IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PLOUGHSHARES, SOCKS, OR POINTS, FOR PLOUGHS, CULTIVATORS, OR SCURRIFURROWS, AND OTHER IMPLEMENTS USED IN THE CULTIVATION OF THE LAND WHERE THESE POINTS ARE USED OR REQUIRED
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Gray, Edward Gray, and John Gray, all of
St. Phillip's Works, Sheffield, in the County of York, Saw, File, and
Machine Knife Manufacturers and Merchants, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PLOUGHSHARES, SOCKS, OR POINTS,
FOR PLOUGHS, CULTIVATORS, OR SCURRIFURROWS, AND OTHER IMPLEMENTS USED
IN THE CULTIVATION OF THE LAND WHERE THESE POINTS ARE USED OR
REQUIRED."
Sealed the 30th June 1865, and dated the 7th April 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Gray, Edward
Gray, and John Gray, at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 7th April 1865.
We, WILLIAM GRAY, EDWARD GRAY, and JOHN GRAY, all of St. Phillip's
Works, Sheffield, in the County of York, Saw, File, and Machine Knife
Manufacturers and Merchants, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PLOUGHSHARES, SOCKS, OR
POINTS, FOR PLOUGHS, CULTIVATORS, OR SCURRIPURROWS, AND OTHER IMPLEMENTS
USED IN THE CULTIVATION OF THE LAND WHERE THESE POINTS ARE USED OR
REQUIRED," to be as follows:-
This Invention of improvements in the manufacture of ploughshares, socks,
or points, for ploughs, cultivators, or scurrifurrows, and other implements

page_text: -used in the cultivation of the land where these points are used or required,
consists, firstly, in the manufacture of the above-named articles of cast steel,
and more particular that description of cast steel known by the name of
welding cast steel, so that the articles when partly worn out can be relaid
with steel by welding it to the socket, or that part of the share that is not
worn out; and this can be done by means of our Invention at any time
.required.
And, secondly, this Invention consists in the casting of the above-named
articles in metal moulds with the use of steel or wrought-iron pluơs to form
ESPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Gray, Edward Gray, and John Gray in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 6th October 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
GRAY, EDWARD GRAY, and JOHN GRAY, all of St. Phillip's Works, Sheffield,
in the County of York, Saw, File, and Machine Knife Manufacturers and
Merchants, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-eighth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
us, the said William Gray, Edward Gray, and John Gray, Her special
licence that we, the said William Gray, Edward Gray, and John Gray, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said William
Gray, Edward Gray, and .John Gray, our 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 PLOUGHSHARES, SOCKS, OR POINTS, FOR
PLOUGHS, CULTIVATORS, OR SCURRIFURROWS, AND OTHER IMPLEMENTS USED IN
THE CULTIVATION OF THE. LAND WHERE THESE POINTS ARE USED OR REQUIRED,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said William-Gray, Edward
Gray, and John Gray, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature-of the said Invention, and in what manner

page_text: the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said William Gray, Edward Gray, and
John Gray, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This Invention of improvements in the manufacture of ploughshares, socks,
bucks, or points to any shape or pattern, to be used upon ploughs, cultivators,
or scurrifurrows, and other implements used in the cultivation of the land
where these points are used or required, consists, firstly, in the manufacture
of the above-named articles of cast steel, and more particular that description
of cast steel known by the name of welding cast steel, so that the articles when
partly worn out can be relaid with steel by welding it to the socket, or that
part of the share that is not worn out; and this can be done by means of
our Invention at any time required.
And, secondly, this Invention consists in the casting of the above-named
articles in metal moulds with the use of steel or wrought iron plugs to form
the socket part of the articles produced.
Having thus described the nature and object of this Invention, we declare
that what we claim and desire to be secured by the herein-before in part
recited Letters Patent is,-
Firstly, the improvements in the manufacture of ploughshares, socks, or
points, for ploughs, cultivators, or scurrifurrows, and other implements used
in the cultivation of the land where these points are used or required,
substantially as herein-before described, or any mere modification thereof.
And, secondly, we claim the exclusive right to use metal moulds with steel
or wrought-iron plugs for casting the above-named articles.
In witness whereof, we, the said William Gray, Edward Gray, and
John Gray, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-sixth
day of September, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-five.
WILLIAM GRAY. (L.S.)
EDWARD GRAY. (L.S.)
JOHN GRAY.
(L.S.)
WILLIAM GRAY. (L.S.)
EDWARD GRAY. (L.S.)
JOHN GRAY.
(L.S.)