A NEW AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT FOR CULTIVATINGTING TUBERCLES, ROOTS, AND ALLIL PLAN
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Aimé François Pagny, of No. 15, Passage des
Petites Ecuries, in the City of Paris, in the Empire of France, Gentleman,
for the Invention of "A NEW AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT FOR CULTIVATING
Sealed the 29th August 1863, and dated the 2nd March 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Aimé François Pagny
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 2nd March 1868.
I, AIMÉ FRANÇCIS PAGNY, of No. 15, Passage des Petites Ecuries, in the
City of Paris, in the Empire of France, Gentleman, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "A NEW AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT FOR CUL-
TIVATING TUBERCLES, ROOTS, AND ALL OIL PLANTS," to be as follows:-
The agricultural implement forming the subject of my Invention is a ridge
or bouting and at the same time a roller plough. It is composed of a plough-
share with double mould board (smaller than for ordinary bouting ploughs),
and of four conical rollers acting in the inclined plane of the ridges. The
share, the main object of which is not the ridging, breaks the subsoil, cleans
the water furrows, and thus prepares the work of the rollers, which follow it.

page_text: The two first, placed on each side the mould boards, simply dress the earth,
and the two latter, on the contrary, which are more open, more inclined, and
placed higher, press or settle down the earth and close the ridge. Four iron
rods serve for axles, and receive the four conical rollers reversed, with their
heads downwards. These rods slide freely at their upper part in two cross
pieces, which may be compared to the branches of a compass. The head.
of this compass about twelve inches apart behind the share, and the two
branches, about twenty-eight inches long, play at their ends on a cross piece.
A screw permits the opening to be adjusted at from sixteen to twenty-four
inches, according to the greater or lesser pressure required. The inclination
of the rollers is only two by two, because the fixing point at the base is the
same, and the spreading apart of the points of the compass is more or less
developed. Lastly, a wheel, about eight inches in diameter, placed at the end
of the beam, relieves the arms of the labourer, keeps the two last rollers at
an elevation of, say, four inches, in order that they may more easily close
the ridge.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Aimé François Pagny in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
31st August 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, AIMÉ
FRANÇOIS PAGNY, of No. 15, Passage des Petites Ecuries, in the City of Paris,
in the Empire of France, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Aimé François Pagny, Her special license that I, the said Aimé
François Pagny, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "A NEW
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT FOR CULTIVATING TUBERCLES, ROOTS, AND ALL OIL
PLANTS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Aimé François
Pagny, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and

page_text: 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 Aimé François Pagny, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement, reference being had to the accompanying Sheet of
Drawing, forming part of this my Specification, and to the figures and letters
of reference placed thereon:-
The agricultural implement forming the subject of my Invention is a ridge
or bouting and at the same time a roller plough. It is composed of a plough-
share with double mould board (smaller than for ordinary bouting ploughs),
and of four conical rollers acting on the inclined plane of the ridges. The
share, the main object of which is not the bouting or ridging, breaks the sub-
soil, cleans the water furrows, and thus prepares the work of the rollers, which
follow it. The two first, which are placed on each side the mould boards,
simply dress the earth, the two latter, on the contrary, which are more open,
more inclined, and placed higher, press or settle down the earth and form
the ridge. Four iron rods, hinged at S, S', (Figures 1 and 2 of the Drawing,)
serve for axles, and receive four reversed conical rollers, that is to say, with
their heads downwards. These rods slide freely at their upper part in two
cross pieces, which may be compared to the branches of a compass. The
head of this compass is about twelve inches apart behind the share, and the
two branches, about twenty-eight inches long, play at their ends on a cross
piece. A screw permits the opening to be adjusted at from sixteen to
twenty-four inches, according to the greater or lesser pressure required. The
inclination of the rollers is only equal two by two, because the fixing point
at the base is the same, and the spreading apart of the points of the compass
is more or less developed. Lastly, a wheel, about eight inches in diameter,
placed at the back of the plough, relieves the arms of the labourer, and it is
this wheel G which keeps the two last rollers at an elevation of, say, four
inches, in order that they may more easily form the ridge.
Figure 1 in the Drawing, action of the rollers when the ridges are formed,
the tubercles, the seed, the colza being in the ground; Figure 2, action of
the rollers, the virgin soil being turned up and the bouting or ridging being
done.
A, hook for harnessing; B, wheel which regulates the depth of the plough-
ing; C, ploughshare; D, double mould boards for bouting; E, compass

page_text: head; F, branch of compass; H, pin which regulates the setting apart; G,
hind wheel; R, rollers; S, S¹, point where rollers are hinged.
In witness whereof, I, the said Aimé François Pagny, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
A. F. PAGNY, (LS.)
Chef d'institution à Caen.