IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LIQUID MANURE DRILLS
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Reeves, of Bratton, in the County of Wilts,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LIQUID
MANURE DRILLS."
Scaled the 21st July 1863, and dated the 13th April 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Reeves at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 13th
April 1863.
I, ROBERT REEVES, of Bratton, in the County of Wilts, do hereby declare
the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LIQUID
MANURE DRILLS," to be as follows:-
Heretofore liquid manure drills have been constructed with revolving wheels
working in the cistern containing the liquid, the revolving wheel having
attached to it a number of separate cups or dippers by means of bolts or
otherwise.
Now, according to my Invention, in place of employing a number of separate
cups or dippers attached to a wheel, I cast the cups or dippers in one piece
with the wheel, by this means the cups or dippers cannot possibly get out
of their proper position, as they now sometimes do, and in addition the
wheel, together with the cups and dippers, can bo made at a less cost than
beretofore.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Robert Reeves in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
12th October 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
REEVES, of Bratton, in the County of Wilts, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Robert Reeves, Her special licenco that I, the said Robert Reeves,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Robert Reeves, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF LIQUID MANURE DRILLS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Robert Reeves, my executors 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 Inven-
tion, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Robert Reeves, 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 :-
Heretofore liquid manure drills have been constructed with revolving wheels
working in the cistern containing the liquid, the revolving wheel having
attached to it a number of separate cups or dippers by means of bolts or
otherwise.
Now, according to my Invention, in place of employing a number of separate
cups or dippers attached to a wheel, I cast the cups or dippers in one piece
with the wheel, by this means the cups or dippers cannot possibly get out
of their proper position, as they now sometimes do, and in addition the
wheel, together with the cups and dippers, can be made at a less cost than
heretofore.

page_text: Figure 1 of the Drawings hereunto annexed shows a side view of the wheel
of a liquid manure drill, the wheel being of the form that I prefer; this wheel
has cast upon it measuring cups or dippers, according to my Invention, in
place of having separate cups or dipper bolted to it as is usual. Figure 2
shows an edge view of the wheel, that portion on the right-hand side of the
red line A, B, being in section, and that on the left-hand side in edge view;
the form of the wheel and cups is thus clearly shown.
The mould in which the wheel with the measuring cups upon it is to be
cast, I prefer to construct in the following manner, the mould may however be
otherwise formed:-The pattern is made with blocks on its side to form the
external part of the cups or dippers, each block having a projecting part to
make a seat for a dry sand core which forms the inside of the cup or dipper.
When the casting is made with cups or dippers on each side, two sets of
blocks are used on the pattern, and two sets of dry sand cores are used.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Reeves, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Ninth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
ROBERT REEVES. (L.B.)