IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY AND APPARATUS FOR CLEANSING AND OTHER- WISE TREATING OF RICE AND CERTAIN OTHER GRAINS, SEEDS, AND FARANASEOUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1850

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
MARTIN, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Rice Miller, send
.greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Sixteenth day of November, in the
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Joseph Martin, Her especial license that I, the said
Joseph Martin, my exors, adññors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Joseph Martin, my exors, admors, and assigns, should at .any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY AND APPARATUS FOR CLEANSING AND OTHER-
WISE TREATING OF RICE AND CERTAIN OTHER GRAINS, SEEDS, AND FARANASEOUS
SUBSTANCES;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso
obliging-me, the said Joseph Martin, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the
same to be enrolled in Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said 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
Joseph Martin, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are described and
ascertained by the Drawing and the words following; that is to say :-
My Invention consist of,-
Firstly, in the application of worm cylinders in the process of washing and
drying of grain, seeds, and other farinaseous substances, and in the process of
washing, drying, and calcining of starch, flour, farina; and also for roasting or
washing the seed of the coffee plant.
The kind of cylinder I prefer for drying is that shewn in Figure 1st, the
outside casing of which may be formed of wire gauze, or of sheet metal, or
any other suitable material. A, A, the two journals or axis on which the
cylinders revolves; B, B, the arms or centres -through which the grain is
passed in and out of the cylinder; C, C, the outside casing; D, D, D, D
worms or screw partitions affixed to the casing or axis as convenience in con-
struction may require. The grain is passed in at the end marked A, and as
it revolves it gradually works the grain to the other end between the screw
partitions, the time which the grain passes from one end of the cylinder to the
other depending on the velocity of the cylinder and the pitch of the screw.
partitions.
Figure 2 is a section of the form of screw cylinder I prefer for the washing
of grain or other farinaseous matters. A, A, the two journals; B, B, the
arms or centres; C, C, C, the outside casings; D, D, D, D, the screw or
worm partitions. The only difference between the form of cylinder I use for
the washing of grain to that of drying is, that the one end being made conical,
the length of such conical end depending on the nature and quality of material
so to be treated.
The rest part of my Invention consists of certain improved machinery for
the cleansing of rice, splitting of peas, &c., which consists in the passing of the
grain between a cork wood and serated surface, such serated surface to be
either of metal, stone, or any other suitable material.
Figure 3 represents a section of one of the machines I employ for the
cleansing of rice or splitting of peas or other grain. A, A, the hopper; B, B,
the shaker; (C, C, C, C), the hurst; D, D, the spindle carrying the revolving.
stone E, E; F, F, a cork-wood surface fastened on to the wooden stationary
disk G, G.
Figure 4 represents another section similar to the one above. The only
difference is, that instead of the serated surface being of stone, it is made of
a metal plate which is fastened to and revolves with the shaft. The novelty.

page_text: of this mode of cleansing of rice, splitting of peas, and treating of other seeds
or grains consists in the passing the seeds or grain between a revolving serated
surface, either of metal or stone, and a surface of cork wood, as is fully shewn
in the annexed Drawing, and described in this Specification.
What I claim as my Invention is,―
Firstly, the modes herein described, and shewn in the Drawings, Figures 1
and 2, for the drying and washing of grains, seed, or other farinaseous matters.
Secondly, the mode herein described, and shewn in Figures 3 and 4, for the
cleaning and shelling of rice and splitting of 1
peas.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Martin, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one.