IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PLOUGHS
Year: 1850

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
BLAKEMORE, of the Leys, in the Parish of Gancrew, in the County of
Hereford, Esquire, M.P., send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Thirtieth day of No-
vember, One thousand eight hundred and fifty, in the fourteenth year of. Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Richard Blakemore, my exors, admors, and assigns, Her especial licence,
full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Richard Blakemore,
my exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Richard Blake-
more, my exors, adñors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times during the term of years therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within,
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PLOUGHS;" in which said Letters Patent
is contained a proviso that I, the said Richard Blakemore, shall cause a
particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand
and seal, to be inrolld in Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six

page_text: calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited
Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the
said Richard Blakemore, do hereby declare that my Invention consists of
applying improved forms of cutters to ploughs in place of the ordinary
coulters.
Heretofore the coulter or cutter which makes the vertical, cut into the earth
has been fixed to the beam or framework of the plough, and descends there-
from into the earth, such arrangement offering considerable friction and causes
obstruction to, and the same become quickly clogged with roots, stubble,
grass, weeds, and other rubbish. Now, according to my Invention, I employ
flat cutters or blades to the lower parts of ploughs, so that the cutting is
from below upwards, and the form of the blade or cutter tends to throw off
the roots, stubble, grass, and other rubbish, and thus is much friction avoided,
and the clogging of the blade prevented, or nearly so.
The Drawing shows so much of a plough in outline (having a cutting blade
fixed to the land side thereof, according to my Invention) as will aid the
workman in understanding and carrying out my Invention. a is a blade of
plate iron or steel, which is sharp at the forward edge, and the point thereof
precedes the point of the plough-share,. by which arrangement the cut through
the earth will be from the point a¹ upwards..
The form or construction of the plough to which my Invention is applied
may be according to the constructions ordinarily resorted to or varied there.
from. And it should be understood that to the construction of ploughs, other
than the blade a or cutter, I make no claim.
In witness. whereof, I, the said Richard Blakemore, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one..

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-sixth day of May, in
the year of our Lord 1851, the aforesaid Richard Blakemore came before our
said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Twenty-ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-one.