AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR THE CHOPPING OF STRAW, AND FOR SPLITTING BEANS, CRUSHING OATS, AND GRINDING MALT AND BARLEY
Year: 1804

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
PASMORE, of Doncaster, in the County of York, Machine Maker, send
greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Thomas Pasmore, did by my petition humbly
represent to His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that
I had, after much labor, study, and expence, found out and invented "AN
IMPROVED MACHINE FOR THE CHOPPING OF STRAW, AND FOR SPLITTING BEANS,
CRUSHING OATS, AND GRINDING MALT AND BARLEY," that I am the first and true
Inventor of such improved machine, and that the same hath never been made
or used by any other person or persons, to the best of my knowledge or
belief; I humbly prayed His said Majesty to grant unto me, my exors, admors,
and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain,
for the sole use, benefit, and advantage of my said Invention, within England
and Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of fourteen
years, according to the Statute in that case made and provided; His said
Majesty, being willing to give encouragement to all arts and inventions that
might be for the public good, was graciously pleased to condescend to my
request, and therefore, by His Royal Letters Patent, bearing late at West-

page_text: minster, the Ninth day of February, in the forty-fourth year of His reign,
of His especial grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, did give and grant
unto me, the said Thomas Pasmore, my exors, adiñiors, and assigns, His
especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said
Thomas Pasmore, my exors, admors, and assigns, and every of them, by
himself and themselves, or by his and their deputy or deputies, servants or
agents, or such others as I, the said Thomas Pasmore, my exors, adñiors, or
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term of years therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend my said Invention within
that part of His Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
in such manner as to me, the said Thomas Pasmore, my exors, adñiors, and
assigns, or any of them, should in his and their directions seem meet, and that
I, the said Thomas Pasmore, my exors, admors, and assigns, should and
lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advan-
tage from time to time coming, growing, accruing, and arising by reason of
the said Invention, for and during the term of years therein mentioned; to
have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licences, powers, privileges, and advan-
tages therein-before granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said
Thomas Pasmore, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, for and during and unto the
full end and term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent,
next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be complete and ended, according
to the Statute in such case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent
is contained a proviso, that if I, the said Thomas Pasmore, should not parti-
cularly describe and ascertain 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, and cause the same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within one calendar month next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all
liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease,
determine, and become void, any thing therein contained to the contrary
thereof in any wise notwithstanding, as in and by the said Letters Patent,
relation being thereunto had, will more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Pasmore, in compliance with
the said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and declare that the plan thereof, drawn in the margin of these
Presents, is composed of the following particulars, that is to say:-

page_text: First, my said Invention consists in having the frames or heads of the
machine cast of iron in one piece, or pieces, by which the works attached to it
are not liable to flinch or give way, as is always the case when the same are
made.of wood. Secondly, the knives which cut the straw being fixed on two
wheels, heads, or lugs (of any given dimensions equal to the power intended
to work them) in a diagonal form, makes the cut easy, and of course takes
little power to work it. Thirdly, the mill part of the machine for splitting
beans, crushing oats, &c. is so contrived as to remain fixed to the straw
machine, or to be taken off and put on again at pleasure, by which means less
room is required, as well as considerable expence saved, than by having sepe-
rate machines for the same purposes. This mill by having regulating
feeding roller (see Fig. 7 in the Drawing, where a is the feeding roller,) and a
plate (d in the same Figure) of my Invention, which either works with a slide
or the screw (h) at pleasure, and causes it to perform its different operations
with great ease and certainty of effect, without the liability of being put out of
order, as other mills for the like purposes generally are. Fourthly, the
machine may be worked with any power, as steam, water, wind, horses, or
men, according to the strength required. And, lastly, I, the said Thomas
Pasmore, do further describe and delineate my said Invention and-improve--
ments by 'the plans, sections, or représentations of the said machine and its
several parts contained in the said Plate or Drawing thereof in the margin of
these Presents, and by the several references thereto, as follows; that is to
say:
Fig. 1...a side view of the whole machine; Fig. 2, a side view of the
straw-chopping machine (the bean mill being removed). A, the box which
contains the straw; B, the wheel which turns the feeding rollers; E, C, the
two wheels, heads, or lugs on which the cutting knives F are fixed; F, the
fly wheel which gives the motion to the different works; G, the frame or
stand, made of cast iron. Fig. 3, a side view of the bean, &c. mill, when
worked without the straw chopper; D, the working part, fully described in
Fig. 7 hereafter; E, the hopper containing the beans, grain, &c.; F, the
fly wheel; G, the frame or stand. Fig. 4, front view of the straw-cutting
knives F, F, F, F, as fixed to the heads or wheels C, C. Fig. 5, front view
of the conducting rollers E, which feed the straw machine, with the plate or
box G that the knives cut against. Fig. 6, the box or plate G removed from
the conducting rollers. Fig. 7, front view of the bean, &c. mill, with the
hopper E. a is the feeding roller; b, the large cutting roller; c, the cutting
plate that the large cutting roller acts against; d, the plate which works either

page_text: with a slide or screw; e, front view of the plate removed; f, a side view of
ditto; g, g, the wheel and pinion that works the feeding roller a. And remark
that the several letters A, B, &c. refer to the same parts in all the Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Pasmore, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of February, in the forty-fourth
year of His said Majesty's reign, and in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and four.