CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES OF MACHINERY FOR ROWING, SOWING, AND MANURING LAND
Year: 1848

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ISAAC
HARTES, of Rosedale Abbey, in the County of York, Farmer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Second day of May,
One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, in the eleventh year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Isaac Hartes, my exors, admors, and assigns, Her especial licence,
full power, sole privilege, and authority, that I, the said Isaac Hartes, my
exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Isaac Hartes, my
exors or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise,. and vend, within England, Wales, and
the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and in the Islands of Jersey, Guernsey,
Alderney, Sark, and Man, and in all Her said Majesty's Colonies and
Plantations abroad, my Invention " CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES OF
MACHINERY FOR ROWING, SOWING, AND MANURING LAND;" in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso, that I, the said Isaac Hartes, shall cause a
particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in part
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had,
will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Isaac Hartes, hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, are fully described and ascertained
in and by the present Specification thereof, reference being had to the Drawings
hereunto annexed, that is to say :-
Figure 1 is a side elevation of a machine, partly in section, which is fitted
with so much of the improvements constituting my said Invention as respects
the-manuring of the land and the sowing of seed. A, A, is the body of the
machine, in which are held the manure and seed to be drilled into or upon
the land. It is mounted upon a pair of wheels, and fitted with shafts for the
purpose of being drawn by horses or other power. The body A, A, is divided
into two compartments B and C; the former of which is appropriated to the
manure, the latter to the seed. D is a toothed wheel, which is attached to one
of the wheels of the machine, turns along with it, and gears into two other
wheels E and F. The wheel E gears into another toothed wheel, which is
fixed on the end of a roller spindle G, and the surface of this roller is studded
with a set of projecting blades H, H, which are made sufficiently long to
pass a short distance through openings in the bottom of the manure com-
partment B. When the machine is in motion, the manure contained in B
will drop out on the surface of the ground in successive portions, smaller or
larger, according to the length of the blades H, H. The wheel F is also set
in motion by the wheel D, and gears into another wheel on the end of a roller
spindle I, causing that roller to revolve. K is an endless belt or band, which
works round the upper end of the roller I, and is steadied at bottom by the
roller L. To the outer surface of this band there are attached a number of
projecting pieces of metal a, a, a, which pass at the point immediately over the
roller I into the bottom of a spout leading from the seed box C. Each of
these pieces of metal a, a, takes up a portion of the seed as it passes under
the spout, which again is regularly deposited upon the ground as the endless
belt revolves.
The arrangements which I have just described are suitable for depositing
both the manure and the seed in successive portions, and not in one continuous
stream, and are therefore in this respect more advantageous for the purposes
of sowing.
Instead of having the seed conveyed by means of the endless band K and
the projecting pieces a, a, from the reservoir to the ground, in the manner
which has just been described, the revolving roller may be placed nearer to the
surface of the ground, and the endless band be altogether dispensed with, as
represented in Figure 2. A, A, is the body of the machine; B, B, B, three

page_text: sets of cups or spouts for conveying the seed from the hopper, where it is kept
in reserve, to the ground. These sets of spouts are represented as being three
in number, but they may be encreased to any convenient number, this depend-
ing upon the width between the rows and other circumstances, which are well
understood by those acquainted with the construction and use of machines of
this description, and do not require to be further explained here. C is a roller
or spindle, which passes from one side of the machine to the other, and imme-
diately under the lower ends of the sets of spouts B, B. This roller is made
to revolve when the machine itself is put in motion by means of the endless
chains D and E, which endless chains are actuated by a rigger F, which is
attached to one of the carrying wheels of the machine. Underneath the
terminations of the different spouts B, B, the revolving roller C is fitted with
projecting blades, in the manner shown by the enlarged cross section, Figure 3,
which blades play the same part in distributing the seed as the projecting
pieces a, a, upon the endless band, already described in Figure 1. In some
cases I employ a revolving feed roller placed in the bottom of the said hopper,
to cause the seed to flow into the upper ends of the spouts. The position of
this roller is indicated by the dotted lines at N, Figure 1.
To bring the surface of the land, after it has been partially prepared, into
regular rows, I employ a plough, attached to the body of either of the
machines before described, and with cutters or mould boards placed in the
position with relation to each other, represented by the plan, Figure 4.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that the improvements which I
claim as constituting my said Invention are as follows:-
First, I claim the improved machine for sowing and manuring land first
herein-before described, in the peculiar combination of parts of which the same
consists, and of which combination the peculiar features are the mode of acting
on the parts H, H, and a, a, so as to cause them to deposit the seed and
manure in successive portions instead of in one continuous stream.
Second, I claim the modification of the said machine secondly herein-before
described, in so far as regards the placing of the revolving roller nearer the
ground, and dispensing with the endless belt.
And, third, I claim the attaching to the said machines, mould boards or
cutters placed in the relative positions herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Isaac Hartes, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Thirtieth day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.
ISAAC (L.B.) HARTES.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Thirtieth day of October, in
the year of our Lord 1848, the aforesaid Isaac Hartes came before our
said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification-
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Second day of November, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.