IMPROVEMENTS IN: MACHINERY TO BE WORKED BY STEAM OR OTHER POWER FOR CLEARING AND PLOUGHING LAND
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Victor Augustin Kientzy, of Paris, in the Empires
of France, Civil Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN:
MACHINERY TO BE WORKED BY STEAM OR OTHER POWER FOR CLEARING AND
PLOUGHING LAND."
Sealed the 3rd July 1857, and dated the 20th January 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Victor Augustin Kientzy
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
20th January 1857.
I, VICTOR AUGUSTIN KIENTZY, of Paris, in the Empire of France, Civil
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINERY TO BE WORKED BY STEAM OR OTHER POWER FOR CLEARING
AND PLOUGHING LAND," to be as follows:-
I employ a portable steam engine or other suitable motive power engine to
give effect to my improved machinery for ploughing or clearing land, which
engine may be supported on wheels of sufficient size and breadth to prevent
its sinking in the ground, or otherwise supported to travel over the ground by
its self-locomotion. Power is communicated to the driving wheels of the
carriage by means of chains and chain wheels, power being also communicated.
by similar means to crank shafts,, which immediately actuate the instruments.
to operate on the soil. For this purpose two crank shafts are disposed parallel.

page_text: to each other across the the breadth of and in the rear of the machine, the one
shaft being a little in the rear of the other. The parts in which the cultivating
instruments are affixed are connected with one crank of each shaft, so that on
rotary motion being imparted to one crank every part of this connecting link
performs a circular motion, and the ploughing, tilling, or clearing instruments
being fixed thereto, they also participate in this circular motion. One, two, or
more hoes or curved prongs or blades are fixed to each connecting link, disposed
either side by side, or the one in the rear of the other. When disposed in the
rear of each other I arrange the one behind to penetrate to a greater depth than
that in advance. The circular motion which these instruments perform causes
them to enter the ground and throw up the earth in a backward direction, and
thereby to invert, clear, and pulverize the earth. A series of these instrument
carriers, which each connect two cranks, are distributed across the breadth
of the machine, so as to operate on the whole breadth of soil traversed simul-
taneously; suitable cranks are formed on the cross shafts before mentioned
to support and actuate the several instrument carriers: The whole machine
progresses during the operation of the tilling instruments.
The digging instruments may be separately arranged by their fixing to the
carriers to penetrate the ground the required depth, or the driving crank shaft
may be elevated or depressed bodily, so as to elevate or depress one end of the
instrument carriers.
Instead of cranks on the carrier shafts, as before described, eccentrics may
be used, or any other mechanical means, whereby the circular movement may
be imparted to the carriers & the tilling instruments.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Victor Augustin Kientzy in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 18th July 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, VICTOR
AUGUSTIN KIENTZY, of Paris, in the Empire of France, Civil Engineer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twentieth 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 me,
the said Victor Augustin Kientzy, Her special licence that I, the said Victor
Augustin Kientzy, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others

page_text: as I, the said Victor Augustin Kientzy, 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 TO BE WORKED BY STEAM OR OTHER
POWER FOR CLEARING AND PLOUGHING LAND," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Victor Augustin Kientzy, my exccutors 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 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 Victor Augustin Kientzy, 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, reference being had to the Sheet of Drawings hereunto
annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say:-
My Invention, represented in the annexed Drawings, relates to a machine
for tilling the earth by steam, or by any other motive power.
Fig. 1 is the side elevation of the whole machine; Fig. 2, plan of the same,
with the tilling instruments, properly so called; Fig. 3, elevation of a modified
arrangement of the tilling implements; Fig. 4, plan of Fig. 3; Fig. 5, eleva-
tion of another modification in the arrangement of the tilling implements and
their driving gear; Fig. 6, plan of Fig. 5.
a, body of the portable steam engine; b, oscillating cylinders; c, main
driving shaft; d,d, driving gear for, advancing the machine; e, endless chains,
moved by one of the wheels d, and communicating the motion to the wheels f
of the apparatus; g, chain rails, carried by the rollers g', mounted on axes
fixed to the frame; these jointed rails place themselves under the wheels g to
prevent the wheels sinking into the ground. h, driving wheels of the tilling
implements; these wheels are. fixed on the main shaft c. i, endless chains,
gearing with the wheels h and communicating the motion to the tilling imple-
ments; j, driving wheels of the implements of tillage q, q,q; k, crank shaft,
on which the pulley j is mounted; this shaft is mounted in bearings fitted to
guard plates joined to the framework. 1, screws acting on the two bearings
of the shaft to raise or lower it; m, n, bevil gear, which actuates the screw
by the motion of a handwheel o¹; o, shaft connecting the two pairs of bevil
wheels m, n, for transmitting a uniform motion to screws 1, 1, in order to remier

page_text: the ascent or descent of the shaft k uniform at both ends; k¹, second crank
shaft, identical with shaft k; it is also furnished with bearings fitted to the
plates of the framing. p, rods or bars connecting the crank shafts k and k
7,7, digging tines, hoes, coulters, or any other clearing tools suited to the
state and nature of the soil.
;
Supposing the whole furnished and mounted as represented in the Drawings,
it will be readily understood that when the steam is up in the machine the
shaft will receive a rotary motion, which will cause the rods to operate, and the
tinés, hoes, or coulters to work; it will be seen that each hoe or coulter falls
and rises alternately, and that the several hoes or coulters act in succession, so
that the strain on the machine will be uniform and constant. The speed to
be given to the vehicle over the ground is calculated to advance at a proper
rate, so that the hoes and coulters may have time to take just the necessary
amount of effect on the soil. If it is wished to till to different depths the
shaft is lowered more or less by means of the screws 1.
The above method of communicating the motion to the acting implements
is very simple and substantial. For particular purposes the following arrange-
'ment, represented at Fig. 3, may be substituted for the arrangement before
described is the driving shaft of the hoes or implements for clearing the
lands; it receives the motion from the pulley h, as before described. r, cams
mounted on the shaft k; s, hoe or coulter frames, each furnished with a truck
or roller s¹, on which the cams r take effect; t, crank shaft, fitted in bearings
fixed to guard plates, which shaft receives rotary motion; u, cranks connecting
the shaft t with the frames s of the tilling implements q; v, lever arm sup-
porting the upper part of the jointed frames to keep them in their upright
position; x, horizontal shaft on which the levers v are placed.
The parts being arranged as described, and represented in the Drawing, the
cams force the hoes or coulters g into the soil, and when they have performed
this the shaft t throws the frames in a backward direction by drawing it with
its crank u, the subsequent action of another cam r on the adjoining frame s
producing the further rotary motion of the shaft t, or if the shaft t receive the
motion direct it will actuate the implement in the same way.
Lastly, the third arrangement, for actuating the hoes or coulters is repre-
sented at Figs. 5 and 6. The shafts k and k¹ are such as before described,
but instead of cranks have excentrics y, y, connected by the excentric rings
and rods,, which maneuvre the tilling implements, and produce the action
of the machine exactly the same as that of the machine described with refer-
ence to Fig. 1.
Having described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in which the
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page_text: same is or may be carried into effect, I declare that what I claim as my
Invention, intended to be protected by the herein-before in part recited Letters
Patent, is, the machine for tilling and clearing land, herein-before described,
characterised by the motion given to the implements of work, either by means
of two crank or eccentric shafts coupled, or, lastly, by means of the cranks and
cams, combined and arranged all as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Victor Augustin Kientzy, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
V. A. KIENTZY. (L.S.)