Iы- PROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR BAKING AND SEEDING LAND."
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Luck, of Spalding Common, in the County
of Lincoln, Agricultural Implement Maker, for the Invention of "Iы-
PROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR BAKING AND SEEDING LAND."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Luck at the
Office. of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 17th
April 1858.
I, THOMAS LUCK, of Spalding Common, in the County of Lincoln; Agricul-
tural Implement Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR RAKING AND SEEDING LAND," to be as
follows:
This Invention has for its object improvements in machinery for raking and
seeding land, and consists in a peculiar combination of an ordinary horse rake
with ordinary apparatus for seeding land. For these purposes a horse rake,
consisting of a series of independent curved tines, such as heretofore used, is
arranged in such manner that by a lever handle the whole of the points of the
tines may be lifted off or out of the surface of the land, and the framing of
such rake is arranged to receive a seed box; in such manner that it may be
lifted out of its position together with the seeding coulters and tubes connected
therewith. When it is desired to use the horse rake separately, the coulters
are arranged to act in lines parallel with the tines of the rake, and at a short

page_text: distance in advance of them. The coulter tubes are as numerous as the tines
of the rake; and in order that the same lever handle which raises the tines of the
rake may also raise the coulters out of the land, each coulter tube at its upper
part projects over or is connected with a tine of the rake, in such manner that
when the tines are lifted the coulters are also lifted. The arrangement, how-
ever, is such, that the tines may be lifted a short distance without raising the
coulters, in order that the coulters may act when desired whilst the tines of the
rake are out of action. The lever handle for lifting the tines of the rake and
the coulters of the seeding apparatus is arranged in such manner, that when it
has been depressed and so left, the tines and the coulters will remain lifted
till the end of the lever handle is again moved. The tines of the rake are
connected to a bar which is actuated by the lever handle, so that the bar may,
when desireil, be caused to press on the upper surfaces of the curved tines of
the rake, and prevent their rising till the handle is moved.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Luck in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
16th October 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
LUCK, of Spalding Common, in the County of Lincoln, Agricultural Implement
Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Thomas Luck, Her special licence that I, the said Thomas Luck, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas
Luck, my executors, 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
MACHINERY FOR RAKING AND SEEDING LAND," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Thomas Luck, 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

page_text: 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 I, the said Thomas Luck, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in machinery for raking and
seeding land, and consists in a peculiar combination of an ordinary horse rake
with ordinary apparatus for seeding land. For these purposes a horse rake
consisting of a series of independent curved tines, such as heretofore used, is
arranged in such manner, that by a lever handle the whole of the points of
the tines may be lifted off or out of the surface of the land; and the framing of
such rake is arranged to receive a seed box, in such manner that it may be
lifted out of its position together with the seeding coulters and tubes connected
therewith when it is desired to use the horse rake separately. The coulters
are arranged to act in lines parallel with the tines of the rake, and at a short
distance in advance of them. The coulter tubes are as numerous as the tines
of the rake, and in order that the same lever handle which raises the tines of
the rake may also raise the coulters out of the land, each coulter tube at its
upper part projects over or is connected with the tine of the rake, in such
manner that when the tines are lifted the coulters are also lifted. The
arrangement, however, is such, that the tines may be lifted a short distance
without raising the coulters, in order that the coulters may act when desired
whilst the tines of the rake out of action. The lever handle, for lifting the
tines of the rake and the coulters of the seeding apparatus, is arranged in
such manner that when it has been depressed and so left, the tines and the
coulters will remain lifted till the end of the lever handle is again moved.
The tines of the rake are connected to a bar, which is actuated by the lever
handle, so that the bar may, when desired, be caused to press on the upper
surfaces of the curved tines of the rake, and prevent their rising till the handle
is moved.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING..
Figure 1 shows a plan of the raking apparatus; also parts of the drill;
Figure 2 is a transverse vertical section; and Figures 3 shows one of the
coulters and one of the tines separately. a, a, are the usual curved tines of
the raking apparatus; b, b, are the coulters, one to each tine; c, c, are the

page_text: seeding tubes, which are supplied through the tins or funnels c', c¹, from the
seed box by cups carried round by a rotatory axis c, as shewn. The seed
tubes are carried by arms d' on the axis d, which is arranged in its bearings
so as to admit of its being readily removed and replaced when it is desired to
use the raking apparatus separately. The coulters b, b, are fixed to the arms
d', and the coulter stems have hooks or projections at their upper ends, which,
when the tines are raised to their highest position, rest on the tines, by which
means the coulters are lifted out of the land, but the tines may be lifted a
distance without lifting the coulters; f is a bar by which the tines are either
lifted or pressed into the land when desired; this bar is connected by short
chains, as shown, to the tines, by which they may be lifted. The pressing
barf is carried by arms g on the axis h, and the arms are moved up and down
by the lever handle i, which is attached by an arm j and a link, or connecting
rod k to the arms g', affixed to or forming part of the arms g. In order to
depress the bar.f the lever handle is to be lifted, and in order to lift the tines
off the land the lever i is depressed, so as to bring the parts into the position
shewn by red lines, in which position the parts will be retained till the lever
handle is again raised.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that I make no claim to
the mechanical parts separately; but what I claim is the combination herein
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Luck, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
Witness,
J. G. TONGUE.
THOS LUCK. (L.S.)