An Improvement in the Blades of Malt or Grain Shovels.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in the Blades of Malt or Grain Shovels.
I CHARLES NASMYTH HARRY EDWIN WEBB of Tytherley Wimborne Minster
in the County of Dorset Maltster do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
An improved shovel blade for hand shovels for shovelling malt corn seeds and
for all other purposes for which malt corn or seed shovels are can or may at any
time be used which shovel blade differs from any other in that it is made of sheet
aluminium (or of such sheet metal or alloy of which the specific gravity is below
the specific gravity of ordinary commercial metals by reason of the presence of
aluminium) which sheet aluminium or aluminium alloy is strengthened by means
of wires or bands of metal which wires or bands are placed along and secured to
the said aluminium blade also the bottom part of the shovel blade (or that part
which comes in contact with the ground when in ordinary use) is protected by
means of a bar of metal fixed along the said bottom part.
Dated this 94th day of July 1807
CHARLES NASMYTH HARRY EDWIN WEBB.
An improvement in the Blades of Malt or Grain Snoveis.
I CHARLES NASMYTH HARRY EDWIN WEBB, of Tytherley, Wimborne Minster,
Dorset, Maltster, 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 to construct the blades of malt or grain shovels in
an improved manner and of improved materials, whereby they are rendered lighter
than heretofore, thus enabling the operator to lift a larger quantity of grain with
each operation.
According to my invention I form the blade of the shovel of sheet aluminium,
or of aluminium amalgamated with any other suitable metal for reducing the
specific gravity below that of blades formed of ordinary commercial metals."
I strengthen and stiffen the sides of the blade by rolling over the edges, with
or without an enclosed wire, and I rivet a strip of steel to the working edge or
lip of the blade, which comes in contact with the ground when in ordinary use,
whereby the edge is protected against rapid wear.
In consequence of the reduction of weight in the blade, I construct the same of
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page_text: increased capacity, to enable the workman to lift a larger quantity of grain than
he would be able to do with a shovel formed of ordinary metal.
The socket for receiving the end of the handle is formed of similar metal to that
of the blade, to which it is riveted.
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. The improvement in the blades of malt or grain shovels, substantially as and
for the purposes described.
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2. In a male or grain shovel, the application and use of aluminium, or aluminium
alleyed with other suitable metal, substantially as and for the purposes described.
Dated this Twenty-first day of October 1897.
WILLIAM JORDAN,
120 Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicant.
WILLIAM JORDAN,
120 Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicant.