1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class IX.: W. Williams
151. WILLIAMS, W., Bedford — Inventor and Manufacturer.
Set of patent 4-beam iron harrows, for general purposes. Their form is diagonal, and the set consists of three, drawn by two horses. The teeth are so constructed that each cuts a separate track. These harrows are shown in the adjoining cut.
Patent wrought-iron plough, with two wheels, for general purposes, marked G. V. The plough is fitted as a swing or wheel plough, for two or three horses. The mould-board or furrow-turner is new, the bearings of which have an equal pressure from the point of the share to the heel of the breast, which gives lightness of draught, and also causes the furrow-slice to turn over without breaking. (See the following cut.)
Patent wrought-iron plough, with two wheels, for strong laud and deep ploughing. A skim coulter may be fitted to it.
Chaff-engine, with two knives, and 10-inch mouthpiece. Top and sides of iron, and legs of wood. Calculated to be worked by two men. This engine is shown in the cut.
A machine for making drain pipes and tiles. (See cut.)
It is calculated to be worked by one man and a boy. The box contains 1,450 square inches of clay.
A patent horse drag rake, invented by Samuel Taylor, of Cotton End, improved by the exhibitors.
The improvement in this implement consists, first, in the construction of the teeth fitting into iron sockets and working on the front rod, so that one or more teeth can be removed at pleasure; secondly, the teeth, acting on a bar running parallel underneath the frame gives it greater facility in relieving it of its load; thirdly, the ball, acting upon the leverage of the handle, keeps the teeth in their work, so that they cannot lose their yealm. It is simple in construction and cannot get out of order.
The preceding figure represents this rake.