Thomas Green - Registered Design No 3739
Thomas Greens submitted "A Design For The Shape Or Configuration Of A "Budding's" Mowing Machine" which was approved as Registered Design No 3739 on 24 July 1855. This design was almost identical to one which James Shanks had submitted for patent registration two months earlier, on 21 May 1855. This was accepted as Patent No 1147 on 16 November 1855.
The resulting lawnmower - the Shanks New Improved Mowing & Rolling Mower - was marketed and sold by Shanks and Thomas Green of Leeds as their own product. It is not known whether both companies made them in their own works or one made them and the other simply sold them. Green described himself as "sole manufacturer" in some advertisements. He dad been selling Shanks mowers "of the old design" at his premises in Leeds since the early 1850s.
One possibility is that Shanks registered the patent in Scotland and Green registered the design in England to provide protection of the general configuration in both countries.
A surviving example can be seen at The Signal Museum, Arbroath, Scotland.
"A Design for the shape or configuration of "Budding's" Mowing machine."
The object of utility obtained by this shape or configuration is that the or machine is capable of being raised or lowered as to cut grass of various lengths. Figure 1 shows a plan - Figure 2 a side view, and Figure 3 a ~ front view of my improved "Buddings Mewing machine.
a is a guide wheel supported in bearings carried by the upright axis b on which there is a grooved collar e capable of sliding up or down and of being The collar c supports the framing at the fixed in any position by a set screw. front of the machine and the cutting apparatus (which is of the ordinary description) being carried by the framing may be adjusted to cut the grass to any desired length by raising or lowering lowering the collar e on the axis. handle by which the machine is drawn in place of being pushed a heretofore . The principal weight of the machine is supported by the rollers &. which are of about the same width as the cutters by which arrangement or great additional support is given to the cutting apparatus and much less power required to give motion thereto.
The shape or configuration of the parts a. b. c and e are new, the other parts are old. The drawing is to a geometric scale
Thomas Green, Leeds, Yorks.
3739
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JULY 24 1855
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