Improvements in Harrowing and Land Cultivating Machines.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Aug., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 3rd June, 1889-Accepted, 6th July, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Harrowing and Land Cultivating Machines.
MATTHEW PARRY Higher Kinnerton Flintshire Blacksmith, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists in four longitudinal bars, and four cross bars, the inner
cross being of a zig-zag form; the hinder cross bar, or that at the other end from
the draw, is longer than the front one, thus throwing the machine out of the
square. At each cross joint, where the longitudinal & cross bars meet are placed
my "bevelled Fangs," which have bevelled shoulders and are made (of steel or
other suitable material) in a form so as to cast forward at the shoulder, & so need
but little cast at the point; above the shoulder they are square to go through the
longitudinal & cross bars, & screwed up with a nut above. "My Drawby" is of a
curved-obtuse-angle shape, coming from the centre of front cross bar, to the front
longitudinal bar the draw-chain is fixed to the Drawby, in line with the front cross
bar, & will slide either way, as the horses turn round the implement will come out of
the land, and re-enter when in position. There is a curved bar through the front
draw corner of the implement.
"My Bearing Bars" are two bars, above, & from end to end of the two outer
longitudinal bars, strongly supported; when the implement is to be removed it is
turned over on to these bars a chain fixed to the front cross bar, & when drawn will
slide on the bearing bars.
The Implement not being drawn from the centre, shifts & rides backwards &
forwards the hinder fangs continuously crossing the track of the front ones, the frame
crushing the sods; bringing the scutch to the top of the land, & leaving the fangs
of the Implement.
Dated this 12th day of July 1888.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Harrowing and Land Cultivating Machines.
I MATTHEW PARRY Kinnerton, Flintshire Blacksmith do hereby declare the nature
of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN HARROWING AND LAND CULTIVATING MACHINES
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:
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My invention consists of improvements in the construction of harrowing and land
cultivating machines hereinafter described by reference to the accompanying drawings
in all the figures of which the same reference letter indicates the same part.
Fig. I is an elevation of the harrowing and land cultivating machine. Fig. II is a
side elevation of one of the fangs C employed and Fig. III is an end elevation of the
same.
The harrowing and land cultivating machine represented in Fig. I of the accom-
panying drawing consists of four longitudinal bars A and four cross bars B, the outer
cross bars being straight, the inner ones of a curved zig-zag form.
The hinder cross bar B or that at the end opposite the front or draw end, is longer
than the front one, thus throwing the machine out of square. At each cross joint
where the longitudinal bars A. and the cross bars B meet 1 secure an inclined fang C,
made preferably of steel. The fangs Care made from metal of square section used
diamond-ways, flattened down at the bottom and having a small cast forward as
represented in Figs. II and III. At the top they are bevel-shouldered, above the
bevelled shoulder they are square to go through the longitudinal bars A, and are secured
by a nut above the cross bars B.

page_text: When they are screwed up these fangs C slant forward towards their work, the
point foremost in the direction of the drawby, in consequence of the bevel formed
at the shoulders and of the inclined direction of the holes in the longitudinal bars A.
At the draw end of the implement I provide a special drawby D consisting of a
metal loop or staple one extremity of which is secured to the front cross bar B and the
other to the longitudinal bar A close to and in front of the front zig-zag cross bar B.
A draw chain is attached to the drawby D by a ring E so that it can slide; but a nitch
or slot G in the drawby D serves to keep the ring E in place for drawing. The
implement is thus drawn corner-ways. The ring E attached to the draw chain will
slide along the drawby D either way as the horses turn round and draw the implement
out of the land. By lengthening or shortening the draw chain the depth to which the
fangs Care to enter the soil is regulated.
There is a sharply curved bar H, fastened by the bolts which secure the drawby D
and by the screw end of the fang C to strengthen the draw-corner of the implement.
Above the implement are two runners J secured by the corner fangs (and having
supports K near their centres. The implement may be inverted for transport upon
these runners when required to be removed from field to field. A book Lis
provided for the attachment of the draw chain for this purpose.
The drawby D and the fangs are placed on the implement in such a position that
it will cultivate any land. The implement not. being drawn from the centre rides
backward and forward, the frame crushing the sods, at the same time bringing the
scutch to the top of the land. If it be drawn the same way as the ploughing the
fangs cannot follow the furrows as those behind cross the track of those in front.
Drawing the implement out of the land at the end of the fields or at turning is per-
formed automatically by the ring E of the draw chain sliding on the drawby D, thus
avoiding the necessity of manual lifting of the implement. Seed teeth for burying
seed can also be supplied with the implement, which replace the fangs C hereinbefore
described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :
1. The form of the fangs (having bevelled shoulders causing them to be cast forward
from the shoulder substantially as described and illustrated by Figs. Il and III of the
accompanying drawings.
2. The construction of a drawby consisting of a metal loop or staple secured to the
implement in position to allow it to be drawn corner ways by a chain with a ring
secured in position for drawing by means of a nitch or slot provided from which it
disengages to slide on the drawby for turning the implement substantially as
.described.
3. The runners to be employed for transport of the implement when inverted
substantially as described.
Dated this 3rd day of June 1889.
AYRTON & THOMAS,
Agents for the Applicant.