US32140A - Improvement in seeding-machines - Google Patents

Description

T. s. MILLS.

Corn-Planter.

Patented Apr. 23, 1861 Inventqn Witnesses= AM. PHOTO-LITHO. C0. N.Y. (0SBORNE'S PROCESS.)

PATENT Orrrca.

' T. s. MMILLS, or IBERIA, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN SEEDlNG-MAC HINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 32,140, dated April 23, 1861.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, T. S. MILLs, of lberia, in the county of Morrow and State of Ohio, have invented a new and Improved Seeding- Machine; and I 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 1 is a side sectional view of my invention, taken in the line a; 01:, Fig. 2; Fig. 2, a plan or top view of the same. I

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

This invention relates to an improved seedingunachine of that class which are designed for sowing various kinds of seed.

The object of the invention is to obtain a seed-distributin g device which may be readily adjusted,so as to be capable of sowing different kinds of seed, and in greater or less quan: tities, as may be required.

The invention consists in constructing a seed-slide of two parts connected together and provided with adjustable supplemental slides arranged, as hereinafter described, to

effect the desired result.

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

A represents a rectangular frame, which is mounted on two wheels, B B, the axle O of which has a serpentine or zigzag cam, 1),

upon it. i

E is a seed box or hopper, which is placed on the back part of the frame A, and extends its whole width, and F is a slide which is placed .beneath the seed box or hopper, and has a reciprocating movement given it by the cam D. The slide F is formed of two longitudinal parts, a b. The part a is beneath the seed-box, andforms the bottom thereof, and the part b is at the back of the seed-box, and is connected to the part a by screws 0 c, which pass transversely through the part a, and have their inner ends fitted within a metal strip, d,

which is securedto the back of the part a. This forms what maybe termed a, swivelconnection, audit will be seen that by turning the screws 0 c the part I) may be adjusted nearer to or farther from the part a, as may be desired. The part a of the slide has two rectangular notches or recesses, d d, made in it, one near each end, and in each recess there are placed two supplemental slides, G G,

which are fitted transversely in the part a of the slide, and'are moved or adjusted therein by screws e,one screw beingconnected to each slide, and all the screws passing through the part I) of the slide. (See Fig. 2.) The part b of the slide has two arms,ff, attached to it, one near each end, and these arms pass into the recesses cl (1 and serve' as guides for the slidesG G at their inner sides or edges, the outer sides or edges of the slides being fitted in the edges of the recesses d d. I

From the above description it will 'be seen that by adjusting the part b of the slide farther in or out from the part a the slides G G will also be moved correspondently in the recesses d d, and said recesses may therefore be enlarged or contracted, as may be desired.

These recesses are discharge-openin gs for the seed, the seed being distributed in the usual way, cut-off brushes H being employed in the seed box or hopper, below which brushesthe recesses work back and forth. The seed-slide F works on a transverse bar, I, in the frame, said bar having a hole, J, made through it near each end, through which the seed passes into conveyingspouts K, and beneath the slide F, between it and the bar I, there are placed two plates, a b perforated near each end with holes By adjusting the plates b the capacity of the holes 0* may be raised as required.

I11 sowing small seed the slides G G are all drawn out to their fullest extent, or as far as both slides G: are opened, for each slide, it'

will be seen, may be adjusted independently of the other. This arrangement, it will be' seen, admits of a very ready adjustment of the seed-slide to plant seed in greaterorless quantities, andthe parts are few and very simply arranged, so that theyare not liable toget out of repair.

Having thusdescribed my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- v Constructing the seed-slide F of two parts, a b, one part I), being adjustable by means of the screws 0 c, and provided with slides G, which are fitted in recesses d din the part a, and also arranged so as to be capable of a stantially as and for the purpose set forth.

T. S. MILLS. Witnesses:

THOMAS HINDMAN, ELISABETH HINDMAN.

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