Implement for Hoeing All Kinds of Root Crops and Cereals, and Working and Cleaning Fallow Land.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 16th July, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 12th Apr., 1890-Accepted, 7th June, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Implement for Hoeing All Kinds of Root Crops and Cereals, and
Working and Cleaning Fallow Land.
JOSEPH HENRY HODDER Winsham, Chard, Somersetshire Steam Machine Proprietor,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows, viz. :-
An Horse Hoe worked with a steerage with tines or shares or hoes adjustable
to any width between the rows, and to carry as many rows at one time as may
be sown by a large or small drill, with a simple leverage by which it can be easily
and instantly raised or fallen, and fixed to work any required depth, and lifted out of
its work whilst turning on the head lands. Further that this same implement is
easily converted into a drag and skimmer to work up and perfectly cut every weed on
fallow land at one operation.
And the implement is made of iron or steel constructed with longitudinal and
straight transverse bars over and under in front of which the tines of any form of feet
are placed and fixed by means of a clip passing through the transverse bars fastened
with a screw nut at the back-thereby rendering it easy to fix in any position for any
kind of work.
Dated this 22nd day of August 1989.
JOSEPH H. HODDER.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Implement for Hoeing All Kinds of Root Crops and Cereals, and
Working and Cleaning Fallow Land.
I, JOSEPH HENRY HODDER, of Winsham, Chard, in the County of Somersetshire,
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:-
This invention has reference to the kind of implements for hoeing root crops and
cereals, and for working and cleaning fallow land in which the tines can by means of
a hand lever be readily lowered and fixed in the lowered position to work at any
required depth in the ground, or can be raised to clear the ground whilst turning on
head lands, or to clear obstructions. My improvements have for object to admit of
the number of tines, and their distance apart in a transverse direction, being varied
to adapt the implement to different widths of spaces to be worked between rows of
plants, or to the other work to be done. To this end the tines are connected to the
framework of the implement by adjustable clamping or holding devices. The lower
ends of the tines can be made of any suitable form to suit different crops, or can be
so made that feet of a form suitable for the work to be done can be secured to them
so as to be detachable. Thus the same implement, excepting as to the form of the
feet, can be used as a hoe, or as a drag or harrow, or as a skimmer to cut weeds on
fallow land, as occasion may require.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is a plan; and
Fig. 2 a sectional elevation on the line x Fig. 1 of a hoeing implement
embodying my invention.
Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line y y Fig. 1 shewing part of the frame of
the implement with the tines secured thereto. The frame-work comprises side
bars 1, 1, transverse members each comprising two bars 2, 2*, secured at their ends
to the side bars, and diagonal bars 3, 3, that serve to brace the transverse bars
together. 4, 4, are side wheels that support the frame-work at a suitable height

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above the ground. They are mounted each upon an axle carried by an arm 5 fixed
to a cross shaft 6 carried in bearings 7 and provided with a hand lever
by means of
which the arms 5 and wheels 4 can be turned in an upward direction relatively to the
frame-work which is consequently lowered with reference to the surface of the ground
in a manner well understood, for varying the position of the tines in a vertical sense,
the hand lever being provided with a spring stop which by means of a notched
quadrant 9 enables the framework to be fixed at any desired height above the ground.
10, 10 are the tines which according to this invention are made adjustable transversely
of the machine. For this purpose each tine is shewn as being secured by a bolt 11
having in its head a slot or hole through which the tine is passed; the shank of the
bolt is screw threaded; it extends through the space between the two bars 2, 2" con-
stituting a pair and is provided with a nut, the arrangement being such that when
the tine is in place in the head of the bolt and the nut is tightened up, the tine will
be clamped or held between the bolt head and the said bars. If the nut be loosened
the bolt can be moved towards one side or other of the machine, carrying the tine
with it to the new position desired, in which it can be readily fixed by again tightening
the nut. The lower bent ends of the tines in the example shewn are of suitable form
for hoeing; to them can be secured, so as to be detachable, feet of other suitable
form to adapt the implement to work as a drag or harrow, or as a skimmer as herein-
, before mentioned. The front end of the frame can be supported by a pair of steering
wheels 12 carrying a frame 13 with vertical shaft 14 that is journalled at 15 to the
framework of the implement, the point of attachment being adjustable in a vertical
sense to suit the work to be done as well understood.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :
In an implement of the kind hereinabove referred to for hoeing working and clean-
ing land making the tines separately adjustable in a lateral sense in relation to the
...vertically adjustable frame as described for the purpose indicated.
Parco this with day of April 16ão.
Parco LOIS FIGH day of April TONU.
JOSEPH H. HODDER.
W. Lloyd Wise,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Applicant's Agent.