An Improved Plough.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Oct., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 11th Aug., 1896-Accepted, 12th Sept., 1898
FRUYISIONAL SEBOLELATION.
An Improved Plough.
I, LIONEL BERESFORD BETHELL of Kingswood Warren Epsom, Gentleman
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists of a plough propelled by an oil engine and constituting a
self-contained oil engine plough. The improved plough is provided with two way
turnfurrows and coulters, also with a steering wheel and reversing gear, so that it
will not be necessary to turn the plough at the end of the lands, one turnfurrow
being raised and the reverse one lowered into place. It will be supported on three
or four wheels.
Dated the 12th day of October 1895.
1, LIONEL BERESFORD BETHELL of Kingswood Warren, Epsom, Gentleman,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to
be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
My invention consists of a plough propelled by an oil engine and constituting a
self-contained oil engine plough. The improved plough is provided with two way turn
furrows and coulters, also with a steering wheel and reversing gear, so that it will
not be necessary to turn the plough at the end of the lands, one turn furrow being
raised and the reverse one lowered into place. It will be supported on three or
four wheels.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings is a side elevation and Figure 2 a plan
of a plough constructed according to my invention.
A is a beam carrying at each end a turn-furrow or share B and a coulter C, or
there may be more than one turn-furrow and coulter at each end of the beam.
The beam A is capable of movement upon the centre D in the usual manner
so as to bring either end of the plough into the working position as required.
EE represents the oil engine which may be of any suitable construction; the
drawing shows it as comprising two cylinders the piston rods F F of which drive
the cranked shaft G. From the shaft G is driven the shaft of a pinion H either
directly or through the intermediation of the bevel wheels I, J, K, according to
the position of a clutch L, that is to say, that when the wheel J does not gear
with both the wheels I and K the shaft H rotates in the same direction as the
shaft G, while on the other hand, when the wheel J is caused by means of the
clutch L to gear with the wheels I and K, the shaft H rotates in the reverse
direction to the shaft G; the direction of driving can thus be reversed without
reversing the engine. The pinion H gears with a wheel M the shaft of which
passes through the frame of the plough and carries at its other end a pinion N
which gears with a wheel P fixed to the driving wheel Q of the plough. At the
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page_text: other side of the plough are two supporting wheels R R mounted so that they can
swivel on vertical axes S S. These wheels R R aro carried on forks T T having
vertical sluts U U to admit of vertical adjustment, and they can be steered from
either end of the plough by means of the handwheels V V. These hand wheels
are at the ends of a shaft W having worms X X which gear with worm wheels YY
on the axes S S so that when either of the handwheels is rotated the wheels R R
are correspondingly steered to one side or the other. Z is a longitudinal rod fitted
at each end with a handle a and connected with a lever which controls the engine
power. The engine can thus be readily regulated from either end of the plough.
is an oil tank or reservoir.
It will be seen that the plough can be driven and steered from either end.
The oil engine may be eased in for protection from the weather and the bed-
plate may for lightness be built up of steel framing. A flywheel may be added
where the soil is of a nature to throw irregular work on the engine.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A self-contained oil-engine plough comprising a two-way plough, an oil engine
carried thereby, steering mechanism and reversing gear, substantially as
hereinbefore described.
2. The particular construction and arrangement of oil engine plough,
substantially as hereinbefore described and represented in the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 11ih day of dugu 1298
J. C. MEWBURN & ELLIS,
55 and 56 Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.