US44355A - Corn-planter - Google Patents

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H. UPJOHN.

Corn Planter.

No; 44,355. Pat ented Sept. 20, 1864.

Inventor,

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UNITED STATES PATENT UFFIQEQ HENRY UPJOHN, OF HIGHLAND, MICHIGAN.

CORN-PLANTER.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY UPJonN, of Richland, in the county of Kalamazoo and State of Michigan, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Corn-Planters; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompan yingdrawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, in which Figure 1 is a plan of the machine. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of hopper through the line as a. Fig. 3 is a side view.

My invention and improvement consist in the combination of the jointed beam on which the hoppers are placed with the jointed rods or slides for operating the seeding apparatus,

as hereinafter to be more fully set forth.

a a is a beam or scantling twelve feet long, with four shoes, I) b b b, bolted on crosswise four feet apart. Said beam is jointed, d (I, just outside of the two inside shoes, so that the outer shoes may adapt themselves to the inequalities of the ground. The front ends of the shoes are rounded up to a point, I), in the form of a runner, so as to pass readily over the ground. There is a piece about two inches wide or thick sawed out of the back part of the shoes or runners, immediately beneath and behind the hoppers, to receive the dischargingtube. There are four hoppers attached to' the back part of the beam, directly over each shoe, for containing the corn. The bottom of these hoppers is formed by the slides f ff f. In that part of the slides which comes inside of the hoppers there is a hole or chamber, 0, Fig. 2,

' for dropping the corn, said hole being provided with a gage for regulating the number of kernels to be dropped. The frame 9, which carries the wheel t, is fastened to the beam at by means of the clevis or band h h. The wheel i is eight feet in circumference, having four cams, j j, fastened on opposite spokes in such a way as to move the lever it forward and back twice in one revolution,'thus making the hills four feet apart. The shaft l l, with the arms in on m m, revolves with the wheel i, said arms having a piece of board, it, eight inches square firmly secured to each end, as shown in Fig. 1. The corn, after being dropped through the shoes, is covered by means of two pieces or plates of iron,pp, attached to the back part of each shoe. Said plates are set flaring, so as to fill the track made by the shoes. The rods q q are designed to throw the lever it out of gear, and thus prevent the slides from operating while moving the machine from place to place. Lever 7c is operated upon by the wheel t to move the slides ffff, to which it is attached at 8, said slides being connected by the rods t t. The ends of the rods tt which come opposite the joints d d of the beam on are fastened to the slides ff with a joint or hinge, so that the outer runners, b b, with their hoppers 3 y and their slides ff, may move freely up and down in passing over any inequality of surface without straining the machine.

Operation: The horses are attached to the tongue R. The driver follows the frame 9. As the wheel i revolves the cams j j move thelever 7a, which operates the slides ffff. The motion of the slides drops the corn through the opening 0 into the track made by the shoes I) b b Z1, where it is covered by the coverersp 1) pp. ,The shaft l l, with the arms m m m m, revolves with the wheel t, which causes the pressers a n n n to come down upon the hill, pressing down the earth and at the same time marking the hill, so that the driver knows exactly where to set in at the end of the field.

This machine plants four rows of corn while once crossing the field without the ground being marked off, and requires but one man and a team to operate it. 7

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the cams j, the bar q, the lever 70, the slides ffff, and the jointed beam (1, the whole constructed and arranged substantially as herein set forth.

HENRY UPJOHN.

Witnesses:

G. S. PEoK, GEO. W. WooD.

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