US232472A

US232472A - Stop and wire for check-row wires

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Publication number: US232472A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1880-09-21
Anticipated expiration: 1897-09-21

Description

(ModL) J. O. DUPEE.

"Stop and Wire for Check Row' Wire.

Patented S t. 21, 1880.

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JOHN G. DUPEE, OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS.

STOP AND WIRE FOR CHECK-ROW WIRES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 232,472, dated September 21, 1880.

Application filed July 8, 18 80.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN G. DUPEE, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Decatur, in the county of Macon and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in a Stop and Wire for Check-Row Wires, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in malleable-metal stop or knots for use with either a sectional or contin nous wire as used on check-rows for corn-planters, that is cheaply made, readily attached, and that is not liable to be torn Off in use and it consists of aspherical ball provided with suitable channels for securing the wire or wires. One of these channels, being circular, forms a rivet, preferably tubular, that is closed in and secures the wire or wires to the stop; also, in the form of the wire or wires to fit said channels. I attain this object by the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan of stop and wire for checkrow corn-planters, showing application of sectional wires. Fig. 2 is a transverse section on the dotted lines at m, Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a plan of stop and wire, showing application of continuous wire.

In Fig. 1, at A is shown the spherical stop provided with the side channels, a a, deep enough so that the wire or wires go to the center of the stop. B is the tubular rivet formed by the circular channel I).

O 6' represent the wire, made in sections of a suitable length at which it is desired to plant the rows of corn apart. Each end is formed with a loop similar to that shown in the drawings, only enough wire being used to go around the tubular rivet. The loops of two separate pieces are placed in the side and circular channels, and the tubular rivet opened with a conical set, so as to close, or partially close, the circular channel, thus securing the loops therein.

V It is obvious that the tubular rivet may be dispensed with and a solid rivet used, projecting sufficiently beyond the diameter of the (ModeL) spherical ball to allow of a head being formed thereon, so as to close the channels.

Fig. 3 shows the application of the same form of stop to a continuous wire. An offset, 0, is made in the wire, which is placed in the channels, as shown in the drawings, forming a head on the rivet, which secures the stop to the wire, as above described. The wire may be made so as to completely encircle the rivet. When a sectional wire is used materialis saved, as the loop need only encircle the rivet; and in the continuous wire material may be saved by using the offset.

This stop does notrequire bending in the bodyin order to fasten it to the wire, as heretofore stops that require closing the body onto the card so often break in the operation of closing that it is not only annoying but expensive.

For repairs the loop can be easily made by the user on forms, and the stops applied without the use of machinery.

I am aware that prior to my invention stops for check-row cords have been patented that were provided with pins, around which the cord was twisted, or that went between the strands of the cord, and that the body of the stop was closed around the cord; but this I do not claim; but,

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

l. A malleable-metal stop for check-row. wire, provided with channels for the reception of the wire or wires, one of said channels forming a rivet for securin g the stop thereto, as set forth.

2. The tubular rivet B in a stop for checkrow wire, as shown and described.

3. A check-row wire provided with the offset or loop for continuous and the loops for sectional wire, and adapted to use with stops for check-row wire, as set forth.

Witnesses: JOHN G. DUPEE.

CHARLES M. FLETCHER, JOHN S. BIXBY.