US388511A

US388511A - Nipseed

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Publication number: US388511A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1888-08-28
Anticipated expiration: 1905-08-28

Description

(No Model.)

W. W. TURNIPSBED.

FERTILIZER DISTRIBUTER.

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\VILLTAM \VESLEY TURNIPSEEI), OF HAMPTON, GEORGIA.

FERTILIZER-DISTRIBUTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 388,511, dated August 28, 1888.

Application filed April 9, 1888. Serial No. 270.0l4. (No model.)

To aZZ 1071.017 it may concern:

Be it known that I, \VILLIAM WnsLicY TUR- NIPSEED, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hampton, in the county of Henry and State of Georgia,havc invented a new and useful Improvement in Fertilizer-Distributors,of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in wheeled fertilizcr-distributers: and it consists in the construction and novel combination of parts, hereinafter described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure l is a central. vertical longitudinal section of a machine embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section thereof passing diametrically through the axle. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the machine, the hopper removed. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the axle and attachments disconnected from the machine.

Referring to the drawings by letter, A des ignates the frame of the machine,composcd of the shafts a a and the cross-beams a connecting the rear portions of the shafts,and situated at equal distances, rcspectively,in front and in rear of the axle B,which has bearings in semicircular blocks 1) b depending from the shafts, the straight edges of said blocks being secured to the shafts and filling up the space between the facing edges of the beams a a O is the hopper having vertical ends and up wardly-diverging sides. The said hopper has its rear lower edge hinged to the upper surface of the cross-beam a." and its front lower edge resting on the upper surface of the crossbeam a. The hopper is held in place by the slot in the horizontal arm (1 of the metal strap D, secured to the front of the hopper, the staple d, secured to the beam or and entering said slot,and the pin l-,passing into the staple above said arm.

The axle B is a metal tube having secured in one end, preferably the right end, the solid metal journal 1G, having its end portion threaded.

F F are the wheels, the former of which is secured upon the left end of the hollow axle, and turns the same, while the latter turns on the journal E, secured in the right end of the said axle, and is retained thereon by the nut f.engaged on the threaded end of the journal. The said journal turns in a metal sleeve, f', secured within the bore of the wheel F.

G is a semi-cylindrical trough,preferably of sheet metal, having its ends secured to the semicircular edges of the bearing-blocks b,and the flanges g on its side edges secured to the under surfaces of the cross-beams a aflthe iir ner surface of the said trough being flush with the facing edges of said beams. The trough is provided with the central transverse slot, lI extending entirely across the same, through which slot passes the ends of the four equidistant radial distributer-arms I, threaded on their inner ends, and having the said ends engaged in threaded openings in the axle.

J J are convcyer or feeding arms standing out radially from the axle on each side of the distributer arms. The eonveyerarms have their inner ends threaded to engage in threaded openings in the axle, and they are arranged spirally around the axle. The outer ends. 7',of said conveyor-arms are flattened, and are inclined in the proper direction to convey the fertilizer fed to said arms through the open lower end of the hopper into the trough toward the distrilmter-arms, which throw it through the central slot in the trough.

K is a metal strap pivoted at its front end through its slot k upon the under surface of the beam (1., and provided with the semicircular bend k', that rests upon the outer side of the trough G, adjacent to the slot II. The rear end of said strap forms a handle,L,passing through the limiting and retaining staple ly means of said handle and the slotted pivoted front end the strap may be made to cover the slot H and prevent the discharge of the contained fertilizer.

lly having the Wheel F to turn loosely on the axle the machine may be turned on the wheel F without rotating the axle, so that no fertilizer will be discharged. The conveyor or feeding arms J have their widened ends inclined, the inclination of those on one side of the slot II being reverse to the inclination of those of the opposite side thereof. By means of the said inclined ends the arms J feed the fertilizer toward the dischargcslot H,and the straight arms M,projecting horizontally rearward from the beam a, prevent the same from being thrown upward from the trough G.

The strap Kean be moved laterally in such manner as to cover more or less of the slot II and permit more or less of the fertilizer to feed out of said slot.

Having described my invention, I claim In a fertilizer-distributer, the combination. with the hopper, the wheels F F, and the frame composed of the shafts and cross-beams. of the hollow axle turning in the semicircular blocks b, and having the Wheel F, fixed on its left end, and the solid journal E, secured in the right end of said axle, and the nutf, re- 15 taining the wheel F on said journal,0n which the said Wheel turns loosely, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoi ug as my own I have hereto aflixed mysignature in pres- 20 ence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM WESLEY TIIICNIPSEEI).

l \Vitnesses:

J. I). TURNIPsEED, A. It. MARTIN.