1858-06-07 James Ferrabee Patent No 1277 P08

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

The brushes may be driven by suitable gearing instead of a band or by a toothed chain working on suitable wheels, and the mode of carrying the receiving box A may be otherwise varied.

Fig. 16 is an elevation, and Fig. 17 is a plan of a sweeping machine, showing the brush driven in the same way as the cutting cylinder of an ordinary mowing machine, and will be readily understood by inspecting the Drawings.

Having now set forth the nature of my Invention of "Improvements in Machinery for Cutting, Collecting, and Spreading Grass, and for Sweeping," and explained the manner of carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that under the above in part recited Letters Patent I claim,-

First, the mounting in an independent frame, which I prefer to be cast in one piece, the fixed blade and the cutting cylinder and means for adjusting the same, so that the whole may be readily affixed to or detached from the main frame of a mowing machine, and thus admit of the employment of a duplicate set of cutting parts.

Second, the mode of adjusting and retaining the cutting cylinder by means of two set screws, a jointed link, and a carriage, as shewn at Fig. 2.

Third, the connecting the ground roll or the adjustable guide wheels to suitable levers, so that the length of cut may be varied by the attendant while the machine is in motion, and by which also the cutting parts may be raised to facilitate the turning of the machine, or to avoid obstructions.

Fourth, supporting the cutting parts of mowing machines between the carrying wheels from which the cutting cylinder derives its motion, and in such a position that the axis of the cutting cylinder will lie in the same vertical plane, or nearly so, as that of the carrying wheels, for the purpose above set forth.

Fifth, the use of expanding revolving brushes or rakes mounted and revolving on the same axis as the carrying wheels, in the manner and for the purpose above described.

In witness whereof, I, the said James Ferrabee, have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.

JAMES FERRABEE. (L.S.)

LONDON:

Printed by GEORGE EDWARD EYRE and WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE, 
Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. 1858.