IMPROVE- MENTS IN IMPLEMENTS FOR CULTIVATING LAND."
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Peters Moody, of Corton Denham, in
the County of Somerset, Yeoman, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN IMPLEMENTS FOR CULTIVATING LAND."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Peters Moody
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 21st June 1873.
I, CHARLES PETERS MOODY, of Corton Denham, in the County of
5 Somerset, Yeoman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN IMPLEMENTS FOR CULTIVATING LAND," to be as
follows:-
My Invention of improvements in implements for cultivating land
consists in combining in one implement a roller or clod crusher with
onc or more cultivators, scarifiers, broad share ploughs, or other
analogous implement for stirring or breaking up the land.
In carrying out my Invention I prefer to use a grooved roller about
three feet long, and mounted in slotted bearings, in which it may rise

page_text: and fall according to the inequalities of the ground. On each side of
this roller I place a "cultivator" or other analogous implement about
three feet long, so that the combined implement will act simultaneously
upon a picce of ground nine feet in width.
The combined implements are adapted to one frame, which is mounted
on wheels or castors, so that it may be drawn over the ground either by
horse or steam power.
In place of the grooved roller a clod crusher or other analogous
implement may be employed, and instead of placing this implement
between two cultivators a single cultivator may be placed between two
rollers or clod crushers, the object of the Invention being that two
distinct operations on the ground may be carried on simultaneously.
When therefore the combined implement has been drawn across the
field it will be found that three strips of ground, each three feet wide,
have been operated upon, the centre one of which will be simply rolled,
while the outside strips will have been tilled or stirred by the cultivators.
On the return of the implement one of the cultivators will operate on
the rolled strip, and the roller will operate upon one of the tilled strips,
while the other cultivator will till or stir up a fresh strip of ground,
which in its turn will be rolled at the next operation, and so on through-
out the field.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Peters Moody in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 20th December 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES 2
PETERS MOODY, of Corton Denham, in the County of Somerset, Yeoman,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the 3
thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Charles Peters Moody,
Her special licence that I, the said Charles Peters Moody, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said

page_text: Charles Peters Moody, 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, usc, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and
Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN IMPLEMENTS FOR
CULTIVATING LAND," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Charles Peters Moody, my executors 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 samo 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 Charles Peters Moody, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement, reference being had to the
Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the letters and figures marked
thercon (that is to say) :-
My Invention of "Improvements in Implements for Cultivating Land"
consists in combining in one implement a roller or clod crusher with one
or more cultivators, scarifiers, broad share ploughs, or other analogous
implement for stirring or breaking up the land.
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In carrying out my Invention I prefer to use a grooved roller or a
clod crusher (similar to Cambridge's or Croskill's clod crusher) about
three fect long, and mounted in slotted bearings, in which it may riso
and fall according to the inequalities of the ground. On each side of
this roller I place a “cultivator” (similar to that known as Clay's
scarifier) or other analogous implement about three feet long, so that
the combined implement will act simultaneously upon a picce of ground
ninc fect in width.
In the accompanying Drawing I have shown the combined implement
in sectional elevation and plan view, Fig. 1 being a sectional elevation,
and Fig. 2 a plan view.
A represents a "Cambridge" clod crusher, and B, B', are two scarifiers
similar to Clay's cultivator These implements are adanted to

page_text: frame C, which is mounted on and carried by a double front wheel D
and two back wheels or castors D', D', so that it may be drawn over the
ground either by horse or steam power. The clod crusher A is mounted
in sliding bearings a, a, fitted to slide up and down in the slotted
parts c, c, of the frame C. The tines of the scarifiers B, B', are hung
upon axle bars b, b, which are carried in bearings bolted to the frame C,
and are capable of being raised from the ground (as shewn by dotted
lines in Fig. 1) when out of work and travelling along a road. These
parts are raised by the handles E, but when the cultivator is at work (as
shewn by the drawn lines in Fig. 1) the handles E are to be held down
by the weights e. This combined implement may be used with either
horse or steam power. When steam power is used the hauling rope is
attached to the bolt ring F, and the front double wheels are steered by
the handle G, the slack rope being carried and guided by projecting
rope guides C*, C*; and the guide roller and pin C¹ and C². It will thus
be seen that the instrument is capable of being used with facility and
great advantage by steam power, and of performing the usual horse
work on land which has previously been ploughed or cultivated before
the removal of the hauling tackle. When therefore the combined
implement has been drawn across the field it will be found that three
strips of ground, each three feet wide, have been operated upon, the
centre one of which will be simply rolled, while the outside strips will
have been tilled or stirred by the cultivators. On the return of the
implement in the contrary direction one of the cultivators B or B¹ will
operate on the rolled strip over which the roller has passed, and this
latter will operate on one of the tilled strips, while the other or outer-
most cultivator will till or stir up a fresh strip of ground, which in its
turn will be rolled at the next operation, and so on throughout the field.
By this means great advantages are obtained, viz., three distinct
operations are accomplished by once laying out the hauling tackle,
which operations are carried on simultaneously. Moreover only a narrow
headland is required for turning, and as the implement turns at the
land's end no time is lost in false bouts in order to get the implement
into position. By this arrangement less movement for the travelling
anchors is required.

page_text: Having now described my Invention of "Improvements in Implements
for Cultivating Land," and having explained the manner of carrying the
same into effect, I claim as the Invention secured to me by Letters
Patent as aforesaid, combining in one implement or in one framework a
roller or clod crusher with one or more cultivators, scarifiers, broad
share ploughs, or other analogous instrument, or one of these latter
instruments with two rollers or clod crushers, as and for the purpose
herein set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Peters Moody, have here-
unto set my hand and scal, the Eighteenth day of December, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.
Witness,
GEORGE BRINE.
CHARLES PETERS MOODY. (L.S.)