IMPROVEMENTS IN ENGINES OR MACHINES FOR DRIVING DRUMS USED WITH APPARATUS FOR CULTIVATING LAND BY STEAM POWER, IN DRUMS FOR THE SAME, AND IN APPARATUS FOR MOVING THR MACHINES FROM PLACE TO PLACE
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Brett, of Gislingham, Farmer, and George
Daniels, of Bentley, Machinist, both in the County of Suffolk,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN ENGINES OR MACHINES FOR
DRIVING DRUMS USED WITH APPARATUS FOR CULTIVATING LAND BY STEAM
POWER, IN DRUMS FOR THE SAME, AND IN APPARATUS FOR MOVING THR
MACHINES FROM PLACE TO PLACE."
Sealed the 15th January 1869, and dated the 20th July 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Brett and
George Daniels at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 20th July 1868.
We, ROBERT BRETT, of Gislingham, Farmer, and GEORGE DANIELS, of
Bentley, Machinist, both in the County of Suffolk, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN ENGINES OR MACHINES
FOR DRIVING DRUMS USED WITH APPARATUS FOR CULTIVATING LAND BY STEAM

page_text: POWER, IN DRUMS FOR THE SAME, AND IN APPARATUS POR- MOVING THE MACRINES
FROM PLACE TO PLACE," to be as follows:-
The first part of our Invention consists in mounting a boiler, which
is by preference set vertically on a suitable carriage supported by wheels
to enable it to move from place to place. The engine is set by the
side of the boiler, the cylinder of which may be vertical or horizontal,
and communicates motion as hereafter described to the winding
capstan or drum, which is also supported by the same frame as the
boiler.
The second part of our Invention consists in the employment of a
capstan or drum which is capable of being adjusted so as to adapt
its position to readily receive the rope. We mount the drum upon a
shaft, which is supported at top in the frame of the machine, but
free to oscillate therein; the shaft passes through the drum, and its
position is regulated by a set screw working in a frame below, so
that by turning the screw the drum may be set at any angle that
may be desired for the efficient working thereof, viz., for winding
thereon the wire or other rope to haul a plough or other implement.
The drum is driven from the crank shaft of the engine, to which a
bevil pinion is keyed in gear with another and similar bevil pinion on
á horizontal shaft carrying another pinion in gear with the bevil wheel
on the drum; the latter pinion is capable of being allowed to run loose
on the shaft when it is not required to drive the drum. Sometimes
instead of using the bevil pinions before described we impart motion to
the horizontal shaft by a strap or straps from the crank shaft of the
engine.
The third part of our Invention relates to apparatus for moving the
machine from place to place along the headland; for example, it
consists of a drum or wheel to receive a wire or other rope on each
or either end thereof; the drum, which may be made in one or several
parts, is fitted with cogs or teeth, and motion is imparted to it by a
worm on the horizontal shaft of the machine; a clutch is provided for
throwing the worm in or out of gear with the teeth on the drum,
according to whether it is desired to drive the drum or to allow it to
remain at rest.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Robert Brett and George Daniels in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 19th January 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ROBERT
BRETT, of Gislingham, Farmer, and GEORGE DANIELS, of Bentley,
Machinist, both in the County of Suffolk, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Robert Brett and George Daniels,
Her special licence that we, the said Robert Brett and George
Daniels, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as we, the said Robert Brett and George Daniels, 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
ENGINES OR MACHINES FOR DRIVING DRUMS USED WITH APPARATUS FOR CULTI-
VATING LAND BY STEAM POWER, IN DRUMS FOR THE SAME, AND IN APPARATUS FOR
MOVING THE MACHINES FROM PLACE TO PLACE," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said Robert Brett and George Daniels, 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 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 Robert Brett and George Daniels,
do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement, reference being had to the
accompanying Drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereou,
that is to say :-
The first part of our Invention consists in mounting a boiler, which
is by preference set vertically on a suitable carriage supported by

