IMPROVEMENTS IN HANDLES FOR PLOUGHS, CULTIVATORS, AND OTHER IMPLEMENTS
Year: 1877

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Alexander Melville Clark at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th January 1877.
ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, Patent Agent. "IMPROVEMENTS IN HANDLES FOR PLOUGHS, CULTIVATORS,
AND OTHER IMPLEMENTS." A cominunication from abroad by William Stuart
Babcock, of Plainfield, in the County of Windham, State of Connecticut, United
States of America.
The object of the Invention is to provide a handle for ploughs, cultivators, and
other similar implements which shall obviate the difficulties experienced in using
those of ordinary form, and it consists in a wooden or metallic annular handle
formed on or attached to the ends of plough handles in place of the usual curved
end.
It also consists in chocks or wedge-shaped pieces that are fitted to the mould
board and land side of the plough, and permit of attaching the handles to the mould
board and land side without bending their lower ends.
In the accompanying Drawings,—
Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the plough having the improved handles
attached.
Figures 2, 3, and 4 represent wooden plough handles having circular hand
pieces.
Figure 5 is a wooden plough handle having a circular hand piece, a part of which
is made of metal.
Figures 6 to 11 inclusive are views of wooden plough handles having circular
hand pieces attached.
Figure 12 represents an iron plough handle having a circular hand piece.
Figure 13 represents the improved handle adapted to a plough by means of
chocks.
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.
In the Drawings A in Figures 1 and 2 is a handle of wood having its upper end
or hand piece a bent or returned upon itself, so as to form a circular hand piece.
The end of the curved part of the handle is attached to the straight portion by
means of screws or bolts. B in Figure 3 is a handle, to the straight portion of
which the curved wooden portion C is attached by means of a metal socket b, the
end c of the curve which returns upon the handle being secured to the handle by
bolts or screws. D, Figure 4, is a handle, a portion of the upper end of which is
curved, and to which the curved piece E is attached by means of the socket d.
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page_text: The curved piece E, together with the curved end of the handle, form a circular hand
piece similar to those above described. F, in Figure 5, represents a handle having
a curved end e, upon which a tenon is formed for receiving the socket of a curved
metallic piece G, which is also attached to the handle at f by means of bolts or
screws. H in Figure 6 is a metallic annular hand piece provided with a socket g
for receiving the upper end of the wooden portion of the handle. The said socket
is so formed that the front or upper face of the wooden portion is tangential to the
circular hand piece.
The metallic hand piece is further secured to the wooden handle by means of the
bolt h. A finger I is formed on the upper side of the metallic hand pieces for holding
the reins.
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The annular hand piece H may be cast in a single piece over a core, or it may be
cast in halves, or stamped up in halves from sheet metal, and secured together by
bolts or rivets, as shown in Figure 7.
In cases where a single handle is used, or for reversible handles, the socket may
be attached centrally to the ring, as shown in Figure 8. In this case the finger I
is attached to both sides of the socket.
In Figures 9 and 10 the metallic hand piece varies in form from the others
described, that in Figure 10 being adapted to an ox shovel or road scraper.
In Figure 11 the metallic end piece J is provided with a recess in one side of the
part i for receiving the handle in place of a socket, as in case of the other metallic
hand pieces.
In Figure 12 K represents an iron plough handle having formed upon it the
annular hand piece L, and provided with the finger I.
In Figure 13 M is the mould board of an ordinary plough; N, the land side;
and O, Ŏ, are handles that are straight throughout their entire length; k, k, are
chocks placed between the mould board and the handle O; and I, I, are bolts for
attaching the handle and chocks to the mould board. A chock m is placed between
the handle O' and the land side N, and the handle is secured to the land side by the
bolts n, and to the beam by bolt o.
The advantage secured by this Invention is that the handle is not liable to injure
the person guiding the plough or cultivator when it comes into contact with obstruc-
tions above or below the surface of the ground, thus obviating the accidents common
to the use of the ordinary handle.