AN IMPROVED AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Wright, of West Burgholt, near Colchester
in the County of Essex, Farmer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT."
Sealed the 5th September 1865, and dated the 10th March 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Wright at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 10th
March 1865.
I, GEORGE WRIGHT, of West Burgholt, near Colchester, in the County of
Essex, Farmer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN
IMPROVED AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to an instrument for "forking" land,and consists of
the, following mechanical arrangements, that is to say, in a suitable framing
mounted on running wheels, and upon the axle of said wheels I place loosely
two or more discs of metal, the outer discs being placed asunder nearly the
width of the inside of the framing aforesaid; around these discs and at equal
distances asunder I connect, say, ten or twelve horizontal bars of metal, the
ends whereof rest in long holes formed in each of said discs; into holes in
these bars and at equal distances asunder I arrange and fix "tines" or prongs
(one in each hole), either straight or curved. The implement thus formed
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page_text: may have shafts and be drawn by a horse, the effect being to cause each row
of "tines" or prongs to enter the ground, and "fork" it up as the implement
is advanced.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Wright in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
9th September 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
WRIGHT, of West Burgholt, near Colchester, in the County of Essex, Farmer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-eighth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said George Wright, Her special licence that I, the said George
Wright, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said George Wright, 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, aud vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN
IMPROVED AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT," upon the condition (amongst others)
that 1, the said George Wright, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
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 George Wright, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, that is to say :-
This Invention relates to an instrument for "forking" land, and consists of
the following mechanical arrangements, that is to say, in a suitable framing
mounted on running wheels, and upon the axle of said wheels I place loosely
two or more discs of metal, the outer discs being placed asunder nearly the
width of the inside of the framing aforesaid; around these discs and at equal

page_text: distances asunder I connect and fix "tines or
prongs (one in each hole),
either straight or curved. The implement thus formed may have shafts, and
be drawn by a horse, the effect being to cause each row of "tines" or prongs
to enter the ground, and "fork" it up as the implement is advanced.
And in order to explain my said Invention as completely as possible, I now
proceed to describe the best means I am acquainted with for carrying the
same into practical effect, reference being had to the illustrative Sheet of
Drawings accompanying these Presents, and to the numeral figures and letters
of reference marked thereon respectively, as follows:-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved agricultural implement ;
Figure 2, a sectional elevation of the said implement through the line A, B, at
Figure 1; Figure 3, a plan view of the hinder part of the implement shewing
disposition of clearer plates hereafter referred to. At each of the foregoing
Figures I employ similar letters of reference to denote corresponding parts
in so far as such parts appear or can be seen at each of such said. Figures
respectively.
A,A,mark the side framings of the implement of cast iron; B, B, the running
wheels thereof, mounted on short axles respectively fixed in sliding pieces of
metal C, C, to each of which said pieces there is affixed a long screw D;
this screw passes through a screwed hole formed in the boss of a bevil wheel E,
said boss being held in position by a cap piece a screwed on the top of the
side framing A. G is another bevil wheel of similar size to the wheel E; the
wheel Gis fixed on a revolving spindle H,suitably supported, and has a winch
handle I fixed thereonto for imparting rotatory motion to the wheel G, the
effect of which is to cause the framings A either to be raised or lowered
according to the direction in which said wheels are caused to move. The
pieces C, C, work in guides formed in the parts A' of the framings A; these
framings are kept the required distance asunder by pieces of wood K, K¹.
L is a shaft fixed by its extremities into bosses b cast upon the inside of each
of the framings A,A; M are discs of metal mounted loosely upon the shaft
L; said discs are kept in proper position by the collars c, c; N, N, mark bars
of metal hinged at d to the discs M; O are wrought-iron "tines" or prongs
securely connected to the bars N by the screw nuts e. The "tines" or prongs
O should be so arranged in each of the bars N as to come opposite to or in
a line with each other in a circular direction. P is a wooden bar connected
by pieces of metal Q to the bar K¹; the bar P has pieces of metal or
clearers R screwed thereto, so as to come between the several rows of

page_text: "tines or prongs as the discs M which carry them are caused to revolve.
The use of the pieces R is to clear the earth from the "lines" or prongs, and
further by binging the "tine "bars to the discs M,as above stated, it prevents
the earth being thrown up as it comes into contact with the clearers' R. f
are stops on the discs M to limit the working movement of the bars N; $ are
'the shafts of the implement for attaching a horse thereto.
The opérations of the above implementare as follows:-Whentheimplement
is out of use the "tines" are raised from the surface of the ground by the
wheels E and G, and when the said implement is in use the operator lowers
the "tines" to the depth to which they are required to enter the ground, and
as the implement is drawn along the effect will be to cause each of the rows
of "tines "to enter the ground in succession, and thus break or fork same up
in a simple and efficient manner.
1. Having now fully described and set forth the nature and object of my said
Invention for An Improved Agricultural Implement, "together with the best
means I am acquainted with for carrying the same into practical effect, I
would remark in conclusion that I hereby declare my Invention to consist in,
and I claim, the mechanical arrangements and combinations above described
Iwith reference to the accompanying Sheet of Drawings as constituting "An
Improved Agricultural Implement."
In witness whereof, I, the said George Wright, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Ninth day of September, in the year of ou
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
GEO. WRIGHT.. (L.S.)