AN ENTIRE NEW MACHINE AND PROCESS FOR THE PURPOSE OF PREPARING CORK, BOTH FOR ORNAMENT AND USE, IN A MUCH MORE CHEAP AND EXPEDITIOUS MANNER THAN BY ANY METHOD HITHERTO PRACTISED, AND BY MEANS OF WHICH CORE 60 PREPARED WILL BE OF A SUPERIOR QUALITY
Year: 1795

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I SAMUEL
MILLER, of Wells Street, Oxford Road, in the Parish of Saint Mary le bon,
in the County of Middlesex, Engraver, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Fourteenth day of April, in the thirty-fifth year of His
reign, did give and grant unto me, the said Samuel Miller, His especial licence
that I, the said Samuel Miller, during the term of years therein mentioned,
should and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and
the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN ENTIRE NEW
MACHINE AND PROCESS FOR THE PURPOSE OF PREPARING CORK, BOTH FOR ORNAMENT
AND USE, IN A MUCH MORE CHEAP AND EXPEDITIOUS MANNER THAN BY ANY METHOD
HITHERTO PRACTISED, AND BY MEANS OF WHICH CORE 60 PREPARED WILL BE OF A
SUPERIOR QUALITY;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a
proviso, obliging me, the said Samuel Miller, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, to cause a particular of the nature of my
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
after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same (rela-
tion being thereunto had) may more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Samuel Miller, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described in the
Plan and description thereof hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, 1, the said Samuel Miller, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twelfth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and. ninety-five..
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twelfth day of May,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Samuel Miller came before our
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And also the
Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute in
that caso mado and provided.
Inrolled the same. Twelfth day of May, in the year above written.

page_text: so prepared will be of a superior qualin
form cute the corks of a
on
a flat board as represented at A Fig 2nd The two narrow plates
once vrund by being fix'd to the saddle B
on
"Fig 1 Represents a square copper into which is placed the bork either to be steamed or boiled so as to render it soft (or it might be work'd cold) From thence it is taken and placed
of Jun BB is for the purpose of fixing the cork to the small pame C which pame moves in the grove D of the large pame E the lever I moving on a centre first in the main pame the end of which press on the saddle & which is paid to the pame to by this lates.
both pames are forced forward in a right line with the axis of the tool H by sliding on the bar I The tool II being fed in the Mandrel K on to which is fix d the wheel Is which the line M by passing cound the main wheel N gives a swift mohon to the tool I whose circular
cylindrical shape as they appear droping from the Mandie K Thig: 3rd is a hack batch Tripper and Lever all which is fix'd at the back of the main fame 13 Fig 2nd in the following manner the Rack & to the small pame & the
Catch B to the suddle & the Tripper C to the stand 0 the Lever D to the small frame C and the rack A The purpose of which is to shift the small fame c a proper distance to repeat the operation and the lever P shifts the board Q (which moves in the small fame c)
The part of the Machine as above described cut to the corks and bungs as used by the London brewers The only difference to be observed in cutting the bottle corke is placing the cork edgeways to the tool which cork is held firm by the suew R. Teg: 2" pressing
in a perpendicular directore
shaight line to a sufficient distance to seperate the whole at one stroke as represented at Fig 5th A the knife
the thick piece of wood S the bottom of which hath long slender points as represented in Fig. 4th, when the borks are out round the whole breath of the bork. The knife I is forced forward in a
B a saddle sliding on the bar c, on to which is paid the knife for the purpose of directing it shaight. Fight is a view of the tool for cutting the cork into square pieces for the purpose of preparing them for the shaight line Machine Fig 7h as wil for cutting the shavings into the laminees
which the knife is fix'd to c, a square bar upon which the saddle moves in a shaight line from D to E. F is a screw on to the end of which, is fasten'd the wheel to full of notches for the
for the purpose of making beds to sleep on or seats to set on A the knife B the saddle
sake of huning the wheel to a greater degree of huth, for cutting the thin shavings for cutting the cork square for different sizes a hack is made use of as described in Fig. 34 Fig 7th is a machine acting diredly the reverse to that already described
in this case the cork turno round and the knife moves in a shaight line A. the knife B the saddle C the square bar all which is fix'd and ado exactly as described in Fig: 6th D is a line which turns the wheel II,
in the time the knife moves from I to G. the spindle # being had to the wheel I, and the cork I to the spindle II by means of slender points as represented at K the bark I turning wound against the edge of the knife 1 is form d
Fig 9th shews the angle the knife and spindel makes with each other Fig 10th is the compressing machine for closing the pores of the work to give it a superior
from a square to a cound as sun at Fig: 8
es a piece of metal with a number of holes of the size and shape of the corks required they are first put into the holes by hand and may after be drove or pressed in as most convenient
quality A.
which for the Corks being cylindrical is necessary to force them into the bottle unless they first go through the compressing opperation I find by repeated experiments that the bork is much better pressed into the bottle by a Screw or Lever or hack and
junion then by a choke 1 the bottle B the hook which holds the much of the botsie c, a hole in a piece of metal something leaw then the cork D a rack E a pinion which by the Handel I' forces the end of the rack D. which is round upon the eart
so as to force it through the hole c into the Bottle A. Fig 12th is the circular cutting tool which may be wed by hand in a Carpenter's stock or the cork might be press'd together and punch'd out with the same too this tool is made.
hwilow and as thin as the metai will stand for to work with the least friction possible An Oval Lath might be used where the cork is too thin with uspect to the shaight knife the knife might be made to turn and the cork to stand still or both
knife and cork might hun at the same time Or otherwise the knife or knives might be bent round a large wheel near the exhimity of which might be placed a number of spindels to carry the corks to be out. It should be observed that any,
one of the active powers apply d in mechanishs may be used to work a number of tools at the same time. In short the seal intention of the mechanical part of this contirance is to prevent that papchial top of me in cases where the hand
must have a constant reference to the mind before it can execute its will which motions is well known to be much limited in all cases where any degree of birth is required To ornament the cork nothing
-more is requird then forcing it into the moulds
hot and as quick as
possible which is made of metal Fig 13th is two small metal wheels fix'd on the extremity of the large wheel which huns the work this is for the purpose of holding the line fast and might re apply'd to all kinds of machines
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Fee 11th is the bottle Corker