IMPROVEMENTS IN FIXING THE TINES OF HARROWS AND OTHER AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Page, of the: Victoria Iron Works,
Bedford, Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN FIXING
THE TINES OF HARROWS AND OTHER AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS."
Sealed the 9th October 1868; and dated the 15th April 1868..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Page at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
15th April 1868.
I, EDWARD PAGE, of the Victoria Iron Works, Bedford, Engineer,-
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN FIXING THE TINES OF HARROWS AND. OTHER AGRICULTURAL. IMPLEMENTS," to
be as follows:-
The object of the Invention is to obtain a simple and rigid fixing-
for the tines of harrows and other agricultural implements with facility
for adjustment or removal. For this purpose the stem of cach tine
is passed through a hole formed for it in a socket, which in the case
of a harrow is in part wedge-formed to rest in an angle formed by
the meeting or crossing of the diagonal bars. Another part of cach
of such sockets is continued back over the junction or crossing of

page_text: the diagonals, and it is there secured by screw bolt or other pin
passing through them. A taper key aids in retaining cach tine in the
hole in its socket.
In place of an angular other form may be given to the parts of
he sockets adapted to the form of the parts against which they 5
bear.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edward Page in the Great Scal Patent Office
on the 14th October 1868.
_TO AL
ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
PAGE, of the Victoria Iron Works, Bedford, Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of April, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the
thirty-first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Edward Page, Her special licence,
that I, the said Edward Page, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward Page, 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 FIXING
THE TINES OF HARROWS AND OTHER AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Edward Page, 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 mouths next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward Page, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, that is to say:-

page_text: The object of the Invention is to obtain a simple and rigid fixing
for the tines of harrows and other agricultural implements with facility
for adjustment or removal of the parts. For this purpose the stem
of each tine is passed through a hole formed for it in a socket,
which in the case of a harrow is in part wedge-formed to rest in
an angle formed by the meeting or crossing of the diagonal bars.
Another part of each of such sockets is continued back over the junction
or crossing of the diagonals, and it is there secured by screw bolt
or other pin passing through them. A taper key aids in retaining
cach tinc in the hole in its socket.

page_text: may be varied; but what I do claim is, the adaptation or combination
of means for fixing the tines, of arrows and other agricultural
implements, substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Page, havo hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Tenth day of October, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight..