Improvements in Apparatus for Paring, Trimming, or Shaping the Edges or Sides of Carriage Ways or other Places.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Nov., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 16th Aug., 1889-Accepted, 21st Sept., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Paring, Trimming, or Shaping the
Edges or Sides of Carriage Ways or other Places.
I ARTHUR HENRY LAPHAM of Biddeston in the County of Wilts, Road Surveyor,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to manufacture an implement capable of being drawn
by horse or other convenient draught along the sides of roadways, carriage drives, and
other places so as to pare off redundant greensward, overgrowth or align, trim, verge
or make even the sides of tracks of such highways.
This trimming or aligning is usually effected by hand labor with the aid of only
such implements as spades with great expense of time and manual force besides
requiring considerable dexterity.
In constructing my improved implement I employ a cutting blade of extended
surface, towards its fore end of attenuated thickness and depth so as to attain a
substantially pointed instrument adapted to insinuate itself beneath the turf or portion
to be removed-aided by another revolving or separating device or devices and by
the onward pressure of the blade the excised portion is turned over and laid aside.
ready to be collected either by hand, or by a separate collector or by an inclined
conductor and receiver attached to the cutter.
The cutting blade and body are supported inclined over the work so as to give the
desired batter or deviation from the vertical line or perpendicular as may be desired,
and is supported in its travel by means of bearing wheels which may be arranged and
supported to run in the gutter or other part of the road adjacent to the cleared side.
The greensward or portions of the separated matter, at the roadside when lifted by
the toe of the blade are disconnected or severed by a revolving or separating device
which may conveniently be a rotating disc or cutting plate mounted in a bearing
borne by an arm dependent from the projecting frame forward of the cutting blade.
In advance of this cutting device may conveniently be arranged another and
conveniently a smaller circular rotating blade similarly mounted and adjustable as to
vertical position by connecting and screw or other gear from the rear of the
implement, or the rotatory front cutter or incisor may be a shoe or similar sliding
part either adapted to cut or part long grass or other wise prepare a track for the
other instrument which follows in its track or wake.
The implement is guided and steadied to its work by means of handles preferably
right and left handed and connected for strength; the base of the cutting blade is
also borne on the ground by a bottom plate, this plate extending rearward as far as
convenient.
By means of these implements large extents of roadway may be trimmed or aligned
with great accuracy, rapidity, and economy.
Preferably parts exposed to the greatest wear are made of steel or steel faced and
the rest of wrought iron and cast iron according to convenience.
Dated the 19th day of November 1888.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Paring, Trimming, or Shaping the
Edges or Sides of Carriage Ways or other Places.
I, ARTHUR HENRY LAPHAM of Biddeston in the County of Wilts, Road Surveyor,
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 manufacture an implement capable of being drawn
by horse or other convenient draught along the sides of roadways, carriage drives,
and other places so as to pare off redundant greensward, overgrowth or align, trim,
verge or make even the sides of tracks of such highways.
This trimming or aligning is usually effected by hand labour with the aid of only
such implements as spades with great expense of time and manual force besides
requiring considerable dexterity.
In constructing my improved implement I employ a cutting blade of extended
surface, towards its fore ond of attenuated thickness and depth so as to attain a
substantially pointed instrument adapted to insinuate itself beneath the turf or portion
to be removed--aided by another revolving or separating device or devices-and by
the onward pressure of the blade the excised portion is turned over and laid aside
ready to be collected either by hand, or by a separate collector or by an inclined
conductor and receiver attached to the cutter.
The entting blade and body are supported inclined over the work so as to give the
desired batter or deviation from the vertical line or perpendicular as may be desired
and is supported in its travel by means of bearing wheels which may be arranged and
supported to run in the gutter or other part of the road adjacent to the cleared side.
The greensward or portions of the separated matter, at the roadside when lifted by
the toe of the blade are disconnected or severed by a revolving or separating device
which may conveniently be a rotating disc or cutting plate mounted in a bearing
borne by an arm dependent from the projecting frame forward of the cutting blade.
In advance of this cutting device may conveniently be arranged another and
conveniently a smaller circular rotating blade similarly mounted and adjustable as to
vertical position by connecting and screw or other gear from the rear of the
implement, or the rotatory front cutter or incisor may be a shoe or similar sliding part
either adapted to cut or part long grass or otherwise prepare a track for the other
instrument which follows in its track or wake.
The implement is guided and steadied to its work by means of handles preferably
right and left handed and connected for strength; the base of the cutting blade is
also borne on the ground by a bottom plate, this plate extending rearward as far as
convenient.
By means of these implements large extents of roadway may be trimmed or aligned
with great accuracy, rapidity, and economy.
Preferably parts exposed to the greatest wear are made of steel or steel faced and
the rest of wrought iron and cast iron according to convenience.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a side view and Figure 2 is a plan of a plough like implement according
to my invention. Figure 3 is a detail showing the paring wheels and their supports
in cross section. a is the stock or frame to which are attached about a' but not shown
means of connection to the draught animal. a are the guiding handles as is the post
supported on the wheel a running on the ground, adjustable as to height. 6 6¹ are
other supporting wheels respectively attached 6 to an arm a carrying a stem a® and
projecting from the frame a, and 6-carried on an arm a' carried in a socket aⓇ on
said frame. c is the share c¹ the connection to c' the mould board and o³ is the
landside. is a circular cutter or parer formed and set on its supporting and

page_text: adjustable bar in a socket c on the frame so as to pare off at an angle a strip from
a side or edge of a road from a line cut by a fore cutter circular blade c' carried by
another bar likewise carried adjustably in a socket on the frame a down to the
channel level where the share and mould board cut the channel and turn over for
collection the parings in a line of deposits on the road, respectively.
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 :
In a plough or implenient for paring, trimming or shaping the sides or edges of
carriage roads or other places the combination with a frame, draught connections;
guiding arms and adjustable bearing wheels, of cutting blade fixed to said frame and
revolving cutters as c³, c7 coöperating there with to remove a side paring and channel
the edge of a road or other place as set forth.
Dated the thith day of Avant 1880
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.