US224111A

US224111A - Cultivator

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Publication number: US224111A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1880-02-03
Anticipated expiration: 1897-02-03

Description

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Patented Feb, 3, 1880.

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N4 PETERS, FHOW-LITHOGRAPHM, WASHINGTON. D, C.

i' UNITED STATE PATENT OFFICE- EUGENE sLossfoNAaD EDWIN o. sLossoN, or VERONA, ILLINoIs.

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SPECIFICATION for-ming part of Letters Patent No. 224,11-1, dated February 3, 1880.

Application med Apn'iic, 1879. y

T o all whom fit may concern i Be it known that we, EUGENE SLossoN andv EDWIN G. SLossoN, of Verona, in the county of. Grundy and State of Illinois, have invented,

a new and useful Improvement in Oultivators, which is fully described in the following specification, referencebein g hadA to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l represents a plan view of a cultivator embodying our improvements; Fig. 2, al

' stituted for the ordinary plows of a riding or walking corn-plow, the draft-beams being made detachable andexchangeable, and vin` which the teeth are so arranged as to ll the Y furrow usually left next to the row of corn.

The invention consists in the special ar'- rangement of the teeth carried by each of the draft-beams.

It also consists in special devices for bracing i the tooth-supports and attaching the draftbeams to the wheel-frame, all V of which will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out more definitely in the claims. Y

In the drawings, A represents the ordinary draft-frame of a wheel oorn-plow, which ma'y be of any well-.known construction, aud is supported on wheels B. From thisframe, in front of the axle, depend supports C, arranged on opposite sides of the frame, and which furnish the means of f attachment for the draftlbeams. The draft-beams D are attached to these supports by means of pivoted posts E, which are lin both directions. f

The joint betweenthe draft-beams and the posts is constructed so that the beams may be readily disconnected for the purpose of detach ing the cultivator, when the same wheel-frame drawings.

may be employed for the attachment of lordinary corn-plows, the draft-beams of which are constructed to be connected to the pivoted posts in the same way as the cultivator draftbeams. y

A tooth-bar, F, is attached to each of the draft-beams on the outside of the latter, being connected at its rear end to the rear portion 'of the draft-bea1n,'and diverging therefrom as it projects forward, as shown in Fig. 3 of the A bracket, G, attached4 to the outside of the draft-beams, serves to support these tooth-bars centrally, and at their front ends arebraces H, extending upward and inward to the pivot-posts E, or some other suitable support, the connections between the bracerods and the other partis being pivoted, so as to permit thejvibration of the draft-beams. These bars F carry each two cultivator-teeth, I, arranged one in rear of the other on the inclined bar, as shown in the drawings.

A short tooth-bar, J, is attached to the rear end of each of the draft-beams, being arranged diagonally to the latter, so as to project on each side of the draft-beam, the front end of each being inside of the said beam, as shown in Fig. l of the drawings. These bars carry each two cultiVator-teeth,lK, arranged near the respective ends of the bars, so that one will be inside ofthe vdraft-.beam and the other outside thereof, as shown in Fig. l. It will thus be seen that each of the draft-beams is provided with four cultivator-teeth, or, in other words, the cultivator belongs to that class known as eight-toothed cultivators. This style of cultivator is desirable for the reason v that with it the ground is all worked between the rows of corn; but under'the usual arrangement of the teeth in this andother cultivators an objection is found to their work in the furrow vmade by the rear tooth next to therows of standing corn, which is always left open, the teeth being arranged on the same inclined bar `or on the `same diagonal line, one after the other. Under our improved arrangement of IOO rangement of the remaining teeth is such that the entire space between the rows is worked. The draft-beams are provided with handles L, and with suspending links or'chains M, so 5 that the cut of the teeth may be regulated and adapted to the size of the corn, and each set of teeth may be handled with ease.

The implement may be adapted to either a riding' or walking cultiva-tor, and as each draft- Io beam is entirely independent of the other, each side of the cultivator maybe handled independently of the other.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Let- 15 ters Patent, is-

1. The draft-beams, in combination with the