1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class IX.: Richard Hornsby
233. HORNSBY, RICHARD, and SON, Spittlegate Iron Works, near Grantham — Manufacturers, Designers, and Inventors.
Patent drill-machine, for corn, etc., adapted for hilly ground, and fitted as a ten-row corn and seed drill, and nine-row corn, seed, and manure drill.
Ten-row patent corn and seed drill, fitted with the patent India-rubber tubes for conducting the seed to the coulters; improved slides for regulating the quantity of seed to the delivering barrel; two coulter-bars to equalise the pressure upon each coulter; and patent independent fore-carriage steerage (see following cut).
Four-row patent drill, to deposit turnip or mangoldwurzel seed, with bones, compost, and manures, with double-action levers (see following cut).
Two-row patent ridge drill, with patent India-rubber tubes, and various improvements for regularly delivering both seeds and manure.
Three-row patent drop drilling-machine, for depositing turnips or mangold-wurzel seed and manure upon flat ground or ridges.
Patent drill-machine, for distributing pulverized manures broadcast on the land (see annexed cut).
Six-horse power patent portable steam-engine, adapted for thrashing, grinding, sawing, pumping, etc.; mounted upon four carriage-wheels, with shafts complete for travelling. The cylinder, and pipes connected therewith, being placed inside the boiler or steam-chamber, are protected from the weather (see cut).
Four-horse power improved portable thrashing-machine, with travelling apparatus complete.
Patent corn-dressing or winnowing machine, fitted With a spike-roller working through a grating, so arranged as to form a hopper. It may be used for separating the corn from the chaff, in the rough pulsy state, as it comes from the thrashing-machine, without having been previously riddled. It is fitted with a double-shaking screen at the bottom, etc., for cleaning the corn from all kinds of small seeds, and preparing it for market (see following cut).
Double crushing machine, for breaking oil-cake for beasts or sheep, and rape-cake for manure; fitted with two sets of cutters, with hardened points.
Single crushing machine, fitted with one set of cutter.