AN IMPROVED ARRANGEMENT OF PORTABLE GEARING. APPARATUS FOR THE APPLICATION OF HORSE-POWER, PRINCIPALLY FOR DRIVING. VARIOUS KINDS OF AGRICULTURAL MACHINES OR IMPLEMENTS
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Hammond Bentall, of Heybridge, near
Maldon, in the County of Essex, Agricultural Implement Manufacturer,
for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED ARRANGEMENT OF PORTABLE GEARING.
APPARATUS FOR THE APPLICATION OF HORSE-POWER, PRINCIPALLY FOR DRIVING.
VARIOUS KINDS OF AGRICULTURAL MACHINES OR IMPLEMENTS."
Sealed the 26th March 1858, and dated the 12th January 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Hammond
Bentall, at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 12th January 1858.
I, EDWARD HAMMOND BENTALL, of Heybridge, near Maldon, in the County
of Essex, Agricultural Implement Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature:
of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED ARRANGEMENT OF PORTABLE GEARING
APPARATUS FOR THE APPLICATION OF HORSE-POWER, PRINCIPALLY FOR DRIVING
VARIOUS KINDS OF AGRICULTURAL MACHINES OR IMPLEMENTS, to be as follows:-
The principal object of the present Invention is so to construct and arrange
the parts of a gearing apparatus for the transmission of horse-power for
driving various kinds of agricultural machines that such apparatus may not
only be portable, so as to admit of its being removed with facility from one
locality to another, but also that any unevenness of the ground on which the
apparatus may be placed will not in any way interfere with the efficient
working of the apparatus. The advantage of such an apparatus not requiring"
any adjustment or preparation of the land or ground on which it stands will be

page_text: at once evident to any practical man, as it will admit of the improved portable
horse gearing being used in fields or other situations where, owing to the
inequalities of the surface, the ordinary construction of horse gearing could not
be used.
The shafting and wheel work, which does not differ materially in principle
of construction from the ordinary horse gearing, is fixed upon a suitable
framing which is mounted on, running wheels for the facility of being moved
from one locality to another. The shafts to which the horse is attached for
removing the apparatus are made removable at pleasure, and are adapted to
the carriage and secured in their places by pins. or other suitable contrivances
which will admit of the shafts being quickly either disengaged from the
carriage framing or attached thereto when required. The central vertical
shaft to which motion is transmitted from the horse or horses is provided at its
upper end with a horizontal arm in which which is made a vertical slot in
which works the arm or lever. to which the. horse yoke is attached. The
slotted arm is keyed fast on to the vertical shaft, and the horizontal horse lever
or arm is mounted at its inner end on a pin or pivot secured to the vertical
shaft, but which admits of the lever rising and falling in. the slot of the arm.
The horse is harnessed to the yoke of the horse lever in the ordinary manner,
and as he travels round over the uneven ground the long lever will rise and
fall in the slot of the arm at the upper end of the central vertical shaft,
according to the unevenness of the ground, which therefore will not in any way
interfere with the efficient working of the apparatus. The same object may
be effected by causing the horse yoke to rise and fall in holes, sockets, or
bearings attached to the horizontal arm; but I prefer the former arrangement.
In order to secure the apparatus in its place and prevent it from moving
when at work, I adapt to any convenient part of the framing a strong wrought.
iron arm, one end of which is provided with a broad blade with a pointed end
something like the fluke of an anchor. Upon allowing this broad end or
anchor to rest on the ground, the borse, when travelling round, will force the
anchor into the ground and thereby firmly hold the apparatus; of course, when
the apparatus is being removed from one place to another, the anchor must be
lifted out of and off.. the ground,-&-may-be-supported in a horizontal position.
by a pin or other suitable contrivance. The improved portable borse gearing
above described may be employed for driving various kinds of machines, but I'
have found it particularly applicable for driving my patent machine. for.
pulping roots, as also for driving machines for cutting or slicing roots or
cutting chaff. In adapting machines of the above description to my improved
portable horse gearing, I place the machines on a framing provided for the

page_text: purpose, and cause the gearing of the horse-power apparatus to drive the
working cylinder or cutters. A. box or receptacle is placed beneath the
cutting, slicing, or pulping machine for the reception of the reduced roots: or
vegetable substance, and the pulped or cut roots may be removed from the box
or receptacle through door from time to time as may be required
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edward Hammond Bentall in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 12th July 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
HAMMOND BENTALL of Heybridge, near Maldon, in the County of Essex,
Agricultural Implement Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Edward Hammond Bentall; Her special license that I, the said Edward
Hammond Bentall, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Edward Hammond Bentall, 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 "AN IMPROVED ARRANGEMENT OF PORTABLE GEARING APPARATUS
FOR THE APPLICATION OF HORSE-POWER, PRINCIPALLY FOR DRIVING VARIOUS KINDS OF
AGRICULTURAL MACHINES OR IMPLEMENTS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Edward Hammond Bentall, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, 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 Edward Hammond Bentall, do hereby
declare the nature of my 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 Drawing, hereunto annexed,
and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say) :-

