A MACHINE FOR THE MORE EASY AND EXPEDITIOUS METHOD OF CUTTING WHEAT STRAW AND OTHER STRAW INTO CHAFF, AND ALSO FOR CUTTING WHEAT, OATS, OR OTHER GRAIN IN THE EAR, WITH CLOVER, OR WITH OTHER GRASS
Year: 1795

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
NAYLOR, the younger, of Langworth, near Lincoln, in the County of Lincoln,
Carpenter, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, by His Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster,
the Second day of June now last past, hath given and granted unto me, the
said William Naylor, my executors, administrators, and assigns, special licence,
full power, sole privilege, and authority to make, use, exercise, and vend,
within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, during the
term of years therein expressed, my Invention of "A MACHINE FOR THE MORE
EASY AND EXPEDITIOUS METHOD OF CUTTING WHEAT STRAW AND OTHER STRAW INTO
CHAFF, AND ALSO FOR CUTTING WHEAT, OATS, OR OTHER GRAIN IN THE EAR, WITH
CLOVER, OR WITH OTHER GRASS;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained
a proviso, obliging me, the said William Naylor, 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 inrolled in
His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next after

page_text: the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation
being thereunto had) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Naylor, in compliance with
the said proviso, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, is particularly described
and ascertained in the Plan hereunto annexed and the following description
(that is to say)
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A, ns marked in the Plan, is circled piece of wood, with four knives upon
it screwed on in the manner therein described; B, a fly wheel upon the
main axletree; C, the main axletrec, on which the circled piece of wood and fly
are placed; D, a worm upon the main axletree; E, a worm wheel, with eight
teeth; F, a lying shaft, with the worm wheel and bevil wheel; G, fourteenth
teeth; II, a large bevil wheel, with twenty-eight teeth upon the under roller;
I, the under roller; J, the top roller; K, the wheel upon the top roller, of
twenty teeth, and likewise another of twenty teeth upon the under roller which
gives motion to the top roller; L, a steel mouth, by which you see the knife
pass; M, a piece of cast iron, which presses lightly upon the straw, and rises
and falls accordingly as it is fed, by its being upon two pevits or axletrees in
the sides of the box, and likewise a picco of wire which hooks upon the cast-
irou press, and goes through the top part of the bow; N, the box on which
the straw comes along through the rollers; O, the stone weight, which hangs
upon tho top roller axletree, and gives the top roller liberty of rising and
falling accordingly as it is fed with straw; P, the mouth of the box, by which
the cut straw comes from the mouth of the rollers; Q, the frame of the
machine.
The said machine is worked or used by placing straw with tho hand in
tho said box, and by taking hold of the handle of the said machine, and
turning it with the hand, which gives motion to the rollers, and brings forward
the straw to the mouth of the steel bow; where the knives pass and cut, and
either one or two persons may be employed, one to turn the handle of the said
machine, the other to place straw in the said box; one person may do the business,
but two will make more progress.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Naylor, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety-five.
WILLIAM NAYLOR. (L.B.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twenty-fourth day of
June, in the year above written, the aforesaid William Naylor came before
our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
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 Twenty-seventh day of June, in the year above written.