IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTING LIME AND MANURES
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Granville William Sutherland Leveson Gower,
Duke of Sutherland, of Stafford House, in the County of Middlesex, and
George Greig, of Uppat House, Brora, in the County of Sutherland, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTING LIME AND
MANURES."
Sealed the 12th December 1879, and dated the 26th June 1879.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Granville William
Sutherland Leveson Gower and Georgo Greig at the Office of the Commissioners
of Patents on the 26th June 1879.
GEORGE GRANVILLE WILLIAM SUTHERLAND LEVESON GOWER, Duke of Suther-
land, of Stafford House, in the County of Middlesex, and GEORGE GREIG, of Uppat
House, Brora, in the County of Sutherland. "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
DISTRIBUTING LIME AND MANURES."
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for distributing lime
and manures.
The machine by which this is attained is constructed of a frame work supported
on two driving wheels, and arranged to be drawn by a horse as an ordinary farm
cart.
Above the frame work we arrange a large hopper, which delivers the lime or
manure into a revolving barrel, which again delivers it into a small hopper leading
to a fan or centrifugal wheel revolving at a high speed below the frame.
The material to be distributed is discharged from this fan all round its circum-
ference against an oval shaped screen, from which it falls equally distributed on the
ground passed over by the machine. The machine may be constructed of more or
less width.
The revolving barrel is set a convenient incline, so that the material may work

page_text: along it to its lower end. The bottom or lower end of the barrel does not rotate,
but is hinged so that it may be opened more or less to allow of the discharge being
regulated to the intended quantity to be sown.
The barrel is driven from one of the supporting wheels, the fan or centrifugal
being driven by the other wheel.
The first hopper leading to the barrel may be dispensed with, and the barrel
made large enough to receive at once the whole charge. The difficulty of manuro
bridging and clogging in distributed machines as heretofore constructed is overcome
by this system, the revolving barrel keeping the whole material continually in
movement.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said George Granville William Sutherland Leveson Gower and George
Greig in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 24th December 1879.
GEORGE GRANVILLE WILLIAM SUTHERLAND LEVESON GOWER, Duke of Suther-
land, of Stafford House, in the County of Middlesex, and GEORGE GREIG, of Uppat
House, Brora, in the County of Sutherland. "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
DISTRIBUTING LIME AND MANURES."
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for distributing lime
and manures.
The machine by which this is attained is constructed of a frame-work supported
on two driving wheels, and arranged to be drawn by a horse as an ordinary farm
cart.
Above the frame work we arrange a large hopper, which delivers the lime or
manure into a revolving barrel, which again delivers it into a small hopper leading
to a fan or centrifugal wheel revolving at a high speed below the frame.
The material to be distributed is discharged from this fan all round its circum-
ference against an oval shaped screen, from which it falls equally distributed on the
ground passed over by the machine. The machine may be constructed of more or
less width.
The revolving barrel is set at a convenient incline, so that the material may work
along it to its lower end. The bottom or lower end of the barrel does not rotate,
but is hinged so that it may be opened more or less to allow of the discharge being
regulated to the intended quantity to be sown.
The barrel is driven from one of the supporting wheels, the fan or centrifugal
being driven by the other wheel.
The first hopper leading to the barrel may be dispensed with, and the barrel
made large enough to receive at once the whole charge. The difficulty of manure
bridging and clogging in distributing machines, as heretofore constructed, is overcome
by this system, the revolving barrel keeping the whole material continually in
movement.
In order that our said Invention may be most fully understood and readily
carried into effect, we will proceed to describe the Drawings hereunto annexed.
Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of a distributing apparatus constructed according
to our Invention; Figure 2 is a plan of the same; and Figure 3 is a back elovation,
partly in section.
A is a hopper to contain the lime or manure to be distributed; it is carried upon
a cart like frame, and it communicates with the revolving barrel B. The rotation
of the barrel causes the material to descend to its lower end, and its escape there-
from is regulated by the adjustable door or end C, which is controlled by the lever
handle D, so that the small hopper E receives an approximately regular stream of
the material. F is a fan or centrifugal beater placed immediately beneath the outlet
from the hopper E, and the matters as they descend are struck by the arms of the
fan or beater; they are thus thrown forcibly against the surrounding screen G, and
being stopped by the screen they fall down on to the land directly beneath. Ono
of the main or carrying wheels of the machine has a rope pulley H upon it; it is
encircled by an endless rope, which is led over the guide pulleys I, I, to the grooved
pulley K. This pulley K is fixed upon the axis carrying the cylinder B, and so the
cylinder is rotated. The other main wheel has upon it a rope pulley L, and this
actuates an endless rope. The rope, after passing around the guide pulleys M,
gives motion to the pulleys N; it passes around the upper and smaller of the two
pulleys,

page_text: The larger pulley N receives an endless driving rope, by which it drives a pulley
O upon the axis of the fan or centrifugal beater F.
Having thus described the nature of our said Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, we would have it understood that we claim,---
First. Apparatus suitable for distributing lime and manures, and consisting of a
cart like vehicle containing a revolving drum, into which the material is placed or
caused to pass, and which drum being set in an inclined position and provided at
its lower end with an adjustable door, permits the required quantity of material to
descend to distributing apparatus to be scattered over the land, substantially as
described.
Second. Apparatus for distributing lime and manure, consisting of a cart like
vehicle containing a fan or centrifugal beater, and a screen so arranged that the
material being caused to descend from feeding apparatus on to the fan or centrifugal
beater, is projected by the same against a screen, from whence it falls equally on
the land, substantially as described.
Third. The construction of apparatus for distributing lime and manures, substan-
tially as described and illustrated by the annexed Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said George William Granville Sutherland Loveson
Gower, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of
December, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy
nine.