An Implement for Hoeing or Harrowing Land.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Oct., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 24th July, 1891-Accepted, 26th Sept., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Implement for Hoeing or Harrowing Land.
I, HENRY HARRIS, of 1 Station Street, Boston, in the County of Lincoln,
Hay and Straw Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in horse hoes which may also be used as
harrows.
A horse hoe constructed according to my invention comprises a shaft mounted in
a frame or carriage running on wheels and provided with suitable means of adjust-
ment in order to allow of regulating the height of the said shaft from the ground.
The said shaft is driven by any suitable means from the said wheels, and has
mounted upon it a number of bosses, radial arms or discs adapted on their ends or
peripheries to carry hoes. Or I may provide the. said bosses, arms or discs with
hoes and teeth or tines alternately; or if the implement is to be used as a harrow
alone, then with teeth or tines only.
By this arrangement it will be obvious that as the implement is moving forward
the said hoes will revolve and hoe the land, or hoe and harrow it, or harrow it as
the case may be.
Suitable means are provided for varying the speed of rotation of the shaft carry-
ing the hoes.
The bosses, arms or discs carrying the hoes or tines are made adjustable in order
to adapt the implement to the different kinds of work.
Dated the 24th day of October 1800.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Implement for Hoeing or Harrowing Land.
I, HENRY HARRIS, of 99, West Street, Boston, in the County of Lincoln,
Hay and Straw Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to improvements in horse hoes which may also be used as
harrows.
A horse hoc constructed according to my invention comprises a shaft mounted in
a frame or carriage running on wheels and provided with suitable means of adjust-
ment in order to allow of regulating the height of the said shaft from the ground.
The said shaft is driven by any suitable means from the said wheels, and has mounted
upon it a number of bosses, radial arms or discs adapted on their ends or peripheries
to carry hoes. Or I may provide the said bosses, arms or discs with hoes and
chisel teeth or tines alternately; or if the implement is to be used as a harrow
alone, then with teeth or tines only.
By this arrangement it will be obvious that as the implement is moving forward
the said bosses will revolve and hoe the land, or hoe and harrow it, or harrow it, as
the case may be..
To enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe the same with
reference to the accompanying drawings, in which :-
:-
Figure 1 is a plan of a horse hoe constructed according to my invention :

page_text: Figure 2 is a side elevation of the same; and,
Figure 3 is a rear elevation.
a indicates the framework or carriage of the implement, , the travelling wheels,
and the shafts for the horse.
C
d is the shaft carrying the hoes e, e, the said shaft, as shewn, being carried in
bearings in the ends of two arms 9, 9, the other ends of the said arms being
supported upon the axle of the travelling wheels. The shaft d also passes through
two bushes i, i connected to chains j, j provided with screws and nuts in such
a manner, that the position of the said shaft d relatively to the ground may be
adjusted.
The hoes, e are carried by arms 1, 1 secured to or cast into bosses m, m upon the
shaft d.
As shewn, the shaft d with its hoes is adapted to be operated by gear-wheels n, o, p,
the two former being secured to the shaft h and to the shaft d respectively, while
the latter is mounted between two of the arms g, g, but it is to be understood that
motion may be imparted to the said shaft by means of sprocket wheels and a chain
or by any other desirable means, or motion may be communicated thereto through
the medium of an intermediate shaft.
q is a stirrup carried by the shaft d and provided with a socket r to receive the
standard of a steering wheel s. t is a handle keyed to the standards and serving
to move the same to steer the implement.
In some cases 1 form each of the arms l, in two parts connected by bolts to
permit of adjusting the length of the arms to suit various kinds of work.
I sometimes find it advantageous, for instance when hoeing wheat, to provide for
protecting the growing plants and this I accomplish by arranging between the hoes
inverted U-shaped shields, for instance as indicated at u in Figure 3 the said shields
being supported or carried by a suitable bar or frame not shewn.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A horse hoe comprising a rotating shaft mounted upon a carriage, and having
a series of arms carrying hoes, the said shaft with its hoes being rotated from the
shaft of the travelling wheels of the carriage through the medium of suitable
gearing, substantially as described.
2. A horse hoe constructed and arranged substantially in the manner herein-
before described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated the 24th day of July 1891
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.