IMPROVE- MENTS IN MACHINERY FOR TILLING LAND
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Hayes, of Stoney Stratford, in the
County of Buckingham, Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINERY FOR TILLING LAND."
Sealed the 12th April 1876, and dated the 19th October 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Hayes at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
19th October 1875.
I, EDWARD HAYES, of Stoney Stratford, in the County of Bucking-
ham, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR TILLING LAND," to be as follows:-
My improvements relate to a self-moving anchor, that is to say, an
anchor which is moved by the pressure of the traction rope during the
passage of the plough or other implement across the field. The frame
of the said anchor is made of but one girder, being secured to two
wrought axles, which axles are mounted on four wheels.
The shaft of the grooved pulley, around which the rope passes in
working the implement, is provided with a slotted wheel or crank fixed

page_text: on to this same shaft. Into this slotted wheel is fitted one or more studs
secured in the slot by a nut, these studs working one or more connecting
rods which work a ratchet and ratchet wheel, which ratchet can be
readily set to take one or more teeth.
The ratchet wheel is secured on to a vertical shaft, on which shaft is
fixed a worm working a worm wheel which conveys motion to the drum,
on which is coiled the rope to secure the anchor from running forward
only as the said rope is uncoiled by the action of the ratchet wheel. By
this arrangement I secure a ready means of moving the anchor to any
required distance to suit any size field or width of implement. The
motion of the anchor can be stopped when required by pulling the
ratchet out of gear.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edward Hayes in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 15th April 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
HAYES, of Stoney Stratford, in the County of Bucks, Mechanical and
Consulting Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, in the thirty-
ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Edward Hayes, Her special licence,
that I, the said Edward Hayes, my exccutors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward Hayes, 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
SELF-MOVING ANCHORS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Edward Hayes, 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

page_text: 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 Edward Hayes, do hereby declare
the nature of said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto
annexed and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to
say):-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for
anchoring the grooved pulley 3 by placing the same on a frame No. 1,
consisting of one girder secured at each end to one strong axle, the
same axles being fitted with the ordinary knife wheels Nos. 2, 2. On
any convenient portion of the said girder No. 1 I fix the bracket that
carrics the grooved wheel No. and a vertical shaft. On the top of this
shaft is fixed also a slotted wheel No. 4, or crank, in which I place one
or more studs, and on the same studs I fit the end or ends of one or
more connecting rods Nos. 5, 5; the other end or ends of the same con-
necting rods is fitted to other studs which are fitted in one or more
ratchet levers No. 6, 6, and on or attached to the same levers 6, 6, are
ratchet pawls 7, 7, working a ratchet wheel 8, the same wheel being
fitted on a vertical shaft; this shaft being fixed in a strong bracket, and
works a worm 9, which works into a worm wheel No. 10, this same
worm wheel being fitted on to a horizontal shaft. On the same shaft
is also fitted a double flanged pulley or drum 11, and which I call the
uncoiling drum. On this same drum the rope or chain is coiled by the
person in attendance. Now one end of this rope or chain is secured to
the drum 11, the other end being fixed to a common claw anchor, which
is fixed into the earth securely. Now when the wire rope is placed round
the large grooved pulley No. 3, worked by the engine drawing the cul-
tivator or plough, the pressure given to the rope is also conveyed to the
whole anchor frame which is carrying the rope round its grooved pulley
No. 3, but the claw anchor fixed in the ground with its rope or chain
attached to the uncoiling drum No. 11 prevents its moving only as the
uncoiling drum is moved by the worm 9 and ratchet motion 8. Now it
will be seen by moving the studs in the slotted wheel or crank 4 nearer
or more distant from the centre that I can take one or more teeth in

page_text: the ratchet wheel No. 8, and so by simply doing this I can uncoil any
required quantity of rope from the uncoiling: drum. No. 11, so as to suit
the time to run across any sized field or any width of implement to
cultivate or plough.
I have now set forth the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
carrying the same into effect.
In witness whereof, I the said Edward Hayes, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, the 15th day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.
EDWARD HAYES. (L.S.)