THE Commercial and A‘oricultural Magazine.

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No. XX.] MARCH, 1801. EM Ud EAN ts

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We are happy to preſent to our readers, the moſt complete Engine for cut tiny ftaWw,&c. which has yet appeared. The ſpecification is inſerted at length, as it may sratify curioſity to ſce the fo of this legal inſtrument. For the futuré, in like câſes, the préamble will be oraitted. E.

SPECIFICATION of the PATENT granted to Mr. William Leſter, of‘Cotton End, Northamptonſhiïz, for bis 1MPROVED ENGINE, for cutting Hay, Straw, Tobacco, Se.

O all towhom theſe preſents ſhall come; I William Léſter, of Cotton End, in the pariſh of Hardingſtone, in the county of Northampton, Patent Harrow and Chat Engine

Manufacturer, ſend greeting.. Whereas, his moſt excellent Ma-

jeſty King George the Third, did by his letters patent, under

the great ſeal of the united kingdom of Gíeat Britain and Lre- lands bearing date the feventeenth day of February, in the forïty- úrf year of his reign, give and grant unto me the ſaid William

Leſter, his eſpecial liceñce, that I the ſaid William Leſterz

duriób the term of years therein mentioned, ſhould, and lawfully

might uſe, exerciſe, and vend within England, Wales, and the town of Berwick upon“Tweed, my invention of certain im= provements upon an Engine or Machine for cutting hay and fraw into chaff, for which I obtained his Majeſty's letters patent, in the year one thouſand eight hundred, by which im- provements the ſaid Engine or Machine will cut tobacco and various other articles, with the greateſt regularity and accuracy; to any given length reguired: In Which ſaid letters patent there is à proviſo, obliging me the faid William Léſter, by an inſtru- nent in writing, under my hand and ſeak to cauſe a particular deſcription of the nature of my faid inventiolgand in whac man- her the ſame is to be perforred, to be: enrolled în his. Majeſty's High Court of Chancery, within one calendar, mênth after the date of the ſaid recited letters patent. Now khowFye that in com- bliance with the ſaid proviſo, I‘the ſaid William Leſter do hereby declare, that my ſaid invention is deſcribed in the draw=- ings hereunto annexed, and by the following deſeription thereof, that is to ſay, Figure 1. is a front view. Letters AAA A repre- ſent the‘ frame of the Machine or Engine. B the braces, to pre- vent the frame from ſpringing while the knife is geing through the cut. C, the fly wheel that carries the kaife, and gives mas tion ſo the crank. D, the knife fixed to the wheel: by two male ſcrews, with four regulating nuts. E, the mouth of the box repreſenting the article to be cut. F, the preſs which is raiſed Com.& dg. Mag. Val. IV. S