GB261582A - Improvements in sugar cane planters - Google Patents

Abstract

261,582. Kassebeer, W. Jan. 25, 1926. Planting-machines; manure distributers. - A cane planter comprises four planting units each comprising a cane-storage chamber, cane-transporting mechanism, a fertilizer-delivering a.ppliance, and a furrow opener and a furrow closer, the furrow opener, the delivery point for the fertilizer, and the furrow closer being arranged immediately behind one another in the line of travel and behind the wheels, so that the furrows may be made to follow the contour of the land. The machine comprises an angle-iron frame 10 and a body 14 mounted on wheels 17. Uprights 18 support conveyer frames 28 extending from pivoted storage chambers 27 to pivoted and curved shoots 42. The conveyers consist of endless belts of rubber or cloth fastened to endless chains driven by clutches and chains 32<a> from the axle 15. On the belts are parallel inclined blocks between which the canes are placed by hand by attendants standing on platforms. As the canes fall from the conveyers they are turned, so as to fall end first, by depending curved spring fingers 30 of unequal lengths. The furrow openers 43 are arranged parallel to one another and side by side. They are channelshaped and have their lower ends bent forward and terminating in points 44. Plates 46 extend rearwardly from the points 44 and are inclined so as to form V-shaped furrows. The furrow openers are adjustably connected to the frame by pivoted arms 53, the pivot bolts 51 of which shear when the points 44 meet obstructions. The furrow closers are near the furrow openers and shoots. They are adjustably connected by chains 90 to the furrow openers and by chains 62 to horidontal frames 56 projecting from them. The furrow closers 64 each consist of two inclined plates connected together at the rear, where there is an opening partially closed by an adjustable plate. The furrow openers and closers may be lifted by winding up chains 69 by means of handwheels 72. Fertilizer is delivered to the shoots 42 from two partitioned containers 75 by shafts formed with right-hand or left-hand threads and feeding into housings 84 provided with funnels 85. The threaded shafts are driven from the cane conveyers.