"CERTAIN NEW OR IMPROVED MACHINES OR INSTRUMENTS FOR THE CULTIVATION AND, TILLAGE OF ALL KINDS OF LAND UPON A VERY EASY AND CHEAP CONSTRUCTION
Year: 1799

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
HAYES, of the Parish of Wokingham, in the County of Wilts, Gentleman, send
greeting.
of'
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Eighteenth day of June, in the thirty-ninth year of His
reign, give and grant unto me, the said John Hayes, His especial licence, that
I, the said John Hayes, during the term. years therein mentioned, should
and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "CERTAIN NEW OR IMPROVED
MACHINES OR INSTRUMENTS FOR THE CULTIVATION AND, TILLAGE OF ALL KINDS OF
LAND UPON A VERY EASY AND CHEAP CONSTRUCTION;" in which said Letters Patent
there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said John Hayes, by an instru-
ment in writing under his hand and seal, to cause a particular description of
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one
calendar month after the date of the said recited Letters Patent..
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Hayes, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described in the
above Drawings and description thereof. ⚫
In witness whereof,. I, the, said John Hayes, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Sixteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine.
JOHN HAYES. (L.S.)

page_text: No. 1, a machine or instrument to cleanse meadows from moss, &c., and to
cut the surface of untilled land in order to bring it into tillage; A, A, A, A, the
frame; B, B, the shafts; C, C, joints on which the shafts move, as in No. 15;
D, D, the roller, as seen at No. 17; E, E, two regulators, more fully shewn
by No. 16, fitted into the grooves a, a, by means of a pin, to rise or fall the
roller, as occasion may require;, b, b, fixed centres on which the roller hangs;
F, F, an inclined plate of iron, to serve as a scraper for cleaning the roller,
to be adjusted closer or further from the roller when necessary, as seen
at No. 18; G, G, a plate of iron screwed across the frame with a number
of square holes for receiving the iron or steel instrument, No. 19, fastened
by means of screw, pin, &c.; H, H, handles for the workman to keep the
machine or instrument steady; I, I, I, I, braces for strengthening the frame.
No. 2, a machine or instrument to clense the surface of land from stubble,
weeds, couch, &c., in order to its being burnt or carried off; the frame, roller,
scraper, braces, &c., as No. 1. A, A, A, A, two plates for receiving a double
row of chissel-pointed instruments, as No. 20; B, B, two handles fixed to the
frame by means of the joints C, C; B, D, two circular plates, for raising or
falling the handles, for the conveniency of the workman. No. 3, a machine
or instrument to rake the weeds, stubble, &, into heaps to be burnt, &c; the
frame, roller, scraper, braces, &c., as No. 2, with barbed instruments, No. 21,
to be used therein, which are for the purpose of gathering the weeds, &c.
together. No. 4, the coulter plough, to cleanse the soil from couch, &c., and
prepare the land for No. 5; the frame, &c. as No. 2, with arrow-pointed
instruments to be used therein, as No. 22. No. 5, the plough; the frame, &c.
as No. 2, into which introduce the instruments No. 22 and 23, to be placed as
in number 5. No. 6, a machine or instrument to harrow the land and cover
in the seed; the frame, &c. as No. 2, into which iron or steel teeth or instru-
ments, as No. 24. No. 7, to open the drills; the frame, &c. as No. 2. A, A,
two handles, fixed at the sides of the frame, intersecting each other in the
middle of the back bar, to bring the pressure on the middle of the work, which
rise and fall by means of joints and curved iron, as No. 2; these handles are
extended to prevent the workman's walking on and damaging the drills after
they are opened; No. 25, the instrument, &c., introduced into No. 7. No. 8,
a machine to roll and harrow in grass seeds, &c., a plain frame roller, &c., in
the same proportion as No. 2, in which are three bars, for the reception of a
number of bushes, to harrow the seeds in and finish the land. Nos. 9, 10, &
11, machines or instruments to plant the seeds on 3, 4, and 5 bout lands, with

page_text: four iron bars, which form the joints A, A, A, A, for the expansion and con-
traction of the machines, as the width of the furrow may require, by means of
four small pins b, b, b, b; into No. 9 introduce two double rows of instruments,
as No. 24. In No. 10 introduce instrument No. 25. Jn No. 11 introduce
instruments No. 22 and 23. No. 12, a double roller, fixed in the frame, as
clearly seen at No. 14, made to take in and out by means of two bolts A, A;
this roller may be made square or oblong, as may appear to be most useful.
No. 13, a machine or instrument to destroy the weeds between the rows of
corn; No. 29 is a coulter, or instrument for cutting the ground for No. 30, a
hoc, for cutting and clearing away the weeds, which should be made to answer
the width of the rows of corn. Nos. 26, 27, and 28 are instruments to be used
discretionary in place of No. 29, when the nature of the work to be done
requires it; this machine or instrument is regulated in the same manner as a
common wheel plough, as appears by the dots in the several implements. The
above machines or instruments may be made of any proper materials, on a
larger or smaller scale, and may contain more or less of the instruments or
implements No. 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, & 25, according to the size of the
machines, and the nature of the work required to be done, and the number of
horses intended to be employed.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Sixteenth day of July, in
the year above mentioned, the aforesaid John Hayes came before Lord the
King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and all
and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And also the
Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute in
that case made and provided.
Inrolled the Seventeenth day of July in the year above written