IMPROVEMENTS IN POTATOE DRILLS
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Lewis Wright, of Hannah, in the County of
Lincoln, Farmer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN POTATOE
DRILLS."
Sealed the 8th December 1871, and dated the 13th June 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Lewis Wright at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
13th June 1871.
I, LEWIS WRIGHT, of Hannah, in the County of Lincoln, Farmer,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN POTATOE DRILLS," to be as follows :-
These improvements have reference to a Specification lodged by me
on the 14th of March 1871, for "An Improved Potatoe Drill," and
consist in the application of a wheel with cups or buckets formed
thereon in place of the endless chain or band for the purpose of con-
ducting the potatoes separately and at regular intervals to a coulter, and
thus to the ground, described in the above-mentioned Specification.

page_text: The improvements in my former Specification consisted in con-
structing a machine with a frame, on which it is intended to attach
suitable receiving and feeding boxes for allowing the potatoe to pass
into a feeding trough, through and in which works an endless chain or
band carrying small buckets or cups for carrying the potatoes and
allowing them to fall at regular intervals into the ground, and be after-
wards covered over and the ground ridged by a ridger or ridgers attached
to the frame for that purpose.
The improvements now claimed may be carried into effect by con-
structing the potatoe drill substantially as described in my above-quoted
Specification, but having a wheel with cups or buckets. attached thereon
or thereto for carrying the potatoes in the place of an endless band or
chain formed of the cups or buckets and their connections. The wheel
may be made of wood or metal, or of wood and metal combined, with
cups formed thereon, the said cups or buckets being so constructed that
not more than one potatoe can lodge in each cup or bucket at the same
time, thus obtaining regularity of discharge. The use of this wheel also.
avoids the necessity of using a notched or other wheel for the endless;
band to pass over.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Lewis Wright in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 11th December 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LEWIS
WRIGHT, of Hannah, in the County of Lincoln, Farmer, send grecting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-onc, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Lewis Wright, Her special licence
that I, the said Lewis Wright, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Lewis Wright, my executors, adminis-
trators, 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

page_text: Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN POTATOE
DRILLS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Lewis
Wright, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, 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 Lewis Wright, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
These improvements have reference to a Specification lodged by me
on the 14th of March 1871, for "An Improved Potatoe Drill," and
consist in the application of a wheel with cups or buckets formed thereon
or attached thereto in place of the endless chain or band, for the purpose
of conducting the potatoes separately and at regular intervals to a
coulter, and thus to the ground, described in the above-mentioned
Specification.
The improvements in my former Specification consisted in con-
structing a machine with a frame on which it is intended to attach
suitable receiving and feeding boxes for allowing the potatoes to pass
into a feeding trough through and in which works an endless chain or
band carrying small buckets or cups for carrying the potatoes and
allowing them to fall at regular intervals into the ground and be after-
wards covered over and the ground ridged by a ridger or ridgers attached
to the frame for that purpose.
The improvements now claimed may be carried into effect by con-
structing the potatoe drill substantially as described in my above quoted
Specification, but having a wheel with cups or buckets attached thereon
or thereto for carrying the potatoes in the place of an endless band or
chain formed of the cups or buckets and their connections. The wheel
may be made of wood or metal or of wood and metal combined with
cups formed thereon, the said cups or buckets being so constructed that
not more than one potatoe can lodge in each cup or bucket at the same
time, thus obtaining regularity of discharge. The use of this wheel also
avoids the necessity of using a notched or other wheel for the endless
band to pass over.

page_text: The accompanying Drawings will serve as an illustration of my
Invention, in which the wheel with the cups or buckets is. shewn in
clevation and plan at Figures 1 and 2 respectively.
A, A, is the rim of the wheel on which are formed or to which are
attached the cups or buckets B, B, (for carrying the potatoes) secured.
thereto in any convenient manner, preferably by a screw passing through
the rim and into the cup or bucket; C, C, are recesses in the rim of
the wheel hollowed out to allow the potatoe to rest therein; D, D, is.
that part of the rim of the wheel which is slightly inclined so as to.
allow the potatoe when the wheel revolves to roll or fall easily down',
and thus to the ground, after which the process and treatment is. the
same as described in my previously referred to Specification No. 667
of 1871. E, E, are the spokes of the wheel. The wheel is intended to
be made of wood or of metal or of wood and metal combined.
It is obvious that any desirable shape or strength of wheel provided
with cups or buckets may be employed, and that the accompanying
Drawing is merely given as an illustration.
In witness whereof, I, the said Lewis Wright, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eighth day of December, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one..