Improvements in or connected with Coulters.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Nov., 1804
Complete Specification Left, 6th Aug., 1895-Accepted, 19th Oct., 1895
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Complete Specification Left, 6th Aug., 1895-Accepted, 19th Oct., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Coulters.
We, WILLIAM HENRY SLEEP, and ROBERT HENRY SLEEP, both of the
Excelsior Plough Works, Plymouth, in the County of Devon, Engineers, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
Our invention relates to skim and other coulters.
These
According to our invention we make a coulter in four parts, viz., the coulter
blade, the stem or standard, the skim share, and the breast of the skim.
four parts are connected together by bolts or set screws and may be worked
together on to the one stem, or we may take off the share and breast, and work it
as an ordinary coulter with the renewable blade which is attached to the stem or
standard; the blade of the coulter having a long slot hole in the upper part for
the purpose of moving it up or down independent of the main stem or standard.
This standard has attached to it two set-screws; one for attaching the blade of the
coulter to the standard, the other for the purpose of allowing it more or less angle.
When we use a skim coulter as well, we bolt the share to the body or frame which
is attached to the main stem or standard with the foregoing set-screws or bolts.
The main standard or stem is attached to the beam of the plough in the usual way.
The object of this combination is more efficient work, the coulter blade cutting
the land first and the share or skim taking off the spine behind the coulter much
easier and with more efficiency than heretofore, and turning the spine, dung, or
rubbish into the furrow to be buried.
To prevent the skim clogging or choking we can clean it whilst working by
means of an arm pivotted to the beam or to the coulter clip and having connected
to it a rod extending into proximity to the plough handles.
Dated this 7th day of November 1894
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.
Improvements in or connecT WITH C
We, WILLIAM HENRY SLEEP and ROBERT HENRY SLEEP, both of the
Excelsior Plough Works, Plymouth, in the County of Devon, Engineers, 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 :-
Our invention relates to skim and other coulters.
According to our invention we make a coulter in four parts, viz., the coulter
blade, the stem or standard, the skim share, and the breast of the skim. These
four parts are connected together by bolts or set-screws and may be worked
together on to the one stem, or we may take off the share and breast and work it
as an ordinary coulter with the renewable blade which is attached to the stem or
standard, the blade of the coulter having a long slot hole in the upper part for the

page_text: purpose of moving it up or down independently of the main stem or standard. The
main standard or stem is attached to the beam of the plongh in the usual way.
The object of this combination is more efficient work, the coulter blade cutting the
land first and the share or skim taking off the spine behind the coulter much more
easily and with more efficiency than heretofore, and turning the spine, dung, or
rubbish into the furrow to be buried.
To prevent the skim clogging or choking we can clean it whilst working by
means of an arin pivoted to the beam or to the coulter clip and having connected
to it a rod extending into proximity to the plough handles.
To enable our invention to be fully understood we will describe the same by
reference to the accompanying drawing, in which :-
Figure 1 is a side elevation of a double skim coulter constructed according to
our invention and adapted for use upon a turn-wrest plough.
Figure 2 is an end view of the same; and,
Figure 3 a view similar to Figure I seen from the other side of the coulter.
a, a are the coulter blades, b the stem or standard which is attached to the beam
of the plough in the usual way, and provided with two arms bb to which the said
blades are attached. c, e the skim shares, and d, d the breasts of the same, these
parts being connected together, as shewn, by bolts in the usual manner.
e is the
slot in the upper part of each coulter blade through which passes the set-screw f
for attaching the coulter blade a to the standard b, the slot e allowing the said
blade to be moved up or down independently of the stem or standard. g, g are the
set-screws which fix the breasts d, d to the stem or standard b.
The coulter blades are made double edged as shewn so that when one edge is
blunted they can be removed and reversed. It is obvious that, if desired, the skim
share and the breast of the skim can be removed and the coulter used as an
ordinary coulter.
When our improved coulter is to be used upon an ordinary plough the arm b₁
carrying one of the blades is dispensed with, that is to say, the part of the
standard b above the line, Figure 1 is cut off. Instead of attaching our
reversible blade to a standard of the kind shewn, adapted to carry a skim, it may
be attached to a flat or round standard specially adapted to receive it.
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. A plough coulter having a permanent stem or standard designed to be
attached to the plough beam, and a coulter blade detachably connected thereto,
substantially as described.
2. The combination with a plough coulter, constructed in the manner referred to
in the preceding claiming clause, of a skim breast and share attached to the
standard carrying the coulter blade.
3. A coulter for use upon turn-wrest or other ploughs constructed and arranged
substantially as herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing
and adapted for use with or without skim breast and share.
Dated the 6th day of At 1905
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.