myINVENTION OF A MACHINE FOR MASHING OF MALT IN BREWING AND VARIOUS OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1793

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD-
BILEY, of the Horseshoe Brewhouse, in the Parish of Saint Giles in the
Fields, in the County of Middlesex, Brewer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, by Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster,.
the Second day of November now last past, hath given and granted unto me;.
the said Edward Biley, my executors, administrators, and assigns, special
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, to make, use, exercise, and
vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, "during
the term of years therein expressed, my "INVENTION OF A MACHINE FOR MASHING
OF MALT IN BREWING AND VARIOUS OTHER PURPOSES;" in which said Letters.
Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said Edward Biley, by
an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a particular
description 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 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 I, the said Edward Biley, in compliance with the
said proviso, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, is particularly described

page_text: and ascertained in the Plan hereunto annexed, and the following description
thereof, that is to say:-
A, the mash tun or tub. B, the saddle plate which is fixed to the bottom of
the tun or tub in which the shaft.C works. C, a hollow shaft in order to admit
of a screw D passing up and down within the shaft, on each side of which are
formed two grooves to receive a cutter running through the end of the said
screw and the socket F, which is taken up and down with the screw D. The
screw E, the nut through which the screw D works. F, the socket which
passes up and down the shaft which it incircles, and to this socket is fixed the
arms G, G, G. G, G, G, the arms with the spikes to be placed at discretion.
HT, H, H, braces from the socket F' to the arms. I, a wheel fixed to the shaft
C for the purpose of working it, either by steam, water, wind, horses, or any
other given power, such as situation and circumstances may render most con-
venient or necessary. K, a lover by which the nut E is kept down, and by
which is ascertained when the machine approaches to the bottom of the tun
or tub by the nuts raising the lever, and thereby preventing the machine from
doing any damage or injury to the bottom of the tun or tub. The machine is
placed within the marsh tun or tub, and moved round horizontally and up or
down at the same time by means of a screw, or by such other means effecting
the same purpose as convenience may require. To set the machine to work
for the purpose of mashing, the arms of the machine must be let down to the
bottom of the tun before you put the malt or grain therein. The water or liquor
being turned unto the tun at the bottom, the malt or grain is thereby raised,
and the machine may then be put in motion by turning round the shaft C,
which moves the machine horizontally, and at the same time, by means of the
screw, is raised in such a manner as to follow the malt, which it gradually cuts
through, whilst the malt or grain is spread by means of the spikes under the
arms..
The machine being thus passed to the top and returned to the bottom
at each mashing, the operation is completely performed in one fourth part of the
usual time, as well as with a considerable saving in the expence of labour, and
in much larger quantities, whereby a very superior extract of the malt is
obtained.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Biley, have hereunto set my
hand and scal, this Second day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, and in the thirty-fourth
year of the reign of King George the Third.
EDW BILEY. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Second day of December,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Edward Biley came before our
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing thercin contained, in form above written. And
also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the same Second day of December, in the year abovo written.