1859-04-12 Cottage Gardener - Shanks Advertisement
THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, APRIL 12, 1859.
PATRONISED BY HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA, HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH, AND HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF PRUSSIA.
SHANKS' PATENT MOWING, ROLLING, COLLECTING, AND DELIVERING MACHINE, FOR 1859.
THE ONLY COMPLETE MACHINE FOR HORSE OR PONY POWER.
Amongst the other valuable improvements A. SHANKS and SON have, this season, made in their PATENT HORSE and PONY MACHINES (as fully described in THE COTTAGE GARDENER, of March 5th), particular attention is requested to the new patent method of emptying the grass box, which consists in the introduction of a simple and efficient apparatus for emptying it without the man being under the necessity of either leaving the handles, or stopping the Machine. So effective and complete is this improvement, that the box, if it were possible to fill it, could be emptied at the rate of sixty times a minute, without any and due strain being put on the apparatus. The immense advantages of this invention must be at once apparent to the practical gardener. It will enable the Machine to do, at least, a third more work, while the labour and annoyance in working it, as compared with ordinary Machines, are three-fourths less labour. If a Lawn, which formerly took a Machine nine hours to mow, an now be done in six hours, with three-fourths less labour to the man who works the Machine, nothing further is necessary to establish the utility and worth of the invention. Every conceivable convenience and improvement, tending to make the Machine in every way complete for level as well as uneven Lawns, has been been introduced at the sacrifice of much time and expense; and the Patentees have great pleasure in seeing their efforts so far successful as to enable them, with all confidence, to offer to the world the cheapest and the most complete Mowing, Rolling, Collecting, and Delivering Machine extant.
PATENT HAND-MACHINE FOR 1859.
Most of the improvements of the Horse and Pony sizes have also been introduced into the new Hand-Machine. The Machines will mow on the most uneven Lawns without injury to the turf. They are strongly made, are fitted with the same care and precision of the larger sizes, so simple in construction, that a labourer can work then, and are quite free from all superfluous and useless gear, which has only novelty, not improvement, as a recommendation These Machines are peculiarly well fitted for turning and cutting amongst Flower-beds, Verges, Bowling Greens, and for small Lawns. The patent improvements for this season render them complete in every part. The draught is greatly lessened, and the execution of the work is unsurpassed. The Machines are warranted to give ample satisfaction, failing this (which is barely possible), they may be at once returned. Illustrated Price Lists, with further particulars, forwarded on application.
ALEXANDER SHANKS and SON, Patentees, and Sole Manufacturers, Den's Iron Works, Arbroath, Forfarshire.
N.B.-To prevent disappointment in delivery, early Orders are particularly requested.