IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR PULVERIZING AND PREPARING LAND
Year: 1851

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MATTHEW
GIBSON, of Wellington Terrace, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Sixteenth day of
October, (One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one,) in the fifteenth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Matthew Gibson, my exors, admors, and assigns, ;Her especial
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that. I, the said Matthew
Gibson, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Matthew
Gibson, my exors, adiñiors, or assigns, should at any time, agree with, and no
others, from time to time, and at all times during the term of years therein
mentioned, should and lawfully might make, -use, exercise, and vend, v within
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and in the Islands
of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, and Man, and also in all Her said
Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, my 'Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY FOR PULVERIZING AND PREPARING LAND;" in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said Matthew Gibson, shall cause
a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, to be inrolled in Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
.

page_text: in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being there-
unto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Matthew Gibson, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and,
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had
to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked
thereon; that is to say:-
My Invention consists of using series of discs on separate axes in such
manner that the several discs shall be independent of each other, and that the
discs of the different series may work between each other, and also that the
axes carrying the different series of discs may rise and fall by being affixed to
or having bearings in a lever at each end of the machine, as herein described.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shews a perspective sketch of a machine made according to my
Invention. Figure 2 is a plan, and Figure 3 a side view, of the machine
a, a, are the shafts and framing. b, b, are outside necks or axes, on to
which wheels c, c, are to be placed when moving the machine on a road.
d, d, are two axes, on to each of which several discs are placed, and on which
they can revolve separately. The axes d, d, are fixed to the levers é, e, so
that in use each of the axes d, d, can rise or fall, from time to time, to a higher
or lower position than the other, in consequence of the levers having the capa-
bility of moving on or with their axes. When the machine is being moved on
the wheels c, c, the levers are to be retained from movement by a suitable bolt
or other stop. The discs shown in the Drawing are made with bevilled edges;
but this may be väried.
.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that I do not confine myself
to the details as shown and described, so long as the peculiar character of my
Invention be retained. But what I claim is the mode, herein described, of
combining parts into a machine for pulverizing and preparing land.
In witness whereof, I, the said Matthew Gibson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal this Eighth day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.
MATTHEW (L.S.) GIBSON.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eighth day of March, in the
year of our Lord 1852, the aforesaid Matthew Gibson came before our said
Lady the Queen, in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.