IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE-RAKES
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Rowsell, of Buckland St. Mary, in the
County of Somersetshire, Carpenter, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN HORSE-RAKES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Rowsell at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 27th
September 1861.
I, SAMUEL ROWSELL, of Buckland St. Mary, in the County of Somersetshire,
5 Carpenter, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN HORSE-RAKES," to be as follows:-
These improvements consist in forming the beam or head of the rake of
tubular iron, through which the teeth (also of tubular iron) are fastened, thus
combining strength with lightness, and in so arranging the bearing pieces that
they take a bearing upon the ground behind their centres, by which means
less weight is thrown upon the hands of the user.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Rowsell in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
24th March 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
ROWSELL, of Buckland St. Mary, in the County of Somersetshire, Carpenter,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of September, in the
year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Samuel Rowsell, Her special licence. that I, the said Samuel Rowsell,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Samuel Rowsell, my executors, 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 HORSE-RAKES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Samuel
Rowsell, 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 Samuel Rowsell, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:
These improvements consist in forming the beam or head of the rake of
tubular iron, through which the teeth are fastened, thus combining strength
with lightness, and in so arranging the bearing pieces that they take a bearing
upon the ground behind their centres, by which means less weight is thrown
upon the hands of the user.
And in order that the same may be more clearly understood, reference is
had to the annexed Drawings and to the following description thereof.
Figure 1 is a plan view of a revolving (or American) horse-rake constructed
agreeably to my said improvements; Figure 2 is an end elevation; and
Figure 3, a sectional elevation on the line a, b, of Figure 1.

page_text: B is the head or beam of the rake, formed of tubular iron, into which tines
or teeth T, T, either of solid steel or tubular iron, are fastened, as shown in
Figure 3, and more clearly in the enlarged section, Figure 4; E, E, are the
bearing blocks, centred upon the beam B, and taking a bearing upon the
ground alternately as the rake revolves upon the shod points e¹, e, behind
their centres. Figure 5 is a section of the bearing block; HI, H, are the
handles, which move sideways in or out of notches h, h, on the bearing blocks,
so as to allow them to turn over or to hold them fast; D are the draw links,
but there are hooks c, c, to which the horse may be attached, if preferred; in
that case, if the horse should become restive, the driver lets go the handles,
which turn over, when the harness slips off the hooks and sets the horse free.
And having now described the nature of my Invention and the manner of
performing the same, I desire it to be understood that what I claim is, the
construction of American or revolving horse-rakes, substantially as herein-
before described and shewn in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Rowsell, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
Witness,
W. BADDELEY,
Patent Agent,
Islington.
SAMUEL ROWSELL. (L.S.)