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v R. A. PATTERSON. Attachment fopDi stributing Guano and Dropping Cotton Seed.

No. 242,032. 'Potented May 24, I88].

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ROBERT A. PATTERSON, OF BELTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO WILLIAM S. TAYLOR, OF SAME PLACE.

ATTACHMENT FOR DISTRIBUTING GUANO AND DROPPING COTTON-SEED.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 242,032, dated May 24, 1881,

Application filed April 12, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ROBERT A. PATTERSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Belton, in the county ofAnderson and State of South Carolina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in emu-Attachment for Distributing Guano and Dropping Cotton-Seed; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a side-elevation view with the hopper broken away. Fig. 2 is a view of the same, showing the wheel, hopper, and shoe attached to the plow-beam. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the clamping device; and Fig. 4 is a detail view of the corrugated or notched slide.

This invention has relation to improvements in fertilizendistributers and cotton-seed droppers; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of parts, as hereinafter shown, described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A designates the plow-beam, and B is the clamp attachment, composed of a spindle, B, having loop-braces a secured thereto, and connected at their upper ends to a cross-piece, B. This clamp is also provided with a rod, to, passing through openings of the cross-piece and spindle and through a coiled spring, a

B represents the driving-wheel journaled on the spindle, and provided with pins a on its circumference to prevent slipping as the wheel moves over the ground. This wheel has a second row of pins, or, on its face, a shortdistance from its peripheral edge, for a purpose hereinafter described.

Between the wheel and plow-handle is the hopper A, connected to the beam Aby means of a spring-standard, A. This hopper has a swinging curved shoe, F, provided with front and side wal1s,within which the hopper swings. It is attached to hooks 2 at the sides of the hopper by means of a strap,,A secured to the under side of the shoe, its loose ends be- 0 ing perforated to en gage the hooks on the hopper, whereby said shoe is adjustable to or from the hopper, as may be required. The bottom of the hopper is provided with a slot-ted slide,

0, to regulate the flow of fertilizer into the 5 5 shoe. To the rear end of this hopper is a slotted slide, 0, extending vertically down the wall thereof, and having corrugations c on its bottom edge, whereby the flow from the shoe can be regulated according to the quantity to be distributed on the soil or in the furrow.

Secured to the bottom of the shoe is a rod,

D, the front end of which extends out across the path of the pins a on the face of the driving-wheel, and by the rotation of which the side and end walls of the shoe cause a shaking of the hopper by means of the spring attached thereto and to the beam.

A rope or cord, E, attached to one of the plow-handles and passing through an eye on the front upper edge of the hopper and secured to the rod 1), serves to remove said rod from the pins on the face of the driving-wheeh'to throw the shoe out of gear therewith to save the contents of the hopper from being distributed in turning the machine at the end of a row or in removingit to or from the field. This plow-beam is provided with a furrow-opener in front of the open end of the shoe, the fertilizer from which is deposited in the furrow.

This device may be used to drop cotton-seed by removing the slide from the bottom of the hopper, so that the seed maypass directly into the shoe, the flow being regulated by the corrugated feed-slide.

I am aware that plows have heretofore been provided with hoppers and shakers for distributing fertilizers, and I do not claim such invention, broadly.

Having described my invention,what Iclaim, c and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. The combination, with the plow, of the clamping device B, having the spindle B, and the loop-braces a secured thereto, the crosspiece 13*, engaging the upper ends of said 9 5 braces, a spring, a the screw-rod a, passing through openings in the cross-piece, beam, spring, and spindle, and the wheel B having the pins (4 (l ,j0ll1lllll(d on said spindle, as ing over the hopper within reach of the open [0 shown and described, and for the purpo es set ator, as specified. forth. In testimony whereof I aflix my signature 2. The combination, with the beam and its in presence ol'two witnesses.

wheel havin pins (1 of the hopper A, proy v vided with h aoks unil slides U G, the curved hobuup AUS PIN PA1 UJRSON shoe F, having the strap A, adjustable on said Witnesses: books, the rod D, engaging" the pins 14 and A. M. DUFFIE, the rope E, attached to said rod and extend- R. W. TODD.

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