AN IMPROVEDD DRILLING MACHINE FOR DRILLING BEANS, TURNIPS; PEASE, PULSE, CORN, AND SEEDS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION
Year: 1815

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
MADELEY, of the Parish of Yardley, in the County of Worcester; Farmer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-seventh day of July,
in the fifty-fifth year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said William
Madeley, my executors, admors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power,
sole privilege and authority, that I, the said William Madeley, my exors,
admors, and assigns, during the term of years therein mentioned, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN IMPROVEDD DRILLING
MACHINE FOR DRILLING BEANS, TURNIPS; PEASE, PULSE, CORN, AND SEEDS OF EVERY
DESCRIPTION;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso that if
I, the said William Madeley, shall not particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, by an instrument in writing under my hand' and seal, and cause the
same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages
whatsoever thereby granted, shall utterly cease, determine, and become void,

page_text: as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Madeley, do declare that my said improvement in the making
and construction of drilling machines are described and specified in manner
following, reference being had to the Figures or Drawings (that is to
say):-
That instead of the usual method of drilling through holes or channels in
the seed wheel, I have invented a taper kind of seed hole, or cap in the same,
that will admit but one seed, grain, or pulse at a time, which will deliver the
same into the conductor, to deposit the same at any given depth or distance
that may be required. And as this peculiar sort of seed hole is entirely an
invention of my own, I am desirous of maintaining this my exclusive right
and privilege.
Reference to the Drawings hereunto annexed, to Figure 1 machine:-0, wood
frame with two beams and stilts; 1, iron bend and hook to draw machine;
2, front wheel and spindle; 3, large wheels and main spindle; 4, glands to
screw frame to main spindle; 5, seed wheel, socket, and glands, as in Figure 3,
main spindle passing through them, to which they are screwd, and slide
along to any distance required, a groove in the socket over where the seed passes
to prevent it from crushing; 6, seed hopper, with brush screw'd to iron,
standard inside. hopper, and screw'd firm upon the wheel, which keeps back
all the seeds or grains except the one that the hole in seed wheel takes;
7, brush screw'd under frame to keep seed. wheel clear; 8, plough, which lets
in the seed; 9, conducting pipe for the seed behind the plough. This machine
moves upon three wheels, made of cast iron, or any other proper material,
which stand in a triangular form. To set it to work, if you cross the lands,
begin at furrow, leaving one land to turn upon, bearing on stilts to keep the
weight on the two large wheels; to turn, lift up the stilts whilst the horse
turns, which throws the weight on front wheel and stops the seed; when
turned, drop the stilts and bear on as before, keeping the wheels along the
same mark it made when coming the other way. One frame may be made
to answer for beans, peas, and all other grain by shifting seed wheels; but
turnip seeds requiring brass wheels, and sockets, or wheels or sockets of any
other proper material on a small scale, and small spindle, must be a frame for
that alone.
Reference to Figure 2-No. 1. Brush screw'd to stand, and which keeps
back all the seed or grains, except, the one in the hole the seed wheel takes;
2, main spindle; 3, seed wheel; 4, hole in seed wheel for receiving a seed;

page_text: 5, socket and glands; 6, beans; 7, brush screw'd upon frame, to keep seed
wheel clear; 8, plough.
Reference to Figure 3, seed wheel.-4, hole for receiving seeds; 9, hole
through which spindle passes.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-
second day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and sixteen.