IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TRANSPORT OF AGRICULTURAL OR OTHER PRODUCE OVER THE LAND, AND IN WAGONS EMPLOYED FOR SUCH PURPOSES
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to David Greig and Robert Burton, both of the
Steam Plough Works, Leeds, in the County of York, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TRANSPORT OF AGRICULTURAL OR
OTHER PRODUCE OVER THE LAND, AND IN WAGONS EMPLOYED FOR SUCH
PURPOSES."
Sealed the 12th December 1871, and dated the 7th July 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said David Greig and Robert
Burton at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 7th July 1871.
We, DAVID GREIG and ROBERT BURTON, both of the Steam Plough
Works, Leeds, in the County of York, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TRANSPORT OF AGRICULTURAL
OR OTHER PRODUCE OVER THE LAND, AND IN WAGGONS EMPLOYED FOR SUCH
PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to facilitate the transport of agricultural
produce, manures, or other commodity having to be removed from off
or on to the land. For this purpose we employ engines such as arc

page_text: now used for cultivating land by steam power, which wind up a rope,
and to such rope we connect the waggons. We employ two engines
each fitted with a windlass for winding a rope.
One engine is placed on
each of the opposite sides of the field, and the waggon or train of waggons
being attached to the rope is thus drawn on to or off the laud as
required.
To enable the waggons to be steered out of the line of draft when
drawn over the land by the hauling rope or chain we construct the
waggon with a point of attachment for the hauling rope (or a drag bar
in connection with it) in rear of the locking gear or fore carriage of the
waggon. The steersman controls the waggons as they are drawn by
the rope off the land, and he places and arranges the waggons as they
arrive at the side of the field into a train to be removed by a traction
engine, whilst in a similar way other waggons are hauled by the rope
on to the land and there left in convenient positions for loading and
unloading.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said David Greig and Robert Burton in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 5th January 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, DAVID
GREIG and ROBERT BURTON, both of the Steam Plough Works, Leeds,
in the County of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty. Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said David Greig and Robert Burton,
Her special license that we, the said David Greig and Robert Burton,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the
said David Greig and Robert Burton, our exccutors 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 THE TRANSPORT OF AGRICULTURAL
OR OTHER PRODUCE OVER THE LAND, AND IN WAGONS EMPLOYED FOR SUCH

page_text: PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said David
Greig and Robert Burton, our exccutors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under our or their hands and seals, or under the
hand and seal of one of us or them, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, 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 David Greig, on behalf of myself
and the said Robert Burton, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement
thereof, that is to say :-
The object of this Invention is to facilitate the transport of agricultural
produce, manures, or other commodity having to be removed from off
or on to the land. For this purpose we employ engines such as are
now used for cultivating land by steam power, which wind up a rope,
and to such rope we connect the waggons. We employ two engines
cach fitted with a windlass for winding a rope. One engine is placed
on each of the opposite sides of the field, and the waggon or train of
waggons being attached to the rope is thus drawn on to or off the land
as required.
To enable the waggons to be steered out of the line of draft when
drawn over the land by the hauling rope or chain we construct the
waggon with a point of attachment for the hauling rope (or a drag bar
in connection with it) in rear of the locking gear or fore carriage of the
waggon. The steersman controls the waggons as they are drawn by
the rope off the land, and he places and arranges the waggons as they
arrive at the side of the field into a train to be removed by a traction
engine, whilst in a similar way other waggons are hauled by the rope
on to the land and there left in convenient positions for loading and
unloading.
In order that our said Invention may be most fully understood and
readily carried into effect, we will proceed to describe the Drawings
hereunto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
On Sheet 1 Figure 1 is a plan, and Figure 2 an elevation partly in
section of a waggon constructed according to our Invention.

page_text: a is a pin or axis serving as a point of attachment for the drag bar in
rear of the fore carriage; 6 is the drag bar centered on the pin a and
so connected with the frame of the wagon; c is the end of the drag
bar to which the hauling rope is attached; d is the fore carriage which
is steered by means of a hand wheel and pitch pinion and chain; e is
the steerage hand wheel, the steerage wheel spindle, g the pitch chain
pinion; his the pitch chain which is coupled to the loose ring of the
forc carriage, the fore carriage or front wheel being locked in the
direction required by the steersman turning the hand wheel e; i is a
platform mounted in front of the waggon on which the steersman stands
when steering the waggons.
Sheet 2 shews the general arrangement of working the waggons in
trains or singly across the field. a, a, are two ploughing engines
mounted with a winding drum or windlass; b, b, is the hauling rope;
c, c, are empty waggons being drawn across the field to take the place
of the full waggons d, d; e is a traction engine waiting to convey the
full waggons away from the field on their arrival at the headland.
Having thus described the nature of our said Invention, and the
manner of performing the same, we would have it understood that we
claim,―
First. The construction of waggons with the point of draft in rear of
the locking gear or fore carriage, substantially as described.
Second. The combination of apparatus for the transport of agricultural
or other produce over the land, substantially as described and shewn in
Sheet 2 of the annexed Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said David Greig, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Third day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
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