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James Boyd - Patent No 300 - Condensed Description

A simplified description of James Boyd's Patent No 300, registered in 1858. This gives a basic summary of the principals and features: the full description consisting of several pages can be viewed elsewhere on this mower history. No drawings are available in either listing.

Samuelson & Co. of Banbury offered an option for fitting of Boyd's "apparatus" from 1858.

  • 1858-02-17 James Boyd - Patent No 300 - Condensed Description

    A.D. 1858, February 17.-No. 300.

    BOYD, JAMES EDWARD.-"Lawn and grass mowing ma- "chines."

    So far as can be ascertained from the description given, this invention is intended solely to apply to lawn mowers. The patentee however states at the close of the Specification that the improvements are applicable "for all lawn and grass "mowing and reaping machines." It is therefore noticed here. The principal heads of the invention seems to be ;- fitting a brush or other guard before or against the revolving cutter; adjusting the height of the cutter; and modifying a roller fitted to the machine when "cutting round grass verges "and borders."

    [Printed, 4d. No Drawings.]

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    Google Books/Patents for inventions. Abridgments of Specifications/Vol1/1876/P462
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