AN IMPROVED INSTRUMENT FOR ROOTING UP WEEDS
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Knowles, of Eagley Bank, near Bolton,
in the County of Lancaster, Coal Proprietor, for the Invention of
"AN IMPROVED INSTRUMENT FOR ROOTING UP WEEDS
"
Scaled the 23rd July 1872, and dated the 31st January 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Knowles at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
31st January 1872.
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I, JAMES KNOWLES, of Eagley Bank, near Bolton, in the County of
5 Lancaster, Coal Proprietor, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVED INSTRUMENT FOR ROOTING UP WEEDS," to be as
follows:-
This instrument consists of a pair of pointed levers jointed to a stud
and connected to handles. To the stud is fixed a block of wood or other
O material which serves as a fulcrum. In using this instrument the

page_text: points of the levers are inserted into the soil at each side of the weed to.
be rooted up, the handles are then brought towards each other to close
the points of the levers against the weed, and then by pressing down
the handles the weed is gradually rooted up owing to the leverage
obtained by the block under the joint of the levers.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James Knowles in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 25th July 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
KNOWLES, of Eagley Bank, near Bolton, in the County of Lancaster,
Coal Proprietor, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in
the thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said James Knowles, Her
special licence that I, the said James Knowles, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said James Knowles,
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
"AN IMPROVED INSTRUMENT FOR ROOTING UP WEEDS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said James Knowles, 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 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.
.
NOW KNOW YË, that I, the said James Knowles, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention and in what mannor the come in to

page_text: manner of performing the same, I declare that I claim the improved
instrument for rooting up weeds, consisting of the pointed levers with
handles in combination with the fulcrum block, as shewn and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Knowles, have hereto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of July, One thousand eight t
hundred and seventy-two.