A CERTAIN INSTRUMENT OR MACHINE FOR DRAWING UP HOP POLES OUT OF THE GROUND PREVIOUS TO PICKING THE HOPS, AND WHICH BY DRAWING THE POLES PER- PENDICULARLY WILL GREATLY SAVE THEM, AS WELL AS PREVENT THE HOPS FROM BEING BRUISED, CALLED HOP DRAWER BY LEVER AND FULCRUM
Year: 1830

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, 1, Jonn
KNOWLES, of Farnham, in the County of Surrey, Hop Planter, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Thirteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty, in the first year of His reign, did, for
Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said John
Knowles, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence,
full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said John Knowles, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such person or persons as I, the said
John Knowles, my executers, administrators, or assigns, should agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times during of years therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention
of "A CERTAIN INSTRUMENT OR MACHINE FOR DRAWING UP HOP POLES OUT OF THE
GROUND PREVIOUS TO PICKING THE HOPS, AND WHICH BY DRAWING THE POLES PER-
PENDICULARLY WILL GREATLY SAVE THEM, AS WELL AS PREVENT THE HOPS FROM BEING
BRUISED, CALLED HOP DRAWER BY LEVER AND FULCRUM;" in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso, that if I, the said John Knowles, should not
particularly describe and ascertain 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, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within two calendar months next and immediately after

page_text: the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, that then the said
Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted,
shall utterly cease, cease, determine, and become void, as in and by the same,
reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Knowles, do hereby declare that tho nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly set forth,
described, and explained in and by the following description thereof, referenco
being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters
marked thereon, that is to say :-
My Invention of a certain instrument or machine for drawing up hop poles
out of the ground previous to picking the hops, and which by drawing the
poles perpendicularly will greatly save them, as well as prevent the hops from
being bruised, and which I call "a hop drawer by lever and fulcrum," is intended
to prevent the injury done to the hops in the common method of drawing the
poles (round which the hops are trained) out of the ground, the hop póles
being shaken or moved backwards and forwards in order to loosen them in
the ground, by which the poles and hops are knocked or forced against other.
poles, and the hops become bruised and shaken off, and the poles are often
injured by being broken off near the ground; this is also obviated by my.
Invention, which consists of a lever, having one end formed into a long handle,
and the other end branched into the shape of a fork with teeth or notches in
the inner side, for the purpose of taking fast hold of the hop pole. This, lever
has its fulcrum in a leg or crutch, to which it is attached by a pin and hinge
joint. The forked end of the lever is to be applied to-the-pole-intended-to-be-
drawn out of the ground, and the teeth or rough notches on the inner side of
the branches or prongs of the lever prevent the pole from slipping through
the fork when the instrument is in use. The leg or crutch in which the
fulcrum of the lever is fixed is made with an enlarged end or foot, to prevent
it being pressed into the ground by the force required to overcome the
resistance of the poles when being drawn out of the ground. Figures 1, 2,
and 3 of the accompanying Drawing are representations of my said instrument
or machine; Figure 1 is a plain or horizontal view looking on the top;
Figure 2 is a side view of the same in the position the instrument is in when
applied to a hop pole in order to draw it out of the ground; Figure 3. is
another side view of the instrument, taken when the handle of the lever has
been depressed, and the shorter or forked end raised and with it the hop pole
out of the ground. a, a, is the lever with its forked or branched arms b, b,-
having the teeth or notches c, c, on their inner sides; d is the crutch or leg,

page_text: with the fulcrum e of the leyer in bearings on the top. The lower part of this
crutch is enlarged as at f, and is shod or covered with an iron plate on its end,
there is also a spike or pin fixed into this end, to prevent it from slipping when
the power is applied to raise the hop pole out of the ground.
The method of applying this instrument and putting it into operation is as
follows: The forked end of the lever is to be brought into contact with a
hop pole intended to be drawn out of the ground in the position shown in
Figure 2, that is, with the longer end or handle of the lever raised and the
forked end depressed, so as to take hold of a part of the hop pole near the
ground; the longer end or handle of the lever is then to be depressed,
keeping the forked end in contact with the pole with a slight pressure, and as
short end of the lever rises the pole will be drawn out of the ground in a
perpendicular direction without shaking the pole or hops, the joint at the
fulcrum on the leg allowing the lever and crutch to accommodate themselves
to the motion of the pole as it rises.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Knowles, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty