TREATING BARLEY SO AS TO OBTAIN NEW ALIMENTARY SUBSTANCES THEREFROM
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street,
in the City of London, E.C., Patent Agent, for the Invention of
"TREATING BARLEY SO AS TO OBTAIN NEW ALIMENTARY SUBSTANCES
THEREFROM."-A communication from Pierre Marmay, residing at Riom,
France.
Sealed the 15th September 1859, and dated the 17th March 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald Brooman
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 17th March 1859.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, E.C., Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-.
tion for "TREATING BARLEY SO AS TO OBTAIN NEW ALIMENTARY SUBSTANCES.
THEREFROM," (communicated to me by Pierre Marmay, residing at Riom,.
France,) to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in treating barley in the following manner; the.
object being to obtain meal from the grain in great purity.
The Inventor first sifts the barley, then pounds or crushes it. between
peculiarly formed millstones or equivalent apparatus, then passes it through a
bolting machine, then subjects it to the action of a "ventilating" apparatus,
then again pounds or crushes it as before, and finally sifts it into two, three, or
moro parts, of as many different qualities. The surface of the upper grindstone

page_text: or runner or other equivalent surface is formed by preference with radial
depressions and projections upon it, but no particular construction of millstone
is claimed. The meal obtained, as before described, may be used in the form
of a potage-au-lait, or in snips, gruels, or otherwise.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman in the Great Seal Patent Offico
on the 17th September 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, E.C.,
Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-second year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, Her special licence that I; the
said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, 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 "TREATING BARLEY SO AS TO OBTAIN NEW ALIMENTARY
SUBSTANCES THEREPROM," (communicated to me by Pierro Marmay, residing at
Riom, France,) upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Richard
Archibald Brooman, 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 tho
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 Richard Archibald Brooman, 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 thereof, that is to say:―
This Invention consists in treating barley in the following manner, the object
being to obtain meal from the grain in great purity.

page_text: The Inventor first sifts the barley, then pounds or crushes it between.
peculiarly formed millstones or equivalent apparatus, then passes it through a
bolting machine, then subjects it to the action of a "ventilating" apparatus,
then again pounds or crushes it as before, and finally sifts it into two, three, or
more parts of as many different qualities. The surface of the upper grindstone
or runner or other equivalent surface is formed by preference with radial depres-
sions and projections upon it, but no particular construction of millstone is
claimed. The meal obtained as before described may be used in the form of
a "potage-au-lait," or in soups, gruels, or otherwise.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim the method of
treating barley as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of September,
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
R. A. BROOMAN. (L.B.)