The Manufacturing vives.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Mar., 1887.
Complete Left, 4th July, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 5th Aug., 1887.
The Manufacturing vives.
JOHN WILLIAM YATES Pritchett Street Works Pritchett Street Birmingham Edge
Tool Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
An improvement in Manufacturing of Hoes which is by placing the Rib or
strengthing part on the back of the Hoe making the Eye deeper and Stronger and
better adapted to hold the Handle and the way I bend the Hoe places the Rib or
Strengthing part in such a position that it does not come in contact with the soil,
therefore leaving the blade without any obstruction which will greatly facitate the
work it is intended to do.
Full sketches of the Old Way and New way will be supplied at the completion of
the Patent, which I understand must be within nine months from date of Application.
Dated this 22nd day of March 1887
JOHN WILLIAM YATES.
An Improvement in the Manufacturing of Hoes.
I JOHN WILLIAM YATES of Pritchett Street Birmingham Edge tool Manufacturer
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 :-
This invention relates to the manufacture of that class of implements known as
hoes, and has for its object their construction in a form stronger, and more efficient,

page_text: when in use than those of present make; and consists in the provision of a
strengthening rib upon their off or rear side, which also enables me to make the eye
or socket which receives the handle much deeper than is ordinarily.
I will now describe more clearly how this my invention is to be performed having
reference to the accompanying illustrative sheet of drawings upon which are figures
and letters of reference, like letters referring throughout the several views to the same
thing or part.
Fig. 1 is an elevation of an hoe, looking from the rear or off side, shewing the
position of the strengthening rib.
Fig. 2 is a side elevation of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation of Fig. 1 upon line A-B.
Fig. 4 is a front elevation of the said hoe.
In the manufacture of hoes having the blade solid and in one with the head or eye,
it has been the custom to make them with a strengthening rib upon their front face at a,
see Figs. 2, 3, & 4. For several reasons this is objectionable, the chief reasons being,
that when in use the soil clogs to such rib, and it becomes heavy, and impedes
progress; whilst further, in hoes so made the depth of the eye from 6 to c Fig. 3, is
shallow, giving but small holding power or grip upon the handle inserted therein.
In my invention however these objections are obviated and overcome. I provide a
strengthening rib d, upon the back of the hoc, as seen in the Figs. 1, 2, & 3, and
leave the front quite plain.
Hoes thus made I find are much stronger than those of present make, and also
affords the opportunity to grind or polish their front surface a, quite smooth. In use,
there is no tendency for the soil to adhere to the back of the hoe, as it is always drawn
from the soil, whilst having the front thus plain and smooth, the soil readily leaves
it when in operation.
By this arrangement of construction I am enabled, easily and cheaply to make the
eye e much deeper from 6 to c, Fig. 3, than is usual in these implements.
In those of present make where the rib d, is upon the front at a, the depth of the
said eye, is necessarily short, otherwise the cost of workmanship &c., would be
considerably increased, but by putting the said rib upon the back as shewn, it enables
me to deepen the eye, with but very little, if any, extra cost.
Although I have selected for illustration, what is generally known in the trade as a
Brazilian hoc, and having a round eye, still I wish it to be understood, that I do not
confine the application of this my invention to any particular kind or form of hoe,
where the eye (or its equivalent) is made in one with the blade, and having either
round, square, oblong, oval or other shaped eyes, or tangs, or sockets.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
The improvements in the manufacture of hoes, as hereindescribed, and illustrated
upon the drawings, that is to say
The making of such hoes, with a strengthening rib formed upon their rear side,
leaving the front surface plain, such rib being formed in one with the eye, (or its
equivalent) and the blade, as and for the purposes set forth.
Dated this 2nd day of July 1887
CHARLES T. POWELL,
4, Cherry Street, Birmingham,
Applicant's. Agent.