US338086A - Wheel-harrow - Google Patents

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(No Model.)

0. LA DOW. J. J. BUDLONG 8n L. P. HOYT.

WHEEL HARROW.

No. 338,086. Patented Mar. 16, 1886.

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WHEEL HARIROW.

No. 338,086. Patented Mar, 16, 1886.

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NITED STATES PATENT Fries.

CHARLES LA DOlV, OF ALBANY, NEW YORK, AND J. JEROME BUDLONG AND LUCIUS P. HOYT, OF AURORA, ILLINOIS.

WHEEL-HARROW.

$PECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 338,086, dated March 16, 1886.

Application filed O.tob r9, 1882. Serial No. 73.816. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES LA DOW, of the city and county of Albany, in the State of New York, and J. JEROME BUDLONG and LUGIUS P. HoY'r, of Aurora, in the county of Kane, in the State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in \Vheel-Harrows, of which the following is a specification.

One object of our invention is to enable the driver to employ his feet in varying or controlling the lateral motion of the swinging frame and the disk gangs attached to the frame, and this end we attain by attaching an adjustable foot-pad to the top and near the end of each of the main beams of the swinging frame.

Another object of our invention is to vary vertically the inclination of the disks to the surface of the ground, so as to cause the disks to cut into the ground deeper or shallower next to the plants which are being cultivated. The accompanying drawings represent all our improvements as embodied in one machine in the best way now known to us.

Obviously the details of construction of the several parts may be varied in various equivalent well-known ways without departing from the spirit of our invention. Some of the parts may also be used without the others, and in machines differing in construction from that herein shown.

Figure l is a top view of the machine, looking from the rear, with the operators seat 3 5 removed, so as to show the parts more clearly,

"and with the tongue part of the carryingframe elevated, showing two carrying-wheels,

A A, mounted on an elevated or crank axle,

with a carrying-frame made V-shaped of two beams bolted to the axle at their rear ends,

and converging to the front, where they are bolted together, and also showing the swinging frame attached to the carrying-frame by means of an evener bar, and showing the 5 disk-gangs and the attachments and adjust ments of the gangs and swinging frame. Fig.

2 is a top view, looking from the rear, of one half of the U-shaped yoke or curved crossbar which connects the two main beams of the swinging frame, a part of the right-hand beam of the swinging frame, the extreme rear end of which with the footpad thereon has been removed to show more clearly the disk-gang and shaft beneath. It shows the grooved or notched beveled washer between the yoke and beam of the swinging frame where they are clamped together. It shows the relative position of the disk-gang to these parts when the notched beveled washer is in one adjustment. The dotted lines represent the same parts and their positions relatively to each other when the notched beveled washer is in another adjustment of which it is capable. Fig. 3 represents the top of the notched beveled washer in perspective, showing a bev eled groove in the washer running from right to left in the figure and a bevel-groove run ning from top to bottom in the figure. Fig. 4 represents the extreme rear end of the righthand beam of the swinging frame with the adjustable footpad. The dotted lines represent some of the adjustments the foot-pad is capable of.

The main or carrying frame, which in this instance consists of two beams, C O, converging forward from the wheel-axle B B in the shape of a V, has firmly fastened to it a cross piece, 0*, at a proper distance in front of the wheel-axle, and upon this cross-piece we mount an evener-bar, which in this instance is attached to the under or lower side of the crosspiece, as b in Fig. 1, by a swivel-bolt, in the usual way, and this bolt also forms the fastening for one end of each of the brace-rods 0a or, which diverge laterally to the carrying-beams, to which they are fastened at a proper distance forward of the cross-piece. The evener-baris perforated with holes vertically at equal dis tances apart, by means of which the forward ends of the beams of the swinging frame G G can be coupled to it by hooks or plates with pins or bolts in the ordinary manner; but we have shown here, Fig. 1, bent plates, the one extending from the top of the evener-bar to the top of the swingingframe beam, and the other extending from the lower side of the evener-bar to the lower side of the swingingframe beam,theplates being bolted to the beam and to the evener-bar; and between the crosspiece 0 and the ev-ener-bar b we show a plate, E, to allow the evener-bar and its attachments free play without interfering with the crosspiece The horizontal beams of the swinging frame are connected at a point intermediate their length by the usual U-shaped or curved yoke, G and the yoke and beams are clamped together with hasps or other wellknown means. To these beams, and at alittle distance in the rear of the yoke, are fastened regulated distances apart, that when these ends are moved nearer together or farther apart on the evener-bar these beams will actlikelevers with fulcrums at the points where they are clamped to the yoke G", and the disk-gangs will he moved laterally across the line of cut, and thus the cutting angle of the disks transversely to the line of cut will be changed or varied. It is also obvious that, the beams of the swinging frame being clamped to a rigid yoke and being fastened to the evener-bar,the parts of the swinging frame as a whole willbe held together firmly and rigidly while the machine is in operation, and consequently its various connections will not be racked apart readily, and yet the different adjustments that the parts of the swinging frame are capable of can readily be effected.

Each of the two main beams of the swinging frame are shown connected to the axle of the carrying-frame by means of chains, one chain being attached to the axle B B at some place near the wheel A, and the other chain being in like manner fastened near the wheel A, asin f andf in Fig. 1, and the loose ends of the two chains being held in notches of the claws .K K, with which the beams of the swinging frame are respectively provided.

Each chain can readily and easily be lengthened or shortened by slipping a different link along its length into the claw provided for it, and by this means the extent of the lateral play or motion of the swinging frame can be limited and the disk-gangs be prevented from swinging laterally so far as to cut or injure the carrying-wheels or to tear up or injure the row of plants being cultivated.

We have shown in Fig. l the chains ff caught and heldin the claws K K and fastened to the axle B B at the extensions of the axle which project vertically below the hubs of wheels A A; The disk-gangs are mounted on shafts or posts, which are made in two parts, notched, male and female, pressed together with a screw. The upper parts of the shafts P P are each provided with twonotches, (see Figs. 1 and 2, p p,) running diametrically from front to rear across their lower faces, and the lower part of the shaft is provided with a feather running diametrically across its upper face to fit the notches in the upper half or upper part of the shaft. In this instance the lower part of the shaft has projecting from it a vertical spindle or rod, which runs up through a corresponding cylindrical hole in the upper part of the shaft, as through a sleeve, and which is provided with a screwthread and nut, a it. (See Figs. 1 and 2.) The upper part of the shaft is fixed by a clamping-plate that fits the lower side of the swinging-frame beam, so it will not turn when the parts arepressed together. There is also a clamping-plate to correspond on the top of the beam. The spindle from the lower or male part of the shaft Q Q, Fig. 1, passes up through the female part of the shaft P P, as through a sleeve, and also through the beam of the swinging frame and the plates, and is screwed up by the nut n n, in the usual manner, drawing the feather s of the male part Q Q into the notches p or pof the female part l?v P, according to the adjustment required, and so holding thedisk-gang mounted onthe lower part of the shaft firmly in a position at an angle transversely with the line of out. It is obvious that when the nut is loosened the lower part of the shaft Q Q and the gang attached can readily be rotated axially so as to laterally about the bolt as a pivot, or held firmly to the beam, and so be adjusted to suit the convenience of the driver. To the forward part of this heel-plate we pivot or bolt a curved toe-plate or bent toe-plate, which can be freely rotated about the bolt as an axis. By means of this foot-pad, in two parts, readily adjustable, so as to be set in a position most convenient for the drivers foot, or to be allowed to play freely, the driver can control with his feet the lateral motion of the swinging frame and direct the same.

The two main beams of thesw-inging frame are connected by means of the ordinary curved or V-shaped yoke, G,and we insert between the beams and the arms of the yoke grooved and beveled washers d d. The washer has abevel groove, 1.2, diametrically across its surface,

Fig. 3, and at right angles to this a groove, beveled, 3 4, both grooves being, of awidth to receive the yoke. The flat under surface of the washer rests on the top of the beam of the swinging frame, and the yoke rests in one or the other of these'grooves, and the whole is clamped together in the usual well-known ways. Obviously the washer serves, according to its adjustment, (see'Fig. 2,) toturn or rotate I axially out of its horizontal the beam of the swinging frame on which it rests, and serves, consequently, to cause the disk-gang and shaft to flare outward or inward relatively to the horizontal of' the yoke, so that the disk-gang The heel-piece face the cutting-disks inwardly or outwardly IIS will hang from the swing-frame beam laterally outward or inward at a vertical angle with the level of the yoke andwith thelevel of the earth, and so when the machine is in operation the disks will cut deeper or shallower near the line of plants, according to the tilt of the gangs as adjusted by the washers.

The mode of operation of our improvements in wheel-harrows of the class above specified and the advantages attained by the organization of the mechanism herein recorded will be obvious to those skilled in the art from the foregoing description without further explanation.

The disk-gangs are shown connected to the swinging frame; but when it is not desired to use a swinging frame the disk-gangs may be connected directly to the yoke with the capacity for the adjustments described.

\Ve claim as our invention- 1. The adjustable foot-pad made in two parts, one a heel-piece pivoted so that it can be moved freely laterally, and the other a toe piece pivoted to the heel-piece so that the toepiece can be moved on its pivot independently of the heel-piece, in combination with the swinging-frame beams, whereby the driver is enabled while in his seat readily to vary, eontrol, or regulatewith his feet the lateral movements of the swinging frame.

2. The combination of a pole, an arched yoke-frame, a gang of disks connected with the yoke-frame and capable of being rocked vertically to vary the inclination of the disks to the surface of the ground, and means for holding the gang in such adjusted positions relatively to the yoke-frame.

3. The combination, substantially as hereinbefore set forth, of the swinging-frame beams, the arched or V-shaped yoke, the graduated or beveled notched washer, and the clamps for adjusting and clamping the parts together, in order to so adjust and hold the disk-gangs that they will cut deeper or shallower next to the plants that are being cultivated.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names.

OHARLESLA DOW. J. JEROME BUDLONG. LUOIUS P. HOYT. Witnesses as to Charles La Dow:

RICHARD P. DUMARY, ELIAS G. ROBERTS. Witnesses as to Budlong and Hoyt:

CHARLES L. HOYT, LEONARD B. REYNoLDs.

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