GB270183A - Improvements in or relating to agricultural ridging and sowing - Google Patents

Abstract

270,183. Etches, C. B. Dec. 7, 1026. Implements with means for distributing seeds and with adjustable tool frames; lifting tool frames manually; tools; balance weights.-Land is ridged and seeded by turning or rolling two portions of soil towards one another and shaping them into ridges by opposed forwardly diverging mould-blades and automatically feeding seeds to the ridge during its formation. The mould-blades i are adjustably bolted to angle brackets j adjustably connected in pairs to slotted plates h fixed on pivoted double bars f on a wheeled frame. The mouldblades are curved in section and are provided with shares i'. Their rear ends are cut so as to shape the ridges. The pivoted bars f carry adjustable weights f<4> and are connected by chains g to pivoted cross-members g<1> provided with handles g<3>. Rearward movement of the handles g<3> lifts the bars f and they are held raised when the cross-members g<1> pass their dead centre. Seed-feeding mechanism in hoppers k is driven by spur gearing adapted to be thrown out of gear by means of a handle l<1>. The seeds pass down tubes k<5> provided with nozzles or shoots k<6> adjustably mounted on the bars f so as to project between the mould-blades i to deposit the seeds in the ridges before they are completed.