IMPROVEMENTS IN HOES TO BE WORKED BY MANUAL POWER
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Boys Smith, of Sutton-le-Marsh, in the County of
Lincoln, Gentleman, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN HOES TO BE
WORKED BY MANUAL POWER."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Boys Smith at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 25th February 1880.
BOYS SMITH, of Sutton-le-Marsh, in the County of Lincoln, Gentleman.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN HOES TO BE WORKED BY MANUAL POWER."
My Invention consists in the combination of three or more knives or hoes in a
frame mounted on wheels at the front end of a beam, at the hinder end of which
beam is fitted a handle for guiding and propelling the implement.
When three knives or hoes are employed the front knife is or may be fitted in
the beam with the other two knives or hoes fitted to a cross piece, and adjustablo
in slots formed therein, so as to admit of the said two hinder knives or hoes being
set at any required distance apart. By this arrangement of the knives or hoes
three rows of turnips, potatoes, or other plants may be hoed at one time by the
attendant proceeding along the land in the centre between the rows.
The knives or hoes are formed with cutting edges pointed in the front and
widening behind, and those for operating on the plants in the two outside rows are
or may be formed with their inner edges turned up for the protection of young
plants if necessary.
More than two knives or hoes may be fitted if required to the said cross piece
for working more rows at a time provided the land will admit of the implement
being worked by hand.
Or if preferred the front knife or hoe may be dispensed with, and only the two
hinder ones used.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Boys Smith in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 17th July
1880.
BOYS SMITH, of Sutton-le-Marsh, in the County of Lincoln, Gentleman.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN HOES TO BE WORKED BY MANUAL POWER."
My Invention of "Improvements in Hoes to be Worked by Manual Power"
consists in the combination of three or more knives or hoes in a frame mounted on
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page_text: wheels at the front end of a beam, at the hinder end of which beam is fitted a
handle for guiding and propelling the implement.
When three knives or hoes are employed the front knife is or may be fitted in
the beam with the other two knives or hoes fitted to a cross piece, and adjustable
in slots formed therein, so as to admit of the said two binder knives or hoes being
set at any required distance apart. By this arrangement of the knives or hoes
three rows of turnips, potatoes, or other plants may be hoed at one time by the
attendant proceeding along the land in the centre between the rows.
The knives or hoes are formed with cutting edges pointed in the front and
widening behind, and those for operating on the plants in the two outside rows are
or may be formed with their inner edges turned up for the protection of young
plants if necessary.
More than two knives or hoes may be fitted if required to the said cross piece
for working more rows at a time provided the land will admit of the implement
being worked by hand.
Or if preferred the front knife or hoe may be dispensed with, and only the two
hinder ones used.
Having thus stated the nature of the said Invention, I will proceed to describe
moro particularly in what manner the same is to be performed by the aid of the
accompanying Drawings, in which are represented the parts above referred to.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS,
Fig. 1 is a plan or horizontal view, and Fig. 2 an elevation of a hoe with three
knives. A is the beam, in which is fitted the front knife B fastened by a tightening
wedge, as shown; or it may be otherwise fastened. C, C, are the other two knives
or hoes fitted to the cross piece D in slots, so as to be adjustable to any required
distanco apart.
All the knives or hoes B and C, C, are formed with cutting edges pointed in the
front and widening behind, as shewn, and tho knives C, C, which are intended for
operating on the plants in the two outside rows, are shewn in Figures 2 and 3 as
formed with their inner edges turned up for the protection of young plants. Fig. 3
is an end elevation of one of the knives C detached.
More than two knives C, C, can be fitted to the cross piece D, and if preferred
the front knife B may be dispensed with, and only the two hinder ones C, C,
used.
The front end of tho beam A is mounted on a pair of rollers or small wheels, and
the implement is worked as required by means of the handle or handles E, E.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and in what mannor
the same is to be performed, I hereby declare that what I claim as of my Invention
is, the construction of hoes, in which three or more knives or hoes are combined in
a frame mounted on a pair of wheels at the front end thereof, the implement being
worked by manual power, as herein beforo described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Boys Smith, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Sixteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty.