Improvements in Land Cultivators.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Dec., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 6th Sept., 1900-Accepted, 1st Dec., 1900
Improvements in Land Cultivators.
I, JOHN WILLIAM Moss, of Church Farm, Feering, near Kelvedon, Essex, Seed
Grower, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The invention relates to improvements in that class of cultivator in which are
used cupped or hollow disc cultivating tools mounted on spindles inclined to
the direction of motion of the implement and also inclined to a horizontal plane.
These discs are arranged with their hollow faces towards the front of the
machine but inclined thereto and not immediately behind each other but each
overlapping the path of its neighbour so that the combination will effectively
cultivate the whole width of the machine. These discs are according to my
invention provided with gearing by which they are driven at any desired speed.
These discs may be solid or continuous or they may be made up of radial arms
or sections of any convenient shape with spaces between them.
Dated this 7th day of December 1899
HARRIS & MILLS,
23, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents.
Improvements in Land Cultivators.
I, JOHN WILLIAM Moss, of Church Farm, Feering, near Kelvedon, Essex, Seed
Grower, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:
The invention relates to improvements in that class of cultivator in which are
used cupped or hollow-disc cultivating tools mounted on spindles inclined to
the direction of motion of the implement and also inclined to a horizontal plane.
The invention is illustrated diagrammatically in the accompanying drawings,
in which:
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a cultivator and Fig. 2 is a plan thereof.
Fig. 3 is a rear view of the steering wheel.
Fig. 4 is a detail view of the bracket for the disc driving gear, and
Fig. 5 is a detail view of part of the driving gear.
The cultivator is provided with a double frame a b, and is mounted on carry-
ing rollers and a steering wheel d.
A steam boiler c is carried at one end of the machine and is provided with a

page_text: furnace. The cylinder f is mounted on vertical supports f' about the centre of
the trame, and has the usual starting lever f2.
The cylinder f gives motion to the engine shaft g, upon which are mounted
the fly wheel g and the worm g², which latter gears with the worm wheel g³
on the cross' shaft h.
On the cross shaft h are also mounted chain wheels h¹ h² giving motion, by
chains, to the chain wheels c¹ keyed on the axle ct of the rollers c. A
suitable clutch is provided to throw one of the chain wheels h' h² into gear, and
to throw the other out of gear, by which means the rollers c may be driven at
different speeds.
At each end of the shaft h are keyed chain wheels he giving motion, by means
of chains h, chain wheels i, chains and chain wheels 2, to the rotary harrow
shown at the rear of the machine.
To the front end of the engine shaft g is keyed the bevel wheel g¹ giving motion
to the vertical shaft ; by means of the bevel wheel j¹.
On the shaft is fixed a worm 3, which gives motion to two worm wheels k
fixed on the diagonal shafts k¹. These diagonal shafts have a number of bevel
wheels keyed thereon, which gear with the bevel wheels fixed on the tops of
the axes carried by the brackets fixed on the diagonal portions b¹ of the
frame b. The axes have bevel wheels at their lower ends, which gear with
bevel wheels m' attached to the discs m, which are also carried by the brackets l.
The frame bb is capable of being raised and lowered in relation to the frame a
by means of screw power lifting gear n nn, and the worm 2 is made sufficiently
long to allow for this motion. I am thus enabled to raise or lower the whole of
the discs at the same time. In Fig. 1 the discs are shown in their raised position.
The steering wheel d is also driven by the following arrangement of parts.
The shaft is carried upward through the frame a, and has at its upper end a
bevel wheel ja, which gears with a bevel wheel o¹ on the inclined shaft o.
the upper end of this inclined shaft is another bevel wheel o gearing with the
bevel wheel o made in one with the toothed wheel o*, which latter gives motion
to the toothed wheel 0 and, through the vertical shaft of and bevel wheels o
and 8, to the steering wheel d.
At
The steering wheel d is mounted in a fork , the head of which passes up
through a socket d³ in the frame a. The steering is effected by means of the
hand wheel p keyed on the end of the rod pl, to the other end of which is attached
the worm på gearing with the worm wheel 23 fixed around the exterior of the
steering head d
The frames a and b may be made triangular instead of rounded as shown.
By means of the cultivator herein described, land may be ploughed on the
stetch in one operation.
In some cases the discs may be made up of radial arms or sections.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1. In a land cultivator, the combination of a fixed frame carrying an engine, a
movable frame capable of being raised and lowered with respect to the fixed
frame, diagonal shafts carried by the movable frame, and a number of discs
carried by the movable frame and receiving motion from the diagonal shafts,
substantially as set forth.
2. In a land cultivator, the combination of a fixed frame, an engine carried
by said frame, a main engine shaft, carrying rollers receiving motion from
said engine shaft, a steering wheel mounted in a fork carried by the fixed frame,
a movable frame capable of being raised and lowered, diagonal shafts carried by
the movable frame, and receiving motion from the main engine shaft, and a
number of discs arranged parallel to the diagonal shafts and driven therefrom
by suitable gearing, substantially as herein set forth.

page_text: 3. In a land cultivator, the combination of a fixed frame, an engine carried
by said frame, a main engine shaft, carrying rollers driven by said shaft, a
steering wheel mounted in a fork carried by the fixed frame, a movable frame
capable of being raised and lowered, diagonal portions to said movable frame,
brackets carried by said diagonal portions, and discs and gearing carried by
said brackets, substantially as herein set forth.
Dated this 3rd day of September 1900.
HARRIS & MILLS,
23, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents.