IMPROVEMENTS IN CONSTRUCTION OF MACHINERY FOR SOWING SEEDS, AND FOR DISTRIBUTING ARTIFICIAL MANURE
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Mackenzie, of Camden Quay, in the City
of Cork, Ireland, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
CONSTRUCTION OF MACHINERY FOR SOWING SEEDS, AND FOR DISTRIBUTING
ARTIFICIAL MANURE."
Sealed the 28th January 1870, and dated the 18th August 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Mackenzie at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
18th August 1869.
I, JAMES MACKENZIE, of Camden Quay, in the City of Cork,
Ireland, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "Im-
PROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF MACHINERY FOR SOWING SEEDS, AND POR
DISTRIBUTING ARTIFICIAL MANURE," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in certain improvements in the construction
of machines for sowing seeds and corn and distributing manure, whereby
the desired object is attained with great efficiency and regularity.
The machine is provided with any desired number of hoppers, into which

page_text: the seeds, corn, or manure is or are introduced in the ordinary way.
The bottoms of the hoppers are open, and beneath the same one or more
roller or rollers is or are placed. The roller or rollers is or are grooved,
notched, or perforated with holes or apertures, and is or are caused to
revolve by driving straps, or any other suitable contrivances actuated by
the rotation of the axle of the machine, the seeds, corn, or manure being
by such revolution led or conducted through the before-mentioned grooves,
notches, or holes, or apertures into the delivery pipe. The roller or
rollers is or are free to move along the spindle on which they are mounted,
so that different parts thereof may be brought to act beneath the centre
of the hopper or hoppers, so that a larger or smaller grain, or a greater
or less quantity of seed, corn, or manure may be sown or distributed
according to the size of the grooves, notches, or holes, or apertures thus
brought into action.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James Mackenzie in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 17th February 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
MACKENZIE, of Camden Quay, in the County of Cork, Ireland, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said James Mackenzie, Her special licence
that I, the said James Mackenzie, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said James Mackenzie, my 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 THE CON-
STRUCTION OF MACHINERY FOR SOWING SEEDS, AND FOR DISTRIBUTING ARTIFICIAL

page_text: EUNGHENIC improvements on Downy Deeds, Distributing manure, &c.
MANURE," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said James
Mackenzie, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Mackenzie, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement, that is to say :-
My said Invention consists in certain improvements in the construc-
tion of machines for sowing seeds and corn, and for distributing
manure, whereby the desired object is attained with great efficiency
and regularity. The machine (the construction of which apart from
the improvements which form the subject of my said Invention is well
understood) is provided with any desired number of hoppers, into which
the seeds, corn, or manure are or is introduced in the ordinary way. The
bottoms of the hoppers are open, and beneath the same one or more
roller or rollers is or are placed. The roller or rollers is or are grooved
or notched or perforated with holes or apertures, and is or are caused
to revolve by driving straps, or by any other suitable and analogous
contrivances actuated by the rotation of the axle of the machine. By
such revolution the seeds, corn, or manure are or is led or conducted
through the before-mentioned grooves, notches, or holes or apertures
into the delivery pipe with which the machine is furnished. The roller
or rollers is or are free to move along the spindle on which they are
mounted, so that different parts thereof may be brought to act beneath
the centre of the hopper or hoppers. A larger or smaller grain or a
greater or less quantity of seed, corn, or manure may thus be sown or
distributed according to the size of the grooves, notches, or holes, or
apertures thus brought into action.
Having thus declared and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I would observe
in conclusion that what I consider novel and original, and therefore
claim as constituting the Invention secured to me by the said herein-
before in part recited Letters Patent is, the combination and arrangement

page_text: of parts and mechanism as and for the purposes herein-before described
and set forth, or any mere modifications thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Mackenzie, have hereunto,
set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of February, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.