IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFAC- TURE OF AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL FORKS, AND PRONGED OR TOOTHED INSTRUMENTS AND HOES
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Harry Winton, of the firm of Harry Winton
and Sons, of Dove Mills, Cleveland Street, Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Manufacturer, and Francis Parkes, of
Sutton Coldfield Park, in the County of Warwick, Manu-
facturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFAC-
TURE OF AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL FORKS, AND PRONGED
OR TOOTHED INSTRUMENTS AND HOES."
Sealed the 27th May 1853, and dated the 27th November 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Harry Winton
and Francis Parkes at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 27th November 1852.
We, HARRY WINTON and FRANCIS PARKES, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL FORKS, AND PRONGED OR TOOTHED
INSTRUMENTS AND HOES," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in a new method of preparing metal, and
of manufacturing of hoes, digging, manure, and other forks, agri-
cultural or horticultural spuds, and toothed and pronged implements

page_text: and metal forks, by rolling and preparing pieces of iron or steel, or
any other malleable. or ductile metal or metals, for the purposes of
being formed into hoes, rakes, forks and spuds, etc., containing any
number of branches, prongs, blades or teeth, from one to eight or
more, and for which purpose one of such picces of steel or other
metal is rolled, stamped or squared, or set down with a tilt hammer
or other hammer, or other known power. A small piece or part of
one end of such piece, the piece or pieces, part or parts, is then
_passed or partially passed through a pair or pairs of particularly and
peculiarly-formed rolls, turned-to, and-containing a certain number
of sharp angles or edges, according to the number of prongs or
blades, &c., or divisions, between the required number, of prongs or
blades, such angles forming an indentation between each intended
prong or blade of such implement; also is placed one or more blades,
knives, slitters or dividers; according to the number of divisions
marked out or indented at the back of the rolls, and transversely
to the surface of the rolls. The knives, blades, slitters or dividers
referred to are, and the number of them-in-cach.instance arc, fixed
and used in each instance as before described; according to the
number of divisions; prongs, or blades required in each implement, at
the end of a plane or. bed, upon which works a slide or bolt horizon-
tally driving the steel, iron, or other metal or metals against the
-knives, blades, cutters or dividers, as before referred to, so as to
divide the piece or pieces where it may have been marked-out-or-
indented, or otherwise, or without being indented by the rolls or
otherwise, or vice versa; or by stamp, press, hammer, or shears, or
other known power, so as to-divide the metal or metals in the
manner, and for the purposes or the purpose as before described.
.
Grooves and patterns are indented, cut out, or otherwise formed,
on steel or other metal faced blocks or anvils, into which the metal
is forced or hammered, forming the forks or pronged instruments,
which are covered with white metal or enamel, or not, as may be
required or desired.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, filed by the said Harry Winton and Francis Parkes in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 27th May 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we,
HARRY WINTON, of the firm of Harry Winton and Sons, Dove Mills,
Cleveland Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manu-
facturer, and FRANCIS PARKES, of Sutton Coldfield Park, in the
County of Warwick, Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of November,
in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two,
in the sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto us, the said Harry Winton and
Francis Parkes, Her special licence that we, the said Harry Winton
and Francis Parkes, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as we, the said Harry Winton and Francis Parkes, our exe-
cutors, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL FORKS, AND
PRONGED OR TOOTHED INSTRUMENTS AND HOES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said Harry Winton and Francis
Parkes, by an instrument in writing under our hand and seal,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said In-
vention, 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 YE, that we, the said Harry Winton and Francis
Parkes, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly de-
scribed and ascertained in and by the following statement, viz. :-.

page_text: This Invention consists in a new method of preparing-metal, and of
manufacturing agricultural and horticultural hoes, rakes, digging,
manure, hay, corn, malting, hop, stoning, and other forks, spuds, and
toothed implements by rolling, marking, and preparing iron, steel,
or any other suitable malleable or ductile metal or metals, for
the purpose or purposes of making such metal or metals into hoes,
rakes, forks, spuds, &c., containing any number of blades, prongs,
frames, teeth, or branches, &c., from one to nine or more; for which
purpose one such piece of steel, iron, or other metal is rolled; stamped,
pressed-or-set-down with a tilt or other hammer, or other known
power. A small picce or part of one end of such-piece.or pieces; the
piece or pieces, part or parts, is then passed through or partially
through a pair or pairs of peculiarly and particularly formed rolls
turned to and containing a certain number of sharp angles or edges
or other required forms, according to the number of prongs, blades,
divisions or branches, etc., between the required number of prongs,
blades, divisions, branches, etc.; such angles or forms forming an
indetation between each intended blade, prong, division, frame, etc.,
of such intended implement. I place on a bed or frame one or more
knives,-slitters, blades, dividers or spreaders, or cutters, according,
to the number of divisions marked out, or any part of the nuinber
marked out or otherwise, at the back of the rolls and transverse
to the surface of the rolls, by the action of which the heated metal
is forced or driven against the edge-or-edges of the knives, slitters, di-
viders, spreaders; &c., and thus slit, divide, or spread, &c. the metal
as it passes through or partially through the rolls; after wliich the
same is or may be drawn to the proper width, form, and length re-
quired, in the usual and well known manner, by tilt or other hammer,
or by other known power. The knives, blades, slitters, dividers,
spreaders, &c., as before referred to, and the number of them, in
each instance, as before described, according to the number of marks,
indentations, or divisions required, and according to the number of
blades, prongs, frames, &c., required in each intended implement, arc
or may, if preferable, be placed on or at the end, or near to the end,
of a bed, or fraime or plane, upon which works a slide, or bolt or shaft,

