Improvements in Implements for Cultivating Land.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Oct., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 6th July, 1895-Accepted, 10th Aug., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
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Improvements in Implements for Cultivating Land.
I, JAMES EDWARD RANSOME, of Orwell Works, Ipswich, in the County of
Suffolk, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of my invention is. the more thorough and perfect pulverisation and
aeration of the soil and to greater depths than the ordinary plough usually
penetrates and to effect this without raising the sub-soil to the surface or mixing it
to any great.extent with the surface soil.
In ploughing, as ordinarily practiced a comparatively broad slice of soil is
detached, as broad as and generally much broader than the depth ploughed and is
turned through, an angle which varies say from 120° to 180° and at the same time
the slice more or less broken is conveyed sideways so far as to leave a clear walk
for the horses when they come round at the next bout.
In the improved system of cultivation which my improved implement is designed
to carry out a parrow and deep slice of soil is pared off much narrower than the
depth ploughed it is lifted and turned through a small angle say 30° or thereabout
sufficient to get it clear, it is pulverised by the lifting action of the breast and is
pushed at the same time slightly on one side and the soil finally is left not far from
the position it occupied at the commencement; no horsewalk is cleared and in the
next bout the horses always walk on the undisturbed ground.
The cultivating tine and breast are carried by a frame on wheels like a plough,
which may be made either like an ordinary single furrow plough or preferably as
a balance plough and in that case has two sets of tines right and left handed and a
large wheel running against the land side in the cut previously formed by 'the
passage of the last tine.
This form of plough is convenient for lifting the tines out of work.
The implement has a narrow. deep breast with a narrow share or point at its
lower end; there is also a slade and landside.
A coulter is used in connection with the tine to cut the top surface of the soil
and so prevent large clods from being thrown up. by it unbroken on the surface.
Knives are inserted when required in the. landside of the plough to cut
horizontally into the unbroken land and thus to cut transversely the section of land
to be next, operated on by the breast. This ensures the more thorough breaking
up and pulverization of the soil and its more perfect aeration.
These knives are arranged so that the uppermost one is in advance of the second-
the second in advance of the third and so on.
The details may be varied but in any case the implement is arranged to operate
in the novel manner described.
The implement may be double or multiple furrow in which case the plough
bodies must be so echelloned that each plough body may work independently and
that the leading plough body may thrust the soil ontwards away from the following
body or bodies.
Dated this find...
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Implements for Oultivating Land.
I, JAMES EDWARD' RANSOME, of Orwell Works, Ipswich, in the County of
Suffolk, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
The object of my invention is the more thorough and perfect pulverisation and
aeration of, ithensoilvand to greater depths than the ordinary plough usually
penetrates and to effect this without raising the sub-soil to the surface or mixing it
to any great extent with the surface soil.
In ploughing as ordinarily practised a comparatively broad slice of soil is
detached, as broad as and generally much broader than the depth ploughed and is
turned through any angle, which varies say from 120° to 180° and at the same time
the slice more or less broken is conveyed sideways so far as to leave a clear walk
for the horses when they come round at the next bout.
In the improved system of cultivation which my improved implement is designed
to carry out a narrow and deep slice of soil is pared off much narrower than the
depth ploughed, it is lifted and turned through a small angle say 30° or thereabout
Eufficient to get it clear, it is pulverised by the lifting action of the breast and is
pushed, at the same time slightly on one side and the soil finally is left not far from
the position it occupied at the commencement ;no horsewalk is' oleared and in the
...next bout the horses always walk on the undisturbed ground.
The cultivating tine sand breast are carried by a frame on wheels like a plough,
, which may be made either like an ordinary single furrow plough or preferably as
; a balance plough and in that case has two sets of tines right and left handed and a
large wheel running against the land side in the cut previously formed by the
passage of the last tine.
This form of plough is convénient for lifting the tines out of work.
The implement has a narrow deep breast with a narrow share or point at its
..lower end; there is also a sladeiand landside.
Knives are inserted when required in the landside of the plough to cut
horizontally into the unbroken land and thus to cut transversely the section of land
to be next operated on by the breast. This ensures the 'more thorough breaking
up and pulverization of the soil 'and itsiinore perfect aeration.
These knives are arranged so that the uppermost one is in advance of tlie second-
the second in advance of the third and so on.
The details may be varied but in any case the implement' is arranged to operate
in the novel manner described...
The annexed drawing represents a balance plough in accordance with my
...invention.
Figure 1 is a siderolovation; Figure 2 is a plan, Figure 3'is'au end' view.
a is the frame of the plough, it has handles a' a' at each end and is carried by
two adjustable, wheels bb. The wheel 6 runs in the furrow and the wheel 62 on
the unploughed land. The wheels are coupled together and can be steered by the
..steering handle c which operates alternately at either end of the plough." dare
the two plough bodies. e¹es are knives which when required can be fixed into
1.the land side of each body. In order the better to balance the plough it will be
seen that the frame is built oblique so that the body which is out of use is carried
.above and overhangs the unploughed land.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim.is:
1. A plough body substantially as described which nares off from the land side a

page_text: narrow deep slice, raises and turns the slice through a small angle, breaks it and
presses it away from the land' side but without clearing a horsewalk or bringing
the subsoil to the surface.
2. A plough body with knives fixed into it on the land side which out into the
unploughed land so as to cut the slice horizontally which will be pared off at the
next bout.
3. A balance plough substantially as described having two plough bodies which
operates in the manner described:
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