US1047921A

US1047921A - Potato-hiller.

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Publication number: US1047921A
Application number: US66133711A
Authority: US
Inventors: Henry Hermann Dins
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1911-11-20
Filing date: 1911-11-20
Publication date: 1912-12-24
Anticipated expiration: 1929-12-24

Description

POTATO HILLEB.

. T APPLICATION FILED 11011.29. 1911. 1,047,921. Patented Dec. 24, 1912.

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' H. H. DINS.

POTATO HILLER.

APPLICATION FILED 11011.20. 1911. 1

1,047,921. Patented De0.24, 1912.

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HENRY HERMAN nrns, or oscnotn, wrsoonsm.

POTATO-KILLER...

To all whom it may concern: i

a Be it known that I, HENRY HERMAN v companying drawings.

DI-Ns, a citizen of the United States,resid'- ing at Osceola, inithecounty of Fond du Lac and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Potato-Hillers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the ac- This invention relates to improvements in V p otato-hillers'; and an ,object of this invention is to provide a potato hiller whichwill be simple in construction, comparatively cheap n manufacture and most efficlent and durable in use.

Another object of this invention is toprovide a potato-hiller which will be readily soil under cultivation.

In the drawings illustrating the principle of this invention and the best mode now known-to me of applying that principle,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my new potato-hiller; Fig. 2 is a plan of the same; Fig. 3 is a section on the line A A of Fig.

' 1 and Fig. et is a section on the lineBB if mounted a yoke-like or'inverted 'U-shaped side of the pillow-block is a pair of flanges.

of Fig. 1. I

The team-pole may be regarded as jointed or formed of two parts, the front part a then constituting the tongue of the hiller, while the rear part Z2 constitutes the center member or reach of thevehicle part of the machine. The rear part or perch b carries at its rear end a bolster-block 0 in which is shaft, which serves as a rear axle d and on the ends of which are mounted free to turn the rear wheels 6. The vertical parts of the axle d are connected by the eyed brace-rods d with the reach or perch b. To the front part of the latter is fastened a cross-bar f through'each end. of which passes rotatably '(or'in which is fulcrumed) a bent lever g having'on its lower end a rotatably-mounted disk It. The upper end of each bent lever 'g is connected by a'linkz' to the lowerrend of the crank arm 9' fastened to one end-of a shaft k journaled in the pillow block 911- reach I). Projecting upwardly'froin eachspecification of Letters .Patent.

the upper edges of which are notched to form toothed sectors n and between which are mounted the lower ends of the levers 0, 7) each of which is provided wit-h a spring- V I y y I I ratent apeee i,1e12, Application filed November 20, a rg ser'iainolssrssa controlled locking-rod 9 controlled by a 1 latch lever r pivoted thereto at the upper end thereof. The lever 0 is fast upon the shaft is but the lever 79 is loose thereon and is connected by the link-rod s with the rear arm of thebentlever t to the end of the. front arm of which is fastened a link-rod. u

tened by means of a bolt 02 betweenthe proi The jecting front ends of the plates w. bolt as also fastens to the latter the front upper ends of the eyed brace-rods 1 the eyed lower ends of which fit loosely around the lower ends of the bent-levers g.

When it is desired to force the disks h farther into the ground, the lever 79 is.

thrown to the front, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. '1, whereby the rear end of the tongue or and the front end of the reach I) a are carrled downwardly. At the same time the disks 7:. are forcedjinto the soil. When it is desired to vary the angle at which the disks h are set to the longitudinal axis of the hiller, the lever 0 may be pulled to the rear (or pushed to the front), whereby the bent levers g are turned in the cross-bar f andthe disks h are carried into the desired position, as shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 2. The depths at which the disks are adjusted in the soil may be variedby the hereinbefore described arrangement of parts without varying the burden or load thrown upon the necks of the team-horses.

It is, obvious that the members .9, k may be regarded properly as rock-shaftsand,

that the-arms y, 0 act as rocker-arms on the rock-shaft'k. I I claimt A potato-hiller comprising a vehicle; a pole jointed thereto c a rock-shaft mounted on said vehicle; a rocker-arm mountedon said rock-shaft; a lever loosely mounted upon said rock=shaft; devices for throwing u the 1 soil around the plants; mechanism Which 15th day of November, in the presence of connects said devices With said rock-shaft the two undersigned Witnesses.

to incline said devices toward and from the HENRY HERMAN DINS vehicle; and means connecting said lever 5 with said pole to vary the depth of said de- Witnesses:

vices in the soil. LAURA BUTLER, Signed at Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, this 0. H. ECKE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0.