A CATTLE MILL FOR EXPRESSING THE JUICE OF THE SUGAR CANE
Year: 1807

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, HENRY CHARLES
CHRISTIAN NEWMAN, of the Island of Saint Christopher, in the West Indies,
Clerk, sendeth greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of His United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Seventh day of March,
in the forty-seventh year of His reign, give and grant unto the said Henry
Charles Christian Newman, His special licence, that he, the said Henry
Charles Christian Newman, during the term of years therein mentioned,
should and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within that part of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, the Dominion
of Wales, the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and the Colonies and Planta-
tions abroad, his Invention of "A CATTLE MILL FOR EXPRESSING THE JUICE OF THE
SUGAR CANE;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging
him, the said Henry Charles Christian Newman, by an instrument in writing
under his hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in
His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next after
the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation
being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that the said Henry Charles Christian Newman, in
compliance with the said proviso, doth hereby declare that the nature of his
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are
particularly set forth and ascertained in the following plans and descriptions :-
A, A, A, (Figure first) represents a ring or circle of hard wood, stone, or
cast iron, either raised on arches or otherwise, or sunk below the surface of
the ground, and commonly called in the West Indies à Pitt Mill, which is to

page_text: be in the center of the aforesaid ring or circle; B, B, represents a cog wheel
on the spindle of the mill; C, represents a socket on the top of the spindle,
and precisely in the center of it; D (Figure second) represents a gudgeon let
down into the socket, and turning on a pivot and steel plate at the bottom of
it; E represents a horizontal shaft or lever firmly fixed as an axle in a heavy
wheel F; this lever passes through an eye or ring in the gudgeon D, to the
farther extremity of the cog wheel B, B, over which is the lantern wheel or
pinion G, also firmly fixed on this end of the lever; H represents a pole, on
each side of which one or more horses are harnessed, which pole has a collar
in which the lever turns; and thus, by this new construction, position, com-
bination, and connection of the axis in peritrochis, the lever and lantern wheel
or pinion put together like one solid and compact body, they all revolve toge-
ther with two distinct motions, videlicet, a rotatory one on their own axis, and
a progressive circumvolutionary one on the ring or circle constantly acting
upon and impelling the cog wheel and spindle by their united powers and
combined actions.
In witness whereof, the said Henry Charles Christian Newman, hath
hereunto set his hand and seal, this Twentieth day of March, One
thousand cight hundred and seven.
Inrolled the Twenty-first day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seven.