver both out at the other end of said trough, where it may
pass over, if thought proper, a screen to be winnowed. g is a screw, to raise
or fall the trough f, f, under the cylinder or drum, as circumstances may
require, for different sorts of grain. Note.-Any other convenient method may
be used for this purpose. h, h, are two wheels for turning the fluted rollers d, d,
the smaller one of which is driven by the wheel i, which is connected to the
horizontal shaft k, Figure 2, by means of the click wheel e, when it is intended
to work the machine by horse or other superior power. This click wheel is so
constructed that no accident can happen either to the horse or machine should
the animal suddenly stop. It consists of a flat iron plate, on which are fixed
the two triangular clicks m, m, the upper part of which are rounded off; under
the clicks are fixed two steel springs n, n, to keep them up. When the horse or
other power drives the horizontal shaft k, a cross bar o on its end is forced
against. the square or upright sides of the clicks, and thereby gives motion
to the machine; but should the horse suddenly stop, or should the shaft k by
any other means be suddenly checked, the machine would continue its course,
from the velocity acquired by the fly wheel, without injury, until it stopped of
itself, for the clicks would then meet the bar o the contrary way and slip over
it. This contrivance may be applied to considerable advantage in various
other kinds of machinery. p is a wheel for giving motion to the cylinder or
drum, on the axis of which it is fixed, and which is driven by the wheel i. On
the other end of the axis a fly wheel q is fixed, for the purpose of steadying the
motion of the machine, &c. I do not think it necessary to mention the various
materials of which the machine should be constructed, as every workman must
be a competent judge of that matter, and will vary them according to circum-
The Drawings represent a machine of two-horse power, which will
cause the cylinder or drum to make about one hundred revolutions in a minute,
stances.

page_text: which velocity may be encreased or diminished by altering the number of
wheels, or cogs on the wheels, either belonging to the machine, on the hori-
zontal shaft, or by any other well-known means. The advantages arising from
this machine are very considerable, it having less friction than any other that
has hitherto come to my knowledge, and consequently it does more work with
the same power, and less injury to the straw. It is also less liable to accidents,
and when out of order may be repaired by a common workman.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Noon, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, the Twenty-eighth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and four.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-eighth day of November,
in the forty-fifth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third,
the said Thomas Noon came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery,
and acknowledged the instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein
contained and specified, in form above written. And also the Instrument
aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made in the
forty-fourth year of His said Majesty's reign.
Inrolled the Thirtieth day of November, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and four.