A NEW MACHINE, WITH ITS ADJUNCTS OR OTHER APPARATUS, TO BE USED FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES
Year: 1853

page_text: I, THEODORE BARON VON GILGENHEIMB, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "A NEW MACHINE, WITH ITS ADJUNCTS OR OTHER
APPARATUS, TO BE USED FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is the production of such means of
facilitating agricultural operations as to obviate the future necessity of
employing such comparatively inefficient tools as the plough and spade,
barrow, and similar contrivances, and to render agriculture no longer
dependent on the thews and sinews of the labourer; my machine
performing also effectually the work usually done by the rake and
made. I now proceed to describe the mechanical parts of my Invention,
and the means used to carry it into practical effect. At Figure 1,
Sheet 1, of the Drawings, is represented a vertical elevation. Figure 2,
a horizontal section, taken through the centre of the elevation, Figure 1
of the principal parts of the apparatus especially applicable to culture
Figure 3, represents, on a scale the size the tool will be usually made,
one of my spades or shovels, by means of which the earth is cut and
turned over. Figure 4, shews a new disposition of spades or forks,

page_text: which are only held or retained by the axis C, working in a hollow
cylinder made in the wheel A. Figures 5, and 6, Sheet 2, shew an
apparatus with rollers, which is fitted, when needful, behind the machine,
to pound the clods of earth, and to free them from any roots which
they may contain. Figures 7, and 8, shew an elevation and section of
a system of rollers, over and around which pass chains sufficiently near
cach other as to serve to hold the earth, which the principal machine
(placed in front) may deposit therein. The incessant motion of these
chains break or bruise the earth, and disengage therefrom all weeds or
fibres of plants, which are immediately burnt by being passed over or
into a furnace, which is below, and kept at a red heat by a ventilator G.
Figures 9, and 10, (same drawing) shew an apparatus for sowing the
sced destined to be placed either above one or other of the before-
mentioned machines; and consequently (the furnace) (Figure 7,) should
not then be put in operation when the sewing apparatus is in use.
The seeds, mixed with the earth already powdered or otherwise treated
by these machines, are then sown equally and of sufficient depth.
Figures 11, and 12, shew a machine with one wheel only, intended to
be employed in prairies, forests, or upon other land which is intersccted
by quantities of roots or fibres, for the cleansing of trenches, gutters,
ditches, and other similar places. Figure 13, shews clearly that the
two principal digging machines may be placed as shewn, and made to
work together. The earth raised thereby is received by the bruising
rollers, which, in their turn, are followed by an apparatus for sowing
the seed, as aforesaid.
I consider the foregoing description will be found sufficient to give a
full idea of my Invention, particularly as drawings are annexed. I
reserve, however, the power in my Final Specification to vary or modify
parts of the combinations, if it should prove desirable so to do.