1862 London Exhibition: Catalogue: Class IX.: W. S. Underhill
2198. UNDERHILL, W. S., Newport, Salop.
Corn elevator, thrashing machine, field and barn implements, patent game and poultry fences.
3-HORSE OR 7-TINED WROUGHT-IRON CULTIVATOR, invented, improved, and manufactured by the exhibitor, is now universally used, and wherever introduced during the last 17 years, it has superseded all others, including Ducie's, Coleman's, Howard's, etc. It is made entirely of wrought-iron, mounted on high wheels; the draft is light; it turns easily on the headlands, and is an implement well suited for exportation.
- Price . £6-0-0
LIGHT IRON GENERAL PURPOSE PLOUGH, marked A3, improved and manufactured by the exhibitor. It is a good serviceable plough, easy of draught, and does its work neatly and well.
- Price . . . . £3-5-0
RIDGING PLOUGH, improved and manufactured by the exhibitor. The manner of adjustment is very simple and effective, and is fitted with the manufacturer's new pattern fore-end mould boards and cast shares.
- Price £3-0-0
SET OF HARROWS, improved and manufactured by the exhibitor; suitable for general purposes.
- Price . £3-10-0
SET OF CHAIN HARROWS of a medium size, improved and manufactured by the exhibitor, for collecting twitch and dressing turf land. They are self-relieving.
- Price £3-0-0
HORSE HOE, improved and manufactured by the exhibitor; of very simple construction, and great strength.; made entirely of wrought-iron.
- Price £1-5-0
GRUBBER, improved and manufactured by the exhibitor. Chiefly used for working between the rows of potatoes, turnips, etc.; it is very light and strong, and fitted with an extra set of tines, to work as a horse hoe.
- Price £2-5-0
RYE-GRASS DRILL, improved and manufactured by the exhibitor, and fitted with a new slide invented by him, and is warranted to sow every kind of seed with the greatest regularity, and without clogging. It is the only implement that can be depended on for sowing with certainty and regularity.
- Price . £3-10-0
LEVER HORSE RAKE, improved and manufactured by the exhibitor, fitted with the oval tooth and the sliding balance ball, both of which are the invention of the exhibitor, and much approved. It is constructed wholly of wrought-iron, firm and strongly made, and is well suited for exportation.
- Price . £6-0-0
GAPPING DRILL, invented by Mr. John Phillips, of Brockton, Newport, and manufactured by the exhibitor. Most useful for sowing seeds in rows, when liable to be injured by the fly, etc.
- Price . £0-8-6
CHEESE PRESS, invented by Henry Bruckshaw and manufactured by the exhibitor; it is simple, strong, and durable, occupies small space, has no levers, weights, or wheels, as those in ordinary use; it is easy to manage, not liable to get out of order, and well adapted for exportation.
- Price . £2-0-0
WROUGHT-IRON COW CRIB, improved and manufactured by the exhibitor, 4 ft. square; it is well made, strong, and handsome.
- Price £1-10-0
IRON CATTLE TROUGH, manufactured by the exhibitor, 3 ft. square.
- Price £1 0 0
CAKE BREAKER, invented and manufactured by the exhibitor; a most compact and effective implement, occupying small space, and the only one of its kind where both sets of rollers are adjustable.
- Price £4-10-0
SPECIMENS OF IRON FENCES - game, poultry, sheep, park, tree, etc. - invented, patented, and manufactured by the exhibitor. This is a most compact and light style of fencing, and the mode of connecting the horizontal bars with the vertical rods is original, (sec illustration); the horizontal bars are notched by machinery, and the whole forms the strongest, most compact, and durable fence ever offered to the public; it is easily fixed, and if broken by accident, simple to repair; it packs closely, and is neat when fixed. It is strongly recommended for exportation.
- Price, from 6d. to 5s. per yard.
PATENT SHEEP RACK, invented and manufactured by the exhibitor, made wholly of wrought-iron, and mounted on wheels as shown in illustration. This is the cheapest article of the kind ever offered, and has had a silver medal awarded at the Leeds Show of the Royal Agricultural Society.
- Price £1-10-0
PATENT GRAIN ELEVATOR. This is a new implement, invented and patented by John and Henry Bruckshaw, and W. S. Underhill, of Newport, and manufactured by the exhibitor. It is applicable for raising grain in mills, corn stores, or unloading grain vessels, and will lift any quantity of grain in any required direction, and when applied to a thrashing machine acts as elevator, barley peeler, and smutter. It requires to be seen at work to be fully appreciated. Amongst its advantages over the ordinary tins are—that it dresses the corn in its passage to the separating screen, and when applied to thrashing machines, dispenses with half the ordinary number of straps and pulleys, and can be fixed to any machine of any maker.
A is the main frame of the machine; B the case of the elevator; C the flyers or blades fixed on the fan shaft E of the first winnowing machine, or in any other more convenient position.
THRASHING MACHINE improved and manufactured by the exhibitor, fitted with every known improvement, including the patent grain elevator. It finishes the grain ready for market.
- Price, complete . £100-0-0