US352158A

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Publication number: US352158A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1886-11-09
Anticipated expiration: 1903-11-09

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(No Model.)

J. J. SNYDER, Jr. EEBTILIZER-DISTRIBUTER.

No. 352,158. Patented Nov. 9, 1886.

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JOHN J. SNYDER, JR, 0F FLATBUSH, NEW YORK.

FERTILIZER-DISTRIBUTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters-Patent No. 352,158, dated November 9, 1886.

Application filed March 2,1886. Serial No. 193.709. (No model.)

T0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN J. SNYDER, J r., a citizen of the United States, residing at Flatbush, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Fertilizer-Distributers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of fertilizer-distributers which distribute the fertelizing material in the drill.

The objects of my invention are simplicity,

and durability in the construction of the implement, constant and even dropping of the fertilizing material, and the thorough mixing the same with the soil. I attain these objects by the mechanism hereinafter described, and illustrated inthe accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the implement, cut longitudinally through the center, the right-hand side being removed and the traveling wheel and its shaft, the hopper, hopper-slide, brace, slide-spring, and, cross parts of the frame being in section and the drivingpulleys being in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a detail or side view of the roller and its distributing arched pins or teeth.

Similar letters of reference refer to like parts in the views.

The frame is in general construction similar to that of a wheel-barrow. A is the handle; A, its leg. which extend across from one handle to the other. a a are also cross-bars,which assist in forming a seat for the hopper.

B is the traveling wheel, fast on the shaft B, which has its journals in journal-bearings 011 the front ends of the handle or main timbers of the frame.

B is a wheel fast on the outer end of shaft 13 at the left-hand side of the implement.

O is a hopper, which is placed back of the wheel B. It is supported and held in position by the handle-timbers A and the cross-bars a of. Its sides are inclinedin the usual way, but terminate at the bottom in a square boxformed projection, as shown by G. The back of this box a is cut off at its top, so as to leave a slot or opening between it and the bottom edge of the inclined back of the hopper. Through this opening the slide-valve E enters the hopper, as hereinafter described.

0 is an octangular roller, which is located a a a are cross bars or timbers,

at the bottom of the hopper, just above the slide-valve. It is fast on the shaft o',which extends through the sides of the hopper andjournals in' hearings on the timber A.

O is a wheel which is fast on the rollershaft 0 and in line with the driving-wheel I is forced out at the valve-opening of the hopper; nor can the roller be stopped by the clogging of it by the fertilizer, as is the case where an ordinary belt and pulleys are used.

D is a fiat iron brace. Its top is bolted to the outside of the hopper-back. From thence it extends down until on a line with the lower edge or mouth of the box 0, and curvesslightly toward the front in its course. It then is bent to about a right angle a few inchesback of the box a, and then extends to and is attached to the lower edge of the back of said box, which it braces. In its downward course it is perforated by a hole, d, which is in line with the opening in the back of the box C. It has also a slot, (P, in its horizontal portion between its point of bend and its connection with box 0.

E is a slide or cut-off valve, as shown in Fig. 1. It is of such sizeas will close the bottom of the hopper, and 'moves longitudinally therein through the opening in the box back. It is provided with suitable guides in the box-sides. From its back edge extends its rod E, which is of such length that it will, (when the valve is closed,) extend through the hole 01 in the brace D and terminate just back of said brace. At this, its free end, it is provided with a hole, 'into which is hooked a short adjusting-rod, F, which in turn is provided at its rear end with a vertical longitudinal slot about three inches in length.

F is a long rod, having a handle, f, on its upper or rear end. It extends through an iron loop, f by which it is supported, (said loop being attached by its upper ends to the center of cross-bar a,) and just in front of said loop. it is provided on its under side with a notch, f, which corresponds to the size of the arch of the loop f, so that it can be hooked on it. This rod is terminated at its front end by having its end turned down at a right angle, so as to pass through the slot in the adjusting-rod F. This portion is about two or three inches in length, and is screw-threaded and provided with a thumb-nut, f by which the connection of the rod F can be clamped to various points in the slot in rod F.

The roller (2 is provided with a series of arched pins or staples, U, which project from alternate sides. Thus this roller or agitator being octagonal in form, it will be seen has only four of its sides occupied by its staples, and that these staples are arranged so that those of one row do not immediately follow those of the next preceding one, as is clearly shown in Fig. 2. The operation of this arrangement is that the octangular sides of the roller act to move or displace the fertilizing material and prevent it from packing, as it would do if the roller were cylindrical. At the same time the teeth, being arched, act on the material, not only in alongitudinal direction, but also in a lateral, and act to disintegrate any lumps that may have formed in the material.

G is the left-hand side of a frame, of which G is the crossbar, from which project the covering-teeth g g. This frame is hung on pivots g, to and between the legs A. Its teeth consist of one cultivator-tooth with an ordinary harrow-tooth at each side and a little to the rear of it. By the use of a cultivator-tooth in addition to the use of barrow-teeth I find that the fertilizing material is more thoroughly mixed with the soil. In the drawings the harrowis shown as raised out of operation. It is held in this position by the button H, (see Fig. 1,) which consists of a strap ofiron pivoted to the timber Ajust above the leg A. It is several inches in length, and at its lower end is bent on itself, so as to bear on the upper end, front, and inner side of theharrow-frame G. \Vhen itis desired to place the harrow in operation, this button is slipped up and over the end of the piece G, and so allows the barrow to drop or turn down on its pivots, its cross-bar Gr bearing against the leg cross-bar a, thus holding the teeth to their work. The arrangement and construction of the rods F and F are such that the opening in the bottom of the hopper can be adjusted to any necessary size by the changing of the con nection of the rod F with the rod F, by means of the thuinb-nutf, so as to make the connecting-point higher or lower in the slot.

I is a spring which is attached to the back of the hopper G, and extends down through the valve or slide rod E and the horizontal slot in the brace D. Its action is to close the valveopening in the bottom of the hopper.

IV hen it is desired to operate with the machine, the opening of the valve is first arranged as desired by the adjustment of the connection of the rods F F, the harrow is released fro m the button H,and theimplementis moved forward. The roller revolves in the hopper, causing the fertilizing material to drop through tho valve-opening, which is held open by the notch of the rod F being hooked on the horizontal part of the loop f.

It will be understood that a horse may be attached to the implement by any well-known device.

I do not wish to be understood as confining myself to the octangular form of the roller or agitator, as a square form might be substituted, or even a septangular or other forms, in which case, however, the teeth should be placed at the angles, and any of them will be found superior to the usual cylindrical iorin; yet Ibelieve the octangnlar to be the best.

1. In a fertilizer-distributer, the combination of the hopper 0, box 0, slide-valve E, having the rod E, the spring I, and brace D, as and for the purpose described.

2. In a fertilizer-distributer, the combination of the adjusting-rod F, provided with a longitudinal slot, 0, in its upper end and connected to the slide-valve E, and the rod F, having a screw-threaded end adjustable in said slot, and a nut, all as described, for the purpose of gaging the valve-opening.

JOHN J. SNYDER, JR.

Vitnesses:

W. M. CUTHBERT, J Anne RIDGWAY.