page_text: The principal object of the present Invention of "An Improved Arrange-
ment of Portable Gearing Apparatus for the Application of Horse-power,
principally for Driving various kinds of Agricultural Machines or Implements"
is so to construct and arrange the parts of a gearing apparatus for the
transmission of horse-power for driving various kinds of agricultural machines
that such apparatus may not only be portable, so as to admit of its being
removed with facility from one locality to another, but also that any unevenness
of the ground on which the apparatus may be placed will not in any way
interfere with the efficient working of the apparatus. The advantage of such
an apparatus not requiring any adjustment or preparation of the land or
ground on which it stands will be at once evident to any practical man, as the
improved portable horse gearing may be used in fields or other situations
where, owing to the inequalities of the surface, the ordinary construction of
horse gearing could not be used. The shafting and wheel work of the gearing
apparatus does not differ materially in principle of construction from that of
the ordinary horse gearing; and as it is clearly shewn in the Drawing, and its
construction and operation being well known, I do not think it necessary to
enter into any detailed description of the same.
In the accompanying Drawing I have shewn various views of a horse-
gearing apparatus constructed and arranged according to my Invention, and
adapted to drive one of my improved pulpers for reducing or pulping up roots
so as to prepare them as food for cattle. Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the
machine complete; Fig. 2 is a front view of the same, shewing the anchor or
contrivance whereby the apparatus is held steadily while at work. The
ordinary wheel work which constitutes the horse-gearing apparatus whereby
the power of the horse is transmitted to any shaft or machine to be driven is
fixed upon a suitable framing a, a, a, a, which is mounted on running wheels
b, b, for the facility of being moved from one locality to another. The
shafts c, c, to which the horse is attached for removing the apparatus from
place to place when required, are made removeable at pleasure, and are
adapted to the carriage a and secured in their places in the iron straps or
sockets d, d, by means of pins or other suitable contrivances which will admit
of the shafts being quickly either disengaged from the carriage framing or
attached thereto when required. The central vertical shaft e, to which motion
is transmitted from the horse or horses, is provided at its upper end with a
horizontal arm f, in which is made a vertical slot f*, in which works the arm
or lever g to which the horse yoke h is attached. This slotted arm f is keyed
fast on to the vertical shaft e, and the horizontal horse lever or arm is
mounted at its inner end on a pin or pivot i secured to the vertical shaft e, as

page_text: seen best in the detached plan view, Fig. 3, where the slotted arm f and the
horizontal lever g are shewn in combination. This mode of connecting the
lever g with the vertical shaft e admits of the lever g rising and falling in the
slot f* of the arm f when required without interfering with the motion of any
other part of the apparatus. The horse is harnessed to the yoke h of the horse
lever g in the ordinary manner, and as he travels round over the uneven
ground the long lever 9 will rise and fall in the slot f* of the arm at the upper
end of the central vertical shaft e, according to the unevenness of the ground,
which therefore will not in any way interfere with the efficient working of the
apparatus. The same object may be effected by causing the horse yoke h to
rise and fall in holes, sockets, or bearings attached to the horizontal arm g;
but I prefer the arrangement shewn in the Drawing and just described, as it
is less liable to derangement.
In order to secure the improved horse-gearing apparatus in its place on the
ground, and to hold it fast and prevent it from moving when at work, I adapt
to any convenient part of the framing a, or some other sufficiently strong and
solid part of the apparatus, a strong wrought-iron arm j, one end of which is
provided with a broad blade with a pointed end something like the fluke of
an anchor. This anchor or arm, which is shewn detached in plan at Fig. 4,
is mounted on a pin or pivot k on which it turns, and the upper end of the
arm is made to work in a curved or slotted bearing. l. Upon allowing the
broad end or anchor to rest on the ground, the horse, upon commencing to
travel round, will force the fluke or pointed end of the anchor into the ground,
while the other end of the anchor will rise in and bear against the upper end
of the slotted bearing, or against a cross pin inserted therein for the purpose.
By this means the apparatus will be firmly held and prevented from moving
while it is in use. Of course, when the apparatus is to be removed from one
place to another, the anchor must be lifted out of and off the ground, and
when this has been done it may be supported in a horizontal position by a
pin, hook, or other suitable contrivance, attached to the carriage frame for the
purpose.
it
The improved portable horse gearing above described may be employed for
driving various kinds of machines, but I have found it particularly applicable
for driving my patent machine for pulping roots, as shewn in the Drawing;
may also be employed for driving machines for cutting or slicing roots, or
cutting chaff. In adapting my improved portable horse gearing to machines
of either of the above descriptions, I place the machine to be driven on a
framing provided for the purpose, and cause the gearing of the horse-power
apparatus to drive the working cylinder or cutters of the machine, as shown in

page_text: the Drawing. A box or receptacle is placed beneath the cutting, slicing, or
pulping machine, for the reception of the reduced roots or vegetable substance,
as shewn at m, m, and the pulped or cut roots may be removed from the box
or receptacle m from time to time, as may be required, through a door pro-
vided for the purpose. As roots may by this means be cut up, pulped, or
reduced in the field in which they were grown, it will be seen that a con-
siderable saving of labour will be effected.
Having now described my Invention of an improved arrangement of
portable gearing apparatus for the application of horse-power for driving
various kinds of agricultural machines or implements, and having described
the manner of carrying the same into effect, I claim the general arrangement
or combination of parts herein shewn and described, and constituting a portable
horse-gearing apparatus.
I claim particularly the mode of connecting the horse lever g to the vertical
shaft of the wheel or toothed gearing, whereby the lever is allowed to rise and
fall without interfering with the action of the other parts of the apparatus.
I also claim the use and application for the purpose set forth of the anchor
whereby the apparatus is steadily held while at work.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Hammond Bentall, have hereunto
set my
hand and seal, the Seventh day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
Witness,
WILLIAM CRICK,
of Maldon, Essex,
Attorney-at-Law.
E. II. BENTALL. (L.S.)