AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR DRESSING CORN AND OTHER GRAIN
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Leatherland, of Holbeach Drove Crow-
land, in the County of Lincoln, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
MACHINE FOR DRESSING CORN AND OTHER GRAIN."
Sealed the 30th November 1875, and dated the 23rd June 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Leatherland at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 23rd June 1875.
I, James LEATHERLAND, of Holbeach Drove Orowland, in the County
of Lincoln, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR DRESSING CORN AND OTHER GRAIN," to be as
follows:-
This Invention consists of a new combination and peculiar construc-
tion of apparatus, whereby corn and other grain is dressed and prepared
for market much quicker and better than by the machines now in
use.
In the machines now in use the shake rod is connected with the chaff
de and chains nod han but anima

page_text: which is a fixture on the trough. Now by my Invention I reverse the
position, and by a new combination of parts the shake rod is connected
with the corn end of the riddle trough by rods and chains, and is
furnished with one chain at the chaff end, which chain is joined to the
iron bar which is fixed across the machine from side to side, and which
can be raised or lowered as needed by means of a thumbscrew.
Another part of my Invention consists in the arrangement of two
moveable irons under the hopper, which renders the shake more perfect
in its operation, causing the corn to pass very rapidly through the
riddles, and at the same time separating the chaff, small corn, and white ]
heads from the good corn, and in a very superior manner to the machines
now in use.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James Leatherland in the Great Seal Patent Office
... on the 23rd December 1875.
i TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
LEATHERLAND, of Holbeach Drove Crowland, in the County of Lincoln,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said James Leatherland, Her
special licence, that I, the said James Leatherland, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said James
Leatherland, 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 "AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR DRESSING CORN AND OTHER
GRAIN," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said James
Leatherland, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should

page_text: 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
5. Patent.
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NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Leatherland, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
This Invention consists of a new combination and peculiar construc-
tion of apparatus, whereby corn and other grain is dressed and prepared
for market much quicker and better than by the machines now in
use.
In the machines now in use the shake rod is connected with the chaff
end of the riddle trough by rods and chains, and has but one iron, which
is a fixture on the trough. Now by my Invention I reverse the position,
and by a new combination of parts the shake rod is connected with the
corn end of the riddle trough by rods and chains, and is furnished with
one chain at the chaff end, which chain is joined to the iron bar which
Dis fixed across the machine from side to side, and which can be raised or
lowered as needed by means of a thumbscrew.
Another part of my Invention consists in the arrangement of two
moveable irons under the hopper, which renders the shake more perfect
in ‘its 'opération, causing the corn to pass very rapidly through the
riddles, and at the same time separating the chaff, small corn, and white
heads from the good corn and in a very superior manner to the machines
now in use.

page_text: Fig. 2 to an enlarged perspective view of shoe or trough with the
hanging chain and shaking rod attached.
The same letters of reference indicate similar parts in both Figures.
a to the frame of dressing machine; b to the shoe or through; c to the
incline board down which the corn falls; d, d, are the side chains (
on which the trough is hung; e to the chain attached to front bar of
shoe; f, thumbscrew for raising and lowering the shoe by means of
chain e; g is the shaker rod; h, h, are the rods under incline board,
attached to it at one of their ends, and to the frame of the machine at
their other ends, in the latter case by the eyes shewn connected by hooks
on the frame of the dressing machine.
Having thus described the nature and object of my said Invention, I
would observe in conclusion that I do not claim any particular part
separate and apart from the other, but what I claim and desire to be
Isecured to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the
peculiar construction and arrangement of parts forming the improved
machine for dressing corn and other grain, substantially as herein-before
described and illustrated on the Drawings, or any mere modification
thereof.
thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Leatherland, have hereunto 2
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of December, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five.
TAZERS TRATTODY