IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR SPREADING MANURE, SAND, GRAVEL, AND SIMILAR SUBSTANCES
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Herbert John Haddan, of the Firm of Herbert and
Company, Patent Agents, of 67, Strand, in the City of Westminster, Civil
Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR SPREADING
MANURE, SAND, GRAVEL, AND SIMILAR SUBSTANCES." A communication from
abroad by Alexandre Gandrille, of Outarville, Loiret, in the Republic of
France.
ealed the 17th July 1877, and dated the 19th January 1877.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Herbert John Haddan at
the Office of the Cominissioners of Patents on the 19th January 1877.
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of the Firm of Herbert and Company, Patent Agents,
of 67, Strand, in the City of Westminster, Civil Engineer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY FOR SPREADING MANURE, SAND, GRAVEL, AND SIMILAR SUBSTANCES."
A communication from abroad by Alexandre Gandrille, of Outarville, Loiret, in the
Republic of France.
The improvements consist in the application to any convenient cart of an endless
cloth bottom, working round supporting rollers, together with a roller brush
working across and on said cloth bottom, the rollers supporting the bottoni, and
the roller brush being geared in connection with the wheels of the cart, and as it is
moved, a uniform distribution of manure, sand, or other similar substance takes
place, owing to the movement of the endless cloth bottom which brings the material
to the brush and is thus spread or brushed out from the tail end of the cart.
The cart may be made in the ordinary way but without any bottom, the bottom
is to be formed of loose rollers, over and on which the cloth revolving bottom
intended to carry the manure or other similar substance shall work; the brush
may be of hard fibre; the gearing may be of any ordinary description, actuated by
the wheel or axle of the cart as it revolves.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Herbert John Haddan in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 17th
July 1877.
"
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of the Firm of Herbert and Company, Patent Agents,
of 67, Strand, in the City of Westminster, Civil Engineer. IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY FOR SPREADING MANURE, SAND, GRAVEL, AND SIMILAR SUBSTANCES."
A communication from abroad by Alexandre Gandrille, of Outarville, Loiret, in the
Republic of France.
The improvements consist in the application to any convenient cart of an endless
cloth bottom working round supporting rollers, together with a roller brush
working across and on said cloth bottom, the rollers supporting the bottom, and the
roller brush being geared in connection with the wheels of the cart, and as it is
moved a uniform distribution of manure, sand, or other similar substance takes
place owing to the movement of the endless cloth bottom which brings the material
to the brush, and is thus spread or brushed out from the end of the cart.
A box or receptacle, fitted with a moveable door to admit of the supply of
material being regulated, may sometimes be used.
The cart may be made in the ordinary way but without any bottom, the bottom
is to be formed of loose rollers over and on which the cloth revolving bottom
intended to carry the manure or other similar substance shall work; the brush
may be of hard fibre; the gearing may be of any ordinary description, actuated by
the wheel or axle of the cart as it revolves.
The accompanying Drawing will serve to illustrate a convenient mode of per-
forming the Invention, but I do not limit myself to the mode shown, as this may be
varied without departing from the nature of the Invention.
Fig. 1 is a side elevation (with the motion wheel removed); Fig. 2 is a plan
view; Fig. 3, an end view of the motion wheel; Fig. 4, a similar view of the
opposite wheel; Fig. 5, an enlarged sectional view shewing the arrangements for
spreading the material; and Fig. 6 is a part plan view of the endless cloth bottom.
A is the motion wheel of the cart, to which are attached wheels C, D; Bis the
opposite wheel of the cart; C, cogged wheel actuating E below; D, cogged wheel
driving F; E, cogged wheel communicating movement to the small axle G, on
which is mounted wheel H placed below the axle of B; F, wheel communicating
movement to the brush Q; G, axle of the wheels H and E; H, cogged wheel
actuating I; I, wheel communicating motion to the 1st roller K; K, roller, giving
movement to the endless cloth L.; L, endless cloth to carry off material placed in
the box 0; M, intermediate rollers supporting the endless cloth bottom L; N, 4th
roller driven by the first roller K; O, box or receptacle for holding the manure or
other material; P, ledges of the box 0; Q, revolving brush; R is a box for the use
of the driver; S, graduated scale for regulating the supply of material; T, shafts of
the cart; U, frame of the cart; V, the axle.
It is clearly evident from the above that on the cart being set in motion the
wheels C, D, revolve simultaneously with the wheel A of the cart; C communicates
the motion to E, such motion being then transmitted through G to H on the
opposite side of the cart where it is communicated to I, causing the roller K to
revolve, which then through the motion of L carries on the movement to roller N,
and similarly D actuates F which causes the rotation of the brush Q.
In witness whereof, I, the said Herbert John Haddan, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.
H. J. HADDAN. (L.S.)