INVENTION AND IMPROVEMENT ON SUGAR MILLS, WHICH WILL OCCA- SION LESS POWER TO WORK THEM, AND ARE NOT LIABLE TO BE OUT OF ORDER
Year: 1794

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
COLLINGE, of Buxtone Place, in the Parish of Saint Mary, Lambeth, in the
County of Surry, Patent Axletree Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letter's Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the Thir-
tièth day of October, 'in the thirty-fifth year of His reign, did give and grant
unto me, the said John Collinge, His especial licence that I, the said John
Collinge, during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make; use, and exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, and within all His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations
abroad, my "INVENTION AND IMPROVEMENT ON SUGAR MILLS, WHICH WILL OCCA-
SION LESS POWER TO WORK THEM, AND ARE NOT LIABLE TO BE OUT OF ORDER;" in
which said Letters.Patent there is contained a provisoe obliging me, the said
John Collinge, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of
the nature of my said Invention, and how the same is to be performed, to be
inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, as in and
by the same, relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at large
appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Collinge in pursuance of and
compliance with the said proviso in the said Lotters Patent, do hereby describe
the nature of the said Invention or improvement (that is to say):-
The principle on which my Invention or improvement on sugar mills is
founded, consists in constructing the stepblocks to receive the bottom gud-
geons of the mill in any manner so that the gudgeons therein shall bo
immersed in oil or grease, and by providing a recess below the bearing points
or cappooses, in any manner so that the foul oil or grease shall escape
beneath them. By this means the acting surfaces of those gudgeons will
always be supplied with tho purer parts of such oil or grease. And in order
that the mill cases or a framing may not be taken down or disturbed to
cleanse the stepblock, an apperture is made in the lower part of its recess
to let out the foul oil or grease when occasion shall require. This apperture
to be closed with a plug or screw. The headblocks which receive the upper
gudgeons are to be constructed in any manner so that they will receive cotton,
wool, or any other suitablo clastic material (that will emit oil or grease) abovo
that part of the gudgeon which works therein; which cotton or other mate-
rial, being supplied with oil or grease from recesses around, it will yield a
quantity of such oil or grease to the gudgeons or blocks as they may require
when the mill is at work. The step and headblocks should be fixed in the
framing as near the ends of the mill cases as possible, to render the gudgeons
shorter, which will prevent in a great degree their being broke. These blocks
may be made in any external form that is most suitable to the framing of
any mill to which they may be applied. Mills thus improved will, from their
being constantly supplied with oil or grease, cause the motion to be uncom-
monly smooth, easy, and correct, by which means the power necessary to
work the mill will be greatly reduced, the gudgeous and blocks more durable,
and less liable to break or bo out of order.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Collingo, have hereunto set my
hand and scal, this Twenty-ninth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety-four.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-ninth day of November,
in the year of our Lord 1794, the aforesaid John Collinge came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
5 above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to
the tenor of the Statutes made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-ninth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and ninety-four.