1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class IX.: Holmes and Sons
241. HOLMES and SONS, Prospect Place, Norwich — Inventors and Manufacturers.
Machine for thrashing grain, and shaking the straw after it is thrashed; the concaves can be adjusted to any width parallel, and at three different points, by a new arrangement of eccentrics; the drum and concaves are made so as not to injure any grain. (See following cut.)
Machine for all purposes of drilling.
Machine for the purpose of sowing broadcast or rows, any kind of artificial manures, as top-dressing, either in a moist or dry state, such as guano, nitrate of soda, salt, soot, etc. fitted with the registered wheels, slides, etc., by which a sliding motion as well as rotary is given to the stirrers: with other improvements. (See following cut.)
Registered horse-lever rake for gathering hay and corn; it may likewise be used for couch or stubbles.
Machine for drilling turnips and mangelwurzel seeds, with or without manure, either on the ridge or flat.
Barley aveller, or hummelling machine, for taking off the haulms of barley. The spindles are made to work quite through, admitting an extra crank at the lower end, which, running in half boxes, can be screwed down as it wears, with other improvements.
Corn-dressing, or winnowing machine. The spindles are made to work in half brasses, which are placed in a strong iron frame.
Hand-barrow drill, for depositing two rows of turnips, mangelwurzel, and carrot seeds, on the ridge or flat, and at any required distance.
Newly invented machine for sowing grass seeds, to be worked by hand.
Turnip and mangelwurzel, and manure drilling machine, with one lever, fitted with two boxes, one for manure and the other for turnips and mangelwurzel seeds, etc.
One-row lever drill for turnips and mangelwurzel seeds, adapted for ridge ploughed lands or flat work.
Turnip and mangelwurzel cutter, which can be altered in a few minutes to cutting for beasts or sheep.