Ix- PROVEMENTS IN STEAM ENGINES FOR GIVING MOTION TO AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Smith, of Little Woolstone, near Fenny
Stratford, in the County of Bucks, Farmer, for the Invention of "Ix-
PROVEMENTS IN STEAM ENGINES FOR GIVING MOTION TO AGRICULTURAL
IMPLEMENTS."
Scaled the 2nd October 1857, and dated the 10th July 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Smith, at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
10th July 1857.
I, WILLIAM SMITH, of Little Woolstone, near Fenny Stratford, in the
County of Bucks, Farmer, lo hereby declare the nature of the Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN STEAM ENGINES FOR GIVING MOTION TO AGRICULTURAL
IMPLEMENTS," to be as follows:—
This Invention has for its object improvements in steam engines for giving
motion to agricultural implements, and consists in arranging the back of the
engine so that the implement attached thereto may be guided or moved
sideways in either direction, and also so that the implement may be raised
out of the earth by means of a crane, attached to the back of the engine.
For this purpose the agricultural implement is attached by a hinge joint to a
slide which slides between guides at the back of the engine; and I prefer to
give motion to this slide by means of a screw, on one end of which there is a
bevilled toothed wheel, which takes into another bevilled toothed wheel, on
the axis of which there is a handle, so that by turning this handle the slide
may be moved from side to side in either direction, as desired. In order to
raise the implement out of the land, a crane is fixed to the back of the

page_text: engine, the chain of which crane is fixed to the back end of the implement,
and the implement being connected to the slide at the back of the engine by
a hinge joint; when the crane is turned the back of the implement is raised
up out of the land.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Smith, in the Great Seal Patent Oflice on the
9th January 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
SMITH, of Little Woolstone, near Fenny Stratford, in the County of Bucks,
Farmer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twenty-first year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said William Smith, Her special licence that I, the said William Smith,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
William Smith, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, froin 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 "IMPROVEMENTS
IN STEAM ENGINES FOR GIVING MOTION TO AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that 1, the said William Smith, 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 Smith, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in steam engines for giving
motion to agricultural implements, and consists in arranging the back of the
engine so that the implement attached thereto may be guided or moved
sideways in either direction, and also so that the implement may be raised

page_text: out of the earth by means of a crane attached to the back of the engine. For
this purpose the agricultural implement is attached by a hinge joint to a slide
which slides between guides at the back of the engine; and I prefer to give
motion to this slide by means of a serew, on one end of which there is
a bevilled toothed wheel, which takes into another bevelled toothed wheel
on the axis of which there is a handle, so that by turning this handle
the slide may be moved from side to side in either direction, as desired.
In order to raise the implement out of the land, a crane is fixed to the
back of the engine, the chain of which crane is fixed to the back end of
the implement, and the implement being connected to the slide at the back
of the engine by a hinge joint, when the crane is turned the back of the
implement is raised up out of the land.
And in order that my said Invention may be most fully understood and
readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the Drawing annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is a side view, Figure 2 is a plan, and Figure 3 an end view, of
the platform at the back of a Boydell's or other locomotive engine, suitable
for hauling ploughs or other agricultural implements. a is a vertical axis,
having on its upper end a handle b, and on its lower end a bevilled wheel c,
which works with another bevilled wheel d on the end of the screw e, running
from side to side of the platform. f is a slide, shown in detail at Figures 4; it
has a hole through it, in which a screw is cut, and through this hole the
screw e passes, and when this screw is turned in either direction by the
handle the slide is traversed, and it carries with it the plough or other
agricultural implements, which is thus with facility guided so as to produce a
straight furrow. In order to raise the plough out of the land, the crane 9 is
employed, from which a rope passes to the tail of the plough.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Smith, have hereunto set my
hand and scal, this Eighth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
WILLIAM SMITH. (L.E.)
Witness,
S. CARPMAEL.