IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF PLOUGHING AND PERFORMING OTHER LIKE OPERATIONS UPON THE LAND BY STEAM POWER
Year: 1865

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Richard Winder at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 9th February
1865.
I, RICHARD WINDER, of 18, Abingdon Street, Westminster, Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MODE OF PLOUGHING AND PERFORMING OTHER LIKE OPERATIONS UPON THE LAND BY
STEAM POWER," to be as follows:-
My improvements in steam ploughing consist, first, in the application of a
square linked chain, similar to those used in dredging machines, traction
engines, or of an ordinary linked chain or rope, being used and placed along
the space between the two anchors on the headlands; the engine and boiler
are fixed upon the frame of the machine that moves backwards and forwards
between the anchors; upon this frame is a pulley, which is made to revolve
by the steam engine above mentioned. When the square linked chain is
used, this pulley is made with projections, which fit into and between the
links of this chain; when the ordinary chain or rope is used, the face of the
pulley is made plain instead of having projections, so that the ordinary chain
or rope is made to take one or two turns around the pulley. This shews the
means by which the frame of the machine as well as the cultivator, plough,
or other implement attached is made to move backwards or forwards in the
space between the two anchors upon the headlands. The mode of traction

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which I claim as a new Invention is, however, more particularly described by
the accompanying description and Drawing, having letters affixed to the
several parts of the machine agreeing with the letters and description as
below.
it
A, square linked or ordinary linked chain or rope, from which the machine
is worked backwards and forwards in the space between the two anchors,
which work on each headland; B, pulley, which, when the square linked chain
is used, has projections upon it (as shewn in the Drawing) that fit in between
the links of the chain in the same way as in a dredging machine or traction
engine; but when the ordinary chain or rope is used, it has no projections,
but is simply made wide enough for a turn or two of the chain or rope around
it; C, the main shaft from the engine fitted with clutches at the ends (near
the wheels G), to be thrown in gear when the high wheels G are required as a
motive power, either when taking the machine from field to field or whenever
may be wanted as a traction engine; D, the cylinder of the steam engine,
which in the Drawing is shewn to be of the oscillating plan for greater
simplicity; E, the boiler; F, the steam pipe from boiler to engine; G, the
high wheels, which carry the chief weight of the machine; these wheels also
when thrown into gear by the clutches mentioned above form the traction
wheels of the machine; H, cog wheels, used for raising or lowering the
cultivator or plough frame K (as may be required) by means of the screws I,
shewn in the side elevation; I, screws for raising or lowering the cultivator or
plough frame K; K, the cultivator or plough frames; L, stay frame, upon
which the cultivator or plough frames rise or lower, also from which they
take their pull; M, wheels to regulate the depth to be cultivated; N, guide
wheels for the chain to pass over; O, spindle of the guide wheels, having
length sufficient for the guide wheels to work freely even when the frame of
the machine does not happen to be working parallel to the chain (giving
freedom of steerage); P, guide wheels or steerage wheels of the machine,
which are worked by chains, as seen in the Drawing at "end elevation of
steering wheel;" Q, steering wheels, which have chains (which work freely
in pipes laid along the under side of the frame) passing along to the opposite
end of the machine, and fixed to the cranked end R of each steering wheel;
the way these chains travel is better seen by reference to the plan of the
machine; R, the cranked ends, attached to the steering wheels P, more
clearly seen by reference to the Drawing "end elevation of steering wheel;"
S, stay chains for steadying and strengthening the stay frame L; T, steering
chains or ropes passing around the sheaves V, also the steering barrel, and

page_text: along the pipes fixed on the under side of the frame; V, double sheaves,
around which the two steering chains pass, one around the upper sheave, the
other around the lower sheave; W, handles to the screws for raising or
lowering the plough and cultivator frames; ✗, strengthening stays for L by
the chains S.