IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE FEEDING OF STEAM THRASHING MACHINES, AND IN THE MACHINERY or ApparatuS EMPLOYED THEREIN. MACHINERY OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREIN.
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Musson Wilders, of Croxton Kerrial, in
the County of Leicester, Farmer, for the Invention of “IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE FEEDING OF STEAM THRASHING MACHINES, AND IN THE
MACHINERY or ApparatuS EMPLOYED THEREIN.
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREIN.
Sealed the 18th May 1872, and dated the 21st November 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Musson Wilders
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 21st November 1871.
I, JOSEPH MUSSON WILDERS, of Croxton Kerrial, in the County of
Leicester, Farmer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE FEEDING OF STEAM THRASHING MACHINES, AND IN THE
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREIN," to be as follows:-
My Invention has for its object the feeding of steam thrashing
machines, and consists of a series of boards made of wood, iron, or other

page_text: suitable material having spikes inserted in them, and arranged to work
with a crank shaft or spindle, or equivalent, which will spread the corn
into the drum of the thrashing machine. By this operation of the crank.
shaft, or spindle, or equivalent, I am enabled to feed the machine evenly
and with greater regularity than heretofore. The use of this Invention
will save labour, prevent accidents, and the sacrifice of life which have
ocurred so frequently of late to persons employed with thrashing
machines.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Joseph Musson Wilders in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 21st May 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
MUSSON WILDERS, of Croxton Kerrial, in the County of Leicester,
Farmer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Joseph Musson Wilders, Her special
licence that I, the said Joseph Musson Wilders, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph Musson
Wilders, 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
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE FEEDING OF STEAM THRASHING MACHINES, AND IN THE
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREIN," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Joseph Musson Wilders, my executors
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.
or

page_text: I purpose to employ a simple and easy arrangement for raking the
corn into the drum by the use of forks or rakes so as to convey the corn.
direct to the drum thrashing machine, and I place a board at the end of
the shakers to guide the corn into the drum.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention and the a
manner of performing the same, I would have it understood that what I
claim is, the general arrangement and combination of parts constituting
the machinery or apparatus substantially as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Musson Wilders, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of May, in the 1
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
Witness,
GEO. JON. ROBINSON,
Patent Office,
Nottingham.
JOSEPH MUSSON WILDERS. (L.s.)