AN INSTRUMENT FOR HOEING TURNIPS AND OTHER FARMING PURPOSES, DENOMINATED AN AGRICULTURAL HOE
Year: 1811

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
LOMAX MARTYN, of Tillington, in the County of Sussex, Clerk, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal Britain, bearing date at Westminster,
on the Thirtieth day of October, in the fifty-second year of His reign, did, for
Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Richard
Lomax Martyn, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power,
sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Richard Lomax Martyn, my
exors, adñiors, and assigns, and every of us, by myself and themselves, or by my
and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I,, the said
Richard Lomax Martyn, my exors, adññiors, or assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention
of "AN INSTRUMENT FOR HOEING TURNIPS AND OTHER FARMING PURPOSES,
DENOMINATED AN AGRICULTURAL HOE;" in which said Letters Patent there is
contained a proviso obliging me, the said Richard Lomax Martyn, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and
ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, and to cause the same to be enrolled in His Majesty's High Court
of Chancery within two calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being
thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Lomax Martyn, in compliance
with the said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by the Plans
or Drawings above in these Presents delineated, and in manner following, that
is to say:
Figure 1 is a view of the agricultural hoe complete, the use and purposes
whereof principally are, with one or more horse or horses, to hoe turnips sown
either broadcast or in drills. If the turnips are sown in drills it will be
necessary merely to draw the machine transversely to the lines of the
drills; if broadcast, it will then be necessary to hoe them first in a direct or
straight line, and then transversely to that line. A, A, A, A, shew the
wooden frame, consisting of two side pieces and two cross pieces morticed
together, whereto is annexed or hung, by the iron hook and eye shewn by
Figure 4, the beam B, so as to be moveable under the frame A, and regu-
lated by the index (Figure 3). B; B, shew the wooden beam hung to the
frame A, and through which beam seven or any greater or less odd number of
the iron hoes or cutters (shewn by Figure 2) are inserted, and kept fast by the
iron wedge (e). C, C, shew a common wheel, either of wood or iron, with
four spokes, and of two feet diameter, the stock and gudgeon whereof run in
an eye fixed to the frame A. D, D, shew the iron swivels whereby the shafts
F, F, are fixed to the frame A. E, E, shew a pair of common wooden plough
handles, fixed to the frame A to guide the machine. F, F, shew a pair
of commion cart shafts, fixed to the frame A by the iron swivels D, D.
Figure 2 shews the hoes or cutters, whereof seven or any greater or less
number (only that there should be one odd one) are to be inserted, and
fastened by the iron wedge (e), at equal distances, and in one line in the beam
B, and either higher or lower in the beam, as may be necessary; and each of
these hoes consist of a shank (a) and cutter (6), both of one piece of iron, the
cutter projecting from the centre at the foot of the shank, and being sharpened
in front, and of the hoe piece (c), being a separate piece of iron), nearly flat,
and nearly of a triangular form, but a little rounded each side towards the
front or centre point, and sharpened on the two edges d, d, and rivetted by two
iron rivets to the bottom of the shank (a).
Figure 3 shews an iron index with graduated holes, one end of which () is
fixed through the beam B, and the other end passing through a staple fixed in
the frame A (at g), and, being fastened by an iron pin, places the beam B
either horizontally or aslant at pleasure, so as that the cutting part of the hoes
may enter more or less deeply into the ground.
Figure 4 shews an iron hook and eye, by two of which the beam B is hung

page_text: under the frame A, the hooks passing through the beam B, and being inserted
into and running in the eyes b, which pass through the frame A, the beam B
becoming thereby moveable, so as by the index (Figure 3) to be placed either
more or less horizontally or aslant.
Figures 5 and 6 shew the shank and cutter, and how the hoe-piece is
rivetted to it.
The dimensions of the different parts of the machine are marked on the
plans, but they may be varied according to the strength employed or the
nature of the soil to be worked upon.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Lomax Martyn, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Fourteenth day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eleven.
RICH LOMAX MARTYN. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered, being
first duly stampt, in the presence of
WILLIAM TYLER,
Petworth.
JAMES CHALLEN,
Clerk to Mr. Tyler.