A NEW SEED AND MANURE DRILL PLOUGH
Year: 1845

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
BROWN, of Capesthorne, in the County of Chester, Land Agent, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present inost Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at.
Westminster, the Ninth day of August, in the ninth year of Her reign, and
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-five, did, for
Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said George
Brown, Her especial license, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the
said George Brown, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and such others
as I, the said George Brown, my executors, administrators, 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 and Wales, and the Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A NEW SEED AND MANURE DRILL PLOUGH;"
in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that I, the said George
Brown, shall cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be enrolled in Her
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said in part 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 in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
George Brown, do hereby declare that the nature of my Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, is particularly described
and ascertained in and by the Drawings hereto annexed, and the following
explanation thereof, that is to say :-
My Invention consists in the novel and peculiar construction and arrange-
ment of a plough, combining apparatus also for depositing guano, bone dust,
or other portable manure, and, lastly, the seed, at one operation.
Firstly, my improvements consist in so constructing or forming the plough
into parts, that is, so dividing, arranging, and setting the share of the
plough, that when drawn through the land it shall form the ridge, by throwing
the soil inwards towards the centre of the machine instead of outwards, as in
all ploughs now commonly used.
And, secondly, by this peculiar arrangement of the fundamental parts of
the plough I am enabled to place the manure and seed boxes in the centre
of the machine, that is, in a line exactly over the centre of the furrow.
In order that my improvements may be perfectly understood, I have attached
to these presents a Sheet of Drawings representing the drill plough in three
different views, so that its arrangements and detail may be fully illustrated:
Figure 1 being a side elevation; Figure 2, a plan or top view of the same
as seen from above; and Figure 3, a longitudinal section, taken vertically
through the centre of the machine, or at the line A, B, in Figure 2.
The general framework and driving handles are represented at a, a, a, a,
the draft bolt or swivel at b, the running wheels at c, c, c, c, the plough-
share or mould board at d, d, the manure box or hopper at e, and the
seed box at f, with its delivering spout or funnel g; such being the principal
arrangement of my improved drill plough, its operation will be readily
understood, and is as follows: As the plough is drawn forward through
the land, it will be seen that by the peculiar set or arrangement of the double
ploughshare d, d, (as shewn best in Figure 2,) the soil will be thrown inwards
towards the centre, and thus the furrow will be formed immediately under the
centre of the manure, and seed boxes upon the shaft h of the larger pair of
running wheels c, c; there is a small toothed wheel i, which, being actuated by
the locomotion of the running wheels, will, through the carrier pinions K, K,
communicate rotary motion to the distributing roller in the manure box, and
deliver manure along the trough 'm into the furrow, and also give rotary
motion to the seed box f, which will thus also deliver the seed or grain as.
required; a sliding catch n and hand lever o is provided for the purpose of
throwing the driving wheel i out of "gear with the manure and seed boxes

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when requisite. The above being a full description of the nature and object
my Invention, I would remark, in conclusion, that any necessary change
may be made either in the forms or capacities of the seed or manure boxes or
hoppers, and being suitably arranged to the quality of the seed or grain to be
sewn, without departing from the principle of my improvements; and that in
sewing turnips or other small seeds a small roller is to be attached to follow
the seed as it is sewn, and that if beans are to be sewn the small seed box
must be removed and a large seed hopper introduced in its place, and seed
cups or delivering wheels be put in place of the rotary seed boxes.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Brown, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifth day of February, One thousand eight hundred
and forty-six.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Fifth day of February, in
the year above mentioned, the aforesaid George Brown came before our Lady
the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and
all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And also the
Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute in
that case made and provided.