IMPROVEMENTS AGRICULTURAL
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Lander, of Mere, in the County of
Somerset, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS AGRICULTURAL
"
IN
Scaled the 26th April 1876, and dated the 5th November 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Lander at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
5th November 1875.
I, HENRY LANDER, of Mere, in the County of Somerset, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN AGRI-
CULTURAL IMPLEMENTS COMMONLY CALLED COLLECTORS," to be as follows:-
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The improvements have for their object the better collection of hay,
straw, corn, and other agricultural produce from or off rough and
uneven ground, and in and from ditches, furrows, and such like, and
consist in the application to existing "collector" machines, or to those
to be made for the purpose, of jointed or hinged teeth, so constructed
that when the "collector passes over inequalities in the ground one or
"

page_text: more teeth shall rise and fall, and glide over the surface of such
inequalities.
The improvements may be performed by making the teeth of metal or
wood, or of both combined, so fixed in the machine, and of such a
weight that their ends shall always rest on the ground or nearly so, and 5
having their joint so arranged that the inequalities of the ground may
cause the teeth to rise and fall by the travelling movement of the
collector.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henry Lander in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 4th May 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
LANDER, of Mere, in the County of Wilts, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters] Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
-five, in the
thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Henry Lander, Her special
licenso that I, the said Henry Lander, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry Lander, 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
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS COMMONLY CALLED COLLECTORS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Henry Lander, my executors or admi-
nistrators, 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 Lander, do hereby declare

page_text: performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :-
The improvements have for their object the better collection of hay,
straw, corn, and other agricultural produce from or off rough and
uneven ground, and in and from ditches, furrows, and such like, and
consist in the application to existing "collector" machines, or to those
to be made for the purpose, of jointed or hinged teeth, so constructed that
when the "collector" passes over inequalities in the ground one or
more teeth shall rise and fall, and glide over the surface of such
inequalities.
The improvements may be performed by making the teeth of metal or
wood, or of both combined, so fixed in the machine, and of such a
weight that their ends shall always rest on the ground or nearly so, and
having their joint so arranged that the inequalities of the ground may
cause the teeth to rise and fall by the travelling movement of the
collector.
The accompanying Drawing will serve to show further how my In-
vention may be performed. It will be observed that the bottom of the
hinged tooth b is so curved that on its impinging on any surface it will
rise with it up to the extent shown, and on passing over the obstruction
said tooth will fall to its normal position. It is obvious that the improved
jointed tooth can be fixed on machines in many ways; also, that the joint
may be modified without departing from the spirit of my Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Lander, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Third day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.