1858-06-07 James Ferrabee Patent No 1277 P03

Ferrabee's Impts. in Machinery for Cutting, Collecting, & Spreading Grass, &c.

For sweeping, I employ a revolving brush, either in connection with the machine or separately, and so arrange it, that it shall deliver the sweepings into a receptacle either before or behind the brush. I also attach the brushes in suitable lengths to springs or moveable arms, and mount them on a revolving framework driven by suitable gearing, the whole being capable of adjustment to and from the ground; or I attach them to expanding arms radiating from a centre and retained by suitable springs, so that the diameter of the brush may be increased or dimished [sic] at pleasure, and the whole may be made to revolve on the same axis as the carrying wheels, and in a direction either with or against the line of progress.

This mode of mounting a cylinder or cylinders on the same axis as the carrying wheels, and of arranging the gearing for driving, and of expanding the arms so as to increase or lessen the diameter of the revolving cylinder, is applicable to rotary hay-making machines, and also to machines for collecting couch and other weeds; when used for spreading grass, rakes with teeth of wood or iron would be attached to the radiating arms instead of brushes.

SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said James Ferrabee, in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 7th December 1858.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES FERRABEE, of Thrupp, near Stroud, in the County of Gloucester, Engineer, send greeting.

WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said James Ferrabee, Her special license that I, the said James Ferrabee, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said James Ferrabee, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there- after 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 MACHINERY FOR CUTTING, COLLECTING AND SPREADING GRASS, AND FOR SWEEPING," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said James Ferrabee, by an