A DRILL MACHINE FOR SOWING GRAIN OR ANY KIND OF SEEDS
Year: 1788

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
HELE, of Kingsbridge, in the County of Devon, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Twenty-ninth day of October, in thé twenty-ninth year of His reign, did give
and grant unto me, the said William Hele, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, His special licencé, full power, sole privilege and authority, that
I, the said William Hele, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
other persons as I or they should agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times thereafter during the term of years therein expressed,
should and might make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of the
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A DRILL MACHINE FOR
SOWING GRAIN OR ANY KIND OF SEEDS;" in which said Letters Patent is con-
tained a proviso that I, the said William Hele, should, within the space of
one calendar month next and immediately after the date of the said in part
recited Letters Patent, cause a particular description of the nature of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to be inrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery, otherwise the said Letters Patent to be void and of
no effect, as in and by the said Letters Patent, referrence being thereunto had;
may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Helė, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention of a

page_text: Drill Machine for Sowing Grain or any Kind of Seeds, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, is described in the Plan or Drawing
thereof made in the margin under, viz:-
A, A, A, the frame. B, the great wheel, which by being driven forward sets
the whole machine in motion. C, seed hopper with four spouts, on which
are sliders occasionally shifted to sow more or less, by admitting the seed to
pass into. D, seed box divided into three parts, with three funnels, on which
are three crooked spouts, occasionally shifted to drop the seeds into the ground
at any distance required. E, wicker-work frame over the seed box, on which
a canvas is occasionally fixt to sow in rain or wind. F, F, two wheels of
different sizes on the axle of the great wheel. G, axle in the middle of the
frame on which are five wheels, three of them to take up the seeds from the
seed box in buckets of different sizes, according to the seeds intended to be
sown, and drop them into the funnels, the other two of different sizes to be
used with a chain with F, F, which moves the wheels that take up the seed.
H, the chain occasionally shifted from one of the wheels on the axle of
the great wheel to one of those on the axle G, to increase or decrease the
motion..
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Fifteenth
.
day of November, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred
and eighty-eight.
WILLIAM HELE. (L.S.)
Sealed and delivered, being first duly
stamptt, in the presence of
GEO. PRIDEAUX.
RICHARD DREW.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fifteenth day of November, in
the year of our Lord 1788, the aforesaid William Hele came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the
tenor of the Statutes made for that purpose.
Inselled the Seventeenth day of N