IMPROVEMENTS IN CONSTRUCTING THE FRAMING VARIOUS KINDS OF AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Hammond Bentall, of Heybridge, near
Maldon, in the County of Essex, Agricultural Implement Maker, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CONSTRUCTING THE FRAMING
VARIOUS KINDS OF AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Hammond Bentall
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
23rd April 1861.
I, EDWARD HAMMOND BENTALL, of Heybridge, near Maldon, in the County
of Essex, Agricultural Implement Maker, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CONSTRUCTING THE FRAMING OF
VARIOUS KINDS OF AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS," to be as follows:-
My Invention of improvements in constructing the framing of various kinds
of agricultural implements relates more particularly to the construction of the
framing of such agricultural implements as turnip cutters, chaff cutters, corn
crushers or bruisers, kibbling mills, oil cake mills, and other machines which
are usually supported on four or more wooden or cast-iron legs or standards.
My Invention, however, may also be applied to other agricultural machines.
The Invention consists in constructing the legs or standards of such
machines of sheet iron cut to the required dimensions, and bent up into the

page_text: desired form, and connected together by braces made of wrought or sheet iron,
the sides of which braces are splayed and bolted, rivetted, or otherwise
attached to the standards, so as to prevent any endway or lateral shake or
motion. The lower ends of the standards may, if desired, be provided with
cast-iron feet, and-the upper ends of the standards are bolted or otherwise
secured to the cast-iron or wooden top framing of the machine to which the
Invention may be applied.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edward Hammond Bentall in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 23rd October 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
HAMMOND BENTALL, of Heybridge, near Maldon, in the County of Essex,
Agricultural Implement Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Edward Hammond Bentall, Her special license that I, the said Edward
Hammond Bentall, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Edward Hammond Bentall, 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 CONSTRUCTING THE FRAMING OF VARIOUS
KINDS OF AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Edward Hammond Bentall, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, 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 Edward Hammond Bentall, 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

page_text: following statement, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed,
and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say) :-
My Invention of "Improvements in Constructing the Framing of Various
Kinds of Agricultural Implements" relates more particularly to the construction
of the framing of such agricultural implements as turnip cutters, chaff cutters,
corn crushers or bruisers, kibbling mills, oil cake mills, and other machines
which are usually supported on four or more wooden or cast-iron legs or
standards. My Invention, however, may also be applied to other agricultural
machines.
The Invention consists in constructing the legs or standards of such
machines of sheet iron cut to the required dimensions, and bent up into the
desired form, and connected together by braces, which may be made of
wrought or sheet iron, the sides of which braces are splayed and bolted,
rivetted, or otherwise attached to the standards, so as to prevent any endway
or lateral shake or motion. The lower ends of the standards may, if desired,
be provided with cast-iron feet, and the upper ends of the standards are bolted
or otherwise secured to the cast-iron or wooden top framing of the machine to
which the Invention may be applied.
In the accompanying Drawing, Fig. 1 is a side elevation, and Fig. 2 an
end view of the framing of a chaff cutter constructed according to my
Invention.
a, a, a, a, are the legs or standards of the framing, which are made out of
sheet iron bent up into the form shewn in section at Fig 3; b, b, b, are the
braces, which, as shewn in the Drawing, are made from sheet iron, but
sometimes I find it convenient to make them of cast iron. The ends are
splayed out, as shewn in the Figures, so as to give stiffness and rigidity to the
framing. c, c, is the top part of the frame, which is made of cast iron. The
several parts of the frame are bolted or rivetted together, as shewn in the
Drawing, and the lower ends of the standards a are provided with cast-iron
feet or shoes d, d, which may be either secured inside the legs, as shewn in
Figures 1 and 2, or outside the legs, as shewn in side view at Fig. 4, and in
plan at Fig. 5. It will be evident that the framing of various kinds of
agricultural implements may be constructed in this manner, one of the great
advantages of which is, that owing to the greater toughness and strength of
wrought iron in comparison to cast iron the legs of the framing are not so
liable to be broken by accident or rough usage. The machines will also be
much lighter, and consequently more portable and handy to manage than
heretofore.

page_text: Having now described my Invention of "Improvements in Constructing
the Framing of Various. Kinds of Agricultural Implements," and having
explained the manner of carrying the same into effect, I claim, as the Inven-
tion secured to me by Letters Patent as aforesaid, the mode herein set forth
of constructing the framing of various kinds of agricultural implements.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Hammond Bentall, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, the Twenty-first day of October, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.