Improvements in and Apparatus for use in Planting, Manuring, and Covering up Potatoes and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
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Improvements in and Apparatus for use in Planting, Manuring, and
Covering up Potatoes and the like.
We, JOHN PRESSWOOD Goss, of Clenchwarton, in the County of Norfolk, and
JAMES ALFRED BARTON, of Lebanon House, Gedney, in the County of Lincoln,
Farmers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:--
In the planting of potatoes, or the like, we use a horse hoc to open the trench,
or trenches, and we place manure in this trench, or these trenches, as the
ground is opened, these operations being effected, according to our invention, by
using, in the place of ordinary hoe blades, small double breasts which are
attached to, the ordinary hoe stalks, the manure being fed from a receptacle,
or receptacles, carried by the hoe frame, and deposited in the trench, or trenches,
as the ground is opened.
The potatoes, or the like, are then placed in the trench, or trenches, and the
hoe is afterwards drawn therealong with the aforesaid breasts arranged in such
a manner as to cover up the potatoes, or the like, with earth simultaneously
on each side, without disturbing, or injuring, shoots which may have already
appeared on the potatoes, or the like.
Dated this 28th day of Woh 1890
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.
Improvements in and Apparatus for use in Planting, Manuring, and
Covering up Potatoes and the like.
We, JouN PRESSWOOD Goss, of Clenchwarton, in the County of Norfolk, and
JAMES ALFRED BARTON, of Lebanon House, Gedney, in the County of Lincoln,
Farmers, 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:-
In the planting of potatoes, or the like, we use a horse hoe to open the trench,
or trenches, and we place manure in this trench, or in these trenches, as the
ground is opened; these operations being effected, according to our invention,
by using small double breasts which are attached to hoe stalks which may be
of the ordinary kind, the manure being fed from a receptacle, or receptacles,
carried by the hoe frame, and deposited in the trench, or trenches, as the ground
is opened. The potatoes, or the like, are then placed in the trench, or trenches,

page_text: and the hoe is afterwards drawn therealong, with the aforesaid breasts arranged
in such a manner as to cover up the potatoes, or the like, with earth simul-
taneously from each side without disturbing, or injuring, shoots which may
have already appeared on the potatoes, or the like.
We will describe with reference to the accompanying drawings an arrange-
ment in accordance with our invention.
Figure 1 is a side elevation of sufficient of an ordinary turnip hoe to illustrate
the application thereto of our invention. Figure 2 is a plan shewing the
arrangement of the blades and breasts for opening two trenches for the potatoes,
or the like, and Figure 3 is a plan shewing the arrangement of the blades and
breasts for covering up the potatoes, or the like, after they have been placed in
the trenches, the dot and pick lines which run across both figures indicating the
central longitudinal lines of the two trenches. A is the hoe frame and B is
the square bar on which are carried the arms in which the stalks, or stems, of
the blades and breasts are secured. C is a receptacle containing manure to
be deposited in the trenches as they are opened. The said receptacle is supported
at each side by an arm D, fixed to the shafts of the hoe as at E. This receptacle
may be similar to that used in ordinary manure drills but the spindle c of the
distributor is driven from a pulley F (attached to the road wheel) by any suit-
able belt, chain, or other gear.
GG are the breasts attached to the hoe stalks, or stems, L, each pair of the
said breasts being adjustable in width apart, or relative angle to each other, by
the sliding bars H H which, when set, can be secured in position, by a pinching
screw or clamp, binding the said bars to the projection 7 from the stalk, or
stem, L. The arrangement we have shewn-in-the-drawing_is_a_clamp h, which,
when the screw is screwed up, pinches the bars H and projection together.
Each breast is made in two parts, the smaller parts G¹, being secured, by rivet-
ting, or otherwise, one on each side of the hoe stalk, or stem, and each of the
larger parts G being attached to one of these fixed portions by a pin K, passing
through lugs JJ on the respective parts so that the larger parts G are easily
removed by withdrawing the said pin K. The blades M may be like ordinary
hoe blades.
In opening the trenches to receive the potatoes, or the like, the stems, or
stalks, L, carrying the hoe blades and breasts, are secured to the arms and
these are adjusted and fixed on the bar B in the relative positions shewn in
Figure 2 at the distance apart at which the trenches are to be formed. When
the potatoes, or the like, have been placed in the trenches they are covered up
for which purpose two additional hoc stalks, or stems, are attached to the bar B
and one of the larger parts of the breasts is, by withdrawing the joint pin K,
removed from each of the fixed parts, as used for opening the trenches and these
parts of the breasts, so removed, are then attached to two additional hoe stalks,
or stems, by a similar means of attachment provided therefor, and the stalks,
or stems, with the single larger parts of the breasts and the blades attached are
then secured in the arms which are arranged in the positions shewn in Figure 3
relatively to the positions which the two stalks, or stems, occupied when in
position for opening the trenches as herein before described.
Although we have described and shewn in the drawings an apparatus arranged
for two trenches the apparatus may be arranged, if desired, for one trench, or
for more trenches.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that
what we claim is:-
1. In the planting of potatoes, or the like, the employment of an apparatus
which is provided with means whereby the several operations of trenching,
manuring, and covering-up, can be performed substantially as herein before

page_text: 2. In hoes, the combination with the hoe blades and stalks, or stems, of
breasts, as described, so that they can be arranged first for opening up the trenches
and afterwards for covering up the potatoes, or the like; substantially as herein-
before described.
3. An apparatus for use in planting potatoes, or the like; the said apparatus
being constructed as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.
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