AN IMPROVED CORN STACK STAND
Year: 1833

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
SPRINGALL, of Oulton, in the County of Suffolk, Ironfounder, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Seventh day of March, in the third year of His reign, did,
for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said John
Springall, His especial licence that I, the said John Springall, my exors,
adiñors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Springall, 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 expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales,
and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN IMPROVED
CORN STACK STAND;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso
obliging me, the said John Springall, 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 His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two
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.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with. the said proviso, I, the said
John Springall, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, to

page_text: consist in an improved construction of corn stack stands, either separate or
united, as herein-after described, whereby I am enabled to afford a current of
air to all parts of the stack, thus preventing the bottom of the stack from
becoming damp, and to preserve the corn dry, clean, and free from vermin,
while the stands are capable of being removed and set up in any part of a
farm at pleasure, without injury and with very little trouble. And in further
compliance with the said proviso, I, the said John Springall, do hereby
describe the manner in which my said Invention is to be performed, by
the following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawing annexed
and to the figures and letters marked thereon (that is to say) :-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Fig. 1 represents a plan of a single or separate corn stack stand made of
cast or wrought iron. A, B, C, are three circular bands or rims, through
which tension rods or bars diverging from a centre pass, and are fastened by a
screw nut at one end and a bolt head at the other. D is a centre plate with
a rim from which the said rods diverge. E are the several pillars and caps
which I call supports, on which the rims rest, and which may consist of any
convenient number; these supports are either placed under or fastened to the
rims in the manner better shewn in the Figures hereafter to be explained.
The caps of these supports are to prevent mice and other vermin finding their
way up the pillars into the stack.
Figure 2 is an elevation of a single stack stand, shewing the supports and
caps. J is a coupling or clip, which clips round the rim, and, projecting beyond
it, has 2 holes, one in each lip of the clip, thro' which the upper part of the
support passes.
Figure 3 is a section of one of the rins, which may be made in separate
segments, and put together in length at the parts where the supports are,
which will help to hold them firm.
Figure 4 is a separate view of the centre plate, with its rim.
Figure 5 is a plan of a double corn stack stand, and consists of two stands
put beside each other, and then united by means of the side bars F, G, and
the connecting or strengthening circles H, I.
Now, whereas it is evident that any number of my said corn stack stands
may be united in one length or in other forms to suit the locality for which
they are intended by the means shewn in the last Figure; and whereas the
forms of rims may vary as more or less strength is required; but whereas I
claim as my Invention the improved cast or wrought iron corn stack herein-
'before described, made of rims and tension bars or rods, as aforesaid, and the

page_text: union of two or more of the same, in manner aforesaid, to form a larger
stand; and such my Invention being, to the best of my knowledge and
belief, entirely new and never before used within that part of His said Majesty's
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, His said
Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, I do hereby declare
this to be my Specification of the same, and that I do verily believe this my
said Specification doth comply in all respects fully and without reserve or
disguise, with the proviso in the said herein-before in part recited Letters
Patent contained, wherefore I hereby claim to maintain exclusive right and
privilege to my said Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Springall, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
Inrolled the Seventh day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and thirty-three.