US395784A - Scraper and roller - Google Patents

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W. HUGGINS.

SGRAPER AND ROLLER.

No. 395,784. Patented Jan. 8, 1889.

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SCRAPER AND ROLLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 395,784, dated January 8, 1889.

Application filed September 5, 1888. Serial No. 284,635. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM HUGGINS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bushnell, in the county of Montcalm and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvem ent in Combined Cultivators, Scrapers, and Rollers, of: which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in a combined cultivator, scraper, and roller; and it consists in the peculiar construction and combination of devices, that will be more fully set forth hercii'iafter, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention when used as a cultivator. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the same when used as a scraper. Fig. 3 is a top plan view of my invei'ltion.

A represents a pair of beams, which have their rear ends reduced in size and fashioned into handles 1: The said beams are so arranged with relation to each other that they are caused to diverge toward their rear ends, and said beams are connected together at a suitable distance from their rear ends by means of a pair of transverse boards, C, of suitable length, which are screwed or bolted to opposite sides of the beams.

D represents a bolt which is inserted in transverse openings near the front ends of the beams, and is adapted to be removed therefrom, the said bolt being provided atone end with a clamping-nut, l for this purpose. The said bolt forms the axis for a roller, G, which is arranged between the troutends of the beams, and is ol suitable diameter and weight. \V ash er-plates H are arranged on the bolt be tween the ends of the roller and the inner sides of the beams, in order to prevent friction between the roller and the beams.

I represents a pair of forwardlyinclined arms or standards, which are secured to and project from one side of the beams A. One of said arms is arranged at a suitable distance in advance of the other.

K represents a scraper or weedcu tter, which is formed from a flat bar of steel, and is bent substantially in the form of the letter U, so as to form arms L at the ends of the intermediate or blade portion, M. The front edge of thelatter is sharpened, and the arms L are inclined in opposite directions, and are secured to the arms or standards I and to the beams A by means of bolts N, and thereby arrange the weed-cutter or scraper in an oblique direction with relation to the beam. An inclined brace-rod, O, connects one of the beams with the outer end of the rearmost standard, I.

P represents a series of four cultivating teeth or shovels, each of which is made of. a single piece of flat bar-steel, and have their lower ends, R, bent axially to a position at right angles to their upper or standard portions, S. The lower ends of the curved portions R are provided with square or chisel edges T. The lower portions of all of the cultivators are turned in the same direction and arranged at the same angle, and thereby the said cultivators are caused to throw furrows in the same direction.

The upper ends of the cultivator-standards are bolted in pairs to opposite sides of each beam, and the said culti vators are maintained.

at the correct forward inclination by means of brace-rods U, the upper ends of which are bolted to the beams.

When the implement is arranged, as shown in Fig. 1, with the weed-cutter uppermost and the cultivating-plows in engagement with the soil, the same is adapted to be used as a cultivator, and may be readily propelled by a person grasping thehandles B. If preferred, a horse may be attached to the implement and caused to draw the same.

Vhen the position of the implement reversed, so that the weed-cutter engages the soil, the implement is adapted to be used for chopping out superfluous cotton-plants, and may also be employed for destroying noxious weeds. By raising the rear ends of the handles high enough the roller maybe caused to engage the soil, and said roller may be used in connection with either the cultivating-teeth or the weed-cutter or scraper, or maybe used entirely alone, as preferred.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- I The garden implement comprising the beams or handles B, the roller journaled be tween the beams, the oblique horizontal cut for M, with divergent side arms, the beams In testimony that I claim the foregoing as adapted to carry the cultivating-teetli P, havmy own I hm'e hereto affixed my signature in ing' their lower ends, R, twisted to form the presence of two Witnesses. 7

square 01' chisel edged teeth T,the said euiti- \VILLIAM HUGGINS. 5 Vating-teeth having their standards secured \Vitnesses:

I to opposite sides of the beam from the cutter CHARLES KNAPP,

M, substantially as described. HENRY BARROWS.

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