IMPROVEMENTS IN IMPLEMENTS FOR TILLING AND PREPARING LAND FOR CROPS
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Smith, of Little Woolstone, in the
County of Bucks, Farmer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN IMPLEMENTS FOR TILLING AND PREPARING LAND FOR CROPS."
Sealed the 16th November 1853, and dated the 13th September 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Smith at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 13th September 1853.
I, WILLIAM SMITII, of Little Woolstone, in the County of Bucks,
Farmer, do hereby declare that the nature of my Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN IMPLEMENTS FOR TILLING AND PREPARING LAND FOR CROPS"
to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of combining implements such as I have before
used as a subsoil plough into one. For this purpose a frame or body
with handles similar to what has before been used is employed, on
either side of which is applied another frame or body, but without
handles, and the three are fixed by a transverse beam or framing. The
fore parts of the three frames or bodies are also combined by a second
transverse beam or framing. Each of the three bodies or frames has
a cutter similar to what has before been used for subsoiling, and its
stem is capable of adjustment, and it has a draft rod or chain passing

page_text: thro' an eye above the framing or body. Each of the three frames or
bodies has a wheel capable of adjustment. The three draft rods or
chains are connected to a bar by links in front, and this bar receives
the whipple tree. The bar has chains or links from it passing thro'
adjustable eyes below and near to the guiding handles in order that
the man may act on the bar in going about. Altho' I prefer three
implements, such as above described, combined into one, other numbers
may be used.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Smith in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 13th March 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
WILLIAM SMITH, of Little Woolstone, in the County of Bucks, Farmer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight bundred and fifty-three, in the
seventeenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said William Smith, Her special
licence that I, the said William Smith, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Smith, 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 IMPLEMENTS FOR TILLING AND PREPARING LAND FOR CROPS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Smith, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, 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 im-
mediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Smith, do hereby declare

page_text: the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement thereof (that is to say):
This Invention consists of combining implements such as I have
before used as a subsoil plough into one. For this purpose a frame or
body with handles, similar to what has before been used, is employed,
on either side of which is applied another frame or body, but without
handles, and the three are fixed by a transverse beam or framing. The
four parts of the three frames or bodies are also combined by a second
transverse beam or framing. Each of the three bodies or frames has a
cutter similar to what has before been used for subsoiling, and its stem
is capable of adjustment, and it has a draft rod or chain passing
through an eye above the framing or body. Each of the three frames
or bodies has a wheel capable of adjustment. The three draft rods or
chains are connected to a bar by links in front, and this bar receives
the whipple tree. The bar has chains or links from it, and passing
through adjustable eyes below near to the guiding handles in order
that the men may act on the bar in going about. Although I prefer
three implements, such as above described, combined into one, other
numbers may be used.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention, I will proceed to
describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1, shows a plan; Figure 2, a side view; and Figure 3, a
back view, of a machine constructed according to my Invention.
a, a, a, are three implements such as have before been used by me for
tilling land, and separately I do not now claim them as new; and I
would state that the form of the point or part which cuts into the
earth may be varied.
My present improvements consist of the manner of combining a
series of such implements into one, and this is done in the following
manner: The middle implement is the only one of the three which
has handles b, b; the frames or bodies of the other two are, however,
c, c, are two cross
in all other respects like the middle or central one.
or transverse beams, which combine the bodies or frames of the three

page_text: implements a, a, a, into one by means of screws, as shown; but this
may be varied, and although the body or frame of each implement is
shown to be single, they may, if preferred, be double. d, d, d, are
draft chains or rods fixed to the stems of cutting or tilling instru-
ments, as shown, and the fore part of each of these draft chains or
rods passes through an eye e, fixed in the bar f, which connects the fore
ends of the beams or bodies of the implements a, a, a, as is shown.
9,9, are two wheels, one to each of the outer two of the implements
a, a, and in some cases in stiff land each of the implements a, has its
wheel as shown in the plan Figure 1, by dotted lines. h, is a whipple
tree attached to the front bar f, as shown; and i, i, are chains for
inclining the whipple tree to one or other side, and the chains are
hooked up accordingly at j.j.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner
of performing the same, I would have it understood that I do not con-
fine myself to the details herein shown and described, as other numbers
of implements may be combined. But what I claim is, the combina-
tion of several implements a, into one machine or implement, as herein
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Smith, have hereunto
set my hand and scal, this Sixth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four:
Witness,
WILLIAM SMITH. (L.S.)
WILLIAM POWELL, Sol",
Newport Pagnel, Bucks,
A Commissioner to administer Oaths
in Chancery in England.