IMPROVEMENTS IN TURNIP OR ROOT CUTTING MACHINES
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Howell and Thomas Hardy, both of Poole,
in the County of Dorset, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN TURNIP
OR ROOT CUTTING MACHINES."
Sealed the 22nd November 1867, and dated the 23rd May 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Howell and
Thomas Hardy at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 23rd May 1867.
We, EDWARD HOWELL and THOMAS HARDY, both of Poole, in the County
of Dorset, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN TURNIP OR ROOT CUTTING MACHINES," to be as follows:-
In turnip and root cutters as usually made a great defect exists by reason
of the fact that a great number of flat pieces or slabs of roots pass through
the machine uncut into what are known as finger pieces, thus occasioning
considerable loss, inasmuch as the sheep frequently refuse to eat the pieces so
left uncut. This imperfection is remedied by the present Invention, which
consists in adding a small cylinder or barrel which is placed in juxtaposition
to the main cylinder or barrel of the machine, and which small eylinder or barrel
revolves in the recess through which the uncut pieces have hitherto passed, thus
effectually preventing any portion of the roots from going through the machine
without being cut into finger pieces.

page_text: This Invention will be clearly understood by reference to the accompanying
Drawings.
Figure 1 represents at A a section of a portion of a turnip cutter cylinder
or barrel as usually constructed, and which revolves on its axis B, one only
of the cranked knives being shewn at C. D, D, D, is the front plate again t
which the roots are held as they descend through the hopper E while being
It will be readily seen that when the root was reduced to a less
thickness than the space between the cutting plate at F and the body of the
cylinder at G the pieces of root could pass through the machine without being
cut into finger pieces. J is the cylinder or barrel added to the machine in
accordance with the present Invention; H, H, I, I, are projections on the
last-mentioned cylinder or barrel, which projections as the cylinder or barrel
rotates correspond and fit into the recesses N, N, on the surface of the
cylinder or barrel A; L is a cog wheel fitted on the axis B, and as the
machine is actuated the wheel L gives motion to the wheel K on the cylinder
or barrel J. Figure 2 is a front elevation of the machine, the same letters
of reference being used with respect to the several parts as in Figure 1.
The result of this arrangement is as before mentioned to submit the whole of
the roots under treatment to the cutting operation of the machine. It is
unnecessary more fully to describe the nature of the main portion of the
machine, as its construction is already well known and understood.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edward Howell and Thomas Hardy in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 23rd November 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, EDWARD
HOWELL and THOMAS HARDY, both of Poole, in the County of Dorset, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said Edward Howell and Thomas Hardy, Her special licence that we,
the said Edward Howell and Thomas Hardy, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said Edward Howell and Thomas
Ilardy, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during

page_text: 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
TURNIP OR ROOT CUTTING MACHINES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that we, the said Edward Howell and Thomas Hardy, our executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of
their bands 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 we, the said Edward Howell and Thomas Hardy, do
bereby declare 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, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed and the figures and letters marked thereon, that is to say :-
Our said Invention consists in certain improvements in the construction of
turnip and root cutting machines in which as usually made, especially in the
machine known as "Gardner's" machine, a great defect exists by reason of
the fact that a great number of flat pieces or slabs of the roots pass through
the machine without being cut into what are known as "finger pieces," thus
occasioning considerable loss, inasmuch as the sheep refuse to eat the pieces so
left uncut. This serious imperfection is remedied by our said Invention, which
consists in adding a small cylinder or barrel which is placed in juxtaposition to
the main cylinder or barrel of the machine, and which small cylinder or barrel
revolves in the recesses through which the uncut pieces of root have hitherto
passed, thus effectually preventing the slabs of the roots from going through
the machine without being cut into finger pieces.
Our said Inventiou will be clearly understood by reference to the annexed
Drawings.
Figure 1 represents at A a section of a portion of a turnip cutter cylinder
or barrel as ordinarily constructed, and which revolves on its axis B, one only
of the cranked kuives being shewn at C. D, D, D, is the front plate against
which the roots are held as they descend through the hopper E while being
cut. It will be readily seen that when the root is reduced to a less thickness
than the space between the cutting plate at F and the body of the cylinder
at G the pieces of root can pass through the machine without being cut into
finger pieces. J is the cylinder or barrel which is added to the machine in
accordance with our said Invention. The said last-mentioned cylinder or

page_text: barrel may be made with one or more projections timed with the cylinder
or barrel A by means of cog wheels or other suitable gearing H, H; I, I, is a
projection such as those just referred to, and which as the cylinder or
barrel J rotates corresponds with and fits into the recesses N, N, on the
surface of the cylinder or barrel A; L is a cog wheel fitted on the axis B,
and as the machine is actuated the wheel L gives motion to the wheel K on
the cylinder or barrel J. Figure 2 is a front elevation of the machine, the
same letters of reference being used with respect to the several parts as in
Figure 1.
The result of these arrangements is, as before mentioned, to submit the
whole of the roots under treatment to the cutting operation of the machine.
It is unnecessary for us to describe the nature of the main portion of the
machine, as its construction is already well known and understood, and forms
no part of our said Invention.
Having thus declared and ascertained the nature of our said Invention and
the manner in which it is to be performed, we would observe in conclusion
that what we consider novel and original, and therefore claim as constituting
the Invention secured to us by the said herein-before in part recited Letters
Patent is, the addition or combination of the said small cylinder or barrel
in the construction of "Gardner's" turnip or root cutting machines, as and
for the purposes herein-before described and set forth or any mere modifications
thereof.
In witness whereof, we, the said Edward Howell and Thomas Hardy,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-first day of
November, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-seven.
Witness,
JAMES GOWARD,
Waterloo Fountry,
near Poole.
EDWARD HOWELL. (L.S.)
THOMAS HARDY.
(L.S.)