IMPROVEMENTS IN PLOUGHS
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Kenward, of Manor House, Winter-
bourne, Stoke, in the County of Wilts, Farmer, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PLOUGHS."
Sealed the 28th May 1872, and dated the 29th February 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Kenward
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 29th February 1872.
I, EDWARD KENWARD, of Manor House, Winterbourne, Stoke, in
the County of Wilts, Farmer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PLOUGHS," to be as follows:-
My Invention has for its object improvements in ploughs, and is
designed to more completely cut or break up and lay the ground in
order to prepare better seed beds than are produced by ploughs of the
ordinary construction, for which purpose according to my Invention the
plough is provided with a sharp edged cutting wheel or disc and an
adjustable drawing plate or spreader for drawing the earth from the

page_text: cutting wheel or disc and spreading it as required. The cutting wheel or
disc is capable of rotating on a suitable axle or pin attached to a bar or
frame carried by the handle or frame of the plough. The bar or frame
and axle or pin carrying the cutting wheel or disc are arranged so that
the position of the cutting wheel or disc in rear of the "turnfurrow"
or breast of the plough may be adjusted as may be required. The
cutting wheel or disc besides cutting the furrow as it is turned over by
the "turnfurrow or breast, also serves to support the rear end of the
plough.
"
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edward Kenward in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 28th August 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
KENWARD, of Manor House, Winterbourne, Stoke, in the County of
Wilts, Farmer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in
the thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Edward Kenward, Her
special licence that I, the said Edward Kenward, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward
Kenward, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 PLOUGHS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Edward Kenward, my executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that 1, the said Edward Kenward, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement thereof (that is to say) :-
:-
My Invention has for its object improvements in ploughs, the con-
struction of which will be understood by reference to the accompanying
Drawings and the description thereof which follows:-
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a plough embodying my Invention ;
Fig. 2 is a side elevation shewing the cutting wheel, the drawing plate
or spreader, and the parts whereby they are attached to the plough
frame and adjusted; Fig. 3 represents in back elevation the parts shewn
in Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a plan of same.
According to my Invention the plough is provided with a sharp edged
cutting wheel or disc a for cutting the furrow as it is turned over by the
turnfurrow or breast b, and with a drawing plate or spreader c as shewn
for drawing the earth from the cutting wheel or disc a, and spreading it
as required to form seed beds. The cutting wheel or disc a is capable of
rotating on a suitable axle d attached by a screw clip d¹ to a bar or
frame e carried by the handle or frame ƒ of the plough. The bar or
frame e is secured to the handle or frame f of the plough by means of a
screw clip g, so that the position of the cutting wheel or disc a and
drawing plate or spreader c in rear of the turnfurrow or breast 6 of the
plough may be adjusted as may be required.
By my Invention the ground is more completely cut or broken up
and laid than by ordinary ploughs, and I am enabled at one operation
to produce better seed beds than are produced by ploughs of other
kinds.
It will be evident that the application of my Invention is not limited
to the precise form of plough shewn in the Drawings.
Having described my said Invention of "Improvements in Ploughs,"
and having explained the manner of carrying the same into practical effect,
I desire to state that what I consider to be novel and original, and
therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by the herein-before in
part recited Letters Patent, is the combination with the sharp edged

page_text: cutting wheel or disc a, of a drawing plate or spreader c, as shewn in
and described with reference to the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Kenward, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of August, in
the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
two.
EDWARD KENWARD. (L.S.)