IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR DELIVERING MANURE FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES
Year: 1857

page_text: Westbury, Wilts, Agricultural Implement Makers, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR DELIVERING MANURE FOR AGRICULTURAL
PURPOSES."
Sealed the 3rd April 1857, and dated the 17th January 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Reeves and John
Reeves at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition,
on the 17th January 1857.
We, ROBERT REEVES and JOHN REEVES, of Bratton, Westbury, Wilts,
Agricultural Implement Makers, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR DELIVERING MANURE FOR AGRICULTURAL
PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in machinery for delivering
manure for agricultural purposes. For these purposes the manure is placed
in a suitable box or trough, mounted on a proper carriage. The box or
trough is formed with a curved bottom, and may be made with any number of
openings for the passage of the manure, and over each opening is a slide or
cover. At the lower part of the box or trough a rotating axis works, and on
this axis there are fixed inclined blades or portions of screws, such blades or.

page_text: portions of screws being each of such a width as to move the quantity of
manure desired. And the peculiarity of the Invention is, that the inclined
blades or portions of screws which are to bring up or move the quantity of
manure to an opening are inclined to the axis in opposite directions. The
manure, after it has been caused to pass through the openings of the trough or
box, may be deposited or distributed on or in the earth, as heretofore, or in any
other convenient manner.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Robert Reeves and John Reeves in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 17th July 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ROBERT
REEVES and JOHN REEVES, of Bratton, Westbury, Wilts, Agricultural Imple-
ment Makers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
Robert Reeves and John Reeves, Her special licence that we, the said Robert
Reeves and John Reeves, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as we, the said Robert Reeves and John Reeves, our 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 MACHINERY POR DELIVERING MANURE
FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we.
the said Robert Reeves and John Reeves, our executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under our or their hands and seals, or under the
hand and seal of one of us or them, 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 we, the said Robert Reeves and John Reeves, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the

page_text: same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, that is to say:-.
This Invention has for its object improvements in machinery for delivering
manure for agricultural purposes. For this purpose the manure is placed in a
suitable box or trough, mounted on a proper carriage. The box or trough is
formed with a curved bottom, and may be made with any number of openings
for the passage of the manure, and over each opening is a slide or cover. At
the lower part of the box or trough a rotating axis works, and on this axis
there are fixed inclined blades or portions of screws, such blades or portions of
screws being each of such a width as to move the quantity of manure desired.
And the peculiarity of the Invention is, that the inclined blades or portions of
screws which are to bring up or move the quantity of manure to an opening
are inclined to the axis in opposite directions. The manure after it has been
caused to pass through the openings of the trough or box may be deposited or
distributed on or in the earth, as heretofore, or in any other convenient
manner.
And in order that our said Invention may be most fully understood and
readily carried into effect, we will proceed to describe the Drawing hereunto
annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is a side view, and Figure 2 is a plan, of an ordinary seed-sowing
machine, having apparatus for delivering manure, arranged according to our
Invention, attached to it. a, a, is the frame of the machine, which is carried
by wheels in the ordinary way. On the frame a is mounted a box 6 for con-
taining seed, which is distributed in the usual manner. c is another box fixed
in front of the box b, and which is intended to contain manure; it has holes at
its lower part for the discharge of the manure into the funnels d, placed under-
neath, to receive and deposit it on the land. e is a spur wheel, mounted on the
axle of the wheels which carry the frame; the spur wheel e drives another spur
wheel f, mounted on the axis g, which passes through the manure box. On
the axis g a series of inclined blades h are mounted, as is shown in Figures 3
and 4, which show respectively a longitudinal and a transverse section of the
box c, and these blades are inclined in opposite directions, so as to drive the
manure towards the holes from the spaces between them, and over each of
the holes four blades are mounted, two inclined in one direction and two
inclined in the other direction, by which the manure over the holes is kept in
constant movement backwards and forwards. In order to regulate the dis-

page_text: charge of the manure a slide h is employed, by means of which the holes in
the box c can be closed to a greater or less extent. The slide h extends the
whole length of the box, and has formed on it two toothed arcs to work with
the pinions i on the axis j, on which also a handle k is mounted, and by this
the slide is actuated.
In witness whereof, we, the said Robert Reeves & John Reeves, have
hereunto set our 'hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of July, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
Witness,
THOMAS REEVES, Jn",
Bratton, Wilts.
ROBERT REEVES. (L.S.)
JOHN REEVES. (L.S.)