NEW-INVENTED MACHINE POP DRESSING THE FLOUR OF WHEAT AND BARLEY, &c. IS COM MET
Year: 1765

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
MILNE, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Wire Worker, send
greeting.
any
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Tenth day of May, in the fifth year of His said Majesty's reign,
did give and grant unto me, the said John Milne, my exors, admors, and
assigns, His special license, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the
said John Milne, my exors, adñors, and assigns, and every of them, by myself
and themselves, or by mine or their deputy or deputies. servants or agents, or
such others as I, the said John Milne, my exors, adñors, or assigns, shall at
time agree with, and no others, from time to time, and at all times here-
after during the term of years therein expressed, make, use, exercise, and
vend, within that part of His Majestie's Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
"NEW-INVENTED MACHINE POP DRESSING THE FLOUR OF WHEAT AND BARLEY, &c.,
WHICH WILL MAKE A MORE LIVELY AND BETTER FLOUR THAN BOLTING CLOTHS (WHICH
IS THE COMMON METHOD NOW USED) FROM THE SAME CORN; IT WILL DRESS ALL SORTS
OF FLOUR, AND DIVIDE THE SHARPS FROM THE BRAN AT ONE OPERATION, AND THE
PERSON THAT ATTENDS IT MAY EASILY MAKE Two SORTS OR ONLY ONE BY MOVING THE
PARTITIONS THAT DIVIDE THE FLOUR, WHICH MUST BE WITHIN THE BOX OR CASE IN
WHICH THE MACHINE WORKS, AND AS FLOUR IS AN ARTICLE THAT LOSES EVERY TIME
THAT IT IS STIRRED, &C., IT EVIDENTLY APPEARS THAT IT DRESSES WITH LESS Loss,
BECAUSE IT DOES THAT BUSINESS AT ONE OPERATION WHICH TO BE DONE WITH CLOTHS
IN THE COMMON METHOD NOW USED REQUIRES SEVERAL OPERATIONS AND SEVERAL

page_text: DIFFERENT CLOTHS AND THE TROUBLE OF CHANGING THEM, THEY BEING OBLIGED TO
CHANGE THEIR CLOTHS FOR DIFFERENT SORTS;" in which said recited Letters
Patent is contained a proviso obliging me, the said John Milne, by writing
under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature
of my said Invention to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within four calendar months after the date of the said recited Letters Patent,
as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, may more at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Milne, do hereby declare, that my said new Invention is composed and
made in the manner and according to the plan, model, or form following
(viz):
A cylinder is generally about six feet long, and about sixteen inches
diameter within, but may be and hath been made of different lengths and
diameters, upon the inside of which cylinder is fixed sometimes wire work, and
sometimes cloth made of such different degrees of fineness as is proper to
dress all sorts of flour, and divide the sharps from the bran at one operation,
through the center of which cylinder is put a shaft or spindle of wood, or iron,
or other metals, upon which shaft or spindle are fixed brushes, sometimes
streight, that is, parallel with the shaft or spindle, and sometimes crooked and
in the form of a screw or worm, at such a distance from the center as will
touch the inside of the wirework or cloth of which the cylinder is composed,
and when in motion will form a circle of as large a diameter as the diameter
of the inside of the cylinder, and consequently brush or rub upon the inside of
the cylinder aforesaid. Both ends of the shaft or spindle are made proper axis
for the shaft or spindle and brushes to turn round upon, and (as these
machines are convenient in either water-mills or wind-mills, &c., and will be
conveniently turned by either straps, ropes, or geers, &c.) one end of the
shaft or spindle is made proper to receive such sort of power as is most con-
venient to the person that is to work it, whether it be strap, rope, or geers,
&c. The cylinder being fixed in a box, &c., where it is intended to act,
sometimes in an oblique or slanting position, and sometimes in an horizontal
position, and the power given by which it is to move, the shaft or spindle and
brushes turn round, and the cylinder stands still, and sometimes the cylinder
has a circular motion given it also. When the machine is in motion, as is
said before, the flour, &c., which it is to dress is conveyed into that end of the
cylinder which has the finest wirework or cloth upon it, where, by the motion
of the shaft or spindle, &c., it is imediately put into a circular motion, or
rather into the form of a screw or spiral line, which continues so long as it

page_text: remains in the cylinder, which continuance is in proportion to the size of the
particles of flour, &c., and in proportion to the fineness of the wirework or
cloth, for the bran stays in the whole length of the cylinder, and comes out at
the other end; and the number of threads in this imaginary screw or spiral
line or the number of revolutions is more or less as the motion is quicker or
slower; and as the position of the machine is more or less inclined towards a
perpendicular, so the finest flour comes out first where the finest work is, and
afterwards coarser where coarser work is, and so on; and last of all the bran,
being particles too large to pass through any part of the wirework, &c.,
naturally comes out at the other end of the cylinder, as aforesaid.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Milne, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Fifteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and sixty-five.
remains in the cylinder, which continuance is in proportion to the size of the
particles of flour, &c., and in proportion to the fineness of the wirework or
cloth, for the bran stays in the whole length of the cylinder, and comes out at
the other end; and the number of threads in this imaginary screw or spiral
line or the number of revolutions is more or less as the motion is quicker or
slower;
and as the position of the machine is more or less inclined towards a
perpendicular, so the finest flour comes out first where the finest work is, and
afterwards coarser where coarser work is, and so on; and last of all the bran,
being particles too large to pass through any part of the wirework, &c.,
naturally comes out at the other end of the cylinder, as aforesaid.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Milne, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Fifteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and sixty-five.
A, B, the length of the cylinder.
B, C, the diameter of do.
JNO MILNE. (L.S.)
D. D, two rims of wood, one at the top and the other at the bottom of
the cylinder.
E, E, &c., wood circles, to the inside of which is nailed the wirework, &c.
F, F, &c., wood rails, which are screwed to the wood circles, &c.
G, G, iron gudgeons at the top and bottom of the shaft or spindle.
H, a pulley by which the shaft or spindle, &c. is turned.
I, a hopper from which the flour, &c. is conveyed into the cylinder.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that the Fifteenth day of July, in the year
of our Lord 1765, the aforesaid John Milne came before our said Lord the
King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and all
and every thing therein contained and specifyed, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of
the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen
William and Mary of England, and so forth.
Inrolled the Nineteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and sixty-five.

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Printers to the Queenis most Excellent Majesty 1856.