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cave part, and having a ridge let into the beam, 

 and the bolt inclined backward to resist the 

 direct action of the draft. 



604. WILLIAM T. SPROUSE, Saga- 

 mon, 111. Plows. Feb. 15, 1838. 

 Claim. The making of the mold and bar 

 out of a single piece of iron by cutting and 

 bending instead of making them out of two 

 pieces of iron and welding them together. 



638. JOHN ORMISTON, Center Town- 

 ship, Ohio. Plows. Mar. 17, 1838. 

 Claim. The peculiar form and constrution 



of the double point and mode of fastening it, 



as above described. 



743. HENRY TAYLOR, Montague, 



Mass. Plows. May 17, 1838. 



Claim. The peculiar mode of attaching the 

 colter and share, and extending the share up 

 so high as to receive the bolt H, which unites 

 the colter, share, mold-board, and chip. 



922. D. PROUTY and JOHN MEARS, 



Dorchester, Mass. Plows. Sep. 15, 1838. 



Claim. 1. The manner of securing and 

 protecting the point of the colter by means of 

 the inclined plane or guard, as above specified. 



2. The manner of applying the locked colter 

 by an opening on the landside and securing 

 the same by a bolt and nut, whether made flush 

 or covered by a plate, as above specified. 



3. The manner of forming and applying the 

 brace so as to secure the beam and land han- 

 dle, unite with the mold-board handle, and 

 adjust the position of the beam, as above speci- 

 fied. 



1,008. STEPHEN GREGORY, Saw 



Pitts, N. Y. Plows. Nov. 14, 1838. 



Claim. 1. The application of the dovetailed 

 rabbet and cheeks on both sides the head-piece 

 to receive corresponding parts in the fore end 

 of the mold-pieces, by which wider or narrower 

 mold-pieces may be used on the same stand- 

 ards or head-piece. 



2. The mode of applying the dovetailed 

 cross-wedge to secure the movable double- 

 winged share as applicable to effect the intend 

 ed purposes. 



1,019. JOHN DEATS, Rocksburg, N. J. 



Plows. Nov. 25, 1838. 



Claim. 1. Casting the standard (to which 

 the mold-board, reversible landside, share, re- 

 versible cutter, flange-plate, beam, and beam- 

 handle are fastened) with a mortise at the point 

 to admit a tenon on the share, a countersink on 

 the mold-board side to admit the flange of the 

 flange-plate, a mortise in the shoulder to admit 

 the end of the cutter, as before described. 



2. Casting the share with a tenon for fitting 

 into the notch or mortise in the point of the 

 standard, as before described. 



3. The flange-plate, in combination with the 

 standard, as before described. 



4. The letting in of one end of the cutter 



into the groove G of the standard, as before 

 described. 



5. The additional or dovble share, as herein 

 described. 



1,133. WILLIAM SMALL, North Ar- 

 gyle, N. Y. Plows. April 23, 1839. 

 Claim. The mode of securing the lower 

 piece of the landside by means of a hook in the 

 fore end, C, and in the hind end by lapping 

 over the upper piece and fixing it by the same 

 bolts that would be needful though the land- 

 side were in one piece, in the manner herein 

 described. 



1,232. EBENEZER G. WHITING, 



Racine, Wis. Plows. July 11, 1839. 



Claim. Making the fore part of the mold- 

 board a plain flat surface, in combination with 

 the curvilinear part of the mold-board, united 

 at or near the center, as before described, for 

 preventing the friction arising from the accu- 

 mulation of earth in the concave fore part of 

 the mold -board. 



1,360. JOSIAH DUTCHER, New York, 



N. Y, Plows. Oct, 9, 1839. 



Claim. 1. The manner in which I construct 

 the share — that is to say, the forming it of a 

 wide flat plate, with two or more rows of holes 

 for attaching it to the mold-board, for the pur- 

 pose of shifting it forward as it wears, and with 

 the fore end of said plate turned up, as de- 

 scribed, so as to form a cutting-edge, while its 

 plane coincides with and forms a part of the 

 mold-board. 



2. The manner of sustaining the front part 

 of the share by placing its vertical portion be- 

 tween the colter and the flange cast upon the 

 mold-board, and by passing a bolt through the 

 whole, as set forth. 



3. In combination therewith, the projecting 

 piece or stop h, bearing against the heel of the 

 plow, for the purpose of sustaining the back end 

 of the share, as herein made known. 



1,401. JOSEPH CARD and GRANDI- 

 SON NEWELL, Painesville and Men- 

 tor, Ohio. Plows. Nov. 9, 1839. 

 Claim. The mode of drawing one and of 

 coupling two or more plows together by means 

 of the case, stirrups, and bolts herein de- 

 scribed. 



1,482. MAHLON SMITH, Tinicum, 



Pa. Plows. Jan. 28, 1840. 



Claim. 1. The mode of supporting and se- 

 curing the reversible cutter and share by means 

 of the vertical plate and its horizontal flange, 

 constructed and operating as set forth. 



2. The mode in which I construct and ar 

 range the reversible rhomboid cutter so as to 

 present four instead of two cutting edges, as 

 above described. 



3. Constructing the movable land-bar with 

 a share or wing attached, as set forth, so that 

 both may be advanced together, as before de- 

 scribed. 



