US653A - Improvement in the mode of constructing a double hillside-plow and converting the - Google Patents

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Patented Mar. 24, 1838.

i UNITED STATES PATENT (Marion,

MARTIN IOH, OF ITHAOA, NE7 YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN THE MODE OF CONSTRUCTING A DOUBLE HILLSIDE-PLOW AND CONVERTING THE SAME INTO TWO SINGLE PLOWS.

Speeification forming part of Letters Patent No. 653, (latcd March 24, 1838.

To all whom it may eoncern:

Be it known that I, MARTIN HIGH, of Ithaca, in the county of Tompkins and State ot' New York, have invented certain Improvements in the Manner of Gonstructing Hillside-Plows; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof.

This hillside-plow is of the kind which has two perfect mold-boards and landsides connected together by their upper sides or standards, and which are to be inverted in alternately passing backward and forward in the act ofplowing; but they are so constructed that they may be readily separated, leaving a perfect single plow, and forming a second by attaching the removed portion toanother beam and handles prepared to receive it.

Figure 1 in the aecompanying drawings represents the double hillside-plow, the mode of operating which does not reqnire any description, being well known. I have, however, devised a more simple and easy manner of shifting the handles when the plow is reversed than any hitherto known. The handles work upon a round or pin in the uprights a a, into one of which also the beam is lnortised or otherwise secured. b is an arm, through one end of which the round c ot' the handles pass, the other end or head having two notches in it, one on each side, which, by simply falling and catching upon the rounds d d' upon reversing the p1ow,holds the handles in the position required.

The two plow-bodies are held together within a mortise in the beam by means of a staple, e, Fig. 2, the two projecting ends of which pass into two notches, one on the tenon part of each standard, where they are retained by awedge, as will be readily understood from the drawings.

When this double plow is not wanted to be used. I convert it into two plows by simply taking ofi' one of the bodies and attach it to a separate woodin g prepared for the purpose, an Operation which may be performed in a few minutes. The shit'ting-body is cast with suitable staples or loops,ff, to receive the handles or the uprights a a, as the case may be. A staple similar to that which holds the two standards together in the double is used in confining the single plow, one projection falling into the notch in the standard, and the other catching onto a jog formed in the mortise in the beam for that'purpose. l

Instead of constructing the handles ot' my double hillside-plow, so as to reverse in the manner above described, I sometimes arrange them and obtain thereversingmotion, as shown in Fig. 3, where g g are the two landsides, and h h two metallicstraps screwed onto each landside and i'urnished with eyes i i, forming sockets for the joint-pins of the handlesjj, and the beam k, to which they are attached byjointstraps Il. It will be seen that bythis arrangement the liandlcs and beam are readily reversed, a simple latch serving to hold it in its place, and allowing it .to be instantancously disengaged.

- Having thus described the manner in which construct my double or hillside plow, and the manner in which I convert the same, when desired, into two separate plows, I do hereby declare that all l claim as new and of my invention is-- I The manner of holding and securing the shifting-bandles by means of the arm, the manner of confining the two standards in the beam by means of a staple and -wedge, as described, and the converting the double into two single plows, as described.

t MARTIN RIGEI. Witnesses:

G. T. WILLIAMS,

LINTON THORN.

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