Improvements in Potato Diggers.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Potato Diggers.
I, JOHN MARSHALL, Agricultural Implement Maker, Maybole, N.B. Sole Partner
of the Firm of Alexr. Jack & Sons, Maybole do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in Potato diggers and consists in the fixing
of a seat on the outside of the road wheels on a potato digger. Preferably it is
fitted on the near or left hand side, and is so arranged that the driver can mount it
without stopping the machine. The invention is applicable to any form of digger used
for digging potatoes. This seat is fixed from a socket cast in the main frame
of the machine, and a bracket or standard is fitted upon which the seat is bolted.
This bracket or standard may be supported by a bar of plain, or of angle, or of Tiron
(or other form) running alongside, but clear of, the road wheel and fixed at either
end by bolts or studs or simply by a cottar at each end; or the standard may be
supported from a bush on the road wheel or axle, the said bush to be stayed to the
main frame or otherwise fixed. The special feature of my invention is the use of a
seat outside the road wheels whereby the driver can easily mount on it or not as he
chooses. The arrangement is likewise of advantage in balancing the inachine and
giving it greater solidity in heavy soil.
Dated this 11th day of December 1896.
JOHNSONS,
115 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Petitioner's Agents.
Improvements in Potato Diggers.
I, JOHN MARSHALL, Agricultural Implement Maker, Maybole, N.B. Sole Partner
of the Firm of Alexr. Jack and Sons, Maybole, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention and in what manner the saine is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to improvements in Potato diggers and consists in the fixing
of a seat on the outside of the road wheels on a potato digger. Preferably it is
fitted on the near or left hand side, and is so arranged that the driver can mount it
without stopping the inachine.
But in order that my said invention may be minore readily understood and easily
carried into effect I will proceed to describe the same with reference to the
accompanying drawings in which

page_text: Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a machine fitted with my improvements
and
Fig. 2 a plan of same.
Referring to the said drawings the seat A is fixed from a socket a cast in the
main frame B of the machine, into which a bracket or standard C is fitted, upon
which the seat is bolted, or otherwise secured. A split pin c may be passed through
the tail end of the standard C below the frame to prevent its being removed
surreptitiously. A stirrup or foot rest D may also be secured upon any convenient
part of the machine. This bracket or standard C may be, if desired, supported by a
bar of plain, or of angle, or of T iron (or other form) running alongside, but clear
of, the road wheel and fixed at either end by bolts or studs or simply by a cottar at
each end; or the standard may be supported from a bush on the road wheel or axle,
the said bush to be stayed to the main frame or otherwise fixed. The special feature
of my invention is the use of a seat outside the road wheels whereby the driver can
easily mount on it or not as he chooses. The arrangement is likewise of advantage in
balancing the machine and giving it greater solidity in heavy soil.
The invention is applicable to any form of digger used for digging or raising
potatoes.
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:
In potato digging or raising machines, the arrangement of the driver's seat A
substantially as and for the purposes herein before described and shewn in the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 11th day of September 1897
JOHNSONS,
115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant's Agents.