A NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR PULVERISING AND DISTRIBUTING GUANO AND ARTIFICIAL MANURE, APPLICABLE ALSO TO SEED AND OTHER DRILLS."
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Beare, of Queen Street, Newton Abbot,
in the County of Devon, Agricultural Engineer and Iron and Brass
Founder, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR
PULVERISING AND DISTRIBUTING GUANO AND ARTIFICIAL MANURE, APPLICABLE
ALSO TO SEED AND OTHER DRILLS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Beare at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
2nd May 1870.
I, HENRY BEARE, of Queen Street, Newton Abbot, in the County of
Devon, Agricultural Engineer and Iron and Brass Founder, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED
APPARATUS FOR PULVERISING AND DISTRIBUTING GUANO AND ARTIFICIAL MANURES
EITHER BROAD-CAST OR IN DRILLS, APPLICABLE ALSO TO SEED AND OTHER DRILLS,"
to be as follows:
This Invention relates to the pulverising and distributing guano and
artificial manures either broad-cast or in drills, and is applicable also to
all descriptions of drills cither for sowing seed or for other purposes.

page_text: This Invention consists in the following arrangement of mechanism and
its application to the purposes herein-before set forth. A roll is mounted
upon a shaft, which roll is constructed or provided with zig-zag grooves
upon its exterior surface. Upon the same shaft which carries the zig-
zag roll is keyed a zig-zag or eccentric wheel, or wheel with single zig-zag
groove in it. Two bars each with a stud upon it taking into the groove
in the eccentric wheel have a reciprocating or to-and-fro motion imparted
to them by the groove, the motion of the eccentric wheel itself being
given by connection with the driving wheels or wheels upon which the
whole arrangement travels. The top bar just herein-before alluded to
passes through a box of manure fixed over the zig-zag roll, and is provided
at its under side with a number of irons which working across the grooves
in zig-zag roll crush and break the manure and force it into the grooves.
The other bar passes below the roll, and upon it is a plate of iron upon
which the manure falls; this plate is so fashioned as to have projections
corresponding in number with and working between the grooves in
roll, thus keeping it perfectly clean; this plate forms the shoot. Now
as the grooves are slanting or zig-zag, and as the plate with projections
is worked in harmony therewith by the eccentric wheel with zig-zag
groove of the same pitch or throw as the grooves in roll the delivery
cannot fail to be very regular.
SPECIFICATION filed in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, and of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, by the said Henry
Beare in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 2nd December 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
BEARE, of Queen Street, Newton Abbot, in the County of Devon,
Agricultural Engineer and Iron and Brass Founder, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Second day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-third
year of Her reign, did for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Henry Beare, Her special licence, that I
the said Henry Beare, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or

page_text: such others as I, the said Henry Beare, 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 "A NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR
PULVERIZING AND DISTRIBUTING GUANO AND ARTIFICIAL MANURE, APPLICABLE ALSO
TO SEED AND OTHER DRILLS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Henry Beare, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Beare, do hereby declare
the nature of my said 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 pulverising and distributing guano
and artificial manures either broadcast or in drills, and is applicable
also to all descriptions of drills cither for sowing seed or for other
purposes.
This Inventión consists in the following arrangement of mechanism
and its application to the purposes herein-before set forth.
In order that the nature of this Invention and the means by which
the same is effected may be particularly described and ascertained, I
append to this Specification a Sheet of Drawings having figures and
letters of reference marked thereupon, the like letter being used to
denote a similar or corresponding part in each Figure.
In these Drawings Figure 1 is a longitudinal elevation; Figure 2 an
end view; and Figure 3 a plan of an apparatus or machine constructed
according to my Invention.
It will be seen by reference to these Drawings that a roll a is mounted
upon a shaft b. The roll a is constructed or provided upon its exterior
surface with zig-zag grooves c, or grooves formed by constructing one half-

page_text: of the roll as a right-handed and the other half as a left-handed screw,
the spaces between the threads meeting each other so as to form the
zig-zag grooves c. Upon the same shaft 6 which carries the zig-zag
roll a is keyed a zig-zag or eccentric wheel d or wheel with a single
zig-zag groove c¹ in it. Two bars e and e¹ cach with a stud f upon it,
taking into the groove c' in the eccentric wheel d, have a reciprocating
or to-and-fro motion imparted to them by that groove, the motion of
the eccentric wheel d itself being given by connection by means of
tooth wheels with the driving wheels or wheels upon which the whole.
arrangement travels. The top bar e just herein-before alluded to passes
through a box of manure fixed over the zig-zag roll, and is provided at
its under side with a number of irons g, which working across the
grooves in zig-zag roll, crush, and break the manure and force it into
the grooves. The other bar e¹ passes below the roll, and upon it is a
plate of iron upon which the manure falls; this plate is so fashioned
as to have projections corresponding in number with and working
between the grooves in roll, thus keeping it perfectly clean; this plate
forms the shoot. Now as the grooves are slanting or zig-zag and as the
plate with projections is worked in harmony therewith by the eccentric
wheel with zig-zag groove of the same pitch or throw as the grooves in
roll the delivery cannot fail to be very regular.
This apparatus although described with reference to its use as a
manure pulverizer and distributor will be found applicable also as a
seed drill. The seed box is fitted with a balance weight, self-adjusting,
thus keeping it always level either up or down the hill, which ensures
equal delivery of seed.
It will be obvious also that the arrangement may be somewhat modified
in its details, for example the grooves in roll may consist of curves or
portions of curves, provided that in all cases the curves in eccentric
wheel correspond therewith so as to work in harmony.
.
In some cases it is proposed to make the grooves straight around the
roll and then use therewith stationary cleaners for the grooves and a
revolving stirrer to feed the same.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my
said Invention and the means by which the same is effected, I wish it to
be clearly understood that what I claim is, the construction and use of

page_text: apparatus for the purposes and in the manner herein in this Specification
and the accompanying Drawings described and illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Beare have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy.
HENRY BEARE.
(L.S.)