Improvements in and connected with the Shares or Points of Ploughs, Cultivators, Hoes, and similar Implements.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Apr., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 30th Jan., 1900-Accepted, 10th Apr., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Improvements in and connected with the Shares or Points of Ploughs,
Cultivators, Hoes, and similar Implements.
We, WILLIAM HENRY SLEEP and ROBERT HENRY SLEEP, both of the Excel-
sior Engineering Works, Plymouth, in the County of Devon, Engineers, and
WILLIAM PARKIN, of Crown Steel Works, Sheffield, in the County of York,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the shares or points of ploughs, cultivators, hoes and
similar implements and chiefly to shares or points which are made out of plates
or sheets of steel or the like.
Hitherto such a share or point, if intended to be fixed by means of a single
pin or bolt has been provided with a socket which fits on to a neck or nose
of the plough frame, cultivator or harrow tine or the like, or, if it is desired to
dispense with the socket, two bolts or pins were deemed to be necessary in order
to hold the share or point rigid or immovable relatively with the leg. tine or
the like.
The object of this invention is to provide for fixing shares, points or the like
by means of single bolts and without the necessity for using sockets and to
this end each share or bolt is provided with two or more studs or projections
between or against which, when the share or point is in position upon the leg
or tine, the end of the said leg or tine will lie in such a manner that when a
bolt is passed through the share or point and the leg and tightened, the said
share or point will be rigidly held, the said studs or projections preventing
the lateral or twisting movement of the share or point upon the tine.
Dated this 10th day of April 1899.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.
Improvements in and connected with the Shares or Points of Ploughs,
Cultivators, Hoes, and similar Implements.
We, WILLIAM HENRY SLEEP and ROBERT HENRY SLEEP, both of the Excel-
sior Engineering Works, Plymouth, in the County of Devon, Engineers, and
WILLIAM PARKIN, of Crown Steel Works, Sheffield, in the County of York,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to the shares or points of ploughs, cultivators, hoes and

page_text: similar implements and chiefly to shares or points which are made out of plates
or sheets of steel or the like.
Hitherto such a share or point, if intended to be fixed by means of a single
pin or bolt has been provided with a socket which fits on to a neck or nose
of the plough frame, cultivator or harrow tine or the like, or, if it is desired to
dispense with the socket, two bolts or pins were deemed to be necessary in order
to hold the share or point rigid or immovable relatively with the leg, tine or
the like.
The object of this invention is to provide for fixing shares, points or the like
by means of single bolts and without the necessity for using sockets and to
this end each share or point is provided with two or more studs or projections
between or against which, when the share or point is in position upon the leg
or tine, the end of the said leg or tine will lie in such a manner that when a
bolt is passed through the share or point and the leg and tightened, the said
share or point will be rigidly held, the said studs or projections preventing
the lateral or twisting movement of the share or point upon the tine.
To enable our invention to be fully understood we will describe the same by
reference to the accompanying drawing, in which:
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Figure 1 is a rear edge view of a plough share and the neck or nose of the
plough to which it is connected provided with means for connecting them
according to our invention :
Figure 2 is an underside view of the same:
Figure 3 is a rear view, and
Figure 4 a side view of a cultivator point and its tine provided with our
improvements:
Figure 5 is a side view, and
:
Figure 6 a front view of a single hoe share or point and its time provided with
our improvements:
Figure 7 is a rear view; and
Figure 8 a side view of a double hoe share or point also provided with our
improvements.
a is the share, cultivator, hoe or other point made out of steel plate or the
like and the time or part to which it is connected by the bolt c.
d, d are the studs or projections on the shares or points which we employ for
securing the same against any lateral or twisting movement upon the tine or
other part. The said studs may vary in number and be arranged relatively
with the tine or the like in various ways, for instance, in the arrangement
illustrated in Figures 1 and 2 two studs are employed at one side of the part b,
while in the arrangement illustrated in Figures 3 and 4, four studs are shewn,
two on each side of the time b. In the arrangements illustrated respectively in
Figures 5 and 6 and 7 and 8 two studs are shewn in each but arranged one on
each side of the tine b.
By the hereinbefore described construction it will be seen that the shares or
points will be held perfectly rigid on the points b.
Although we have described our improvements in connection with the shares
or points of ploughs, cultivators and hoes it will be obvious that it can be
applied to the shares or points of other similar implements.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
1. A share or point for ploughs and similar implements consisting of a
metal plate of the required shape and provided with two or more studs or pro-
jections between or against which the leg, tine or the like will fit and designed
to be fixed by a single bolt, sbustantially as described.
2. The combination with the share or point of a plough, cultivator, hoe or
similar implement and the part to which it is attached of studs and a bolt

page_text: arranged in such a manner that when the bolt is passed through the stud share
or point and the said part to which it is attached the share or point will be held
rigidly in position, substantially as described.
3. The improved means for attaching the shares or points of ploughs, culti-
vators, hoes and other similar implements, described and illustrated in the
various figures of the accompanying drawing.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.