page_text: wheels to enable it to move from place to place. The engine is set by
the side of the boiler, the cylinder of which may be vertical or hori-
zontal and communicates motion as hereafter described to the winding
capstan or drum, which is also supported by the same frame as the
boiler.
The second part of our Invention consists in the employment of a
capstan or drum which is capable of being adjusted so as to adapt
its position to readily receive the rope. We mount the drum upon a
shaft, which is supported at top in the frame of the machine, but free
to oscillate therein; the shaft passes through the drum, and its position
is regulated by a set screw working in a frame below, so that by
turning the screw the drum may be set at any angle that may be
desired for the efficient working thereof, viz., for winding thereon the
wire or other rope to haul a plough or other implement. The drum is
driven from the crank shaft of the engine, to which a bevil pinion
is keyed in gear with another and similar bevil pinion on a horizontal
shaft carrying another pinion in gear with a bevil wheel on the drum.
The latter pinion is capable of being allowed to run loose on the shaft
when it is not required to drive the drum. Sometimes instead of using
the bevil pinions before described we impart motion to the horizontal
shaft by a strap or straps from the crank shaft of the engine.
The third part of our Invention relates to apparatus for moving
the machine from place to place along the headland; for example,
it consists of a drum or wheel to receive a wire or other rope on cach
or either end thereof; the drum, which may be made in one or
several parts, is fitted with cogs or teeth, and motion is imparted to it
by a worm. On the horizontal shaft of the machine a clutch is provided
for throwing the worm in or out of gear with the teeth on the drum,
according to whether it is desired to drive the drum or to allow it to
remain at rest.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a view in plan, and
Figure 2 in side elevation, of so much of the parts of an engine or
machine which are constructed according to our Invention as will be
necessary to illustrate the manner in which the same may be carried
into effect.
A is the boiler, set vertically and supported by the framing of the
machine; B is the stoke hole and receptacle for fuel, all supported by
and free to travel on the travelling wheels C, C, C, C; D is the

page_text: cylinder of the engine; E, the crank; and F, the crank shaft; G is a
bevil pinion, keyed on the shaft F in gear with another pinion I on
the shaft I; this shaft I carries the wheel K in gear with the teeth L
on the drum M, and N is a fly wheel on the crank shaft.
Figure 3 is a view in plan, but drawn on a somewhat larger scale than
the other Figures, showing the manner in which the fittings of the drum
are arranged to suit any angle at which the hauling rope may be placed;
Figure 4 is a view in section of the drum itself with the fittings applied
thereto. O is the shaft on which the drum revolves; it is passed
through a socket a, which is formed with a flange b, on which the
lower part of the drum rests; the upper end of the shaft O is slung
in the framing P, and free to move when required in the slot P' formed
therein, being secured in any desired position by the nuts and bolts d, d.
The lower end of the shaft O is linked by means of the arms c, c,
shown at Figure 3 in dotted lines to the shaft or rod S, the end of.
which is threaded and passed through a nut S', so that by turning the
shaft S motion is communicated to the lower end of the shaft O, and
consequently the position of the drum is altered according to the.
direction in which the shaft S is turned, and which is regulated by
the angle at which it is desired to place the drum. Now on motion
being communicated to the crank shaft F the pinion G is caused to
revolve, which gearing into the pinion H on the shaft I communicates
motion to the wheel K, and thence to the drum M, round which the
hauling wire or other rope passes, the fly wheel N regulating the motion.
It is now that the advantage of being able to alter the position of the
drum is seen, for when the position of a drum is not altered while
the rope is being wound thereon it has always been found a difficulty
matter to cause it to run evenly and without fouling, but according to
our Invention we are enabled by simply turning the shaft S, which may
be done by a crank; or otherwise the angle of the shaft O, on which
the drum M revolves, may be altered, and consequently the rope will run
evenly on the surface thereof. R is a clutch, whereby the wheel K may
be thrown out of gear with the teeth on the drum, and thus the rotation
of the latter is prevented; T is a worm wheel on the end of the shaft I;
in gear with teeth on a drum V, thus when the wheel K is out of gear
with the teeth L of the drum motion is communicated to the worm T,
and thence to the drum V by passing a rope round this drum, and
uniting it or two ropes to an anchor, the whole machine is caused to
advance, and is thus capable of being moved about a field, for example,

page_text: as may be required. The wheel H may be thrown out of gear with the
wheel G, so that the engine may be used as an ordinary portable engine
for farm and other uses when it is not required that the drum should
be used.
And having now described the nature of our said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that we claim as
Improvements in Engines or Machines for Driving Drums used
with Apparatus for Cultivating Land by Steam Power, in Drums for
the same, and in Apparatus for Moving the Machines from Place to
Place,"
First. The construction and employment of machines with boiler,
engine, and drum set and placed in and upon and supported by one
and the same frame or framework, whereby the combination of the
said boiler, engine, drum, and frame form in themselves a compact
and useful machine, substantially in manner herein-before described and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
Second. The construction and employment of drums used for
agricultural purposes, whereby their position is capable of being adjusted
so as to adapt their position to readily receive the rope, substantially
in manner herein-before described and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawings.
Third. The employment of apparatus for moving agricultural
machines from place to place constructed and acting substantially in
manner herein-before described and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawings.
In witness whereof, we, the said Robert Brett and George Danicls,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Fifteenth day of
January, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-nine.