A MACHINE FOR SEPARATING SEEDS, WHITECOATS, AND DIRT FROM WHEAT, AND SEEDS, AWNS, AND DIRT FROM BARLEY, AND FOR CLEANING AND POLISHING WHEAT, BARLEY, AND OTHER GRAIN FIT FOR MARKET
Year: 1857

page_text: to James Savory, of Tewkesbury, in the County of
Gloucester, Engineer and Machinist, for the Invention of "A MACHINE
FOR SEPARATING SEEDS, WHITECOATS, AND DIRT FROM WHEAT, AND SEEDS,
AWNS, AND DIRT FROM BARLEY, AND FOR CLEANING AND POLISHING WHEAT,
BARLEY, AND OTHER GRAIN FIT FOR MARKET."
Scaled the 8th September 1857, and dated the 27th May 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Savory at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
27th May 1857.
I, JAMES SAVORY, of Tewkesbury, in the County of Gloucester, Engineer
and Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A
MACHINE FOR SEPARATING SEEDS, WHITECOATS, AND DIRT FROM WHEAT, AND SEEDS,
AWNS, AND DIRT FROM BARLEY, AND FOR CLEANING AND POLISHING WHEAT, BARLEY,
AND OTHER GRAIN FIT FOR MARKET," to be as follows:-
The machine is ten inches wide, and consists of two cast-iron scythes, No. 1,
two feet in diameter, with brackets to carry the wire No. 2, and brasses No. 3;
one pair of brasses fitted in the centre with setting screws to adjust the same.
The back side of the machine is covered with plain sheet iron No. 4, the front
side being covered with square wove wire, as shewn in the Drawing. On the
top of the outside of the machine is one piece of iron casting, with small iron

page_text: beaters No. 5, by which the corn is first struck, and the remaining part of the
outside is covered with square wove iron rivetted on No. 6. There is also
one wrought-iron square shaft No. 7; also one wooden cross with four arms,
and four wrought-iron shifting plates, with shifting pins for setting the same,
No. 8; also one cast-iron hopper at the bottom for letting the smut, dust, dirt,
and seeds into the sack No. 9, and one cast-iron pulley, twelve inches in
diameter, for driving the hopper. The smutting, cleaning, and winnowing
machine is fixed to the side of an ordinary machine, so as to receive the
wheat or barley from the elevators that comes from the first blower, and the
wheat or barley is then delivered into the screen, where it is winnowed over
again.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Savory in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
26th November 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
SAVORY, of Tewkesbury, in the County of Gloucester, Engineer and Machinist,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said James Savory, Her special licence that I, the said James Savory,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said James
Savory, 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 "A MACHINE FOR
SEPARATING SEEDS, WHITECOATS, AND DIRT FROM WHEAT, AND SEEDS, AWNS, AND.
DIRT FROM BARLEY, AND FOR CLEANING AND POLISHING WHEAT, BARLEY, AND OTHER
GRAIN FIT FOR MARKET," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
James Savory, 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

page_text: 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 James Savory, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is to say) :-
The machine is ten inches wide, and consists of two cast-iron scythes (num-
bered 1 on the Drawing hereto annexed), two feet in diameter, with brackets
to carry the wire (numbered 2 on the said Drawing), and brasses (numbered
3 on the said Drawing), one pair of brasses fitted in the centre with setting
screws to adjust the same. The back side of the machine is covered with
plain sheet iron (numbered 4 on the said Drawing), the front side being
covered with square wove wire, as shewn in the said Drawing. On the top of
the outside of the machine is one piece of iron casting, with small iron beaters
(numbered 5 on the said Drawing), by which the corn is first struck, and the
remaining part of the outside is covered with square wove iron rivetted on
(numbered 6 on the said Drawing). There is also one wrought-iron square
shaft (numbered 7 on the said Drawing); also one wooden cross, with four
arms and four wrought-iron shifting plates, with shifting pins for setting the
same (numbered 8 on the said Drawing); also one cast-iron hopper at the
bottom for letting the smut, dust, dirt, and seeds into the sack (numbered
9 on the said Drawing), and one cast-iron pulley, twelve inches in diameter, for
driving the hopper. The smutting, cleaning, and winnowing machine is fixed
to the side of an ordinary thrashing machine, so as to receive the wheat or
barley from the elevators that comes from the first blower, and the wheat
or barley is then delivered into the screen, where it is winnowed over again.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Savory, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-third day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
JAMES SAVORY. (L.S.)