Improvement for Pressing Land to be Attached to the Swing or Furrow Wheel of Turn-wrest Ploughs with Revolving Mould Boards for Right and Left Hand Ploughing.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Jan., 1887..
Complete Left, 8th Jan., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 15th Mar., 1887
Improvement for Pressing Land to be Attached to the Swing or
Furrow Wheel of Turn-wrest Ploughs with Revolving Mould
Boards for Right and Left Hand Ploughing.
RICHARD HENRY WILLIAMS Agricultural Implement Maker -Liskeard, Cornwall, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Ploughs of the class to which this invention applies turn their furrow .slices in
ridges thereby causing more labour to get the land into cultivation and in order to
remedy this defect, attached to, and working in connection with the swing or furrow
wheel is a wide wheel running obliquely and pressing against the furrow slice last
turned over, and moving it to make room for the next slice to lay perfectly flat by its
side, and in its turn to be pressed and so continued throughout the field. The swing or
furrow wheel axle is extended to admit of a sliding boss with set screw, for regulating
the distance of the land pressing wheel from the swing or furrow wheel, thus causing
the furrow slice to be more or less pressed, to this boss a bar is attached to which is
fixed the oblique wheel for pressing the furrow slice.
R. H. WILLIAMS.

page_text: Improvement for Pressing Land to be Attached to the Swing or
Furrow Wheel of Turn-wrest Ploughs (with Revolving Mould
Boards) for Right and Left Hand Ploughing.
RICHARD HENRY WILLIAMS Agricultural Implement Maker Liskeard, Cornwall, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement
Ploughs of the class to which this invention applies, turn their furrow slices in ridges
thereby causing more labour to get the land into cultivation and in order to remedy
this defect, attached and working in connection with the swing or furrow wheel is a-
cone or taper wheel running obliquely and pressing against the furrow slice last
turned over and moving it to make room for the next slice to lay perfectly flat by its
side and in turn be pressed and so continue throughout the field. The swing or
furrow wheel axle is extended to admit of a sliding boss with set screw for regulating
the distance of the land pressing wheel from the swing or furrow wheel, thus causing
the furrow slice to be more or less pressed. To this boss a bar is attached to which is
fixed the oblique wheel for pressing the furrow slice last turned over and fitted with a
sliding boss with set screw for raising or lowering the said wheel as may be required.
Refering to the sheet of drawings hereunto annexed and figured respectively
Fig. I is an elevation of the land pressing wheel and attachments. A the furrow or
swing wheel. B is the sliding bosses. C the land pressing wheel.
Fig. II is a plan of the land pressing wheel and attachments.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention
and in what manner the same is to be preformed, I declare that what I claim is
The Land Pressing Wheel or any mere modification of the same attached to the
swing or furrow wheel of the Impliment known as the Turn Wrist Plough (with
revolving mould boards) and by which the furrow slices are laid perfectly flat and pressed
together.