IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE GEAR
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Marcus Tuthill, of Mota Borrisokane, in the
County of Tipperary, Ireland, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN HORSE GEAR."
Sealed the 29th April 1870, and dated the 11th November 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Marcus Tutnu at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
11th November 1869.
I, MAROUS TUTHILL, of Mota Borrisokane, in the County of Tipperary,
Ireland, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN HORSE GEAR," to be as follows:-
I, MAROUS TUTHILL, of Mota Borrisokane, in the County of Tipperary,"
Ireland, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN HORSE GEAR," to be as follows:-

page_text: machinery that it may be more conveniently worked than heretofore,
and rendered portable as required. To an ordinary two or four wheeled
truck, carriage, or frame I attach the necessary amount of gearing or
machinery for conveying power in any convenient manner, but I prefer
to so arrange the gearing that the pulley or driving wheel or drum, as
the case may be, may be at a sufficient height to carry and work a belt
or rope above the horse's head. One or more horses may be used, and
the gearing machinery, with the exception above mentioned, may be of
the ordinary description.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Marcus Tuthill in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 10th May 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MARCUS
TUTHILL, of Mota Borrisokane, in the County of Tipperary, Ireland, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of November, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Marcus Tuthill, Her special licence that I,
the said Marcus Tuthill, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Marcus Tuthill, 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 tlierein 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE GEAR," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Marcus Tuthill, my exe-
cutors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Marcus Tuthill, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, that is to say :-
The improvements relate to horse gear for working agricultural and
other machinery, and consist in so arranging and disposing said gear or
machinery that it may be more conveniently worked than heretofore,
and rendered portable as required. To an ordinary two or four wheeled
truck, carriage, or frame I attach the necessary amount of gearing or
machinery for conveying power in any convenient manner, but I prefer
to so arrange the gearing that the pulley or driving wheel or drum, as
the case may be, may be at a sufficient height to carry and work a belt
or rope above the horse's head. One or more horses may be used, and
the gearing machinery, with the exception above mentioned, may be of
the ordinary description.
The annexed Drawings will serve to illustrate a convenient mode of
carrying my Invention into effect.
Figure 1 is a sectional and Figure 2 a plan view of the machine, in
which A is the octagonal frame or drum, to which is attached by means
of a flange on the drum a hollow pillar B, which supports at its upper
extremity the bearing for the speed shaft C, and which also forms at its
lower extremity the bearing of the main driving wheel F; this main
driving wheel is an inverted or inside geared spur wheel, and is
supported on the octagonal frame, and kept in its place by four small
friction wheels G, and gears into pinions H, H, on the shafts J, J, which
shafts also carry two spur wheels D, D, by means of which the motion is
transmitted through a slot or aperture in the octagonal frame to the
central shaft by means of the pinions E, E; the central shaft is supported
at its lower extremity by a toc piece or bearing N fixed across the lower
side of the octagonal frame, and is supported at its upper.extremity by
the bearing in the pillar, at which end is also attached a clutch or
ratchet wheel M keyed to it, which carries the main pulley L, but allows
of free motion should any impediment occur in working. The horse
power which is obtained from the shaft is carried from the main pulley
by a belt or rope to the work required to be done above the heads of the
horses. I prefer to fix and steady its action by carrying it over a light
frame outside the horse course, which frame carries a light pair of

page_text: friction wheels, and is stayed to whatever machine the gearing is applied
to work.
In witness whereof, I, the said Marcus Tuthill, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy.
MARCUS TUTHILL. (L.S.)