IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS POR MIXING WHEAT AND OTHER GRAIN AND MATTERS
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Robinson, of Denton Mill, Carlisle, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS POR MIXING WHEAT AND OTHER
GRAIN AND MATTERS."
Sealed the 17th August 1854, and dated the 1st June 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Robinson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 1st
June 1854.
I, JOSEPHI ROBINSON, of Denton Mill, Carlisle, do hereby declare the nature
of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR MIXING WHEAT AND
OTHER GRAIN AND MATTERS" to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object a combination or arrangement of apparatus
for facilitating the mixing of wheat and other grain and matters. For this
purpose, a long hopper is formed, which is divided by several moveable par-
titions; at the lower part of the hopper is arranged a fluted roller or axis,
with a screw thereon, by the rotation of which a quantity of the contents of
each compartment of the hopper, according to the extent of each compartment,
is allowed to escape out of the hopper, and the several quantities come together
in a shoot, with inclined sides, which descends from the bottom of the hopper
to a suitable receiver. According to the quantities of the matters desired to
be delivered, so are they caused to occupy a greater or lesser length of the
hopper; and thus, by the rotation of the roller or screw, a greater or lesser
quantity of each of the qualities or descriptions of wheat or other grain or
matter is allowed to come and mix together.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Robinson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
28th November 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
ROBINSON, of Denton Mill, Carlisle, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the First day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the seventeenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Joseph Robinson, Her special licence that I, the said Joseph Robinson, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph
Robinson, 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 APPARATUS
FOR MIXING WHEAT AND OTHER GRAIN AND MATTERS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Joseph Robinson, by an instrument in
writing under my hand and seal, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Robinson, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof (that is to say):-
For this
This Invention has for its object a combination or arrangement of apparatus
for facilitating the mixing of wheat and other grain and matters.
purpose, a long hopper is formed, which is divided by several moveable par-
titions; at the lower part of the hopper is arranged a fluted roller or axis,
with a screw thereon, by the rotation of which a quantity of the contents of
each compartment of the hopper, according to the extent of each compartment,
is allowed to escape out of the hopper, and the several quantities come together
in a shoot, with inclined sides, which descend from the bottom of the hopper to
a suitable receiver. According to the quantities of the matters desired to be
delivered, so are they caused to occupy a greater or lesser length of the hopper;
and thus, by the rotation of the roller or screw, a greater or lesser quantity of

page_text: cach of the qualities or descriptions of wheat or other grain or matters is
allowed to come and mix together.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed to
describe the Drawing hereunto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shows a front view in section; Figure 2, a transverse section; and
Figure 3, a plan, of apparatus arranged according to my Invention. a, a, is a
hopper, which is made suitable for receiving moveable partitions; b, b, for
dividing the hopper into parts, according to the relative proportion in which
the grain, seed, or matters are to be mixed: thus, supposing three or other
number of qualities of wheat or of other grain or seeds or matters are required
to be mixed in equal proportions, the hopper a, a, would be divided into three
or other number of equal divisions by the moveable partitions; and when
unequal quantities of different qualities of wheat or of other grain or seed or
matters are to be mixed, the hopper will be divided into as many separate
compartments as there are qualities of the wheat or other matters which are
to be mixed, and the compartments would be made in like proportion to each
other which it is desired that the grain, seeds, or matters should bear to each
other. c is a fluted roller, the flutes being longitudinally of the roller; but in
place of having a fluted roller, an axis with a several-threaded screw formed
thereon may be used. d is a shoot below the hopper, from which the mixed
wheat or grain, or seed or matters, may be received into sacks or other
receivers.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, I would have it
understood that I do not confine myself to the details herein shewn or described;
but what I claim is, the mode herein described of combining apparatus for
mixing wheat and other grain and matters.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Robinson, have hereunto set my
band and seal, this Twenty-second day of November, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
Witness,
DANIEL MCALPIN, Solicitor,
Carlisle.
JOSEPH ROBINSON. (L.S.)