Improvements relating to Tillage Implements.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Nov., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 26th Aug., 1891-Accepted, 10th Oct., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION:
Improvements relating to Tillage Implements.
We GEORGE BROWN and WILLIAM GRAY BROWN both of Victoria Iron
Works, Leighton Buzzard, in the County of Bedford, Manufacturers, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
This invention consists in a novel attachment to be adapted to horse hoes,
grubbers, and other tillage implements of like character, for the purpose of
breaking up or pulverizing the clods of earth turned up by the action of the
implement.
The attachment is intended to be placed at the back of the implement, and
consists of a hinged or fixed bar, which is secured in any convenient manner longi-
tudinally of, and to the body of the implement, and having at its free end a socket
in which is secured, at right angles, a tine bar of a size suitable for carrying
the required number of tines, which may vary from two to five, or any other
number.
The tines are secured to the tine bar, and their height can be regulated in the
usual manner.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Tillage Implements.
We GEORGE BROWN and WILLIAM GRAY BROWN, both of Victoria Iron
Works, Leighton Buzzard in the County of Bedford, Manufacturers, 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 invention consists in an attachment to be adapted to horse hoes, grubbers,
and other tillage implements of like character, for the purpose of breaking up or
pulverizing the clods of earth turned up by the action of the implement.
The attachment is intended to be placed at the back of the implement, and
consists of a bar which is secured in any convenient manner longitudinally of, and
to the body of the implement, and having at its free end a socket in which is
secured, at right angles, a tine bar of a size suitable for carrying the required
number of tines, which may vary from two to five, or any other number.
The tines are secured to the tine bar, and their height can be regulated in the
usual manner.
In the accompanying drawing,
Fig. 1 is a side view of our improved pulverizer.
Fig. 2 is a back view; and
Fig. 3 a plan view.
A represents a portion of a tillage implement to which the pulverizer is
applied.
B is the bar or body of the pulverizer, which is secured to the implement A, and
longitudinally thereof, by the clips C. At the end of the bar B is a socket B¹ to
receive (at right angles) the horizontal tine bar D, of suitable size and section,
which is secured by a set screw B². E are tines, which are secured to the bar D,
in the usual way, by clips D¹, and clamping screws D². A tine E' may also be
inserted through a slot in the bar B, and wedged up tight.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim :-
The adaptation to horse hoes and similar tillage implements, for the purpose set
forth, of a pulverizing appliance substantially as herein shown and described.
Dated this 26th day of August 1891.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicants.