COVERING ALL DESCRIPTION OF GRAIN WITH A FERTILE SUBSTANCE OR MANURE, AND THE APPARATUS EMPLOYED FOR THE SAME
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Frederic Yasserot, or
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Vesserot, of 45, Essex Street, Strand, London, Patent Agents, Mechanical
Draughtsmen, &c., for the Invention of "COVERING ALL DESCRIPTION OF
GRAIN WITH A FERTILE SUBSTANCE OR MANURE, AND THE APPARATUS
EMPLOYED FOR THE SAME."-A communication from Louis Marie Pierre
Merleau d'Illiers, in the name of the firm Caillot & C, of Orléans,
France.
Sealed the 17th July 1857, and dated the 17th January 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Fréderic Vasserot
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
17th January 1857.
I, CHARLES FREDERIC VASSEROT, of the firm Wells and Vasserot, of
45, Essex Street, Strand London, Patent Agents, Mechanical Draughtsmen,
&c., do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "COVERING ALL
DESCRIPTION OF GRAIN WITH A FERTILE SUBSTANCE OR MANURE, AND THE APPARATUS
EMPLOYED FOE THE SAME,," a communication from Louis Marie Pierre Merleau
d'Illiers, in the name of the firm Caillot & C, of Orléans, France, to be as
follows; and consists of enveloping grain to be put in arable land with manure,
especially animal charcoal, to assist the growth of the germ; or other manures
may be used appropriate to the ground to receive the grain. The apparatus
and the operation of it consist in the following:-
A framework being provided, there is mounted thereon a shaft furnished
with two pullies. Underneath the said shaft is hung a cylinder supported by
2 straps passing over the said pullies for the purpose of giving a rotary
motion to the said cylinder. Any power may be applied to work the same.

page_text: The corn (wheat for instance) is placed in the cylinder, and when in motion
the corn is sprinkled with one of the solutions, indicated hereafter, until all the
grains are perfectly covered with it, taking care, however, that no excess of
solution may adhere to the cylinder.
The following are the solutions, either of which can be advantageously
used:-
1st, a clean gelatine of bones reduced to a siccative paste; 2nd, a solution of
horns, feathers, and hairs of every sort, making a fat body, so that the pulverable
materials to be used for manure to the grain, and to protect their germination,
may easily adhere to them; or, 3rdly, any other agglutinate materials which
contain fertile substances.
The operation of sprinkling the corn with one of the above solutions being
finished, the motion of the cylinder is continued, and pulverized bones or other
manure in powder is put over the grains until they are covered with the said
powder. The rotary motion of the cylinder is to be continued until the
pulverized bones or other powder has adhered to the grain, and is perfectly
dry, which is caused by a current of air passing through the cylinder.
The operation can in a like manner be again repeated with the same corn if
it should be deemed advisable to give them another coat of pulverized bone or
other powdered manure.
With the above proceeding it is very easily and with little cost to cover
seeds with any fertile materials without fear of their being seperated from
their coverings by transport, or by the operation of sowing, or without their
germinative qualities being injured by the above indicated process.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Fréderic Vasserot in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 17th July 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
FREDERIC VASSEROT, of the firm Wells and Vasserot, of 45, Essex Street,
Strand, London, Patent Agents, Mechanical Draughtsmen, &c., send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Charles Frederic Vasserot, Her special licence that I, the said Charles
Fréderic Vasserot, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others

page_text: as I, the said Charles Fréderic Vasserot, my 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 "COVERING ALL DESCRIPTION OF GRAIN WITH A FERTILE SUBSTANCE
OR MANURE, AND THE APPARATUS EMPLOYED FOR THE SAME," a communication
from Louis Marie Pierre Merleau d'Illiers in the name of the firm Caillot
& C, of Orléans, France, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Charles Frederic Vasserot, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, 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 Charles Fréderic Vasserot, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
:
This Invention consists in enveloping or covering grain and other seeds
(previously to being placed in arable land) with substances suitable to assist
the growth of the germ, such as charcoal reduced to an impalpable powder,
guano equally pulverized, or any other organic or mineral matter giving by
their analysis oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, azote, phosphoric acid, sulphuric acid,
magnesia, oxyd of iron, chlorine, potasb, soda, and all or any of the other
substances which may serve to the nutrition of the plant.
In order that my said Invention may be properly understood, I shall now
proceed to describe the Drawing by means of Figures and letters of reference,
the same letters referring to the corresponding parts in both Figures.
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the machine.
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2 is an end view of the same.
A, A, represents the framework, upon which is placed in suitable bearings
the shaft B, on which a toothed or other wheel C is fixed, over which passes the
endless chain or band D, which is driven by a similar toothed or other wheel
E fixed on the shaft F, to which motion is imparted by means of the handle G.
On the shaft B are the two pullies H, H, over which passes the endless bands
I, I, which supports and gives a a rotary motion to the cylinder K, in which is
placed the grain or other seed to be acted upon, the said cylinder being
furnished with openings L through the centre, which will be explained here-
after.

page_text: The corn (wheat for instance) is placed in the cylinder, and when in motion
the corn is sprinkled with one of the solutions, indicated hereafter, until all the
grains are perfectly covered with it, taking care, however, that no excess of
solution may adhere to the cylinder.
The following are the solutions which I prefer, either of which can be
advantageously used:-
1st, a clean gelatine of bones reduced to a siccative paste; 2nd, a solution
of horns, feathers, and hairs of any sort, making a fat body, so that the pul-
verable materials to be used for manure to the grain, and to protect their
germination may easily adhere to them; or, 3rdly, any other agglutinative
matters containing fertile substances.
The operation of sprinkling the corn with one of the above solutions being
finished, the motion of the cylinder is continued, and the pulverized matter
prepared for the effect is put over the grain until it is covered with the said
powder. The rotatory motion of the cylinder is to be continued until the
powder has adhered to the grain, and is perfectly dry, which is caused by a
current of air passing through the cylinder at the openings L, or the cylinder
may be placed in a heated room or stove.
The operation can in a like manner be again repeated with the same
corn if it should be deemed advisable to give them another coat of pulverized
bone or other powdered manure.
With the above process it is very casy and with little cost to cover seeds
with any fertile materials without fear of their being seperated from their
coverings by transport or by the operation of sowing.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same may be used or carried into effect,
I may observe, in conclusion, that I do not confine myself to the precise details
of arrangements which I have had occasion to describe, as many variations may
be made therefrom without deviating from the main features of my Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Fréderic Vasserot, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
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