IMPROVEMENTS IN MOWING MACHINES
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Willoughby Green, of 2, Victoria Street, in the
City of London, and of Leeds, in the County of York, for the Invention
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Willoughby Green at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
6th June 1859.
I, WILLOUGHBY GREEN, of 2, Victoria Street, in the City of London,
and of Leeds, in the County of York, do hereby declare the nature of the
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MOWING MACHINES," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in mowing machines. For
these purposes the axle on which the hinder or larger drum or roller is
mounted has on it a chain wheel which gives motion to an endless chain,
which takes into a small chain wheel on the axle of the rotatory cutter shaft.
In place of chain wheels and an endless chain, an endless strap or band and
pulleys may be used, by which combination the driving of the cutter shaft is
simplified and improved.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Willoughby Green in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
6th December 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLOUGHBY
GREEN, of 2, Victoria Street, in the City of London, and of Leeds, in the
County of York, send greeting.
. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-second year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and 'successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Willoughby Green, Her special licence that I, the said Willoughby
Green, my executors, administrators and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Willoughby Green, 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 "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN MOWING MACHINES," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Willoughby Green, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Willoughby Green, 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 mowing machines. For
these purposes the axle on which the hinder or larger drum or roller is
mounted has on it a chain wheel which gives motion to an endless chain, which
takes into a small chain wheel on the axle of the rotatory cutter shaft. In
place of chain wheels and endless chain, an endless strap or band and pulleys
may be used, by which combination the driving of the cutter shaft is simplified
and improved.
And in order that my said Invention may be most fully understood and
readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the Drawings hereunto
annexed.

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows a side view, and Figure 2 a plan of a mowing machine'
constructed according to my Invention. a is the axis on which the hinder
drum or roller. b is mounted; this drum may be thrown into or out of gear
with the axis (so that the drum may either be allowed to turn freely round the
axis, or so that the axis may be caused to turn with the drum) by means of a
sliding clutch on the axis worked by the handle c in the ordinary manner; on
the axis a there is a chain wheel d, which gives motion to the endless chain e,
which takes into a small chain wheel f on the axle of the rotatory cutter g.
The axle of the rotatory cutter g is furnished with a small chain wheel fat
each of its ends as shewn in order that when the edge of the cutter becomes
worn the cutter may be turned round end for end, and the other edge of the
cutters made available without regrinding the cutters. In place of an endless
chain and chain wheels for driving the rotatory cutter an endless strap or band
and pulleys may be employed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Willoughby Green, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Sixth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
WILLOUGHBY GREEN. (L.S.)