Improvements in Combined Plough and Drill, and in the Apparatus connected therewith.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Dec., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 16th Sept., 1895-Accepted, 17th Dec., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Combined Plough and Drill, and in the Apparatus
connected therewith.
HENRY BOON CLARK 3 Sunnyside Villas Fotheringham Road Enfield Town
Middlesex Brewer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
What is claimed for this invention is that it will sow corn, manure and the like
in the furrow slice that is actually being ploughed, for this purpose a hopper is
arranged to receive the corn &c. Feed rollers with Archimedean screw worked by
a wheel running on the ground are used to convey the corn &c. from the hopper to
the furrow slice that is being ploughed, at the end of the Archimedean screw case is
fitted a shear or coulter to cut the furrow-slice to receive the corn &c.
Dated this 17th day of December 1894.
COMELLE DI MOITIATION.
Improvements in Combined Plough and Drill, and in the Apparatus
connected therewith.
I, HENRY BOON CLARK, Brewer, of 3 Sunnyside Villas, Fotheringham Road,
Enfield Town, in the County of Middlesex, 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 :-
My invention relates to improvements in combined plough and drill and in the
apparatus therewith, which consists of the broad iron or blade of a plough
mounted on a case or tube with an Archimedean screw inside the said case and
operated by a wheel for conveying seed from a hopper into the furrow-slice when
the aforesaid plough is at work.
In the accompanying drawing the corn is conveyed from a hopper a by the
Archimedean screw e into the furrow-slice i that is being ploughed. The
Archimedean barrel or case is fitted with a share g at the end and pass through
or behind the breast of the apparatus. The Archimedean screw e is driven by a
wheel; keyed to the spindle of the Archimedean screw e. The depth of sowing
can be regulated by a larger or smaller wheel j being keyed to the spindle h.
Any size wheel ; can be fitted to the apparatus.
The hopper a at the base is provided with a regulating screw 6 for regulating
the flow of material, this said hopper a is fixed to the end of the case fand
marked and inside this said part c of casef is a wheel & with radial plates
which pass the corn or other material on to the Archimedeau screw e.
The corn or
material is discharged through an opening into the furrow-slice i.
Two handlesk are fixed to the apparatus.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
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1. In a combined plough and drill, the combination of the hopper a regulating
screw bend of case c revolving wheel d Archimedean screw e barrel or case f
share spindle h wheel; and handles k, substantially as herein described and
according to the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 16th day of Sentember 1805
J. P. BAYLY,
18 Fulham Place, W., Agent for the Applicant.