page_text: horizontally driving the steel or other metal agent against the blade
cutters, or spreaders, &c., as before described and referred to, or vice
versa, namely, the blades, &c. against the metal, so as to divide,
slit, or spread the piece or pieces of metal in any or all of the
divisions as marked out or indented or otherwise; or the metal
is either marked out, slit, divided, indented, or spread, or one or
all of them, by means of a press or presses, stamp or stamps,
hammer or hammers, shear or shears, with suitable dies and tools,
driven or worked by eccentric screw lever crank, or by other
known power or means, for the purpose or purposes before de-
scribed; the tines, prongs, blades, branches, &c. may then be
drawn to their required form, shape, and length, &c., by incans of tilt
or other hammers, or by other known power, in the usual way or
manner. Round, square, semicircular or other forms are indented or
cut on the face or surfaces of a pair or pairs of rolls, through which,
or partially through which, the metal marked or indented or other-
wise, as before described, is passed or partially passed through, and
the tines, prongs, blades, branches, &c. partially (or wholly) drawn
to near the required length and form, the rolls having a chamber or
slot or hollow, so that in drawing the tines, blades, prongs, &c., it
leaves the metal for the head part of the frame of the intended
implement of sufficient thickness so that the head and frame may
be extended to the required width, length, or form, by means of a
tilt or other hammer or other known power. The whole length of
the bar or bars of iron or other metal is drawn the full length of
the bar or bars, and is deeply or slightly indented or marked,
without chambers, hollows, slots, in the rolls or chambers; slots or
hollows are made on the face or surface of the rolls, or otherwise,
at certain distances, according to the length or dimensions of cach
required piece of metal for each intended implement; each such piece
is then cut off, and slit, divided, or spread, &c., by any of the several
means before described.
The foregoing applies also to the frames of the hoe exhibited by
the annexed Drawings, which have also the originality of springing,
so as to tightly keep the blades in the frames, although of different

page_text: strued as part of these presents.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS..
Sheet 1, Fig. 1, is a front clevation of the rolls herein-before men-
tioned-in-this case-the-rolls-arc.indented on the surface for pre-
paring from two to five prongs, tines, teeth, &c. Fig. 2, a vertical.
section of the rolls (taken at the lines C*, D*, in Sheet 2), Fig. 4,
shewing the cutters or slitters connected therewith. Sheet 2, Fig. 3,
vertical section of the rolls (taken at the lines A*, B*, in Fig. 4).
Fig. 4, top plan of the under roll, with the cutter or slitter frame
or bed in connection therewith. This roll is shewn with the
indentations continued round the rolls. In these Figures; A,.
denotes the shaft carrying the rolls, and B, the rolls themselves; C,
cutter or slitter, and D, the frame or bed upon which the cutter or
slitter is fitted. Sheet: 3, Fig. 5, shews a top plan end and edge
views of a bar of metal after it has passed through that part of
the rolls indented for forming three prongs or teeth, and merely
-marked or slightly indented thereby. Fig. 6, top plan end and..
edge views of a similar bar after it has passed-through_that_part_of
the rolls for forming three prongs or teeth and completely indented
thereby. Sheet 4, Fig. 7, a piece of crude iron before having
passed through my process. Fig. 8, piece "set down" for the head or
shank. Fig. 9, the same piece of iron indented, but not slit.
Fig. 10, the same indented, slit and spread out ready for the tilt
hammer. The Figures beneath represent the bottom end views.
Sheet 5, Fig. 11, a front view of an improved hoc produced by
the aid of this Invention. Fig. 12, side view of same. This hoe
consists of a frame marked c, c, d, d, e, produced from one piece:
-of-metal by my Invention as aforesaid. The part marked c, c, forms

page_text: arms, which are of elasticated metal, so that the ends thereof may
be brought more or less together, in order that a smaller blade may
be fitted into the slits fromed in the ends thereof to receive the
same; f, denotes one such blade fitted therein; d, denotes prongs at
top of blade, and e, the shank by which the hoe is affixed to the
handle.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim
in respect thereto is, the treating of steel, iron, or other metal, in the
manner described, so as to produce the toothed and pronged instru-
ments herein-before set forth, which may be produced in a variety
of forms and patterns, according to the indentations on the rolls and
the course of operations pursued, as will be well understood by the
practical man; and I claim the rolls, when arranged and used as
described, and the slitters or cutters with which the same may be
combined as described; and I claim also the manufacture of a hoc
such as that described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Harry Winton, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of May, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
HARRY WINTON. (L.S.)
Signed and sealed in my presence,
F. W. CAMPIN,
156, Strand.