US101836A - Improvement in wheat-drills - Google Patents

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J. D'ILLIER. Wheat Dri ll.

No. 101,836. Patented April 12, 1870.

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J JOSEPH DILLIER, OF GREENSBU RG, INDIANA.

Letters Patent No. 101,836, dated April 12,1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN WHEATLDR'ILLS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part0! the same To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH DILLIEH, of Greensburg, in the county of Decatur and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wheat-Drills; and I do hereby declare that the following is a ull, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents aside elevation of my drill.

Figure 2 is a rear view of the same.

The nature of myinvention consists in the construction of a wheat-drill with a gutta-percha screw in the seed-box, in connection with other devices hereinafter described.

V A, in the annexed drawings, represents'the frame of my machine, which is formed with the two extension bars b I), (see fig. 2.)

Toeach side of frame A is hinged a beam, 0.

(I d'represent the standards, two of which are attached to each of beams G.

The said standards are made concave on the rear side, and each furnished with a shovel, s, for opening the soil. 7

To give adequate strength to the standards they are braced with rods t.

In addition to the four standards described, a fifth, of similarconstruction, is secured to the bottom frame A a little in advance of the front standards on beams E designates a driving-wheel, the axle of which is pivoted on hangers mm, the said hangers being let into bars b b, and bolted at top to handles 1 On the same axle with wheelE is hung the bevelpinion h.

g is a vertical shaft, the upper end of which is 'pivoied in the bottom of seed-box H.

The shaft 9 is kept is posit-ion by means of a metal loop I fastened to I).

On the lower end of shaftg is hung the bevel pinion 92, which gears into wheel 74.

The top of shaft is also furnished with a bevelwheel 0, the use of which will be hereafter explained.

Directly above the shaft g is placed the seed-box H, the rear edge of which rests on handles F, and having its ends supported by the iron stays L L.

L It designates a gntta-pcrchascrew extemlinglcngthwise of seed-box H, and pivoted in the ends of said box.

The screw is is partly sunk in a depression made in the bottom of box H, and is furnished with a hove-l whcel, 'i, which gears into wheel 0 on shaft 1.

Through the bottom of seed-box are five perforations through which the grain is allowed to pass into a corresponding number of funnel-shaped tubes 1.

The lower ends of said tubes enter holes in beams U, and into standards (Z, and thence into the furrow.

It represents an iron rod bent at right angles at top, and passing downward through bar '1 and slide G and then fastened to the center of double lover a.

Slide G is slightly curved in shape, and its ends rest loosely in metal loops at the bottom of the hinged beams O.

To each end of lever in a metal rod, 0, is hooked, the opposite ends of said rods being fastened to their respective beams 0.

It will be observed that by operating rod R, the beams G and the shovels attached to them can be moved inward 0r outward at pleasure.

W represents a wheel hung near the front end of frame A, in order to keep said frame on a level.

It will be seen that in order to drive the grain toward the center of the seed-box, the thread of the screw is reversed from the left end to the nearest hole through which the grain is discharged.

It will also be observed that tubes I are inserted at theirjower ends into shorter tubes which enter the perfbrat-ions in beams C, while their upper ends are pivoted to-thc bottom of the seed-box. By this arrangement tubes I can adapt themselves to the outward or inward motion of beam 0.

In operating my machine the driving-wheel revolves the shaft g and pinions n and c 'on said shaft, and that pinion being made 'togear into bevel-wheel j on screw k,'the seed is distributed by said screw. Having thus described my invention,

\Vhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patw cut, is

l. The gutta-percha screw 7; for distributing the seed, in the manner set forth.

2. The combination of screw k and wheel j with shaft g, furnished with pinions n and e, the whole arranged and operated in the manner and for the purpose substantially as specified.

3. The combination of seed-box H, furnished with screw k, wheel j, shaft g, pinions e and n, tubes I slide G, hinged beams O, and standards (Z, the whole constructed and arranged substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the forgoing as my own,

' Iaifix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH DILLIER. [n. s.] Witnesses:

HENRY ALBERT, TIIOBIAS JONES.

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