Year: 1804

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
BURRELL, of Thetford, in the County of Norfolk, Ironfounder, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
in and by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Eighteenth
day of May, in the forty-fourth year of His reign, for Himself, His heirs
and successors, did give and grant unto me, the said Joseph Burrell, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole
priviledge and authority, that I, the said Joseph Burrell, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves, or
by my and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I,
the said Joseph Burrell, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of His said Majesty's

page_text: United Kingdom called England, His Dominion of Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN IMPROVED THRESHING MACHINE;"
in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the
said Joseph Burrell, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled
in His said Majestie's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month
next and immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, 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
Joseph Burrell, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, as follows,
that is to say:-
The improvement in this threshing machine consists in its being able to
thresh corn once, twice, or three times at one process in the most regular
manner and without any additional labour or loss of time, the advantages of
which are, that the corn, being twice or oftener threshed, is got cleaner from
the straw than by any other machine whose operation is only threshing it once.
The operative parts of this machine consist of a cylinder or drum with beaters
on it which is worked with a certain velocity to thresh the corn, which is
conducted through a pair of fluted iron rollers to the drum, and, once
threshed, it is then immediately conducted into a kind of hopper, which
conveys it to a second pair of rollers, where it passes through and is again
threshed as at first. It is then conducted to a third pair of rollers, through
which it passes, and is again threshed. This operation of threshing twice
or three times at once is an entire new Invention, and never practiced
before with any machine, the utility of which is evident, as the corn is
threshed in a better manner, which constitutes the improvement of the
machine.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Burrell, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, the Fourteenth day of June, in the forty-fourth
year of the reign of our said Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the
grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
King, Defender of the Faith, and in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and four.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Fourteenth day of
June, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Joseph Burrell came
before our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Speci-
fication aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the Sixteenth day of lune in the woan
Fnrolled the Sixteenth day of Tune, in the year above written.