Im- PROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR DIBBLING WHEAT AND OTHER GRAIN OR SEEDS AND MANURE
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Clarke, Master of the Newmarket Union
House, Exning, in the County of Suffolk, for the Invention of "Im-
PROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR DIBBLING WHEAT AND OTHER GRAIN OR SEEDS
AND MANURE."
Sealed the 5th October 1858, and dated the 27th May 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Clarke at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 27th
May 1858.
I, CHARLES CLARKE, Master of the Newmarket Union House, Exning, in
the County of Suffolk, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for
IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR DIBBLING WHEAT AND OTHER GRAIN OR SEEDS
AND MANURE," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in machinery for dibbling
wheat and other grain or seeds and manure. For these purposes a series of
dibbies are set round on the periphery of a wheel at equal distances apart,
so as to project therefrom a distance equal to that which is to be the depth the
dibbles are to penetrate into the land. Each dibble is arranged to move on an
axis in such manner that as the dibble enters and is pressed into the land
by the rotation of the wheel, the dibble shall rotate on its own axis.
In order to deposit seed or grain and manure in the holes thus made, two
apparatus are used in combination with the wheel of dibbles, one of which

page_text: contains the seed or grain and the other the manure, and to each of such
apparatus is applied a funnel or tin having a valve at its lower end, which is
opened and closed as the wheel is moved. The funnel or tin of one apparatus
supplies the seed or grain, and the funnel or tin of the other apparatus
supplies the manure to the holes produced by the dibbles.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Clarke in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
27th November 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
CLARKE, Master of the Newmarket Union House, Exning, in the County of
Suffolk, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Iler heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Charles Clarke, IIer special licence that I, the said Charles Clarke, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles
Clarke, 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, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MA-
CHINERY FOR DIBBLING WHEAT AND OTHER GRAIN OR SEEDS AND MANURE," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Charles Clarke, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same 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 Clarke, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in machinery for dibbling
wheat and other grain or seeds and manure. For these purposes a series of

page_text: dibbles are set round on the periphery of a wheel at equal distances apart, so as
to project therefrom a distance equal to that which is to be the depth the dibbles
are to penetrate into the land. Each dibble is arranged to move on an axis
in such manner that as the dibble enters and is pressed into the land by the
rotation of the wheel, the dibble shall rotate on its own axis.
In order to deposit secd or grain and manure in the holes thus made, two
apparatus are used in combination with the wheel of dibbles, one of which
contains the seed or grain and the other the manure, and to each of such
apparatus is applied a funnel or tin having a valve at its lower end, which is
opened and closed as the wheel is moved. The funnel or tin of one apparatus
supplies the seed or grain, and the funnel or tin of the other apparatus supplies
the manure to the holes produced by the dibbles.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
In each of these
Figure 1 shews a side clevation of a dibbling machine combined according
to my Invention Figure 2 shews a longitudinal section of part of the
machine; Figure 3 shews a transverse section of the wheel or cylinder
carrying the dibbles; and Figure 4 shews a side view of the cylinder or wheel
which carries the dibbles, the side wheels being removed.
views the same letters are used to indicate the same parts.
The cylinder or wheel, as shewn is the Drawing, is arranged to carry two
rows of dibbles, but this may be varied. A, A, is the dibble wheel or cylinder;
B. B, are the dibbles, the outer ends of which may be made of a spherical or
conical or other suitable shape. On the stems of each of the dibbles is a
spring, arranged to bring back the dibble after it has been caused to mako
a partial revolution; C is the shaft or axle of the dibble wheel, which turns
in suitable bearings; D, D, are two side plates fixed to the side framing E, E.
On the axle C is a crank F, which by the connecting rod G gives motion to
the axle of the seed apparatus, which consists of a wheel or disc I having
cups thereon, which deliver seed from the seed box I into the spouts J, which
are arranged in a suitable manner to deliver the seed at intervals, so that it
will fall into the holes made by the dibbles. I is one of the two wheels
on which the machine moves. By this arrangement of machinery or appa-
ratus it will be seen that as the machine is moved or pushed along by the
handles L the dibbles will in succession make two rows of holes, and in doing
so each dibble will in coming out of the land make a partial rotation, by
reason of there being a lever or arm which comes against a projection

page_text: or incline on the fixed side plates D, and the dibbles as they rise from the
land strike against the projections of the valves in the spouts J, and so
opeu the valves which at other times are kept closed by springs j'.
Ilaving thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that I make no claim to any
of the mechanical parts separately; but what I claim is the combination
herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Clarke, bave hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
CHARLES CLARKE. (L.9.)
Witness,
S. CARPMAEL.