THE METHOD OF MAKING A DRILL, TO BE USED BY FIXING IT TO THE SIDE OF A COMMON PLOW BEAM UPON AN ENTIRE NEW CONSTRUCTION CALCULATED TO Sow TURNIP SEED, RAPE SEED, AND ALL KINDS OF CORN, GRAIN, AND OTHER SEEDS WHATSOEVER, BY DISTRI- BUTING THE SAME IN ANY QUANTITY AT ANY DISTANCE REQUIRED, AND COVERING IT AT ANY DEPTH THAT MAY BE THOUGHT NECESSARY
Year: 1781

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
PROUD, of Bagby, near Thirsk, in the County of York, Yeoman, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the. Twenty-second day of August, in the twenty-first year of His
reign, did give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Proud, His especial
licence, that I, the said Thomas Proud, during the term of years therein.
expressed, should and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "THE METHOD
OF MAKING A DRILL, TO BE USED BY FIXING IT TO THE SIDE OF A COMMON PLOW
BEAM UPON AN ENTIRE NEW CONSTRUCTION CALCULATED TO Sow TURNIP SEED, RAPE
SEED, AND ALL KINDS OF CORN, GRAIN, AND OTHER SEEDS WHATSOEVER, BY DISTRI-
BUTING THE SAME IN ANY QUANTITY AT ANY DISTANCE REQUIRED, AND COVERING IT
AT ANY DEPTH THAT MAY BE THOUGHT NECESSARY;" in which said Letters Patent
there is contained a provisoe obliging me, the said Thomas Proud, under my
hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my said
Invention, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
four calendar months after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in
and by the same (relation being thereunto had) may more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said provisoe, I, the said
Thomas Proud, do hereby declare that my said Method of Making a Drill to
be used by fixing it to the Side of a Common Plow Beam, upon an entire
new Construction calculated to sow Turnip Seed, Rape Seed, and all Kinds

page_text: of Corn, Grain, and other Seeds whatsoever, by distributing the same in any
Quantity at any Distance required, and covering it at any Depth that may be
thought necessary, is described in the Plan thereof hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof; I, the said Thomas Proud, have hereunto set my
hand and cool this Fourteenth day of December 1781.

page_text: A Common Plow with the Drill Frame fixed to it by means of two Screws as at (aa) the
two Screws must be put through the Beam where the Turnip Drill box is equal with
the hind part of the Mould Board.
The Turnip Drill wheel and frame as if taken from the Plow Beam (aa) the two screws
that fix it to the Plow (b) the Drill and Seed box fixed upon the Slider as (Figure 4.)
where the screw (a) serves to tighten the string likewise by lengthening or shortening the
string makes it plant the Seed deeper or shallower and the Screw (b) is to set the Drill
according to the Furrow you choose to plow this Slider with the Drill upon it is fixed to
the end of the frame as at (c). (d) the square hole & screw that takes and fixes the
square part of the Wheels Axle Tree which is raised or lowered according to the depth
you choose to plow (ee) the two pullies with the String (f) when the string is in the
fire large and hind large pullies it plants the Seed at four inches when in the fore
large and hind little Pullies it plants at three inches, when in the fore little and
hind little pullies it plants at nearly five inches: when in the fore little and hind
great pullies it plants at six inches and so by varying the pullies you may plant at
what distance you please. In the inside of the Turnip Drill box is a Brass screw with
hair in the end like a Brush which is to stand as close to the wheel that takes out
the turnip seed as possible but hardly to touch
The Corn Drill fixed upon the same Frame and in the same manner upon the Plow
beam, the same wheel and pullies as figure 2(b) the regulating screw which by
turning to the right hand the Grain is drept in larger quantities and the contrary
in less and by this method it is altered for different kind of Grain (c) is a spring
fixed to the side of the Box as Fig. 6. (to which a string is fixed at (a) and comes up
to the Ploy handle where a Slip Fig. 7. is fixed to which the other end of the string
is fastened so when the String is tightened the Seeds flows out but when slipped it stops
At (d) is a little Shutter that turns upon a Screw this opening is made to give Oil to
the Store Wheel
This Drili is fixed to the frame by means of the Slide.
(a a) the two Screw bolts that come through the bottom of the Drill (bb) the two
knotches that the two belts (aa) slide and fix in at any distance according to the
breadth of your Farrow (c) the two Screw Bolts that fix the slide to the Frame moving
in the two knotches. (dd) by which means you sow the seed to your depth and
likewise tighten your string.
The Screw Key