IMPROVEMENTS IN HOES
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Robert Lake, of the Firm of Haseltine,
Lake, & Co., Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN HOES."-A communication from
abroad by Moses Johnson and Moses Crandall Richardson; both of
a.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Robert Lake
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 6th September 1875.
I, WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co.,
5 Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN HOES," a commu-
.nication, to be as follows:-
:-
This Invention has relation to hoes, and it consists in a hoe which is
stiffened at its contracted part by making such part concave or convex
transversely, forming an arch from edge to edge and flaring towards the
blade, and flush therewith at its terminus; also in a hoe which is cut

page_text: out of a single piece of metal with ears on opposite sides of a narrow
transversely curved portion, as herein described.
I construct a hoe with a broad blade, and a smaller blade and two
ears, which when they ar bent serve in connection with screws or rivets
for securing the hoe to the handle; these four parts are struck out of
a piece of sheet metal. The narrow connecting portion between the
blades is curved transversely, the concavity or convexity, as the case
may be, extending some distance into each one of the blades. The ears
I
are then turned down to form the attaching socket for the handle.
secure the ears to the handle by means of screws or rivets.
transverse curve given to the contracted part is for the purpose of
strengthening and stiffening this part, and it also in a measure strengthens
and stiffens the blades. If desirable, one of the blades may be omitted.
The
A modification of this Invention consists in making the attaching
portion flat instead of curved, and in making the connecting portion
convex instead of concave.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Robert Lake in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 4th March 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS' SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most. Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of September, in the
year of our Lord. One-thousand-eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said William Robert Lake, Her special
licence that I, the said William Robert Lake, my executors, admini-
strators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Robert
-Lake, my-executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for

page_text: "IMPROVEMENTS IN HOES," a communication to me from abroad by Moses
Johnson and Moses Crandall Richardson, both of Lockport, New York,
United States of America, upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said William Robert Lake, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Robert Lake, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement, reference being had to the accom-
panying Drawings forming a part of this Specification :-
This Invention has relation to hoes, and it consists in a hoe which is
stiffened at its contracted part by making such part concave or convex
transversely, forming an arch from edge to edge, and flaring towards the
blade, and flush therewith at its terminus; also in a hoe which is cut
out of a single piece of metal with ears on opposite sides of a narrow
transversely curved portion herein-after described.

page_text: curved transversely, the concavity or convexity, as the case may be,
extending some distance into each one of the blades. The ears are then
turned down to form the attaching socket for the bandle D. I secure
the ears to the handle by means of screws or rivets. The transverse
curve given to the contracted-part-a-is-for-the-purpose of strengthening
and stiffening this part, and it also in a measure strengthens and stiffens
the blades. If desirable one of the blades may be omitted.
The modification shown consists in making the attaching portion C, C,
flat instead of curved, and also in making the portion a convex instead
of concave.
Having thus fully described the said Invention, as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondents, and the manner of performing the
same, I wish it understood that I claim;—
First. A hoe, the contracted partion a of which forms an unbroken
arch from edge to edge in cross section, and is inclined outward or
"flares" toward the blade, and is flush therewith at its terminus,
as above described.
Second. In a hoe, the ears C, C, combined with the narrow curved
portion a, as above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Robert Lake, have here-
unto set my hand and scal, this Fourth day of March, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.
Witness,
· JAS. EDWARDS,..
-8, Southampton Buildings,
London.
W. ROB. LAKE.
(L.S.)