IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PLOUGHS
Year: 1868

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Edward Gedge, at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 3rd December 1868.-A communication from abroad
by Jean Pierre Lattes and Raymond François Fauré, both of
37, Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle, Paris, France, to be as follows:-
I, WILLIAM EDWARD GEDGE, of the Firm of John Gedge and Son,
of No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex,
Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PLOUGHS," a communication to me
from abroad by Jean Pierre Lattes and Raymond François Fauré, both
of 37, Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle, Paris, France, to be as follows:-
These improvements consist in certain modifications of the share
and mould board, in the application to the beam, and combined stays,
props or body of a socket piece of twin wings and of a share forming
a Grecian plough, and to this same socket of a small share to form a
grubber. The beam is of wood with two plough handles or levers, fixed
by two bolts an
single piece; the two props have at the top two dons, es fomina

page_text: wooden beam and are there finally fixed by two strong bolts and nuts.
The sole carries a pivot front and back. The front pivot enters into a
hole made under the fore part of the mould board, and a hole at the
back receives the second pivot which is at the extremity of a support or
buttress, having two branches. At the other end and at the extremity
of each of these branches is a cramp iron, which hooks the mould board
by means of two fixed catch holes or staples. A rod held held by one
end fixed to a hole in the mould board enters the hole placed in front of
the spring of the branches of the buttress, and is there fixed by a nut;
it is this rod which keeps the entire arrangement in position. The
mould board being secured by the back pivot and the hook of the
buttress is fixed right or left at pleasure by means of an upper hook
placed beneath the beam and in front of the plough handles. A share
so constructed as to dispense with a coulter is tied to the mould board
by bolts and nuts. The mould board, the "sole or slade, and body or
props, are of cast iron, with steel plates riveted thereto. The nose is
of steeled iron or of steel. To turn the mould board it is only necessary
to remove the upper hook and the arms of the plough, the mould board
then turns on the pivot of the share and the hook is then replaced to
keep the mould board in its new position. To transform a turnboard
plough into a Grecian plough or into a grubber the rod is unscrewed and
the mould board removed together with the share and buttress, the
plough handle is seized, the front of the sole or slade is introduced into
the cavity of the socket piece, and the screw of the bolt of the socket
piece must enter the hole of the slade or sole, until these two pieces
are fixed with sufficient firmness. The tail of the share is passed through
the front of the socket piece to the heel of which it is fixed by means
of a pin. The twin wings are then placed on the socket piece and there
secured by means of a tie bar or strap fastened to the socket piece, and
a bolt passing over the wings enters a hole of the strap and is there
held by a long pin. To form a grubber the share and the wings must be
removed and a special share placed in the socket piece.