US16592A - Improvement in seed-planters - Google Patents

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R. BOEKLEN'. Hand-Seeder.

Patented 'Feb 10, 1 85 7.

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UNI'IQED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

REINHOLD BOEKLEN, ()F JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN SEED-PLANTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent- No. 16,592, dated February 10, 1857.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, REINHOLD BoEKLnN, of 57 Essex street, Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented. a new and Improved Seed-Planter for Planting Seed by Hand; andI do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being. had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a vertical section of my improvement. Fig. 2 is a side view of my improvement. Fig. 3 is a section of the seed-distributer and lower part of the slide, 00 m, Fig. 3, showing the plane of section.

In Figs 1, 2, and 3 similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention consists in the employment or use of a distributer provided with a chamber and recess, the distributer being placed within the case and operated in a peculiar manner, and in connection with a cut-off and plate, as will be hereinafter fully shown and described.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

A represents the case or box of the implement, which may be constructed of wood or other proper material and of oblong rectangular form, or it may be made slightly taper, the case gradually decreasing in dimensions from its upper to its lower end, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The lower end of the case is rounded at one side, the rounded portion a being of sheet metal.

B, Fig. 1, represents a vertical partition in thecase A, the partition dividing the case into two compartments, 1) 0, one of which, 1), contains the seed, and the other, 0, the fertilizer.

0 represents a slide, which is placed within the compartment 1) and against the partition B, the slide being retained in proper place by a guide-rod, (I, one or more guides being used.

To the lower end of the slide 0 a distributer, D, is attached by a link, E. The ends of the pins 0 e of the link are fitted in slots f, made in the sides of the case, and the pins serve as guides to the slide and distributer D. The distributer is of curved form, as shown clearly in Fig. 1, and has a series of notches or recesses, 9, made in its lower end, as shown clearly in Fig. 3. The slide is equal in width to the interior of the case A, and the distributer is also of the same width.

To the lower end of the case A, and at its front side, a cut-off, E, is attached. This cutoff is formed of a metal plate, It, having side pieces, 2", attached, the lower end of the plate It being curved or bent in scoop form, so as to cover the lower end of the distributer D when said distributer is drawn within the case. The

upper end of the plate It is bent loosely over a rod,j, the ends of which are fitted in the sides of the case, and the plate consequently is allowed to swing or work back and forth on said rod.

F represents a plate, the upper end of which is attached to a rod, 7r, similarly to the plate h. The lower end of the plate F is bent outward at a right angle to the other portion, as shown clearly in Figs. land 3. V

G represents a spring-plate, which is attached to the front side of the case A, the lower end of said spring bearing against the plate F.

In the back side of the distributer D a chamber or recess, Z, is made. This chamber or recess is made a short distance above the notches or recesses g, as shown clearly in Fig. 1. The back side of the distributer bears against a curved plate, at, attached to the lower end of the partition B.

To the upper end of the slide 0 a handle, H, is attached.

The operation is as follows: The seed to be planted is placed within the compartment 1) and the fertilizer within the compartment 0, (see Fig. 1,) the seed being represented by n and the fertilizer by 0. The lower end of the case A is placed at the desired spot on the ground and the operator forces down the slide 0 by hand, and the lower end of the distributer D is forced with a lateral and curvilinear motion into the earth, and by being forced into the earth in this direction not much power is required to operate the slide, as the distributer readily raises the earth, and also forces before it stones and other impediments which may lie in its path. As the distributer is forced outward it raises the plate h, and the lower end of the plate bears against thelower end of the distributer and prevents any seed from escaping from the compartment b, except that which is in the recesses g of the distributer. The distribnter consequently forces this seed into the earth, as shown ata", Figs. 1 and 2. At the same time the recess or chamber l in the back side of the distributer is forced out of the case, and as this recess or chamber is filled with the fertilizer 0, the contents of the chamber will be lodged in the earth by the side of the seed a", but not in contact with it, as the recess or chamber l is a short distance above the recesses g, and a layer or portion of earth will be interposed between the seed and the fertilizer, as plainly shown in Fig. 1. 1)" represents the fertilizer in the earth. The seed is thus planted and manured. The slide 0 is now drawn upward and the spring G forces the plates F It inward as the distributer ascends within the case, the lower end of the plate F pressing the earth upon the seed and fertilizer. Thus it will be seen that the seed is planted, manured, and covered at one and the same operation, and no special device for forming a hole or aperture in the ground to receive theseed is required, and

the whole of the interior of the case is reserved for the seed and manure.

The above implement is extremely simple. There are no parts liable to get out of repair, and the seed cannot be injured or its germinating principle impaired or destroyed by the contact of the fertilizer, as fertilizers generally employed. for this purpose are extremely powerful, such as guano, bone-dust, &c.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The distributer D, having chamber 1 and recesses g, and worked between the compartments b and c, by means of the link E and slide 0, in combination with the cut-off E and plate F, the whole arranged and operating substantially in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

1%. BOEKLEN.

Witnesses:

J AMES F. BUoKLEY, A. K. HAIGHT.

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