IMPROVEMENTS IN AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS
Year: 1863

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Jesse Lee and Matthew Gutteridge
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the
9th May 1863.
We, JESSE LEE and MATTHEW GUTTERIDGE, both of Church Gate, in the
Borough of Leicester, lo hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to ploughs, harrows, bay-making machines, horse
rakes, band rakes, and subsoil looseners, and consists in constructing such said
implements as follows:-First, as regards ploughs, this Invention consists in
forming the handles and beams thereof of wrought-iron gas tubing or piping,
such as is at present used by gasfitters, the object being to lessen the weight
of ploughs without lessening the strength and durability thereof. Secondly, as
regards harrows, this Invention consists in forming same, if desirable, of gas
tubing, and in adapting to harrows an oscillating motion, derived either from
two cranks or from two excentrics working on a shaft supported by two wheels
in front, the joints being so constructed as to allow of the oscillation of all the
harrows.
As regards hay-making machines, this Invention consists of a new and
improved method for throwing out each socket pinion simultaneously from one
side of the machine, and putting them into either forward or backward motion
as required, without resorting to a hollow tube or main axle for fastening on
and carrying the heads which contain the requisite gearing for working the
tine barrel, thus avoiding weakness and liability to break across at the angles

page_text: of the long slot, hole, or groove in which the reversing forks slide forward or
backward. The following is our improved mode of constructing hay-making
machines: We have a double crank or excentric shaft, which crosses the
front of the machine, said shaft having a connecting rod on each side of the
machine, attached to flat sliding plates, in each of which a suitable angular
groove or slot is cut across for the purpose of acting in a wedge-like form on
the reversing fork, and by these means forcing said fork either backward or
forward as required. The motion to the said sliding plates may be given
thereto by turning partially round the before-named crank or excentric shafts
by means of a winch handle or otherwise, the last-mentioned fork sliding in
a slot or groove cast in the heads of the machine parallel with the solid main
axle which carries the aforesaid heads.
As regards horse rakes, this Invention consists in forming same as follows:-
The teeth are formed curved, and so fastened to the frame that each tooth can
be taken out separately, or without removing the other teeth. The draught
of the shafts can be made either to suit a horse or a poney by the shafts sliding
up a half quadrant.
As regards hand rakes, this Invention consists in mounting same on wheels
and making the teeth curved and fastened to the frame in the same manner
as in the horse rake lastly described.
As regards subsoil looseners, this Invention consists in adapting a piece of
iron to the body of a plough (so as to be easily and quickly removed if required
by the ploughman.) At the end of this piece of iron is fastened at right
angles another piece of iron, ending in either three tines or in one scuffler
tine (according as the ground may require), working after the horses' heels
and before the breastplate of the plough. Said subsoil loosener can be lifted
out of the ground when necessary by a lever passing along the side of the
handles of the plough.