Improvements in Ploughs.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Nov., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 9th Aug., 1894-Accepted, 15th Sept., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Ploughs.
We, JAMES EDWARD RANSOME, and FREDERIC WILLIAM GARRARD, both
of Orwell Works, Ipswich, in the County of Suffolk, Engineers, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates especially to double and multiple furrow ploughs.
A seat for the driver is provided at the rear of the plough and on the left
side of the handles over the unploughed land and beneath the seat is a wheel
running on the unploughed land and supporting the weight of the driver so
preventing the plough from being tilted by it. The wheel is arranged so that
it can be adjusted vertically for different depths of ploughing.
The front carrying wheels of the plough may be supported on a cranked axle
as has before been done or other lifting and turning arrangement may be employed
and the lever for adjusting these wheels relatively to the plough as well as a
steering lever can be worked by the driver from his seat as its position allows
them to be of sufficient length to handle them easily. The position of the seat
is very convenient for getting on or off-whilst the vertical adjustment of the
wheel allows of more or less hold being given to the plough as may be required.
Dated this 9th day of November 1893.
J. E. RANSOME.
FREDERIC WILLIAM GARRARD.
Improvements in Ploughs.
We, JAMES EDWARD RANSOME, and FREDERIC WILLIAM GARRARD, both
of Orwell Works, Ipswich, in the County of Suffolk, Engineers, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates especially to double and multiple furrow ploughs.
A three furrow plough in accordance with our invention is shown by the
annexed drawings.
Figure 1 is a side elevation and Figure 2 is a rear elevation. In Figure 1
one of the yokes or handles is omitted.
b
In its general arrangement this plough has much in common with multiple
furrow ploughs already in common use. There are as will be seen three plough
bodies a a a fixed upon a rigid frame from which the yokes or handles
project rearwards. At the fore part the frame is supported by a furrow wheel c
which is adjustable up or down to vary the depth of ploughing and by a land
wheel which can be raised or depressed (in relation to the frame) not-only
to regulate the depth but also to put the plough bodies into and out of work.
There is also a wheel e which is of use in turning and when the plough bodies
are out of the land. The novel feature of our invention is that a seat for the
driver is provided at the rear of the pleugh and on the left side of the handles
over the unploughed land and beneath the seat is a wheel g running on the
unploughed land and supporting the weight of the driver so preventing the plough
from being tilted by it. The wheel is arranged so that it can be adjusted
vertically for different depths of ploughing.

page_text: The front carrying wheels d and e of the plough may be supported on a cranked
axle has has before been done or other lifting and turning arrangement may be
employed.
The cranked axis has an arm which by a link is connected with the hand
lever. There is a locking bolt on the handle which engages with a quadrant
fixed to the frame.
The hand leverk serves to steer the plough which it does by shifting the
position of the draught attachment; this lever also is as usual provided with a
locking bolt.
The lever i for adjusting the wheels d and e relatively to the plough as well
as a steering lever can be worked by the driver from his seat as its position
allows the levers to be of sufficient length for the rider to handle them easily.
The position of the seat is very convenient for getting on or off-whilst the
vertical adjustment of the wheel allows of more or less hold being given to the
plough as may be required.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
In a double or multiple furrow plough the seat f and supporting wheel g
substantially as described.