IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR HOLDING SACKS TO FACILITATE THE FILLING OF THEM WITH CORN OR OTHER MATERIALS
Year: 1847

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
GILBERT, of the Marina, Saint Leonards-on-Sea, Surgeon, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-seventh day of
May, One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, in the tenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Henry Gilbert, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, Her especial licence,
full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Henry Gilbert, my
exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry Gilbert, my
exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times during the term of years therein ex-
pressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR HOLDING SACKS TO FACILITATE THE FILLING
OF THEM WITH CORN OR OTHER MATERIALS;" in which said Letters Patent is
contained a proviso that I, the said Henry Gilbert, shall cause a particular
description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner, the
same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, to be inrolled in. Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in part
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto
had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Henry Gilbert, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to
the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon,
that is to say :-
Heretofore-when-filling sacks it has been usual for one. person. to hold up
the sack whilst the other fills the same. In other cases the sack has been
hung from hooks or instruments from a wall or post, or some other permanent
structure. Now the object of my Invention is so to arrange apparatus that
it may be carried about with facility, and stand in a field or other place, and
uphold a sack in an open state, so that the sack may be filled with facility,
and the details of the apparatus for accomplishing this object may be varied,
the Invention simply requiring-such-an-arrangement of parts that it may be
independent of a fixed or permanent structure, and be capable of being moved
from place to place, and yet uphold, an empty sack in an open state, and allow
of a person readily filling the same.
...
DESCRIPTION, OF. THE. DRAWINGS...
Figure 1 shows a side view of an apparatus constructed according to my
Invention; Figure 2 is a back view thereof; and Figure 3 shows a section,
the feet or supports being more extended, and there the mouth of the sack
is brought nearer the floor or ground than the sack, shown in Figures 1-and-2.
In each of the Figures a, a, is the-main frame, having two legs a¹, a'. The
sides a are combined together by the bars .b, which are bent to receive the
sack as it rests against it; c-is a diagonal frame, which turns on'axes or necks
at c', as is shown; and d, d, are two studs or projections fixed to the side
rails of the frame c; by which the legs or feet a¹, c, can be caused to stand
a greater or less distance apart, there being notches in the projections e, e,
to receive the studs or projections d, as shewn. At the upper part of the
apparatus is fixed an eliptical frame f, through which the mouth of the sack
is to be drawn, the curved clamping bars 9, 9 (which turn on axes or necks
at their ends), being first raised into the position shown by dotted lines at
Figures 1 and 3. The upper part of the sack is to be folded over the bars f;
and the clamping bars brought down, which, will clamp the upper parts of
the sack securely between the parts f, f, and g, g; by which means the sack-
will be held open at the mouth; and supported or suspended from the frame f,
and the apparatus may be placed in the position shewn at Figure 1 or Figure 8.
If placed in the position shewn in Figure 3, it will have to be raised into the
position Figure 1 as the sack becomes filled:

page_text: Having thus explained the best arrangement of parts with which I am.
acquainted for carrying out my Invention, I do not confine myself to the
details, so long as the peculiar character of my Invention be retained, whereby
a portable apparatus for holding sacks to facilitate their being filled is produced,
as herein explained.
In witness whereof, I, the said 'Henry Gilbert, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven.
HENRY (L.S.) GILBERT.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-fifth day of November,
in the year of our Lord 1847, the aforesaid Henry Gilbert came before our
said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Twenty-seventh day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven.