AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF HORSE HOE
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Howard, of Bedford, Agricultural Implement
Maker, and John Lilley, of Astwood, in the County of Buckingham,
Farmer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF HORSE
HOE."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Howard and John
Lilley at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition,
on the 9th May 1860.
We, JAMES HOWARD, of Bedford, Agricultural Implement Maker, and
JOHN LILLEY, of Astwood, in the County of Buckingham, Farmer, do hereby
declare the naturo of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF
HORSE HOE," to be as follows:―
The object of this Invention is to simplify the construction of lever horse
hoes, and to increase their efficiency. This we propose to effect by adapting
to this class of implement the principle of steerage already adopted in horse
hoes where a set of hoes is fixed to a common bar, modifying the same to suit
the peculiar character of the implement. To this end we suspend from a
centre pin carried by the frame at the point of junction with the handles
a sway bar, from the ends of which depend links that carry a horizontal
jointed or compound bar; this bar is pierced with holes along its whole length

page_text: to receive pins for securing a series of links thereto, and these links serve to
support the hinder ends of the hoc levers, which are grouped together in twos
or threes. The forward ends of. the several levers are jointed and secured to
the slotted lever bar in the usual manner. The slotted lever bar is supported
by a pair of wheels, which are adjustable to regulate the dip of the hoes into
the ground; in other respects the implement is similar in construction to
other lever horse hoes. The attendant, in using the implement, steers by
means of the bandles, and when requisite he can, by their means, lift the hoes
out of the ground. The peculiar connection of the hoes with the handles
allows also of the attendant putting a temporary pressure upon the hoes when
they meet with obstruction from the hardness of the ground, which cannot at
present be done in lever horse hoes, the pressure depending upon the dead
weight distributed over the levers.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Howard and John Lilley in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 9th November 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JAMES
HOWARD, of Bedford, Agricultural Implement Maker, and JOHN LILLEY, of
Astwood, in the County of Buckingham, Farmer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
James Howard and John Lilley, Her special license that we, the said James
Howard and John Lilley, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as we, the said James Howard and John Lilley, our 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 CONSTRUCTION OF HORSE HOE,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said James Howard and
John Lilley, by an instrument in writing under our hands and seals, or under
the hand and seal of one of us, 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 Offico

page_text: within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Howard, on behalf of myself and
of the said John Lilley, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention,
and in what manner the same to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference being had to
the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon
(that is to say) =-
Our Invention relates to the adaptation to lever horse hoes of the principle of
steerage already adopted in horse hoes, where a set of hoes is fixed to a common
carrying bar, the object being to simplify the construction and increase the
efficiency of the lever horse hoe. To this end we modify the construction of
the implement, as shown in the accompanying Drawing, wherein Fig. 1 is a
back view of our improved horse hoe, and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section
taken at the line 1, 2, of Fig. 1. In these Figures, a, a, represent the frame
of the implement, through the lower bar of which a centre pin or screw bolt 6
passes. This pin, by means of a shackle piece c formed with lugs to embrace it,
carries the steering handles d, which are capable of receiving a vertical rocking
motion on the pin that couples them to the shackle, and also a horizontal
motion by the shackle turning on the centre pin b. The handles are formed
of two flat bars which lie parallel with each other for a given distance, until
they branch off like horns to form the forked handles proper, like the ordinary
steering handles of horse hoes. At the point where these horns branch off' a
socket piece e is inserted between the bars that form the handles, and secured
by a cross bolt. This socket e carries a swing bar f, to the ends of which are
secured pendent brackets; to these brackets a horizontal jointed or compound
bar is attached by pins. This bar is pierced with holes along its whole
length to receive pins for securing a series of links h, h, thereto, and these
links serve to support the hinder ends of the hoe levers i, i, i, which are
grouped together in couples by short bars k, k, to which they are secured by
pendent links. The forward ends of the several levers i, i, i, are jointed
and secured to the slotted lever bar in the usual manner, which lever bar is
supported by a pair of wheels m, m, made adjustable by means of their stalks
for the purpose of regulating the dip of the hoes into the ground. In other
respects the implement is similar to lever horse hoes of the ordinary con-
struction. n is the lever handle for lifting the hoes off the ground; it is
hinged as usual to bracket arms, and connected by a coupling chain to the
socket piece e, and when depressed will lift the steering handle, together with
the hoes which are pendent therefrom. By coupling the forward end of tho

page_text: lever handlen to the steering handle by a catch o, the hoes will remain in
suspension, thereby enabling the instrument to be removed from place to
place without the hoes coming in contact with the ground.
When the implement is in use, the attendant steers it by means of the
handle d, and when requisite to pass any obstacle in their path, he can by
these means suddenly lift the hoes out of the ground The peculiar connection
of the hoes with the handles d allows also of the attendant putting a tem-
porary pressure upon the hoes when they meet with obstruction from the hard-
ness of the ground, which cannot at present be done in lever horse hoes, the
pressure depending upon the dead weight distributed over the levers.
Having now set forth the nature of our Invention of "An Improved Con-
struction of Horse Hoe," and explained the manner of carrying the same into
effect, we wish it to be understood that, under the above in part recited
Letters Patent, we claim the arrangement above described for effecting the
steerage of lever horse hocs.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Howard, have hereunto set my
hand and scal, the Eighth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
JAMES HOWARD. (L.S.)