A METHOD OF GRINDING CORN, MALT, AND OTHER GRAIN, WITH STEEL OR HARDENED IRON PLATES
Year: 1799

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WASTEL
CLIFFE, of the Brades, in the County of Stafford, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Second day of August, in the thirty-ninth year of His reign,
did give and grant unto William Hunt, of the Brades, in the said County of
Stafford, Manufacturer, and me, the said Wastel Cliffe, our executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, His special licence that we, the said William Hunt and
Wastel Cliffe, our executors, administrators, and assigns, during the term of
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend,
within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, our Invention
of "A METHOD OF GRINDING CORN, MALT, AND OTHER GRAIN, WITH STEEL OR
HARDENED IRON PLATES;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a
proviso, obliging us, the said William Hunt and Wastel Cliffe, under our
hands and. seals, or the hand and seal of one of us, to cause a particular
description of the nature of our said Invention to be inrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next and immediately
after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as by the said recited Letters
Patent, relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Wastel Cliffe, do hereby declare that our said Invention of a method of
grinding corn, malt, and other grain, with steel or hardened iron plates, is
described in the manner following (that is to say) :-
Take circular steel or iron hardened plates, deeply rough them like a file, or
rasp, or grove, or furrow them in the manner now in use for mill stones, or
make the groves or furrows either diagonal or of lines, which intersect each
other regularly or irregularly; the selection and adoption of one of these must
depend upon the work proposed, whether large or small grain, and the degree
of pulverization it may be intended the grain shall undergo; the plates may be
of any diameter, but their size must, of course, be governed by the kind of work
they are intended to perform. Make these plates either in one or more pieces;
the plates are to cut and run on each other in a manner similar to and
actuated by a like power as works millstones. On the edge of the upper plate,
one or more projections of metal, or other hard substance, is to be fastened by
screws or other means, which we call sweepers, these will keep the cover clear,
or in other words, by their means the mill will discharge itself: This purpose
is accomplished in mill stones by the inequallity on their edges. These plates
may be made of any sort of metal, or mixture of metal, and will grind or
bruise all sorts of pulse or vegetable substances, by only adapting the distance
of the plates, and the shape of the furrows to the kind of work proposed. If
the plates are made of several pieces, take care to secure them well to a metal
plate or plates, with screws, rivets, or by other means.
In witness whereof, I, the said Wastel Cliffe, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of, August, in the year of our Lord,
One thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine.
WASTEL (L.s.) CLIFFE.
Sealed and delivered, (being first duly stamped,)
in the presence of
JOHN Fox PALMER,
THOMAS WILKINSON,
Thomas Wilkinson, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Gentleman,
maketh oath and saith, that he was present, and did see, the above-named
Wastel Cliffe sign, seal, and as; his act, and deed, in due, form of law; deliver
the above deed, and that the name "Wastel, Cliffe thereunto subscribed, is of
the proper handwriting of the said Wastel Cliffe; and that the names John
Fox Palmer and Thomas Wilkinson, indorsed or written on the back of the