IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PLOUGH BREASTS FOR PLOUGHING AND PULVERISING LAND
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I, JOHN WOODS of Glebe Foundry Wells in the County of Norfolk, Agricul-
tural Implement Maker do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PLOUGH BREASTS FOR PLOUGHING
AND PULVERISING LAND to be as follows :—
This Invention relates to certain improvements in the manufacture of plough
breasts for ploughing and pulverising land, especial objects of the improvements
being to enable or cause the plough breast to more thoroughly pulverise the soil,
and to give the plough a lighter draught for the horses or other draught animals
or draught power.
The improved plough breast differs from others in present use in that its tail or
hind end draws under the furrow slice instead of laying back or standing square
with the furrow slice as in existing forms of plough breasts. The improved
breast towards its hinder part is formed with openings and at its hinder part or at
the end of one or more of the parts or extensions bounding the said openings or
open parts there is or are bolted or otherwise secured one or more (preferably two)
horns or horn shaped extensions, which in conjunction with the improved formation
of the breast effectually cause the soil to be more thoroughly pulverised, and the
improved formation of the breast is further advantageous in that it materially
lightens the draught of the plough.
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DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
Agents for the Applicant.

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I, JOHN WOODS, of Glebe Foundry, Wells, in the County of Norfolk, Agri-
cultural Implement Maker, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PLOUGH BREASTS FOR PLOUGHING
AND PULVERISING LAND" 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 to certain improvements in the manufacture of plough
breasts for ploughing and pulverising land, especial objects of the improvements.
being to enable or cause the plough breast to more thoroughly pulverise the soil,
and to give the plough a lighter draught for the horses or other draught animals or
draught power.
On the accompanying Drawings Fig. 1, represents an elevation of the improved
plough breast, and Fig. 2, a sectional plan view by which the peculiar conformation
of the horn shaped extensions hereinafter referred to is more clearly seen. Fig. 3,
represents a cross section on the line a-b, looking towards the rear end of the
plough breast, and Fig. 4, represents a cross section of the born extension on the
fine c-d.
The improved plough breast differs from other plough breasts in present use in
that its tail or hind end draws under the furrow slice at any angle of inclination
instead of laying back from or standing square with the furrow slice as in existing
forms of plough breasts. The improved breast is not made with a continuous
surface as is usual, but towards its hinder part it is formed with openings or open
parts, 1, and at its hinder part, or at the end of one or more of the parts or
extensions, 2, bounding the said openings or open parts, 1, there is or are bolted or
otherwise secured, as at, 3, one or more horns or horn shaped extensions, 4,
or equivalent means, which have a twist or curve upwards and towards the surface
of the breast.
The improved breasts and horn shaped extensions may be made in cast iron,
malleable iron, wrought iron, or steel, or other suitable metal, and the horns may
be fixed or secured at any convenient parts of the surface of the breast to suit
different kinds of soil in ploughing land, and their intended action is to effect a
harrowing action upon or breaking through of the under surface of the furrow
slice, and in conjunction with the improved open formation of the breast to more
thoroughly effect the pulverization of the soil, and the improved formation of the
breast is further advantageous in that it materially lightens the draught of the
plough.
I do not confine myself to the precise number or formation of the said open parts
of the breast illustrated on the Drawings, nor to the precise number or formation
of the said horn shaped extensions or their equivalents, as it is obvious that these
may be varied without in the least departing from the features characteristic of the
present improvements.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what
[ claim, is :-
The herein before described improvements in the manufacture of plough breasts
for ploughing and pulverizing land, such improvements consisting in the formation
of the breast with openings or open parts, and in the application at or towards its
binder part, or at any convenient or desired part of its surface, of one or more

page_text: horns or born shaped extensions or equivalent means arranged so as to draw under
and have a harrowing action upon the under side of the furrow slice, substantially
as hereinbefore described and with reference to the accompanying Drawings.
DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.