US121114A - Improvement in cultivators - Google Patents

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"Lena, in the countyof ABRAM M. MANNY, or LENA, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN CULTIVATORS.

Speoiication fomiugipart of Letters Patent No. 121.114, dated November 21, 1871.

yTo all rwhom it may concern; l

Be it knowuthat I, ABRAM-M. MANNY, of Stephenson, in the State of Illinois, have made certain Improvements in Cultivators, of which the lollowing is aspecilication:

This invention relates to improvements in that class of cultivators known as walking eultivat ors, audit consists in the construction, arrangement, and combination of such devices as'arc used in allowing` a vibratory motion laterally of the plows, keeping them at an equal depth at all parts of their `horizontal vibration, supporting them while so Vibrating, and allowing a free ver tical-movement ofthe plows at the same time.

In the drawing, Figure l is a sectional side View, and Fig. 2 is a top View of the cultivator.

A represents the wheel; B, the arched axle that supports the operating parts. a c are braces that hold the tongue in proper rela-tin with the axle B. C is thetongue hrmly attached to the Aarched axle atw. l) is .the swing-bar or vibrat.

ing lever pivoted to the upper side of the tongue' by pivot-bolt (I. D is asegn'iental supportingbar, and is made fast to the tongue on 4its 'upper side and flush. therewith, having upward projections fl/ at its extreme ends to stop the \ihr: \tions` of the lever D and prevent its passmel over the ends Oi' bar D.' At the rear end ot' the ifibratin lever is a. hook, d, the purpose ot which will hereafter be shown. E -E are the Miur-beams, and E E arebentrods connecting` the plow-beams to the tongue. F F are plow-standards and to which are attached the plows F F'. 'lhc plowstandardsF are connected to thc plow-beamsby means ot' platesand pivooblocks, and in such manner as to be adjusted to diii'ercnt angles both vertically and laterally, and can be removed with the plows to t-h opposite bea-in and cause the plows to throw the earth in the oppositedircction. The rods.' E l are bent fovaril, upward, and toward each other at their forward and top ends, forming akind of archin cross-sectiouand ullowingnt their being passed over the cornor plants without intercrence. At their extreme upper and forward ends they are pivotcd horizoi'itally to the under or lower vend oi the bolt d, and by which the beams and thoiivplows arcallowcd a i'rce vertical and lateral movement. G is an arched ad justiug-rod placed uponthetops of the'bcams E, andby which the beams are adjusted and held at any desired distance apart, and heldin. the desired position by means ol" holding screw-bolts passing through slots in their i'ect and into the is so hooked up the beams and plows are clear ol.'

the ground and can be transported safely, as the auxiliary pieces g interlock with the hook and prevent the rod Gr .li-oni being detached from the hook g. b b are chains made .t'ast at their lower ends to beams E, and are hooked into hook d at the rea-r end of the vibrating lever l), These chains can-'be so adjusted as to their length that the lplows may be gauged to any desired depth al which they may go into the ground, and at the same time form a flexible or yielding connection between the beams and the ton gne, permitting the plows to vibrate laterally wi th the vibrating and supporting-lever l) to any extent required in cultivating the plants in rows. H H areinclined handles that are attached to the plo\\'he; uns, and by which the operator orattendant conducts and controls the direct-ion in which the plows shall. go, and can instantly raise the plows "crlically to be outoi contact with the ground. 'lhe attaching ot' the plow-handlcs at an angle with the direction in which the cnltirator is boing drawn enables the operator to walk on one side ot the row that is being cultivated, and at the same time will have i'ull and easy control of them and can direct the course oi" the plows as well as though they projected parallel with the line ot' direction in which the cultivator is drawn.

This construction enables thcoperator to casi ly control both his team and the implement in cultivating'corn in rows while -wa-lking, and the plows will be caused to follow the line of draft or vary therefrom at the will of the operator, and can instantly be raised out of contact with the ground to dodge any obstruction that may be in their way. By atta-ching and pivoting the rods E' to the pivot-bolt d the vibrating lever l) will simultaneously swing laterally with the beams and allow the saine to be raised vertically.

. llaving thus described my invention, what l claim, and desire to secure by Lett-ers Patent, ls-

1. The combination of tliebeams E, having bent rods E pivoted on the under side ofthe tongues ofso bolt d., vibrating lever D having hook d :it its rear end, segment-:1.1 supporting-bur 1), and

'chains b 4b, constructed :md arranged to operate in- `the purpose described.

3.' Theneombination ofthe inclined handles ll, beaune E, chains b, and vibrating lever 1),' lmving' hook u, constructed in the manner :1nd for the purpose of raising and holding;` the beams ut any point vertically, as described.

ABRAllI M. MANNY.

Witnesses H1. J. STEARNS,

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