US1106879A - Planter. - Google Patents

Description

G. LEISGHNER.

PLANTBR.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented AugQiit, i9li4.

Application filed December 13, 1913. Serial No. 806,503.

the object of the invention is to provide a device of this general character of a novel and improved character which may be applied with convenience and facility to the leg of an ordinary cultivator.

The invention consists in the details of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts whereby certain important advantages are attained and the device is rendered simpler, less expensive and otherwise more convenient and advantageous for use, all as will be hereinafter more fully set, forth.

The novel features of the invention will be carefully defined in the appended claim.

In order that my invention may be the better understood, I will now proceed to describe the same with reference to the ac companying drawings. wherein- Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of a planter constructed in accordance with my invention, shown in applied position, a portion of a cultivator being shown; Fig. 2 is a view in side elevation and partly in section of my improved planter, taken from the side opposite to that shown in Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a view in top plan of my device as herein embodied.

As disclosed in the accompanying drawings, 1 denotes a cultivator of any ordinary or preferred type having depending rearwardly therefrom the usual beam 2, from which depends the conventional leg 3 which is adapted to have ailixed thereto the cultivator shovel.

4 denotes a drill or shoe of any well known type having secured at its lower end the sweep or blade 5 which serves in an effective manner as a grass and weed destroyer, which is believed to be self-evident. Rested upon the upper portion of the shoe or drill 4 is the supply hopper 6 with which coacts suitable planting mechanism under control of the shaft 7.- As this planting mechanism or feeding mechanism, as it may its upper be termed, forms in its details 4no particular part of my present invention, it is not believed that a detailed disclosure or description thereof need be given. The upper portion of the rear of the drill or shoe 4 is provided with a vertically extended elongated slot 8 through which is adapted to pass the clamping bolt 9 which is also directed through the shovel back 10 and adapted to hold the drill in operative position, it being readily understood that the elongated slot S permits a ready and convenient adjust.` ment of such shoe or drill as the requirements of practice may dictate. As is believed to be self-evident the shovel back is adapted to be secured to theleg 3 of the cultivator in the usual manner through the medium of the clamping bolt 11, as is clearly shown in the drawings.

Secured to the upper portion of the shoe or drill 4 and at opposite sides thereofl are the depending curved extremities 12 of the substantially U-shaped frame 14 of pre determined dimensions which has pivotally secured thereto, as at 15, intermediate the-,z length of the sides of such frame 14 the end portions of the upwardly directed exten sions 16 of the bearing frame 17 in which is mounted the pressing wheel or roller 18.

ln order that the pressing wheel or roller 18 may have the requisite tension to properly operate upon the furrow formed by the drill or shoe 4, I provide such frame 17 with the cross bar or brace 19 having the loosely directed upwardly projecting elongated member 20 disposed therethrough, which has extremity suitably directed through a clevis 21 projectingrearwardly from the base of the U-shaped frame 14, hereinbefore referred to; and surrounding such member 20 and interposed between the clevis 21 and the bracing bar 19 is the expansible member 23, herein shown as in the nature of a coil spring, possessing the requisite tensile strength, it being readily perceived that the tension of such spring can be readily regulated through the action of the element 24 in threaded engagement with the lower end portion of suoli elongated member 20.

As herein disclosed, the shaft 7 of the den livery or feeding mechanism of the drill or shoe 4 is caused to rotate by an operative connection with the shaft 26 of the pressing wheel or roller 18 and, as herein disclosed, such connection is afforded by the sprocket liti@ lidia vvv m www-'www rand in which such chain 27 directed around the sprocket wheels 28 and 29 suitably fixed upon the shafts 7 and 26, respectively. The feeding or delivery mechanism in the present instance is of a type whereby the control of the feed is obtained through a longitudinal endwise adjustment of the shaft 7 which is adapted to be locked in its Various adjustments through the medium of the set screw 30 and in order to afford an additional bearing for such shaft 7 I have depending forwardly of the frame 14 the arm 3l terminating in a bear'- ing 32, as is particularly shown in Fig. 2, shaft 7 is adapted to be mounted.

While the wheel or roller 18 is adapted to press the furrow created by the drill or shoe 4, I find it of particular advantage to em-, ploy the covering chain 83 positioned in advance of the Wheeler roller 18 and depending from the cultivator leg 3 at a point above the shovel back 10.

It is to be particularly noted that the operating mechanism for my improved drill or planterA is in close proximity to the surface With which it is adapted to coact and whereby it is permitted to employ the same with convenience for planting or sowing the seed between rows of growing cotton; such operating gear is positioned below the branches and foliage. of the cotton plants and therefore will not tear off the same.

From the foregoing description it is thought to be obvious that a planter constructed in accordance with my invention is of an extremely simple and comparatively inexpensive nature and is particularly well adapted for use by reason of the'convenience and facility with which itmay be applied to the leg of any conventional cultivator and it will also be obvious that my invention is susceptible of some change and modification without material departure from the principles and spirit thereof and for this reason I do not Wish to be understood as limiting myself to the precise arrangement and formation of the several parts herein shown in carrying out my invention in practice! Having thus fully described my invention what I desire to claim and secure by Letters Patent, is: y

A planter attachment comprising a drill provided with 'a feeding means, said feeding means including a rota-table shaft projecting beyond one side of the drill, a frame projecting rearwardly from said drill, an arm projecting forwardly from the frame and terminating in a bearin through which the projecting portion of t e shaft of the feedinfr means is directed, a bearing frame pivotaIly engaged with the first named frame, a presser roller mounted in thel bearing fraaie', an expansible member interposed between the first named frame and the bearing frame, and means coacting with the presser roller for positively rotating the shaft of the feeding means.

In testimony whereof I hereunto ali'ix my l signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

j GOTTHILF LEISCHNER.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM I-I. KREITER, GEORG VOLLMER.

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