US1121839A - Beet-topping device. - Google Patents

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0. P. HUISH.

BEET TOPPING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED FEB-l4. 1914 1, 1 21,839. Patented Dec. 22, 1914.

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BEET-TOPPII\TG DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 22, 1914:.

Application filed. February 14, 1914. Serial No. 818,704.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Orson P. Home, a citizen of the United States, residing at Payson, in the county of Utah and State of Utah, have invented new and useful improvements in Beet-Topping Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to beet topping devices, and it has for its object to produce a simple and ef'ieient topping device which may be used in connection with beet pulling or lifting devices of various types or separately in connection with a sled, cart, or other draft implement, as may be preferred.

A further object of the invention is to produce a simple and efficient beet topper having a gage board and a cutter which is supported adjustably with respect to said gage board.

if still further object of the invention is to produce a simple and efficient beet topping device having a gage board and cutting knife, which in its operation is raised and lowered by the unevenness of the beets over which the device is drawn and by its own weight adapting itself automatically to the various heig. ts and conditions of the beets being operated upon.

A s ill further object of the invention is to procuce a simple and eiiicient topping device including a gage board, an adjustable topping knife and a revolving cutter for cutting overhanging beet tops which would otherwise interfere with the progress of the machine.

With these and other ends in view which will readily appear as the nature of the in vention is better understood, the same con sists in the improved construction and novel arrangement and combination of parts which will be hereinafter fully described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings has been illustrated a simple and preferred form of the invention, it being, however, understood that no limitation is necessarily made to the precise structural details therein exhibited, but that changes, alterations and modifications within the scope of the claims may be resorted to when desired.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improved topping device, showing also a portion of the frame of a beet puller with which it is connected for operation. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the device. Fig. 3 is a side view taken from the opposite side to that seen in Fig. 1, and showing a different adjustment of the topping knife. Fig. at is a plan view of the turning board and the topping knife detached and separated from each other. Fig. 5 is a rear elevation. Fig. 6 is a side view, showing the device operatively connected with a truck or cart.

Corresponding parts in the several figures are denoted by like characters of reference.

The gage plate 15 which preferably consists of a plate of sheet metal cut off obliquely at its rear end, is provided with forwardly extending arms 16 adapted to be connected by means of a rod 17 with lugs 18 depending from the frame structure of a beet pulling or harvesting machine, a portion of which appears at 19; or said arms may be operatively connected with the frame structure of a truck or cart, as seen at 20, in Fig. 6. The front and rear ends of the gage plate are upturned, as seen, respectively, at 21 and 22.

Bolted or otherwise secured on the gage plate 15 are standards J5 which extend upwardlv and rearwardly and which merge into the beam 24L. The latter is provided with a keeper 25 wherein is guided a vertically movable shank or stem 26 carrying a turning board 27, which in shape resembles the mold board of a plow and along the lower edge of which is detachably secured a blade 28 which constitutes the topping knife. Said topping knife extends beneath the upturned diagonal or oblique rear end portion of the gage plate, and it may be spaced variously therefrom by adjustment of the shank 26 vertically in the keeper 25. For the pur pose of effecting such adjustment, a lever 29 is provided, said lever being fulcrumed adj acent to the front end of the beam 24 from which it extends upwardly and rearwardly, being provided with a slot 30 engaged by apin 31 that extends transversely through the stem or shan the latter being provided with several perforations 32 for the reception of said pin at various adjustments. For the purpose of maintaining the lever and related parts at various adjustments, a segment rack 33 is provided, said rack being mounted at the rear end of the beam 24 and engaged by a stop member 3d of conventional construction which is associated with the adjusting lever 29. The gage plate 15 is provided with a laterally extending spindle 35 on which a revolving cutter 36 is supported for rotation, said cutter consisting of a flat steel disk which approaches closely contiguous to the edge of the gage plate.

In the operation of this invention the device is dragged with a sliding motionover the beet rows with the front end of the gage plate higher than the rear end and thus gradually pressing down the beet tops by the weight of the device until the rear end of the gage plate rides firmly upon the flattened tops and crowns of the beets, and bein raised and lowered by their unevenness, it readily adapts itself to their various heights and conditions as it slides over them.

The turning board carrying the topping knife is properly adjusted with respect to the rear end of the gage plate and moves in harmony with it and is regulated by means of the lever to any depth of out desired to suit the nature of the beets being operated upon. The tops severed by the cutting knife will pass rearwardly and upwardly between the latter and the upturned edge of the gage plate; being disposed laterally or thrown to one side by the action of the turning board, overhanging beet tops that extend outwardly beyond the edge of the gage plate being severed by the rotary cutter.

This improved topping device, as Will be seen from the foregoing description, is extremely simple in construction and capable of being used in connection with an ordinary cart, sled or other draft implement, as well as in connection with beet pulling or lifting machines of various types. Adjust ment may be readily made to enable the device to operate efficiently upon the tops of beets in various conditions and of various sizes. The topping blade may be readily detached from the turning board for sharpening or for other purposes.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new, is

1. In a beet topping device, a gage plate having upturned front and rear ends, the rear end being obliquely disposed, draft means connected with the front end of the plate, a turning board supported for vertical adjustment with respect to the rear end of the plate, and a cutting blade connected with the turning board and extending beneath the oblique upturned rear end of said gage plate.

2. In a beet topping device, a gage plate having upturned front and rear ends, standards rising from the plate and merging in a rearwardly extending beam, a shank guided for vertical movement with respect to said beam, a turning board carried by the shank and having a cutting member which extends beneath the rear end of the gage plate, and means for effecting vertical adjustment of the shank and for securing it at various adjustments.

In a beet topping device, a gage plate having upturned front and rear ends, standards rising from the plate and merging in a rearwardly extending beam having a segment rack at its rear end, a shank guided for vertical movement with respect to the beam and carrying a turning board having a cutting member which extends beneath the upturned rear end of the gage plate, a lever fulcrumed on the beam and having a slot, a pin connected with the shank and engaging the slot, and a stop member associated with the lever to engage the arcuate rack.

ft- In a beet topping device, a gage plate having upturned front and rear ends and forwardly extending draft members, a rotary cutter supported adjacent to one side edge of the plate, standards rising from the plate and merging in a rearwardly extending beam, a keeper on said beam, a shank guided in the keeper for vertical movement, a turning board carried by the shank and having a cutting member that extends beneath the upturned rear end of the gage plate, and a lever fulcrunied on the beam and connected with the shank to effect vertical adjustment thereof.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ORSON P. l-lUllSl-l.

Witnesses Jnssn H. ELLsWon'rH, JosEPH WV. RIVERS.

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