Improvements in Horse Hoes or like Machinery.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 14th June, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 12th Mar., 1894 Accepted, 14th Apr., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Horse Hoes or like Machinery.
We EDWARD HOLDEN of Laurel Mount, Shipley, in the County of York
Machine Wool Comber and ROBERT SAVAGE of Drake Hill, Bingley in the
County of York, Farm Manager do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in horse hoes or like machines for hoeing
or cleaning ground of weeds or hoeing or cleaning around or between turnips
potatoes, peas, beans, mangels, cabbages or other like crops.
Behind the horse hoe that is now generally used there is nothing to turn the
weeds to the surface, to expose them to the weather to kill them, we place
immediately behind the hoe for turnips or potatoes a triangle with prongs down
two sides to form a rake, then immediately behind the man who is guiding the
machine to have a second triangle, and so as to make it easy for the man to turn
the machine, at the end of the furrows to have it to lift the triangle behind the
man in the same way that the blade of a mowing machine is lifted, and at the same
time that the machine is lifted from its working position to drop wheels -say, two
in front and one behind-
-on the ground to carry the hoe round.
For ordinary ground-say an open field requiring to be cleaned of weeds-a
straight rake or harrow as well as the triangle for furrows is provided and the
relative arrangements of the parts may be considerably varied to suit variations of
crop and situation or conditions of the ground.
Dated the 14th day of June 1893.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Horse Hoes or like Machinery.
We EDWARD HOLDEN of Laurel Mount, Shipley, in the County of York,
Machine Wool Comber, and ROBERT SAVAGE, of Drake Hill, Bingley, in the
County of York, Farm Manager, 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 relates to improvements in horse hoes or like machines for hoeing
or cleaning ground of weeds, or hoeing or cleaning around or between turnips,
potatoes, peas, beans, mangels, cabbages, or other like crops.
Behind the horse hoe that is now generally used there is nothing to turn the
weeds to the surface, to expose them to the weather to kill them. We place
behind the hoe a straight, triangular or like convenient form of rake or rakes, and
so as to make it easy to turn the machine at the end of the furrows, to have it to
lift the triangle in the same way that the blade of a mowing machine is lifted, and
at the same time that the machine is lifted from its working position to drop wheels,
say three, on the ground to carry the hoe round.

page_text: Figure 2, 24 and 2B shews the same by a plan view, the figure being divided on
the lines 3-3 and 4-4.
Figure 3 shews a front view of the machine.
When the handle lever a is pulled backward into the position shown by dotted
lines, the wheels are pressed upon the ground and at the same time the member b,
jointed to the handle lever at c, is raised into its dotted line position, lifting with
it the blades or hoes d, d, d, and also carrying with it the pulleys e, f, over which
passes a suitable chain or cord g. This chain or cord has one end attached to
the lever a, and the other end to the cross bar h of the triangular rake /', which
is thus raised from the ground, it being hinged or jointed to the member b at h².
The handle lever a also operates a connecting bar i, which in turn moves a bell
crank lever, the axis of said lever being carried by the upright d¹ from the
front wheel d³, said upright also carrying the drag hook d. By these means the
front end of the member b is raised by the same movement of the lever a,
the whole being then supported upon the wheels d³, d³, d³.
In order to keep the parts in the required position, the lever a is provided with
a spring device a, carrying a stop pin a' which enters a selected hole in a perforated
plate a³, thereby holding the lever a and its attached parts in position.
The triangle h', with its arms h* hinged at h³, may also be raised from the ground
independently of the front parts of the machine, by means of a suitable chain or
rope h, and handle , upon the cross bar of the handle arms ho, ho, within easy
reach of the man guiding the machine.
For ordinary ground, say an open field requiring to be cleaned of weeds, a
straight rake or harrow k, see broken lines, Figs. 1 and 2, as well as the triangle ¹
for furrows, is provided, and the relative arrangements of the parts may be
considerably varied to suit variations of crop and situation or conditions of the
ground.
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. The combination and arrangement with the ordinary parts of a horse hoe, or
such machine, of a rake or rakes, for the purpose of turning weeds or for like
use, and means for effecting the readier turning of the hoe or like machine
and manipulation of the rake or rakes substantially as and for the purpose
set forth.
2. The construction of combined turning rake or rakes and horse hoe or like
machine substantially as set forth.
Dated the 9th day of March 1894.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicants.