AN IMPROVED METHOD OR DADELZEN DIN DRAM PREARE DEMAKING THE SAME FROM THE BOGING PEAT BE
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Hodgson, of Ballard Rathdrum, in the
County of Wicklow, Esquire, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED METHOD
OR DADELZEN DIN DRAM PREARE DEMAKING THE SAME FROM THE BOG."
Sealed the 17th December 1861, and dated the 20th June 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Hodgson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 20th
June 1861.
I, CHARLES HODGSON, of Ballard, Rathdrum, in the County of Wicklow,
Esquire, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
METHOD OF PARTIALLY DRYING PEAT BEFORE REMOVING THE SAME FROM THE BOO,"
to be as follows:-
I carry my Invention into effect in the following manner :-Having first cut
drains in the portion of bog about to be used in the ordinary manner, and to
such an extent as the local circumstances require, I proceed to clear off and
remove the top rooty surface of the bog, leaving what is called by turf cutters
a "clean floor;" this, from the action of the drains, speedily becomes dry and
tolerably solid, and as soon as it does, I.at once harrow up the surface to the
depth of, say, from 1 to 4 inches, or to any required depth, with any convenient
harrow, drawn by animal or other power. I leave the harrowed surface exposed

page_text: to the air for a time, say, from half a day to two days, according to the state
of the weather, and I then proceed to collect and heap up the tolerably dry
mull which is the result of this process by any convenient mode of scraping.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Hodgson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
20th December 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
HODGSON, of Ballard Rathdrum, in the County of Wicklow, Esquire, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Charles Hodgson, Her special licence that I, the said Charles Hodgson,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Charles Hodgson, 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, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED
METHOD OF PARTIALLY DRYING PEAT BEFORE REMOVING THE SAME FROM THE BOG,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Charles Hodgson, 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 per-
formed, 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 Charles Hodgson, 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 fol-
lowing statement thereof, that is to say :-
I carry my Invention into effect in the following manner :-Having first cut
drains in the portion of bog about to be used in the ordinary manner, and to
such an extent as the local circumstances require, I proceed to clear off and

page_text: remove the top rooty surface of the bog, leaving what is called by turf cutters
"a clean floor," this, from the action of the drains, speedily becomes dry and
tolerably solid, and as soon as it does so, I at once narrow up the surface to
the depth of, say, from 1 to 4 inches, or to any required depth, with any con-
venient harrow, drawn by animal or other power. I leave the narrowed surface
exposed to the air for a time, say, from half a day to 2 days, according to the
state of the weather, and I then proceed to collect and heap up the tolerably
dry mull which is the result of this process by any convenient mode of
scraping.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim the method of
partially drying peat before removing the same from the bog, as herein-before
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Hodgson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twentieth day of December, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-one.