Improvements in Multi-tine Mould Board for Ploughs,
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application (in United Kingdom), 15th June, 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Multi-tine Mould Board for Ploughs,
We, JOSEPH BARUGH, of Kerikeriroa Waikato, in the Provincial District of
Auckland and Colony of New Zealand, Farmer, and WILLIAM KIDD ELDER, of the
City of Auckland, in the Provincial District of Auckland aforesaid, Agricultural
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This mould board is intended to do away with clogging or sticking of the
soil to it as it opens up the furrow, and to break up the ground more readily
whereby after work is considerably reduced.
This result is obtained by the configuration of the mould board in that instead
of being solid it is made with tines or prongs which are shaped to the run of
the land.
This mould board A is formed differently to the mould boards now in use in
that it is made in strips, prongs, or tines, somewhat the same as forks only that
the prongs, or tines are curved and wider than those in a fork with a flat or oval
surface and some of them may be shorter or longer than the others.
An ordinary mould board may be converted into this kind by having parts of
it stamped or cut out leaving the remaining part, prong, or tine shaped and
curved to suit the run of the land in which it is to work or the board can be
made in this shape in the first instance; in either case the prongs, or tines, can
be made the length required or they can be made shorter and have additional
pieces rivetted to them or otherwise secured to give the necessary lengths. All
parts should be made of steel,—though any other suitable metal can be used.
Instead of this mould board being made in one piece as above described the
tines may be made of separate pieces or bars of steel or other suitable metal also
shaped to correspond to the run of the land, which tines may all be fastened to
the share in any secured way so as to give them the same formation as if they
were one piece of metal.
This time board is fastened to the plough and share in the ordinary way but
it will be better to fasten the upper part at the top tine B to the handle and
breast or Z piece as by so doing it stiffens the board and protects all the other
tines.
This form of mould board gives lighter draught and does cleaner work than

page_text: other forms now in use as the earth or soil does not stick to it or clog it. It
also breaks up the ground better and thereby reduces the amount of after work
needed.
Data thin o carauth dow of til 1800
JOSEPH BARUGH.
WM. K. ELDER.
Improvements in Multi-tine Mould Board for Ploughs.
We, JOSEPH BARUGH, of Kerikeriroa Waikato, in the Provincial District of
Auckland and Colony of New Zealand, Farmer, and WILLIAM KIDD ELDER, of the
City of Auckland, in the Provincial District of Auckland aforesaid, Agricultural
Engineer, 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:-
This mould board is intended to do away with clogging or sticking of the
soil to it as it opens up the furrow, and to break up the ground more readily
whereby after work is considerably reduced.
This result is obtained by the configuration of the mould board in that instead
of being solid it is made with lines or prongs which are shaped to the run of
the land.
The invention is illustrated in the drawing left with our Provisional Specifica
tion which shows a front or face view of the improved tine mould board.
This mould board A is formed differently to the mould boards now in use in
that it is made in strips, prongs, or tines, somewhat the same as forks only that
the prongs, or tines are curved and wider than those in a fork with a flat or oval
surface and some of them may be shorter or longer than the others.
An ordinary mould board may be converted into this kind by having parts of
it stamped or cut out leaving the remaining part, prong, or time shaped and
ourved to suit the run of the land in which it is to work or the board can be
made in this shape in the first instance; in either case the prongs, or tines, can
be made the length required or they can be made shorter and have additional
pieces rivetted to them or otherwise secured to give the necessary lengths. All
parts should be made of steel,-though any other suitable metal can be used.
Instead of this mould board being made in one piece as above described the
tines may be made of separate pieces or bars of steel or other suitable metal alsó
shaped to correspond to the run of the land, which times may all be fastened to
the share in any secure way so as to give them the same formation as if they
were one piece of metal.
This tine board is fastened to the plough and share in the ordinary way but
it will be better to fasten the upper part at the top tine B to the handle and
breast or Z piece as by so doing it stiffens the board and protects all the other
tines.
This form of mould board gives lighter draught and does cleaner work than
other forms now in use as the earth or soil does not stick to it or clog it. It

page_text: also breaks up the ground better and thereby reduces. the amount of after work
needed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is
A mould board, for attachment to a plough, made of tines stamped or cut out
of a solid piece or made, in separate pieces both shaped and curved to suit the
run of the land in which the plough is to work, substantially as described and as
illustrated in the drawing.
vn
UL
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicants.