IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING THE HAULING ROPES WHEN HAULING PLOUGHS AND OTHER AGRI- CULTURAL IMPLEMENTS BY STEAM POWER
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Smith, of Little Woolstone, in the County
of Buckingham, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
SUPPORTING THE HAULING ROPES WHEN HAULING PLOUGHS AND OTHER AGRI-
CULTURAL IMPLEMENTS BY STEAM POWER."
Sealed the 28th January 1859, and dated the 8th November 1858..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Smith at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his l'etition, on the 8th
November 1858.
I, WILLIAM SMITH, of Little Woolstone, in the County of Buckingham, do
hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR SUPPORTING THE HAULING ROPES WHEN HAULING PLOUGHS AND OTHER AGRI-
CULTURAL IMPLEMENTS BY STEAM POWER," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus employed for
supporting the hauling ropes when hauling ploughs and other agricultural
implements by steam power. For this purpose I employ pulleys placed at
intervals as heretofore, and these pulleys I mount on frames so constructed as
to be capable of being put together on the ground, and of being taken to
pieces so as to pack away into a small space when out of use. Each frame

page_text: consists of two short planks or base plates having sockets formed in them to
receive moveable standards, through the upper ends of which standards a bolt
(having a head at one end and a screw nut at the other) passes so as to con-
nect the standards, and between the two a pulley is mounted on the bolt,
which serves as an axis for the pulley, and is sufficiently long to allow it to
traverse a distance so as to adjust its position to that of the rope. The pulleys
which support the rope along the course over which the plough or implement
travels, I mount on a base of wood formed of a T-shape, and on the head of
the Ta standard is mounted, and this carries a pin or stud axis, on which the
pulley runs, and it is secured in its place by a nut screwed on the end of the
stud axis. In order to fix the pulley in the position in which it is required, I
employ a spike which passes through the lower end of the stem of the T and
penetrates the soil.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Smith in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 7th
May 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
SMITH, of Little Woolstone, in the County of Buckingham, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said William Smith, Her special licence that I, the said William Smith,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
William Smith, 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
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING THE HAULING ROPES WHEN HAULING
PLOUGHS AND OTHER AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS BY STEAM POWER," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Smith, 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 Scal Patent Office within six

page_text: calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Smith, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus employed for
supporting the hauling ropes when hauling ploughs and other agricultural
implements by steam power.
For this purpose I employ pulleys placed at
intervals as heretofore, and these pulleys I mount on frames so constructed as
to be capable of being put together on the ground, and of being taken to
pieces so as to pack away into a small space when out of use. Each frame
consists of two short planks or base plates having sockets formed in them to
receive moveable standards, through the upper ends of which standards a bolt
(having a head at one end and a screw nut at the other) passes so as to
connect the standards, and between the two a pulley is mounted on the bolt
which serves as an axis for the pulley, and is sufficiently long to allow it to
traverse a distance so as to adjust its positon to that of the rope.
Figure 1 is a plan and Figure 2 is an end view of a pulley mounted in the
manner above described. a, a, are two short planks or base plates having
sockets or holes cut in them at or near the centre; b, b, are two moveable
standards, these are so formed at their lower ends as to fit into the sockets or
holes formed in the two pieces a, a; c is a bolt having a head at one end
and a screw nut at the other; it passes through the upper ends of the
standards, and has mounted on it the pulley d which supports the hauling
rope c. The pulleys which support the rope along the course over which the
plough or implement travels, I mount on a base of wood formed of a T-shape
and on the head of the T a standard is mounted, and this carries a pin or
stud axis on which the pulley runs, and it is secured in its place by a nut
screwed on the end of the stud axis. In order to fix the pulley in the
position in which it is required, I employ a spike which passes through the
lower end of the stem of the T end and penetrates the soil. Figure 3 is a plan
and Figure 4 is a side elevation of a pulley and frame constructed in this
manner and suitable to be used for supporting the ropes along the course over
which the plough or implement travels; f, f, is a T-form frame of wood
firmly morticed together and strengthened by the wrought-iron tie piece g.
On the frame f the metal standard is fixed by bolts h', h', and it carries the
pin or stud axis i, on which the pulley j is mounted; i is a nut to prevent
the pulley slipping off the pin or axis i. The apparatus is hell firmly in

page_text: position on the land by the spike k, but can nevertheless be readily shifted
for the passage of the plough or implement.
In witness whereof I the said William Smith have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-nine..
Witness,
JAMES HOWARD,
of Bedford.
WILLIAM SMITH. (L.S.)