An Implement for use in Tilling Land.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 11th June, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 25th Oct., 1890-Accepted, 29th Nov., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Implement for use in Tilling Land.
I, JOHN PITT BAYLY, of 18 Fulham Place Paddington, in the County of London,
Patent Agent. (a communication to me from abroad by William Dodd, of Gates,
Tennessee, U.S.A., Inventor,) do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to an improved plow, and it has for its object to provide an
implement which does not require so much power to operate, and will do its work more
thoroughly than those plows at present in use.
The framework, of the plow consists of two metal bars, formed at one end into
handles. These bars are kept apart near the bandle-shaped ends by a distance piece
or bar, and converge together towards their other ends, between which one end of a
horizontal projecting shaft or bar is secured. To this bar the horses or oxen are
attached. Suitable tie rods connect this bar with the handle bars in such manner that
they are inclined at an angle to the earth. At a suitable position in the horizontal
bar is adjustably secured a shovel shaped blade, and at the rear of this blade a covering
plate is secured to the ends of the handle bars holding the horizontal projecting
bar between them. The covering plate has its front side inclined downward and
rearward and its end. bears against the rear side of the standard.
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J. P. BAYLY,
Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Implement for use in Tilling Land.
1, JOHN PITT BAYLY, of 18 Fulham Place, Paddington, in the County of London,
Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a communication to
me from abroad by William Dodd, of Gates, Tennessee, U.S.A., Inventor,) to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in plows; and it consists in certain novel
features, hereinafter described and claimed.
In the accompanying drawings,
Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved plow.
Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the same.
Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view.
Fig. 4 is a horizontal section on the line through the plow-standard.
The plow-beam A is of the usual construction, and the standard B is formed integral
with the beam and depends from the rear end of the same. The handles Care
pivotally secured at their lower ends to the standard, and are held in a proper position
by the braces D, which have their front ends pivoted to the beams and their rear ends
adjustably secured to the handle. The handle can thus be raised or lowered, so as to
suit the height of the driver. On the side of the beam at the point in advance of
the braces I secure a band E, through which the colter F is inserted. The colter
is provided at an intermediate point of its height with an offset or lateral shoulder G,
so that it will be brought into the plane of the beam, and thereby made to run
in the centre of the furrow. The colter is held in the band by means of a
wedge G', which is inserted downward through the band between one end of the
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same and the edge of the colter, so as to clamp the colter in the band.
colter is provided in its outer side with a vertical longitudinal series of notches or

page_text: recesses H, which are engaged by the end of a set-screw I, mounted in the band,
so that the colter can be adjusted to a greater or to a less depth and will be
securely held at any point to which it may be adjusted. The colter is thus
supported by the set-screw I, and when it is desired to adjust the angle of said
colter a differently-shaped wedge G¹ can be substituted without removing the colter
and destroying the vertical height thereof which recent trials may have proven to be
most desirable.
The blade or shovel J is secured to the front side of the standard at the lower end
of the same and is given a rather sharp bend, so that it is caused to run under
the surface of the ground, and thereby turn up the earth more thoroughly than
if it were vertical and its point rested on or dug into the ground. This peculiar
formation of the shovel also reduces the draught of the plow, as the shovel can be more
easily drawn through the earth.
To the rear side of the standard, at the lower end of the same, I secure the outwardly-
projecting wing or covering-plate K, which extends to one side of the shovel and is
adapted to throw the loose earth turned up by the shovel onto the plants.
This
covering-plate K is slightly twisted near the standard, so that its front surface is
inclined downward and rearward to more effectually throw the dirt onto the plants.
This covering-plate is secured to the standard by a bolt inserted through the
standard and the end of a plate and a nut mounted on the end of the bolt and
adapted to be turned up against the plate. By this arrangement the covering-plate
will be securely held to the standard and at the same time may be adjusted so as to
deflect the dirt more or less directly onto the plants, as will be readily understood.
In practice the plow is drawn over the ground in the usual manner and will
turn up the earth and throw the same over onto the plants. As the plow is drawn
along the colter will cut and divide the earth and the shovel follows directly behind
the colter in the division thus made, so as to turn up the dirt and throw it rearward
against the covering-plate, by which it will be deflected over onto the plants.
My device is very simple in its construction and arrangement of its parts, and will
be found very efficient in cultivating corn and cotton. The colter can be readily
adjusted to run to a greater or less depth, according to the nature of the ground, and
the advantages of the device are thought to be obvious.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that
what I claim is :-
The combination of the standard having a tongreudinal slot in its lower end, the
shovel secured to the front side of the standard, the covering-plate having its front
side inclined downward and rearward and its end bearing against the rear side of the
standard, and the securing bolt inserted through the end of the plate and the slot in
the standard, as set forth.
Dated this 95th da
1000
J. P. BAYLY,
Applicant.