IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR GIVING MOTION TO PLOUGHS AND OTHER IMPLEMENTS USED FOR CULTIVATING LAND
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Fowler, junior, of Bristol, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR GIVING MOTION TO PLOUGHS AND OTHER
IMPLEMENTS USED FOR CULTIVATING LAND."
Scaled the 25th March 1856, and dated the 3rd Jannary 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Fowler at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 3rd January
1856.
JOHN FOWLER, junior, of Bristol, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR GIVING MOTION TO PLOUGHS
AND OTHER IMPLEMENTS USED FOR CULTIVATING LAND" to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of a peculiar combination of machinery for giving
motion to ploughs and other implements used for cultivating land. For this
purpose, two capstans or barrels on upright or other axes are combined on the
same base plate or frame, and they receive motion from a steam engine in
such manner that when one of the barrels is being driven to wind on the wire
rope used therewith, the other barrel is allowed to run free, and to unwind the
wire rope. The wire rope is attached at either end to the upright or other
barrels or capstans, and is passed through two guide pulleys anchored or fixed

page_text: to the land opposite to, yet distant from, cach other, and also distant from the
two barrels. A plough or ploughs or other implements are attached to the
wire rope at that part which is between the two guide pulleys, so that when
the wire rope is being wound on to one of the barrels and off the other, the
plough or ploughs or other implements will be moved in a direction from one
guide pulley towards the other, to the distance desired; and then when tho
action of the barrels is reversed, the plough or ploughs or other implements
will be moved in the opposite direction; and by varying the positions of the
two guide pulleys from time to time, the whole surface of the land may bo
ploughed or otherwise.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Fowler in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
3rd July 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
FOWLER, junior, of Bristol, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Third day of. January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said John Fowler, Her special licence that I, the said John Fowler, my
cxccutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
John Fowler, 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
MACHINERY FOR GIVING MOTION TO PLOUGHS AND OTHER. IMPLEMENTS USED FOR
CULTIVATING LAND," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
John Fowler, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and scals, 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
Scal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after.
the date of the said Letters Patent.
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page_text: • NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Fowler, do hereby declare the,
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention consists of a peculiar combination of machinery for giving
motion to ploughs and other implements used for cultivating land. For this
purpose, two capstans or barrels on upright or other axes are combined on
the same base plate or frame, and they receive motion from a steam engine, in
such manner that when one of the barrels is being driven to wind on the wire
rope used therewith, the other barrel is allowed to run free, and to unwind the
wire rope. The wire rope is attached at either end to the upright or other
barrels or capstans, and is passed through two guide pulleys anchored or fixed
to the land opposite to, yot distant from, each other, and also distant from the
two barrels. A plough or ploughs or other implements are attached to the wire
rope at that part which is between the two guide pulleys, so that when the
wire rope is being wound on to one of the barrels and off the other the plough
or ploughs or other implements will be moved in a direction from one guide
pulley towards the other, to the distance; desired and then when the action of
the barrels is reversed, the plough or ploughs or other implements will be
moved in the opposite direction; and by varying the positions of the two guide
pulleys from time to time, the whole surface of the land may be ploughed or
otherwise.
And in order that my said Invention may be most fully understood and
Figure 1 shows a side view of a frame a, a, carried by two wheels b, b, when
being moved from place to place; c, c, are two upright barrels or capstans
on to and off which the wire rope d, d, is alternately wound; e is an endless
chain by which motion is given to the barrels by a portable engine placed
and anchored to the land near where the machinery shown in the Drawing is
anchored or fixed to the land. The machinery shown is arranged with shafts
to receive a horse or horses. e' is the chain whicel to which motion is com-
municated from the steam engine. The chain wheel is fixed on the axis f,
and such motion is communicated to one or other of the upright barrels by
means of the gearing shown, or by other convenient means, the other barrel
meanwhile running free to allow the wire rope to be unwound therefrom.

page_text: 9, 9, are two pulleys which are fixed to the land by by anchors, or by other
suitable means. The plough or tilling implement is attached to the wire
rope intermediate of the two pulleys 9, 9, and the pulleys are moved from
time to time a distance according to that at which the next and the next
ploughing is to take place.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Fowler, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
S. CARPMAEL.
JOHN FOWLER, JUN. (L.S.)