IMPROVEMENTS IN STEAM CULTIVATING ENGINES AND MACHINERY USED THEREWITH.
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Barnard Fowler, Robert Burton, and Richard Holgate
Shaw, all of the Steam Plough Works, Leeds, in the County of York, for an
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN STEAM CULTIVATING ENGINES AND
MACHINERY USED THEREWITH.
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Barnard Fowler, Robert
Burton, and Richard Holgate Shaw at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patonts on the 15th May 1880.
BARNARD FOWLER, ROBERT BURTON, and RICHARD HOLGATE SHAW, all of the
"IMPROVEMENTS IN STEAM
Steam Plough Works, Leeds, in the County of York.
CULTIVATING ENGINES AND MACHINERY USED THEREWITH."
This Invention has for its object improvements in steam cultivating engines
and machinery used therewith.
In the construction of hauling or winding engines used for steam cultivation
some engines are made with two winding drums carried on vertical studs or axes.
Both the winding drum studs have been fixed to mountings on the underside and
fore part of the boiler barrel, and the drums driven from the crank shaft of the
engine by bevel gear and vertical shafts geared to the winding drums. By this
arrangement the propelling and carrying wheels of the engine are inconveniently
placed and the steerage rendered difficult.
In our improved arrangement we place one winding drum on a vertical stud fixed
to mountings on the underside of the boiler barrel, and the other winding drum
with vertical stud we fix under the water tank or foot plate at the back of the fire
box of the boiler. By this arrangement we have much greater distance between
the hauling ropes and can work wider implements. The power of the engine is
conveyed to the winding drums by suitable shafts and gearing. The steerage of
this engine is more effectually under the control of the driver.
We make the barrels of the winding drums of wrought iron, by which great
strength and lightness is obtained.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Barnard Fowler, Robert Burton, and Richard Holgate Shaw in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 15th November 1880.
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BARNARD FOWLER, ROBERT BURTON, and RICHARD HOLGATE SHAW, all of the
Steam Plough Works, Leeds, in the County of York. IMPROVEMENTS IN STEAM
CULTIVATING ENGINES. AND MACHINERY USED THEREWITH."
This Invention has for its object improm ents in steam cultivating engines
and machinery used therewith.
In the construction of hauling or winding engines used for steam cultivation
some engines are made with two winding drums carried on vertical studs or axes.
Both the winding drum studs have been fixed to mountings on the underside and
fore part of the boiler barrel, and the drums 'driven from the crank shaft of the
engine by bevel gear and vertical shafts geared to the winding drums. By this
arrangement the propelling and carrying wheels of the engine are inconveniently
placed and the steerage rendered difficult.
..In our improved arrangement we place one winding drum on a vertical stud fixed
to mountings on the underside of the boiler barrel, and the other winding drum
with vertical stud we fix under the water tank or foot plate at the back of the fire
box of the boiler. By this arrangement we have much greater distance between
the hauling ropes and can work wider implements. The power of the engine is
conveyed to the winding drums by suitable shafts and gearing. The steerage of
this engine is more effectually under the control of the driver. Wo make the
barrels of the winding drums of wrought iron, by which great strength and
lightness is obtained.
The Drawings hereunto annexed show a steam cultivating engine.constructed as
above described.
Figure 1 is a side clevation of the engine, and Figure 2 a plan view. A is a
winding drum capable of being turned around a vertical stud fixed to mountings on
the underside of the boiler barrel. B is another winding drum capable of being
turned around a vertical stud on the underside of the water tank or foot plate at
the back of the fire box of the boiler. In the arrangement shown in the Drawing
tho winding drums aro driven in the following manner :-Fast upon the top of the
drum A is a toothed wheel A', and on the drum B a toothed wheel B¹. With the
wheel A¹ gears a pinion C, which is fast on a short tubular vertical shaft D mounted
in a bearing D¹, and with the wheel B' gears a pinion E on a vertical. shaft F
which is mounted in bearings F Concentric with the hollow shaft D is a shaft H;
the lower end of this shaft is stepped into the hollow shaft, whilst its upper end
turns in a bearing H. Fixed on the top of the shaft H are two bevil wheels; the
upper one of these has gearing into it a bovil wheel which is fast on the crank shaft I
of the engine and the shaft H is thereby driven. The lower bevil wheel on the
shaft H gears with a bevil wheel on a shaft K; the lower end of this shaft steps.
into a hollow shaft L on which is a bevil wheel M. that gears with a bevil wheel on
the vertical shaft F. M is a clutch capable of being slidden along the shaft K and
made to engage with and drive the hollow shaft L. O is a clutch capable of
being slidden along the shaft H and made to engage with and drive the hollow
shaft D: P is a lever by which the clutches can be slidden along the shafts, as
shown, and so cause either one or other of the drums to be geared up with and
driven by the crank shaft of the engine. When the clutch lever P is moved
forwards the drum A. is driven, and when the lever is moved backwards the drum B
is driven; when the lever is in an intermediate position both drums are out of
gear.
Having thus described the nature of our Invention and the manner of performing
the same, we would have it understood that we claim,-
The construction of steam cultivating engines with one winding barrel capable

page_text: of turning on a vertical stud below the boiler barrel, and another winding barrel
capable of turning on a vertical stud below the water tank or foot plate at the
back of the fire box of the boiler, substantially as herein before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Barnard Fowler, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Fifteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty.
BARNARD FOWLER. (L.S.)