AN IMPROVED AGRICULTURAL MACHINE
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jonas Bushell, William Bushell, Samuel Bushell,
Joseph Bushell, and Daniel Bushell, all of Great Snoring, near Fakenham,
in the County of Norfolk, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED AGRICULTURAL
MACHINE."
Sealed the 11th October 1860, and dated the 12th April 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jonas Bushell, William
Bushell, Samuel Bushell, Joseph Bushell, and Daniel Bushell at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 12th
April 1860.
We, JONAS BUSHELL, WILLIAM BUSHELL, SAMUEL BUSHELL, JOSEPH BUSHELL,
and DANIEL BUSHELL, all of Great Snoring, near Fakenham, in the County of
Norfolk, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
AGRICULTURAL MACHINE," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to dress and completely finish all kinds of
grain or seed at one time ready for market, and to deposit it in sacks appro-
priated to its reception according to the various samples produced.
We propose placing at the upper end of the machine a convenient sized
hopper, into which is thrown the grain to be dressed, beneath which is a
revolving feeding roller; said roller allows the grain to pass into a riddler and
from thence into a hummeler hopper. In the centre of the machine is to be
placed a circular revolving fan, having a box or cover over it, said cover having

page_text: openings at intervals, one opening being opposite the riddler before mentioned,
which has the effect of blowing away the chaff and other such like material.
Within the aforesaid hummeler hopper is a roller, around which an endless
band works, extending in an upward direction to the opposite end of the
machine and round another roller. This band has scoops affixed thereto so as
to take the grain or seed from the hummeler hopper up to another hopper,
beneath which is a second riddler, and opposite to the end of which riddler is
another opening in the fan cover for the purpose of blowing off any remaining
chaff, the cosh falling out into a sack placed for its reception. The grain then
falls into a sieve and through on to a slanting board, where it again comes into
contact with the wind from another opening in the fan cover; thus the tail
corn is separated from the No. 1 or best sample, which is ready for
market.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Jonas Bushell, William Bushell, Samuel Bushell, Joseph
Bushell, and Daniel Bushell in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 12th
October 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JONAS
BUSHELL, WILLIAM BUSHELL, SAMUEL BUSHELL, JOSEPH BUSHELL, and DANIEL
BUSHELL, all of Great Snoring, near Fakenham, in the County of Norfolk,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Jonas Bushell, William Bushell, Samuel Bushell, Joseph Bushell, and
Daniel Bushell, Her special licence that we, the said Jonas Bushell, William
Bushell, Samuel Bushell, Joseph Bushell, and Daniel Bushell, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Jonas Bushell,
William Bushell, Samuel Bushell, Joseph Bushell, and Daniel Bushell, our
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 AGRICULTURAL MACHINE,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Jonas Bushell, William

page_text: At Fig. 2 will be seen two spouts 1 and 2, through the first of which fall the
seeds, cockle, &c., and through the other the cosh or wheat not chaffed.. The
method of driving the various parts of this machine will be readily understood
by referring to the accompanying Drawings, motion being imparted in the first
instance by horse, steam, or other convenient power.
:
At Fig. 1 will be seen a sheet-iron casing m placed around the fan g, having
openings at intervals as shewn, for the emission of the blast caused by the
revolution of the fan; at each of these openings is placed a moveable board as
shewn, for the purpose of cutting off the wind from the riddles when desired,
or graduating it according to the required supply.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention of "An Improved
Agricultural Machine," and the manner in which the same is to be performed,
we would remark in conclusion that we do not confine or restrict ourselves
to the precise details herein described and shewn in the accompanying Sheet of
illustrative Drawings, as many slight variations and modifications may be
made therein without at all departing from the principle of our Invention, but
what we claim as of our Invention, intended to be secured to to us by the berein
in part recited Letters Patent is the dressing, blowing, and finishing of the
various kinds of grain ready for the market in sacks in the manner and by the
means herein described and shewn in the Sheet of Drawings hereto annexed
for the purposes set forth.
In witness whereof, we, the said Jonas Bushell, William Bushell, Samuel
Bushell, Joseph Bushell, and Daniel Bushell, have hereunto set our
hands and seals, this Twelfth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty.