Willoughby Green - Patent 1384 - P02

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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN MOWING MACHINES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Willoughby Green, my executors or administrators, by an instrument 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 immediately 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.