AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR DISTRIBUTING MANURE ON LANDS
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Thomas Hooper, of Killiow Kea, Truro, in
the County of Cornwall, and William Gerrans, of Tregony, in the aforesaid
County, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR DISTRIBUTING
MANURE ON LANDS."
Sealed the 9th July 1861, and dated the 11th January 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Thomas Hooper
and William Gerrans at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 11th January 1861.
We, HENRY THOMAS HOOPER, of Killiow Kea, Truro, in the County of
Cornwall, and WILLIAM GERRANS, of Tregony, in the aforesaid County, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR
DISTRIBUTING MANURE ON LANDS," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to distribute manure upon lands in any
desired quantity, the machine used for this purpose being so arranged and
adjusted that only the given quantity can be discharged at one time. We
propose employing a metallic cylinder of suitable dimensions, divided by
wooden discs into two, three, or more compartments; each of these compart-
ments is furnished with a semicircular-hinged door for the insertion of the

page_text: manure, and secured when closed by lever-handled catches. These compart-
ments or chambers have six or more openings formed therein, and are fur-
nished with sliding doors graduated or marked for the purpose of opening
each door a sufficient distance to allow the required quantity of manure to
escape. An axle passes through the centre of the hole on which the
machine revolves, and may be mounted on wheels, or otherwise arranged for
the desired distribution.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Thomas Hooper and William Gerrans in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 11th July 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, HENRY
THOMAS HOOPER, of Killiow Kea, Truro, in the County of Cornwall, and
WILLIAM GERRANS, of Tregony, in the aforesaid County, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Henry Thomas Hooper and William Gerrans, Her special licence that
we, the said Henry Thomas Hooper and William Gerrans, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Henry Thomas
Hooper and William Gerrans, our 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 "AN IMPROVED MACHINE POR DISTRIBUTING MANURE ON
LANDS," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Henry
Thomas Hooper and William Gerrans, our executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, 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 Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Thomas Hooper, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is

page_text: on lands in the manner herein described and set forth and shewn by the
accompanying Sheet of Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Thomas Hooper (on behalf of
myself and the said William Gerrans) have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Eighth day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-one.
Witness,
JOHN WILLIAMS,
Bear Inn,
Truro.
HENRY THOMAS HOOPER. (L.S.)