HASHING MEAT WITH A MECHANICAL CHOPPING BOARD
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Emile Augustin Colette, residing at Dieppedalle,
near Rouen, in the Depart. of Seine Inférieure, in France, for the
Invention of "HASHING MEAT WITH A MECHANICAL CHOPPING BOARD."
Sealed the 4th June 1858, and dated the 1st April 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Emile Augustin Colette
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
1st April 1858.
I, ENILE AUGUSTIN COLETTE, residing at Dieppedalle, near Rouen, in the
Depart. of Seine Inférieure, in France, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "HASHING MEAT WITH A MECHANICAL CHOPPING BOARD," to be
as follows:-
GENERAL PLAN OF THE MECHANICAL CHOPPER.
A, fly wheel; B, lateral uprights; C, cylinder supporting the fly wheel, and
intended to raise the choppers; D, four choppers; E, back upright, four
chambers pierced to receive the handles of the choppers; F, half circle of iron
fixed on the handles of the choppers to raise them; G, barrel fixed by a nut to
the two lateral uprights; H, square, fixed by a spring in the interior of the

page_text: barrel to drive back the chopped substance; I, eight pegs, causing the square
to be alternately replaced; J, circular scale supporting the chopped substance;
K, cog-wheel circle, adapted under the scale; L, platform; M, handle.
SPECIFICATION OF THE DIFFERENT PIECES OF THE MECHANICAL CHOPPer.
A, geometrical plan of the platform, with its assemblage; B, place occupied
by the uprights; C, cog circle, adapted under the circular scale, showing four
small wheels placed on the cross bar of the assemblage, and facilitating the
circular movement. In the centre is the pivot of the scale. E, upright
(seen from behind) pierced with four holes, and traversed by the axle of the
choppers. At the bottom are two hinges, which attaches it to the platform
and allows it to be turned down. F, top of the upright, thrown back by
hinges; G, profile of the cog-wheel. The notched circular C, C, receives its
action from the base H, which receives its own from the rotary movement of
the roller I, which communicates it to the whole machinery. J, top of the
pierced upright (seen from profile); K, spring pressing on the choppers, and
fixed to the moveable part of the upright L. This Drawing represents the
pierced upright, slight thrown back; it is traversed by a quarter of a circle M
fixed to the extremity of the iron square N, which is its self fixed on the cross
bar of the assemblage. The holes pierced in the quarter circle are destined to
receive a peg. O, model of the chopper and its handle.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Emile Augustin Colette in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 4th September 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EMILE
AUGUSTIN COLETTE, residing at Dieppedalle, near Rouen, in the Depart. of
Seine Inferieure, in France, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the First day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-first year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Emile Augustin Colette, Her special licence that I, the said Emile Augustin
Colette, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Emile Augustin Colette, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all

page_text: 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 "HASHING MEAT WITH A MECHANICAL CHOPPING BOARD," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Emile Augustin Colette, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
hands and seals, 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 Emile Augustin Colette, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to bo per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement and accompanying Drawings (that is to say :-
Fig. 1 A, fly wheel; B, lateral uprights; C, shaft supporting the fly
wheel and the four pieces of wood for raising the choppers; D, four choppers;
E, upright back, in which four chambers are pierced to receive the handles of
the choppers; F, half circle of iron fixed on the handles of the choppers to
raise them; G, barrel fixed by a nut to the two lateral uprights; H, square,
fixed by a spring in the interior of the barrel to drive back the chopped
substance; I, eight pegs causing the square to be alternately replaced; J,
circular plate supporting the chopped substance; K, cog-wheel, fitted under
the plate; L, board on which the whole is fixed; M, handle.
Fig. 2: A, plan of the board, with the different parts of the machinery;
B, place occupied by the uprights; C, cog-wheel, fitted under the circular
plate, showing four small wheels placed on the cross-bar of the assemblage,
and facilitating the circular movements; in the centre is the pivot of the
plate.
Fig. 3 E, upright (scen from behind), pierced with four holes, and
traversed by the axle of the choppers; at the bottom are two hinges, which
attach it to the platform and allow it to be turned down; F, top of the upright,
thrown back by hinges.
Fig. 4 G, profile of the cog work. The cog-wheel C, C, receives its
action from the pinion II, which receives its own from the rotary movement
of the roller I, which communicates it to all the machinery.
Fig. 5 J, top of the pierced upright (seen from profile); K, springs,
pressing on the choppers and fixed to the moveable part of the upright; L,
the pierced upright, slightly thrown back; it is traversed by a quarter of a

page_text: circle M, fixed to the extremity of the iron square N, which is itself fixed on
the cross-bar of the assemblage. The holes pierced in the quarter circle are
destined to receive a peg. O, model of the chopper and its handle.
In witness whereof, I, the said Emile Augustin Colette, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this 4th day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
E. AUGUSTIN COLETTE. (L.S.)