A MACHINE CONSTRUCTED AND ADAPTED FOR A CLOD CRUSHER AND LAND CULTIVATOR
Year: 1852

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Fowler and Wil-
liam McCollin at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 29th November 1852.
(Void by reason of notice to proceed not having been given within
the time prescribed by the Act.)
We, WILLIAM FOWLER and WILLIAM MCCOLLIN, both of the
Borough of Kingston-upon-Hull, Boiler Makers, General Smiths,
Agricultural Implement Makers, and Copartners, declare the nature
of the said Invention of "A MACHINE CONSTRUCTED AND ADAPTED FOR A
CLOD CRUSHER AND LAND CULTIVATOR" to be as follows, and we refer
to the Drawing hereunto annexed.
Figure 1, represents a side view of the machine when constructed
and fitted up; a, a, being a cast-iron frame; b, b, being a cast-iron
travelling wheel, which is made fast on the axle, and which is
furnished with small spikes on the face for the penetrating the land,
and thus to assist in driving the machine. c, is a spur wheel, which
is also fixed on the axle, and which conducts the motion to the
pinion d, this pinion being fixed, and connected on another axle, as
seen in the Drawing; and on which axle is also fixed the bevel wheel,

page_text: e, for the purpose of getting sufficient speed to the spindles (as
shewn in Figure 3,) k, k, k, k, by action on the pinion wheel f
seen at top of c, and supported by an upright shaft. On this shaft
is also fixed a small wheel, connected to the four wheels, 9, 9, 9, 9,
(shewn in Figure 2,) through which the spindles pass, and by which
they are put in motion. These spindle ends also pass through a
wrought-iron plate, where a collar is fixed on the end of each spindle,
and over this is fixed another plate H, of the same size as the former,
and which is fastened to it with six studs; and to plate E, is fixed
the lever i, for raising and lowering the spindles k, k, k, k; and
these spindles pass through another plate L, (1, 1, as shewn in Figure
3,) which is fixed to the frame with four screw bolts. The bottom
end of each spindle is hollow, into which are fixed the knives or
cutters, m, m, m, m.
The object of the machine is to break up land and prepare it for
seed. The motion is first given to the machine by the action of the
travelling wheel b, b, and is conducted by the spur wheel, which is
fixed on the same axle to the pinion d, which is fixed on another
axle with the bevel wheel e, and thence the motion is conducted to
the pinion wheel f, which being fixed on an upright shaft, on which
shaft is also fixed another small wheel communicating with the
wheels, g, I, I, g, in which the spindles are fixed, and sufficient
speed is obtained, and a revolving action by a reverse motion is given
to the spindles k, k, h, k, to which the knives, m, m, m, m, arc
attached. These knives being constructed and adapted for that pur-
pose, thus acquire an action similar to that of the archimedian screw,
and, revolving in pairs in reverse directions, break up the land; and
as no clods or other matter of any size can pass them without being
cut or crushed, they at once prepare the land for the reception of
seed. The knives are capable of working land any depth from one
to six inches, and may be regulated to the lever i.
We claim as our Invention the application of the principle giving
a revolving action to the spindle, and the construction of those
spindles, and of the knives and the adaptation of the knives for the
purpose of breaking up land and preparing it for sced. We do not,

page_text: however, confine ourselves to the precise details, provided the pecu-
liar character of our Invention be retained.