US58045A

US58045A - Improvement

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Publication number: US58045A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1866-09-18
Anticipated expiration: 1883-09-18

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A. ARMSTRONG.

- l Corn-Plantelff. No. 58045. ,l rammed sept xs, 1866;

UNITED STATES PATENT FFTCE.

l AARD)T ARMSTRONG, OF GILLESPIE, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED SEEE-DRILL AND CULTIVATOR.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. nla, dated September 18, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AARON ARMSTRONG, of Gillespie, in the county of Macoupin and State of Illinois, have invented a new Combination of Roller, Corn-Planter, aud Seed-Drill; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description there-ot', reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

Figure l of the annexed drawings is a top plan of the roller, corn-planter, and seed-drill; and Fig. 2, a vertical longitudinal section through the axis of one of the planters.

The object of this invention is to produce an implement that will combine all the requisites of the roller, the corn-planter, and the seed-drill in one simple machine, the parts of which are so constructed and arranged with reference to each other and to the whole machine that either the corn-planter and roller, or the seed-drill and the roller, may be used l together to the exclusion of the rest of the machine; or the corn-planter and seed-drill may both be removed from the machine, and a knife or knives fastened to the roller to be used in cutting old corn-stalks from the iield to prepare the ground for tillage.

To enable those skilled-in the art to make and use my machine, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

The frame A, to which all other parts of the machine are attached; is nearly balanced on the axle of the roller the preponderance of the weight being forward ot` theaXle. On the forward end of this frame are two hoppers, C C, into which the seed-corn is placed, and from which it is distributed by automatic machinery or by hand, as may be desired. Below the hoppers C C is a roller, D, which is actuated by the belt a passing around the wheel c on its outer end, and the wheel d on the outer end of the axle of the roller B. The Wheel d is a loose one, and is putin motion by being thrown up by means ofthe leverfa gainst the clutch-wheel d', which is fastened to the axle of the roller and revolves with it.

There are two or more cavities, g, made in the periphery of the roller D, directly beneath the mouths ofthe hoppers (l, which, at each revolution of the roller, are ijlled with corn from the hoppers above, and carried over with the roller and dropped down through the orilice 7i in the false bottom of the hopper, and deposited in the furrows made in the ground by the markers F F. The cavities g being at regular intervals around the periphery of the roller D, of course the corn will be dropped out at regular intervals as the roller revolves. In case the roller D should not work well, from any cause whatever, it may be stopped by unshipping the wheel d from the wheel d', andthe corn may then' be planted by opening the slides I) in the fronts of the hoppers C, which will allow the corn to run out of saidhopper over the forward surface of the rollers D, and it will only be stopped from ruiming through the oriice h by the interposition of the plate k, which is moved back and forth by the operator seated on the seat S, which is convenient to the lever E, the lower end of which is connected with the plate L. The operator, by working the lever E back and forth at his pleasure, may cause the corn to be dropped out into the furrow at any points he may see t, and thus regulate the distance between the plants.

There is a hopper, G, erected on top of and across the back end or the frame A, which supplies seed to the drills H. A roller, I, similar in construction and operation to the roller D, is placed beneath the hopper G. It is driven by means of the belt j, which passes around the wheels d and Z.

The drills H are attached to the auxiliary frame A', which is connected with the frame A by means of the pivot fr, which can be removed and the frame A and its drills taken off when the machine is to be used as a coruplanter. In like manner when the inachineis to be used as a grain-drill the markers F F may be removed by taking out the bolts (not shown in the drawings) which fasten them t0 the frame A. Both the markers and the seeddrills may be removed from the frame and the machine used as a simple roller.

There may be a series of knives, M, fastened to the periphery of the roller B, which will serve to cut old eornstalks from the held by simply driving the machine over them. When the machine is used as a corri-stalk cutter the cornplanter and seed-drill should both be removed from the frame.

In order to lift the front end of the frameA np while turning the nmoliine around, the leverO is pivoted to the fulorum-postV, and oonneoted with the back end of the pole P by means of the link O, all of which parts are so :irren ged that when the long end of the lever is thrown down by the driver the link-pivot w will be behind the link-pivot w', and in this position the vforward end of the frame A will be raised up and rest lightly on the necks of the animals which are attached to it.

Having described myinvention, whzitl claim 1. The combination of the roller D with the sliding plate k and lever E, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The roller B, in combination with the corn-planter C l) 7c F, the stalk-cutter, M, and the seed-drill G I H, when the same are all constructed upon one common frame, A, from which any of Jche parts, except J@he roller B, may be removed at pleasure.

AARON ARMSTRONG.

'Vitnesses: I

M. RANDOLPH, A. WAGNER.

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