IMPROVEMENTS IN PLOUGHS
Year: 1861

page_text: Sealed the 19th November 1861, and dated the 22nd May 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Bouthillier de
Beaumont at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 22nd May 1861.
I, HENRY BOUTHILLIER DE BEAUMONT, of Geneva, Gentleman, do hereby
declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PLOUGHS," to be as
follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in ploughs. In constructing
ploughs according to my Invention I fix together the mould board, share, and
coulter, and mount the whole on a centre or pivot carried by the frame, in
such a manner that when the implement turns at the headland the mould
board and other parts may turn on the centre or pivot, so as to bring the
parts into such a position as in returning to throw the soil to the side opposite
to that to which it has before been thrown; this allows the return furrow to be
made close alongside the first. The mould board, share, and coulter turn
through the quarter of a circle, so that the coulter or vertical cutter of one
traverse becomes the share or horizontal cutter of the return traverse.

page_text: The implement may be rendered suitable for use as a cultivator, by fixing
the parts in an intermediate position, both the cutters, which in ploughing act
alternately as coulter and share, being then inclined to an angle of forty-fivo
from the vertical.
It will be seen that the instrument instead of turning underneath the ground,
as in some turnfurrow ploughs before constructed, turns on a centre above the
ground under the beam of the plough.
SPECIFICATION-in-pursuance-of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Bouthillier de Beaumont in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 22nd November 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
BOUTHILLIER DE BEAUMONT, of Geneva, Gentleman, send greeting..
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Henry Bouthillier de Beaumont, Her special licence that I, the said
Henry Bouthillier de Beaumont, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I,. the said Henry Bouthillier de Beaumont, 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 PLOUGHS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Henry Bouthillier de Beaumont, my, exe-
cutors 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 per-
formed, 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 Bouthillier de Beaumont, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :-

page_text: This Invention has for its object improvements in ploughs. In constructing
ploughs according to my Invention I fix together the mould: board; share, and
coulter, and 'mount the whole on a centre or pivot carried by the frame, in
such a manner that when the implement- turns at the headland the mould
board and other parts may turn on the centre or pivot so as to bring the parts
into such a position as in returning to throw the soil to the side opposite to
that to which it has before been 'thrown; this allows the return furrow to be
made close alongside the first. The mould board, share, and coulter turn
through the quarter of a circle, so that the coulter or vertical cutter of one
traverse becomes the share or horizontal cutter of the return traverse.
The implement may be rendered suitable for use as a cultivator by fixing
the parts in an intermediate position, both the cutters, which in ploughing act
alternately as coulter and share, being then inclined to an angle of forty-five
from the vertical.
It will be seen that the instrument instead of turning underneath the
ground, as in some turnfurrow ploughs before constructed, turns on a centre
above the ground under the beam of the plough.
And in order that my Invention may be most fully understood and
readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the Drawings hereunto

page_text: 13; details thereof. The mould board of this plough differs in shape from the
mould board of the plough shewn at Figures 1 and 2, it being made of a
screw shape, so that it may meet with as small a degree of resistance as
possible in turning over the ground.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Bouthillier de Beaumont, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of November, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
H. B. DE BEAUMONT. (L.S.)