CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN FIELD AND GARDEN HOES AND OTHER LIKE IMPLEMENTS
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Field, of the Firm of Field and Westwood
of Oldbury, in the County of Worcester, File and Light Horti-
cultural and Agricultural Implement Manufacturers, for the Inven-
tion of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN FIELD AND GARDEN HOES AND OTHER
LIKE IMPLEMENTS.”
Scaled the 21st February 1873, and dated the 26th August 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Field at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
26th August 1872.
I, JOHN FIELD, of the Firm of Field and Westwood, of Oldbury, in
the County of Worcester, File and Light Horticultural and Agricultural
Implement Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of my said
Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN FIELD, AND GARDEN HOES AND OTHER
LIKE IMPLEMENTS," to be as follows (that is to say) :—.
My improvements in the manufacture of the description of articles
named in the title, consist in shaping or forming the blades separate,

page_text: permitting them to be ground in the flat and thinned at the lower or
cutting edge, while I purpose forming the sockets for receiving the
handles from malleable cast iron, varying the shape, size, and length of
the eye according to the description of hoe or implement so constructed,
the said socket being united and fixed to the blade by rivets or other
valent manna
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, ]
filed by the said John Field in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 25th February 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
FIELD, of the Firm of Field and Westwood, of Oldbury, in the County
of Worcester, File and Light Horticultural and Agricultural Implement 1
Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenth-sixth day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-
sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, 2
give and grant unto the said John Field, Her special license that I,
the said John Field, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said John Field, 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, 2
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Mau, an Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN IN FIELD
AND GARDEN HOES AND OTHER LIKE IMPLEMENTS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said John Field, by an instrument in writing under 3
my hand and scal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be per-
formed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office

page_text: within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Field, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement (that is to say) :-
My improvements in the manufacture of the description of articles
named in the title consist in shaping or forming the blades of such or
like implements separate, permitting them to be ground in the flat and
thinned at the lower or cutting edge, while I purpose forming the
sockets for receiving the handles from malleable cast iron, varying the
shape, size, and length of the eye and languet, according to the descrip-
tion of hoe or implement so constructed, the said socket being united
and fixed to the blade by rivets or other equivalent means.
By these simple improvements I am enabled to greatly. economise the
cost of production and secure an uniform quality and temper of steel
used in the blades of hoes or other similar implements so produced.
But in order that I may be more fully understood as to the nature of
my Invention, I will refer to the Drawing hereunto annexed, in which
Fig. 1 represents the eye and languet as formed of malleable cast iron;
and Figs. 2 and 3 are front and side views of the same attached to steel
blades marked A and A, A, by rivets passing through the holes of the
languet and corresponding holes in the said blades, the closing or rivet-
ting over of the same completes the union and the hoe ready for receiving
the handle, and without elaborating the Drawing it will be readily seen
that while combining the eye for handling with the tempered steel for
use and endurance, the eye and languet may be varied in shape and
readily adapted for other light, field, or garden implements, such as path
scrapers or spuds for weeding, as well as for garden trowels for potting
or planting, the eye being simply formed in a direction with the languet
suitable for receiving a handle in accordance with its uses.
.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention and the manner of
giving effect to the same, I wish it understood that what I claim and
wish to protect by these my in part recited Letters Patent is, the con-
struction of hoes and other like field and garden implements, of a thin
-

page_text: blade of steel fixed or attached by rivetting or other equivalent means to
a-malleable cast-iron eye and languet, shaped for applying and receiving
a wood handle, by which such implements may be held when in use as
herein described.
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In witness whereof, I, the. said. John Field, have hereunto set t
my hand and scal, this Twenty-fifth day: of: February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three
Witness,
JAMES S. COCKINGS,
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Patent Agent,
Birmingham.
JOHN FIELD. (L.S.).