US113233A - Improvement in corn-planters - Google Patents

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URIAH T. SWILSON, OF DE SOTO` CITY, MISSISSIPPI.

Lettersfatent No. 113,233,.da.ted March 28, 1871..

IMPROVEMENT IN CORN-PLANTERS.

The Schedule :ofen-ed to these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Beit known that I, UBIAH T. WILSON, of De Soto City, in the county of De Sotoand State of Mississippi, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Corn-Planters; 7 and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and 'exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawing making a part of this specification and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

the corn-planter provided with the hopper B and handles C C'.

D represents the opener, adjusted by means of the wedge e.

F F are the wheels, keyed on the shaft G insuch a manner as to turn therewith.

EI H designate spring-arms, secured at their forward ends to the lateral beams ofthe frame.

To ,the rear` ends of these spring-arms is attachedV the covering-bar or drag K.

L represents the dropper-sleeve.

This is ay cylinder, slipped endwse on the shaft G, and designed to be adjusted back and forth thereon, being secured in any-desired posit-ion by the key Z or other suitable device. 'Ihis cylinder is usually about as long as half the distance between the wheels; it may be shorter, however.

' Around the circumference of the cylinder are sets, a b c, of pockets, respectively numbering two, three,

and four pockets. There may be more sets, having an increased number of pockets, if desired. The size Yof the pockets may be varied by simple slides when a larger or smaller number 'of grains to the hill is wished.

In order to prevent the grain from being broken when it becomes lodged between the hopper and the cylinder a spring, Z, is employed.

If the set'a of two pockets be adj usted under the hopper the grain will be dropped twice in one revolution of the wheels, and at a distance apart equal to one-half of the circumference of the wheels; that is to say, if the wheels be about two feet in diameter the hills will be about three feet apart. With wheels of the same diameter, when the set b of three pockets is employed, the hills will be about two feet apart; and

ii the set c of four pockets be adjusted under the hopper, the hills will be about eighteen inches from each other.-

Instead-of using slides to change the sizeof the pockets on the same cylinder, it may be removed and replaced by one having pockets of a different size.

This is a simple planter, easily constructed, and

-when the planting is in ridges, as is most customary in the South, it is designed to serve a very useful purpose. y p

Having thus fully described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a corn-planter, the combination of theV spring cntolf Z with the adjustable dropper-sleeve L, provided with sets a b c of one, two, three, or more' pockets, and set-screw Z', substantially as specitied.

In testimony that I claim the above I have bereuuto subscribed my name in' the presence of two witnesses.

URIAH T. WILSON;

Witnesses:

WILLIAM F. BAKER, WILLIAM O. OALLICOTT.

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