IMPROVEMENTS IN DIBBLING APPARATUS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Newington, of Ticehurst, in the County of
Sussex, Doctor of Medicine, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
DIBBLING APPARATUS."
Sealed the 24th April 1857, and dated the 13th November 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Newington at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
13th November 1856.
I, SAMUEL NEWINGTON, of Ticehurst, in the County of Sussex, Doctor of
Medicine, "IMPROVEMENTS IN DIBBLING APPARATUS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in dibbling apparatus. For
these purposes an angular trough is used to contain the grain or seeds,
divided into as many compartments as there are dibbles. Within and at the
bottom of the trough is a sliding bar having a hole through it for each dibble,
and it is by this hole that the grain or seed is allowed to fall when the bar has
been moved into position to bring the holes in the bar to coincide with the
inclined holes through the bottom of the trough, such inclined holes com-
municating with the holes or passages through which the dibbles slido at the
back of the trough. The dibbles and the trough may be carried by similar
handles and apparatus to what were described by me in the Specification of
my former Patent, or by other convenient apparatus. In working with this'

page_text: apparatus the dibbles are pressed into the earth, and raised up again whilst the
trough is retained down. The raising of the dibble moves the sliding bar,
and brings the holes therein to coincide with the inclined holes which com-
municate as before stated with those within which the dibbles move, the seed
or grain will drop through to the holes made in the earth, fixed-brushes
preventing more grain or seed falling than is contained in the holes of the
sliding bar.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Newington in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
18th May 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SANUEL
NEWINGTON, of Ticehurst, in the County of Sussex, Doctor of Medicine, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Пler most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by IIer Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, ler heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Samuel Newington, Her special licence that I, the said Samuel
Newington, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Samuel, Newington, 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN DIBBLING APPARATUS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Samuel Newington, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to bo performed, and cause the same to be filed in the
Great Seal Patent Offico within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE,, that I, the said Samuel Newington, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in dibbling apparatus. For

page_text: these purposes an angular trough is used to contain the grain or seeds,
divided into as many compartments as there are dibbles. Within and at the
bottom of the trough is a sliding bar, having a hole through it for cach dibble
and it is by this hole that the grain or seed is allowed to fall when the bar has
been moved into position to bring the holes in the bar to coincide with the
inclined holes through the bottom of the trough, such inclined holes com-
municating with the holes or passages through which the dibbles slide at the
back of the trough. The dibbles and the trough may be carried by similar
handles and apparatus to what were described by me in the Specification of my
former Patent, or by other convenient apparatus.
In working with this apparatus the dibbles are pressed into the earth, and
raised up again whilst the trough is retained down. The raising of the dibble
moves the sliding bar, and brings the holes therein to coincide with the inclined
holes which communicate, as before stated, with those within which the dibbles
move; the seed or grain will drop through to the holes made in the earth,
fixed brushes preventing more grain or seed falling than is contained in the
holes of the sliding bar.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is a front view, Figure 2 is a back view, Figure 3 is an end view,
and Figure 4 a transverse section, of apparatus constructed according to my
Invention. The apparatus shown is arranged with five dibbles, but other similar
apparatus may be constructed with more or less dibbles.
a is the upper
handle and frame, to the lower bar of which the dibbles are fixed; b, the under
handle to which the trough c is fixed. Within the trough is a sliding bar d,
having a hole e through it for each of the dibbles, and it is by means of this
hole that the grain or seed is allowed to fall when the bar d has been moved
into a position to bring the holes in the bar to coincide with the inclined holes
through the bottom of the trough, such inclined holes communicating with the
holes or passages through which the dibbles slide at the back of the trough.
The sliding bar d is moved to and fro by means of the curved lever f, which
passes through a slot formed in the lower bar of the upper handle frame a, and
the lower end of such lever passes into a slot formed in the bar d; hence as
the dibbles are moved up and down, the bar d will be slided to and fro at the
bottom of the trough; g, g, are brushes (capable of being shifted up and down,
so as to suit sliding bars of different thickness when required for seeds of
different sorts) fixed within the trough above where the holes in the sliding

page_text: bar d are required to deliver their contents to the inclined passages, and into
the holes or guides through which the dibbles slide.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that I make no claim to any
of the parts separately, nor do I confine myself to the precise details; but
what I claim is the combination of apparatus for dibbling herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Newington, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventh day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
Witness,
CHARLES POWELL,
Ticehurst, Sussex.
SAMUEL NEWINGTON. (L.S.)